The Genius that is Patrick Swayze

Ally, don't forget the Meatball sandwiches.

Feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She's like the wind

[SOLO]

I look in the mirror and all I see
Is a young old man with only a dream
Am I just fooling myself
That she'll stop the pain
Living without her
I'd go insane

Feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She's like the wind

Feel your breath on my face
Your body close to me
Can't look in your eyes
You're out of my league
Just a fool to believe
(Just a fool to believe)
She's like the wind
(Just a fool to believe)
Just a fool to believe
(She's like the wind)
Just a fool to believe
(Just a fool to believe)
She's like the wind
(Just a fool to believe)
Just a fool to believe
She's like the wind

(Just a fool...)
(She's like the wind)
(She's like the wind)
(Just a fool...)
(She's like the wind)
(Just a fool...)

Didn't he play a drag-queen in a movie too?

Greatest. Movie. Ever.

http://www.mckellen.com/images/lotr/hwpris1.jpg

In the battle for UGLIEST CINEMA DRAG QUEEN EVER.

Actually Gene Hackman when they dress him up in The Birdcage is an uglier woman than all of these people combined.

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Brain dead cinema at its finest., February 3, 2000
Reviewer: A viewer from New York, NY
Patrick Swayze's crowning achievement. He's Dalton- the NYU philosophy major turned king of the bouncers. Dalton enthralls us with his wisdom with lines such as "Be nice" or "Pain don't hurt." He is ably supported by the king of cool, Sam Elliot, as the bouncer guru. Opposing them is Ben Gazzara as big, bad man around town, Brad Wesley.

This movie is a hoot! A well-made and fast paced action flick. It's a guilty pleasure. You know it's bad; yet you can't help watching it. Once you start watching "Road House," you won't be able to stop. We have rednecks fighting, their girlfriends doing stripteases on tables, more fights, a monster truck used as a prop, more fights, a trophy room that could have only been stocked by hunting in a zoo, more fights, Memphis Mafia member Red West as a supporting actor, more fights, and a stuffed polar bear being used as a weapon against the baddies. A special mention must be made for Marshall R. Teague as Jimmy, Brad Wesley's main goon. Jimmy stares at Dalton. Jimmy laughs maniacally when he burns down a house. Jimmy informs Dalton during a fight of what he used to do to guys like Dalton in prison. (It leads one to believe that when Jimmy was staring at Dalton it might have been more about checking out his bod than trying to intimidate him.)

:)

-- (doora...), July 11th, 2002 6:00 PM.

I hope to one day turn that into my tag, except replace NYU with Columbia. That will be on my tombstone if it kills me.

Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas

Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in.
We'll gather at the Roadhouse with our next of kin.
And Santa can be our regular Saturday night thing.
We'll decorate our barstools and gather round and sing.

Oh, let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas this year!
Or we'll tear your throat out and kick you in the ear!

It's my way or the highway, this Christmas at my ba-ha-haar.
I'll have to smash your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car!
I got the word that Santa has been stealing from the till.
I think that that right jolly old elf better make out his will, ohh,

Oh, let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, one and all.
And this can be the haziest...
This can be the laziest...
This can be the Swayziest
Christmas of them aaallllllllll!

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Nah, Shakey will be along to shit on whatever I couldn't get to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiLUrJJjnM

God, he really could wear a mullet better than anyone in his generation, eh?

apparently he was reported dead - then that was reported to be a rumor - and now he is reported to be dead again. erm my mistake RIP

God, he really could wear a mullet better than anyone in his generation, eh?

Not only that, they could photograph it right most of the time! A rare thing indeed!

A quick blog ramble. With quotes from here so thanks all...

If anyone can find an old "Prime Time Live" or "20/20" clip, filmed during Ghost promotion, in which Swayze breaks down in tears while relating to Barbara Walters that his father threw him out of the house after telling Swayze that he wanted to be a dancer. The guy could roll with the punches.

