Road House (1989) review

Businessman Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe), who owns the run-down Double Deuce drinking hole in Missouri, recruits experienced bouncer (and NYU grad!) Dalton (Patrick Swayze) to help him clean up the joint, except a lot of the problems in town come from booze baron Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara) - mercifully, Dalton's old pal (and tough guy) Wade (Sam Elliott) shows up to offer assistance.  The bar scenes are laughably out-of-hand, with bottles and bodies flying and people getting stabbed (seemingly everyone is corrupt) and it only gets increasingly preposterous as it goes along, with Brad free to blow up any structure he sees fit and Dalton employing a Mortal Kombat-like fatality move that involves ripping out the trachea.  It's by no means a "good" movie, but it has camp appeal for those in the mood for such things - in an interview with The A.V. Club, Kelly Lynch (who plays Dr. Clay, Swayze's love interest) said she had a fun time making it, claiming "it was like a barbeque on set every day."  But the main point, for me at least, is simple: "be nice."