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REDLETTERMEDIA VIDEO: Hey, kids! It's every face punch in ROADHOUSE

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[EDITOR'S NOTE: The comic geniuses over at Redlettermedia have created this forensic catalog of every right cross, chambered strike, backfist, hammerfist, haymaker, shovel hook, uppercut, trachea rip and jab thrown in Patrick Swayze's classic "Roadhouse." You have to admire the sheer length of this — 45 seconds of distilled violence. I suppose we should call this piece a somewhat circuitious tribute to the late Ben Gazzara — who died this month at the age of 81. His gratuitously evil turn as Brad Wesley transforms a bad movie into a good-bad movie. Watching him get his ass kicked in this film is transforming. Thanks, Ben. And thanks to everyone at Redlettermedia for creating and posting it.]
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  • By Redlettermedia
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  • February 20, 2012 9:27 AM
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