*er, after SWAYZE told him. My version's still awesome.

his father threw him out of the house after telling Swayze that he wanted to be a dancer

That must have been one strange conversation.

"Son?"

"Yes dad."

"I...I want to be a dancer. Now get the HELL out of my house!"

Fuck now I want that to be in a movie or something. That should be the opening scene.

this is the first celebrity death since ODB or Syd Barrett where i've felt really really sad.

RIP.

Acting is so fucking mysterious. Over the Xmas break I watched the last 10 minutes of Dirty Dancing -- a movie which in eighth grade defined heterosexuality for me, for better or worse -- with my parents. Dad, who's no sucker for this sort of thing, said, "He's so likable, isn't he?" It had nothing to do with Swayze's acting -- the dude was just aces. You liked to watch him.

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haven't seen many of the clas[sic]s, but vaya con Dios

also I hope your life as a ghost blows away that garbage movie

NIGGA I'M GHOST LIKE SWAYZE

holy shit that roller disco trailer on neds blog is like ?!

rip

(oh, the trailer is ^^^ also)

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RIP James Dalton, I hope you rode that once-in-a-lifetime wave into infinity.

My girlfriend, who had a bit of a (ostensibly ironic, but really, I think, real) passion for Swayze, once informed me that his favorite color was "faded black."

Make of that what you will.

Wish this were a YT so I could post it directly, but still classic nonetheless.

http://ladynwavsone.com/sheslikethewind.html

Sheesh. Let's remember the good times.

I blame Dan Brown.

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RIP,
King-like Bodhisattva.
Suffer no more.

Thanks for the good times.

the day the feather hair died.

really, I'm sorry he's gone, but his interview on the Road House DVD ... not the brightest bulb on the marquee,

So you rented it eh.

hell no! Library.

but still you WATCHED it

We're all just fools to believe that we have anything Morbs needs.

I did, to the degree it can be watched. Sam Elliott can almost redeem anything.

Funny how Keith David gets billing and is left with about one line!

xp

also, I used to fuck guys like you in prison.

Well now I'm imagining Morbz with a mullet.

there's something very charmingly morbz-ian about him scanning through the DVD to find a swayze interview, even in a movie that is kind of beneath his standards and all.

he is a doctor and he is thorough

Kelly Lynch makes it clear in her interview what a thoroughly shitty movie it is, while PS is "It's the story of two lost souls..."

Reminds me of something Denise Richards says on the extras from the Starship Troopers DVD:

"it's about life and love, and this and that....and the war!"

does it bother you, morbz, that ben gazzara is infinitely better known to everyone (even film geeks) as brad wesley in road house than for anything he ever did w/ cassavetes (or anything else, for that matter)?

shit, i wonder what gazzara himself thinks of this distinction -- and if anyone ever asked him.

I don't know who these "film geeks" would be. Sound more like Gen Y shitheads.

(watching anything that comes on basic cable does not confer some cineaste cred upon an individual)

imo gazzara is way better in road house than in anything by cassavetes

but i like judd apatow so what do i know

imo gazzara is way better in road house than in anything by cassavetes

yeah -- in fact, my favorite scene in road house is the one where gazzara is driving down the road in his convertible singing along to some old doo-wop song and swerving all over the damn place.

"Sh-boom!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwunAssLQ4I

yes, that is his best scene.

I first think of Gazzara in Anatomy of a Murder

"rescreening" Road House. Forgot the part with the monster truck, the bit where he rips the guy's throat open with his bare hands, and "Tails again!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGrB3Za4_o

Kelly Lynch makes it clear in her interview what a thoroughly shitty movie it is, while PS is "It's the story of two lost souls..."

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 9, 2009 1:34 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've been thinking about an ex-ILXor's recent tweet a lot, in that the power of Swayze in Point Break but also Road House is the ^^^^deep sincerity with which he plays the roles. A lesser actor would have winked his way through them. the roles aren't devoid of humor but they're not jokes.

True. He fully commits to the ride.