For me...
Road House
Red Dawn
Point Break
I really love Dirty Dancing for honorable Mention...But Point Break has the edge by just a hair.
Ghost / To Wong Foo... (tied for #1)
Red Dawn / Point Break (Tied)
Road House
Sure miss seeing him in movies :(
Me too! There has actually been a little marathon on the Sundance cable channel tonight of his movies.. "Crazy for Swayze" they played Point Break, Now road House, and then Ghost.
shareExactly the same list as yoursđź‘Ť
My little sister loved Dirty Dancing and I had to see it 100 times growing up... it's really not a bad movie, sort of cute and entertaining really
I loved Dirty Dancing as well but it's not a favorite of mine. I'm not sure why but Jennifer Grey really annoyed me in that movie. Loved her in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" though!
shareI've probably watched Dirty Dancing a hundred times myself as well lol ...it was THE movie to see when I was a kid for my mom and all her friends lol I actually never liked it until I was in my late teens in the early 2000s! But when I finally watched it in it's entirety..Wow I couldn't get enough! Patrick's and Jennifer Grey's chemistry was Perfect.
shareThere's no doubt they had chemistry for sure. Lol, everyone's mom made them watch that repeatedly! Except my mom, she thought I would get "ideas" from seeing Patrick Swayze dirty dancing in those tight pants! Lmao! Who wouldn't???!!
shareOh my mom didn't make me watch it I just remember my mom taking me over my friends house and like as soon as we walked in my friends mom was immediately saying to my mom "did you see dirty dancing yet!?" My mom replied no...and my mom's friend was like "Oh..My..Gawd! we have to go!!! I SAW IT AND YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW GOOD IT IS!"
I think they actually went out together that night and watched it leaving my friends dad to watch us. Man memories...
(Edit) one movie my mom did make me watch over n over again as a kid was The Burning Bed...she had just left my father and he was abusive... I remember watching all those lifetime movies as a kid with her O_O I remember this one lifetime movie where the husband was really abusive and at the end of the movie ended up finding his wife who had a police protection against the husband and he stabbed her like 100 times. Ah... memories.
"Oh..My..Gawd! we have to go!!! I SAW IT AND YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW GOOD IT IS!" LMAO!!
Omg I remember those movies too! That was back when they were good and not super cheesy and badly acted. I think the one with the stabbing is "A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story". With Nancy McKeon.. the queen of Lifetime movies in that decade, lol.
OMG yes!!! That's the movie! Nancy McKeon was for sure the queen of lifetime back then. And I agree they were so much better back then. Because they were all true stories. Today only some are.
shareNancy McKeon was for sure the queen of lifetime back then.
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ah..no ..McKeon was dwarfed by more talented older actresses on Lifetime.
And Swayze was not remotely (to say the least) 100% heterosexual, and not just because his mom trained him in ballet while the the other boys were out playing baseball.
Ah who is 100 percent heterosexual these days?
sharePlenty, just like the same number who are 100% homosexual.
shareAh I don't know..I think the Kinsey scale is really true when it comes to homosexuality...I consider myself straight but I love a nice transexual woman who is 100% passable...even pre-op...
shareKinsey scale or not, there are black and whites within the grays. If a 5 on the Kinsey scale can be true, then a 1 or 10 is also valid. It's also true that everything, including sex, needs to be second-guessed these days. There are actually people who have absolutely no remote interest in performing sexual-acts with a member of the same sex--and not because they are latent or closeted. (admiring a person's beauty is different, and not necessarily sexual)
The example you gave is not a parallel comparison, since the TG woman/man has now been sexually-altered. (That belongs in a different category)
"The example you gave is not a parallel comparison, since the TG woman/man has now been sexually-altered. (That belongs in a different category)"
I've met alot of older transexual women that HATE the term Transgender...It's a term millennials made up is what they say. But yes i know what you mean. Gender does not have a thing to do with orientation. But I get called gay so much for being attracted to trans-women sometimes i just would rather say "i am a little gay" since i know i will most likely get called it by some ignorant person online. Even though I don't really feel I am gay.
also yes..there are black and white areas as you say. I just think there is more 2's and 8's than 1's and 10's lol. Of course this is just my opinion.
Don't think about it so much...look, you and only you know why your penis tends to stand erect, and why it does not.
shareThey may have had something 'going on' behind the scenes
I wouldn't know but their chemistry would lead one to belive it!
In no order...
To Wong Foo
Dirty Dancing
11:14
I loved The Outsiders equally, but I don't necessarily consider it a Patrick Swayze movie. His part was better than minimal, but still kind of small.
I had to look up 11:14...it looks really good. Its in my list of movies to watch! I suppose the same could be said for Red Dawn, with there being so many good actors that stood out in that movie. But I love it so much. It had a huge impact on me when I first saw it on one of those Movie nights on TNT hosted by Joe Bob Briggs...I want to say it was Monster Vision but Red Dawn isn't a horror.
shareYeah, those three. I agree.
