{"id":612013,"date":"2024-03-09T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-retread-that-makes-slumming-look-artful\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T07:29:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:29:25","slug":"watch-a-retread-that-makes-slumming-look-artful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-retread-that-makes-slumming-look-artful\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Retread That Makes Slumming Look Artful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279d68888e8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279d68888e8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-retread-that-makes-slumming-look-artful\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Retread_That_Makes_Slumming_Look_Artful%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Retread That Makes Slumming Look Artful&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-retread-that-makes-slumming-look-artful\/#%E2%80%9CA_Retread_That_Makes_Slumming_Look_Artful%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Retread That Makes Slumming Look Artful&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Retread_That_Makes_Slumming_Look_Artful%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Retread That Makes Slumming Look Artful&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Retread_That_Makes_Slumming_Look_Artful%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Retread That Makes Slumming Look Artful&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cRoad House\u201d is an infectiously stylish piece of slumming. It\u2019s a remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cheeseball action cult film, and it\u2019s staged with a verve and wit and dynamic grittiness that make the original film look even more rickety than it once did. Doug Liman, the director of the new \u201cRoad House,\u201d has always been a gifted maverick, but I still like his earliest films (\u201cGo,\u201d \u201cSwingers\u201d) the best. For years now, he has worked hard to make interesting and responsible dramas, but watching \u201cRoad House\u201d you can taste how good it must have felt for him to be irresponsible \u2014 to give in to his savage B-movie id.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The action in \u201cRoad House\u201d is beyond brutal; at moments, it\u2019s vicious. Yet if the movie is far more violent than your average action film, in its slightly crackpot bare-knuckle way it\u2019s also more humane. Liman stages the pulp for maximum realism (he wants you to believe what you\u2019re seeing), and Jake Gyllenhaal, as a fallen Ultimate Fighting Championship brawler who gets hired to clean up a road house in Glass Key, Florida, gives a true performance. In \u201cRoad House,\u201d Liman and Gyllenhaal bring the pain, but they also make you feel it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The original \u201cRoad House\u201d was nominated for five Golden Rasberry Awards, and it probably deserved most of them, yet it was a modest hit, and it\u2019s a potboiler that\u2019s fondly remembered, because it\u2019s the kind of trash you can relax into. It\u2019s like a Chuck Norris film with a real actor at its center. As Dalton, not a bouncer but a \u201ccooler\u201d (i.e., the coolest level of super-bouncer), who is hired to clean up a hooligan dive bar in Jasper, Missouri, Swayze sizes up every adversary with an utter lack of fear \u2014\u00a0he\u2019s all Zen blue eyes and cheekbones and \u201cI wouldn\u2019t bother to fight you\u201d lethal calm. He\u2019s like the Western gunfighter reborn as a Buddhist shitkicker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When Swayze\u2019s Dalton arrives at the Double Deuce, the seedy joint he\u2019s supposed to transform, the place is all brawling chaos (or, at least, the 1980s backlot version of it: an orgy of broken prop glass, corn-syrup blood, and stunt fights that look like stunt fights). But it becomes clear within minutes that he can kick anyone\u2019s ass and will. He gets rid of the bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>les without breaking a sweat. That\u2019s why he needs to be pitted against the local Mr. Big, played by Ben Gazzara with a one-note leer; the more \u201cRoad House\u201d descends into this showdown, the more formulaic it becomes. Swayze, who truly was a good actor, holds the sketchy underworld plot together (with a little help from Sam Elliott), but by the end you almost wish it <em>was<\/em> a Chuck Norris movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    So why remake this late-\u201980s piece of nostalgia-inducing junk? Because in a world where some consider the \u201cJohn Wick\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> to be high art, slumming has become its own form of hipsterism. Liman, who showed up tonight (in a cowboy hat) for the film\u2019s SXSW premiere,\u00a0has reacted with howls of betrayal over the fact that his film, backed by Amazon Studios, is not going to be playing in movie theaters. Without getting into the weeds of who promised what deal to whom, I