Monday, March 25, 2024

Pic of the Day


Over the weekend the photographer Claudio Carpi was nice enough to share this photo of Jake Gyllenhaal in character for Road House promotional duties -- this is a variation of the shot that ended up on the poster of course but here it is unadorned in all of its natural glory. Although I hesitate to call this Jake "natural" given the shaving and waxing and spray-tanning and uhh whatever else was going on to make him look like he looked in Road House. I got a few comments over the past few days on our previous Road House posts from people who've watched the movie since its release last Thursday...

... but if you watched it and haven't share your thoughts, the comments of this post are the place! I decided it's not really worth my time to write a full review, given how "meh" my thoughts are -- it has its moments, but after watching it I still really don't know why it exists. Everything truly weird and memorable about the 1989 film was wiped away for an ocassionally fun but pretty generic action movie. A good thread about one of the movie's most glaring issues can be read via MNPP pal Brandon Lewis on Twitter below (click over to read the entire thing):

In summation this photo of Arturo Castro & Billy Magnusson
is the hottest bit of business to come out of this whole thing (via):


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If that's "the hottest bit of business to come out of this whole thing": HARD PASS