Friday, March 07, 2008

Swayze Covers All the Bases

In reviewing the trandscendant career of Patrick Swayze it was brought up that his appeal extends across gender lines. He starred in one of the best "guy" movies of all-time, "Road House" and one of the worst, "Point Break." He also starred in one of the best chick flicks, "Ghost," and one of the worst, "Dirty Dancing."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

are you trying to get justin to go crazy agian by saying Point Break is awful? he might come to your house when he reads that

Anonymous said...

Mr. Poop, "you gotta go DOWN!"

If TON doesn't, I'll come after you myself. I didn't hear about any other Swayze movies that became stage plays. Such a good movie. Lori Petty was hot, Gary Busey wasn't crazy from a head injury yet, Swayze was a good as a bad guy, and Keanu was over-the-top Keanu at his best.

I think Dirty Dancing is just as dumb as Ghost, but I wouldn't call it a bad chick flick. Much more popular than Ghost.

Josh loves "Nobody puts baby in the corner."

Anonymous said...

I voted "Other" for Donnie Darko. Swayze played a hypocritical motivational speaker in it -- hilarious, yet tragic role.

I tried to embed 2 good scenes from the movie, but apparently you're an HTML hardass and won't allow that.

Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMyc4WmzIhE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4bqbA2NHFQ

Anonymous said...

Thank j and billa, holdin down the fort for me! That's what I'm talkin about! And yes, you're correct...my first instinct was to grab a bat and hop on a train.

I love everything about Point Break...even pre-Heidi Fleiss Tom Sizemore is fantastic in his 2 minute scene.

I'll also agree with bill about Dirty Dancing...the ladies love that movie.

rzr - I didn't even remember Swayze being in Donnie Darko...my head still hurts from trying to figure out what the hell that movie was about.

Anonymous said...

Ha, looks like Point Break will be the winner...