think Liman is dead right about one thing: If it were to play in theaters, \u201cRoad House\u201d could be a decisive hit. (I bet it would gross $50 million or more.) If the first \u201cRoad House\u201d was a better Chuck Norris movie, the new one is something more uncanny \u2014 it\u2019s like a Jason Statham movie directed by Jonathan Demme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Demme, the most humane of filmmakers, had a classical and nearly invisible technique. He knew exactly how long to hold a shot, how to structure a movie with fluid ingenuity. Yet what defined him was how he treated everyone onscreen as a genuine person. Liman, in \u201cRoad House,\u201d approaches the debased spectacle of sadism and revenge in a comparable way. He milks it for the satisfaction you want from a film like this one \u2014 the joy of watching bad guys get what\u2019s coming to them. Yet he never makes it look too easy. He lets the action unfold against a bevy of bar bands doing their thing, and damned if the music doesn\u2019t work in a Demme-like fashion (the way it did in, say, \u201cSomething Wild\u201d). There\u2019s something cathartic about how \u201cRoad House\u201d serves up bone-crunching vengeance with an island party-tavern beat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Gyllenhaal\u2019s hero, who is still named Dalton (now he\u2019s Elwood Dalton), is introduced entering the gladiatorial ring of a sordid underground-circuit ultimate fighting competition, where all he has to do is remove his hoodie and shirt and reveal who he is; that\u2019s enough for his opponent to give in. What the audience sees is a set of abs so awesome they appear etched, as well as the Gyllenhaal \u2018tude. He makes Dalton that rare thing, a pensive and considered badass. When he first confronts the goons who have shown up to cause trouble, he asks them if there\u2019s a hospital nearby (this is his funny form of warning). After kicking the crap out of them in the parking lot, he <em>drives<\/em> them to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Gyllenhaal makes Dalton sincere yet sarcastic, and his punches are so fast they practically stop time. (He also takes one man\u2019s pathetic fist in the face as if a baby were punching him.) And though he\u2019s basically a sweetheart, just like the Swayze character was, he\u2019s got more torment, and more anger, bubbling underneath. Gyllenhaal, with his perfect coif and his stoic smirk, is like Anthony Perkins s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped of self-doubt. He plays Dalton as almost ironically recessive, but you wouldn\u2019t want to get in his way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Frankie (Jessica Williams) is the owner of the road house \u2014 which is now, incidentally, named the Road House. It\u2019s a sprawling getaway on the beach with a grass roof and open walls, like a giant tiki bar. Why does it need to be cleaned up? Because Brandt, played by Billy Magnussen as a baby-faced weasel, wants to eliminate the place so that he can build a high-end resort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The plot is simplicity itself, but each of the villains has his own maniacal flavor. Brandt, scoundrel that he is, actually believes that he\u2019s a virtuous architect of the community; that\u2019s his evil folly. And once Dalton puts Dell (JD Pardo), ringleader of the local motorcycle gang, out of business with the help of the crocodile who lives under the houseboat he\u2019s crashing in, Brandt\u2019s powerful father calls in a brute-force fixer: Knox, played by the Irish mixed-martial-arts fighter Conor McGregor in a stunning movie debut. Thick-bearded and bulky-chested, with gleaming white teeth, he makes Knox move around like a gorilla on pep pills, and the exuberance of his homicidal fury could be out of a \u201cMad Max\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This is an adversary worthy of Dalton \u2014 his equal, except for the fact that he\u2019s on the side of wrong. But as the film builds toward their ultimate showdown, getting very vehicular in the process (Liman turns the crashing confrontations of trucks and boats into a kind of nihilistic action ballet), you feel the low-down momentousness. This is not a war that\u2019s going to be won by punching. Only stabbing \u2014 a great deal of it \u2014 will do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    I don\u2019t want to overpraise \u201cRoad House.\u201d It\u2019s a movie, like the first film, that\u2019s been assembled out of standard components. Yet that\u2019s part of its scuzzy pleasure \u2014 that it has no pretense about itself, except for the intensity with which Liman stages it, turning the fight scenes into rollicking spontaneous smashfests. Daniela Melchior, who takes the Kelly Lynch role (the local physician who falls for Dalton), amps up the tough-nut romanticism. But it\u2019s Gyllenhaal\u2019s movie. He has always exuded a warm and almost ethereal decency on screen, yet he has had difficulty finding the perfect vehicle for it. 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