The one factor wilder than somebody remaking Highway Home in 2024 is the truth that the unique Highway Home from 1989 exists within the first place.
In its day, the movie — a Patrick Swayze automobile in regards to the world’s most badass (but soulful) bouncer — was principally a punchline. It was nominated for 5 Razzie Awards and grossed solely $30 million in theaters, lower than half the full of Swayze’s earlier hit, Soiled Dancing.
At the moment … properly, okay, immediately it’s nonetheless a punchline. But it surely’s such an unimaginable, unbelievable punchline that Highway Home has accrued a big cult fanbase of appreciative viewers (like myself) who like to return, repeatedly, to the Double Deuce bar and its impossibly violent patrons.
Its director, Rowdy Harrington, as soon as defined that he got down to make “a cartoon” with outlandish model, and a “Western” set within the current, filling the void within the tradition left by this lacking style and its tales of wandering heroes settling an lawless frontier. However these inspirations solely clarify a few of Highway Home’s hysterical litany of weird decisions. I don’t recall too many Westerns about frontier heroes who’re well-known to each particular person they meet and know how you can sew up their very own wounds. However Swayze’s Dalton positive does.
And that’s simply the tip of the nutty iceberg that’s this singular movement image. Ache don’t damage, and neither will a little bit look again at all the most unhinged moments from the unique Highway Home.
The Craziest Moments in Highway Home
These are the craziest elements of the Patrick Swayze masterpiece Highway Home. (These should not the solely loopy elements. However these are the craziest loopy elements.)
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