‘Road House’ Still Reigns as the Best Bad Movie

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/movies/road-house-patrick-swayze-good-bad-movie.html

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  2. Yeah, umm, what? Bad movie. No. Dumb, unbelievable (who’s buying Patrick Swayze beating up Terry Funk), silly, but fun. 6/10.

    Now, best bad movie: Moonfall. Just dumb piled on dumb piled on dumb until it suddenly becomes hilarioius.

  3. Author is too young to get it. No one is bad when the Swayze is involved 

  6. They are fucking high. Movie kicks hard ass.

    It is for sure of bygone days

  7. I’m not sure that there has ever been a more satisfying revenge movie ever. Ben Gazzara is so so bad and his underlings are such morons and the good guys are so cool and the doctor is so hot and it’s just a fucked up revenge extravaganza!

  8. Um, no. That’s either *Executive Decision* or *Tremors*

    Roadhouse is objectively great

  9. I don’t think I’ve seen Road house or if I did, I don’t remember anything relevant about it, but *Troll 2* exists.

    So nope.

  10. wait a minute, this was that one movie from the young sheldon clips on youtube, and the mom realized “he looks like my son”

    and and he does look him

  13. All of his movies worked because he was in them. They don’t make sense without him and I don’t think any of them can be remade. It’s a really unique situation. 

  14. Road House can’t be the Best Mad Movie because it’s a goddamn masterpiece

  17. This used to be on basic cable all the time 15 years ago!

  19. I’m sorry, but fucking excuse me? Bad movie? Point to the bad movie because this is a classic film.

  20. That Road House isn’t a bad movie IMO, nor a good bad movie.

    The best bad movie IMO would be Street Fighter from 1994 starring Jean Claude Van Damme and the late Raul Julia.

    “For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.”

  22. No, VAMP is the best bad movie.

    Road House doesn’t have Grace Jones doing an avant garde strip tease covered in body paint by Keith Herring.

  23. It’s a classic. And those words make it time to not be nice

  24. Surely The Room starring Tommy Wiseau has got to be the best worst movie of all time. If you haven’t seen it then you’ve missed a treat.

  25. Well no shit. If you are going to throw a movie that’s *not a bad movie* in the running with bad movies, of course it’ll be the best

    Hell, roger ebert gave it 2.5/4 stars

  26. Road House is my favorite movie of all time! I even have a Road House inspired tattoo! I can quote it word-for-word and at least a few times a month I try to work a quote into casual conversation. 🤣 I have refused to watch the sequel or the remake because nothing will ever top the original. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I will die on this hill.

  30. Whoever said it’s a bad movie hasn’t watched it. It’s a great movie with a prime Patrick Schwaze. From the first minute to the last you’re into it. Must have watched it 500 times as a little boy cause TBS always played it. Love that movie.. it’s Americana. Cultural guidestone whatever the fuck.. it’s an important film.

  31. A film with such a classic line
    as “A polar bear fell on me” is cinema. CINEMA.

  34. I know it’s recent but sincerely the Venom movies are the best bad movies.

    An utterly irredeemable joyride.

  36. The best bad movie is Con Air. It’s also the best ensemble movie ever made.

  37. Best bad movie is Big Trouble In Little China and it’s no contest

  38. I guess “Plan 9 From Outer Space “has been retired?

  39. The author of this article has never seen a troma film in their life and it shows

  42. We need to work on our definition of a bad movie. I was alive back then and it wasn’t a box office behemoth, but this thing had major legs on tv and video. Two words

    Kelly Lynch.

  43. The movie was basically Myster Science 3000 commentary for my roommates and I. So many good reactions in Road House that just don’t fit the original script.
    Absolutely love this movie.

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