It never matters what you like; what matters is why you like it. Take, for example, the aforementioned Road House. This is a movie I love. But I don’t love it because it’s bad; I love it because it’s interesting in a very specific way. Outside the genre of sci-fi, I can’t think of any film less plausible than Road House. Every element of the story is preposterous: the idea of Swayze being a nationally famous bouncer (with a degree in philosophy), the concept of such a superviolent bar having such an attractive clientele, the likelihood of a tiny Kansas town having such a sophisticated
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