Oh, forgot he was in the outsiders. That'd be honorable mention.
Oddly enough, none of the actors in The Outsiders seems to carry the movie other than ... Ralph Macchio? All these other big names are in it, but none really slices off a lot of screen time other than Ralph. Maybe Howell, but that's just about as bad.
shareStay Golden!
shareReally? I thought Matt Dillon was the real standout in that movie :)
shareSure, why not? I don't remember how much screen time everyone got, but it seemed like Ralph and CTH were at the center of the action. There were so many soon-to-be stars in that movie it's hard for me to compare their roles. Cruise, Estevez, Swayze, Dillon .... Shit, was Rob Lowe in it too? (Too good looking to play a tough kid from the wrong side of town.) Craig Sheffer was one of the rich kids, I think. I liked him way back. I think he and Emilio played brothers or besties in a small movie I liked. Something like "That Was Then, ..." EE had to go bad and it made CS sad.
shareI love The Outsiders! It was definitely a hot meat buffet if you get what I'm saying ;) And it was centered around Ralph and CTH for sure but fo rme whenever I think of that movie Matt pops out to me every time. I dunno, he was so real in that movie, just my opinion :)
Craig Sheffer was awesome back then! And so hot! My absolute favorite movie with him is not well known, it's called Fire With Fire. It's a gem! If you haven't seen it you should look it up :)
I came to appreciate PS a little late in the game. He seemed too hunky, always had this great 80s hair going on, broad chested and proud of it. After seeing things like Ghost and DD, I started to see how magnetic he was on screen, and he was proud of his Dancing ability. How many Hollywood actors of that era were really good, athletic dancers? Plus he could skate and acted in another Rat Pack type movie, the hockey film Youngblood with Robby Lowe. So I admire PS a lot more than I did back in the 80s. It really is a shame he had to leave us early.
shareIt's nice to see all the Freakin' Dirty Dancin' Patrick Swayze love here. Sometimes I feel like he's been forgotten. He never did a brainless superhero movie so the younger generation has practically no use for him.
1. Red Dawn
2. Road House
3. Point Break
4.UNCOMMON VALOR
5. Steel Dawn
I know, I know that's more than three...
Oh man I am for one happy he never did a super hero movie! Love that list!
shareThat's all we get these days. Super hero garbae and prequels, sequels, remakes and reboots. It's why I've completely stopped watching movies. I gave up watching around 2008.There are so many great movies from the past that I could watch a different older movie everyday for the rest of my life and never repeat watching anything ever again.
shareI love Uncommon Valor, classic!!
shareYeah, when I was a kid back in the early 80s my Dad must have rented that one a million times. Great flick. Was it the first film centered around the premise of rescuing Vietnam Veterans? I know that it was before Missing in Action which was before Rambo II.
shareIt's a great movie! My dad and I watched it together as well :) It was the first, there were a couple of others that came after, I can't remember if they were all Vietnam but definitely rescue movies.
Bat 21 - also starring Gene Hackman
The Rescue - bunch of kids save their father
Let's Get Harry - bunch of friends rescue their friend
That's just a few :)
I've heard of all of those, but I have never seen them.
Recently, I have been watching a lot if Cannon films movies from the 80s. The Machismo is glorious. Every film is a bloodbath. They aren't quality films, but they are entertaining and are right in line with the best movies that Swayze did.
Show the Millennials Road House. The boys with no muscle tone probably won’t look up from their “macho” video games, but the girls will snap to attention.
shareSnowflakes have no idea what macho is. They actually think that when they beat a video game that it is the sames as winning The World Series. Then they cry when you tell them that beating a video game means nothing.
shareI'd argue that the best film to feature Patrick Swayze is Donnie Darko, and he's absolutely superb in that film, but it's not really a 'Patrick Swayze Film' and he's very much playing against type as an odious character, albeit one who utilizes Swayze's natural charisma in his public guise.
But in terms of the films I'd categorise as Patrick Swayze 'name above the title' ones, my favourites are:
1: Dirty Dancing (I unashamedly rate this film, especially because of the soundtrack, even though it always gets unfairly dismissed as a 'chick flick')
2: Roadhouse (funny how Swayze followed-up the 'ultimate chick flick', Dirty Dancing, with the 'ultimate macho b-movie' a couple of years later)
3: Ghost (another great film, although, despite being a mega-hit and the second highest grossing film of 1990, it's not quite as iconic as #1 and #2)
You have listed all perfectly good MANLY movies starring the Swayze.
He freakin' sang "She's Like The Wind" on the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack. That's both badass and overrides all chick flick connotations.
Patrick was a lot better actor then many give him credit for to be fair. Some really good work on his C.V but he's always remembered for Dirty Dancing but he has a few better films on his C.V then Dirty Dancing (some might disagree with that lol)
1. Point Break
2. Road House
3. Red Dawn
Honorable Mentions
The Outsiders (1983)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Ghost (1990)
City of Joy (1992)
Too wong Foo Thanks... (1995)
Donnie Darko (2001)