RIP Patrick Swayze

Hopefully he and Chris Farley are having a dance-off in the clouds.

RIP, Derek Sutton.

 

So very sad and unavoidable, but it sounds like he fought an unwinnable battle with grace and courage.

No one will argue his movies were high art, but if you're a certain age, the Outsiders-Red Dawn-Dirty Dancing was an unmatched triumvirate. Then he went and topped himself with Ghost.

Wolverines.

 

One more time: WOLVERINES!

RIP to a great actor.

EDIT: BYH beat me to it.

 

Just a gratuitous violence/cheesy humor thing. Kind of like Steven Seagal movies. I actually caught Roadhouse on TV last week and forgot how much I liked it at the time.

RIP, Patrick.

 

In his defense, he was always playing the ex-high school jock whose younger brothers were still in school in those movies. But yeah, he was a little old.

Not as bad as Ralph Macchio playing Daniel Larusso at age 26, though.

 

Black Dog is my favorite of Swayze's schlock flicks. As for his better films, The Outsiders is great and I've always felt that Grandview U.S.A. is underrated.

 

Ask the three young construction workers who rescued him in Arizona when he landed his plane -- drunk off his ass -- in the middle of a neighborhood under construction just how "great a guy" Patrick Swayze was. The way he treated them in the aftermath of all that was downright criminal.

 

Let's not forget Next of Kin.

 

My favorite "Roadhouse" moment ...

When I was playing high school football, guys on the team would always bring in those NFL Films "Crunch Course" videos for us to watch in the hours leading up to home games to "get fired up."

One guy's NFL tape had "Roadhouse" taped onto the end of it. After pre-game meal one week, we were watching it and of course, everyone wanted to fast-forward to the Swayze-Kelly Lynch sex scene.

Right in the middle of that scene, naturally, one of the coaches burst into the room. The guy with the remote panicked, started hitting fast-forward and cried out "we're tryin' to find some fightin' in this movie!!!!"

Can't see Roadhouse without thinking of that ...

 

And yet his best work was dancing next to Chris Farley.

 

I'm sure even the three construction workers wouldn't have wished pancreatic cancer on him.

 

R.I.P. Always been a fan of Swayze.