So the other night I was watching ‘Road House’.

Personally I blame booze, insomnia and the fact that I lost the Tivo remote and because of the first two I was too lazy to find it, so I just sat there watching ‘Road House’. If you are not familiar with this screen gem (and really how can you not be, if you are a girl of a certain age I’m sure your first sexual awakening was to Patrick Swayze in ‘Dirty Dancing’ and if you are a guy of a certain age the first time you stole second base without being thrown out by the catcher was DURING ‘Dirty Dancing’). Anyway ‘Road House’ was Swayze’s follow up to ‘Dirty Dancing’. I suspect he didn’t wan’t to be typecast as a tight pants wearing twinkle-toes pedo, so he though playing a tight pants wearing tai-chi doing bouncer would scruffy up his career.

R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght.

Incidentally this film marks the first appearance of monster truck Bigfoot on the silver screen.

So where was I?

Oh, well it’s no secret that Brad Pitt is the 90’s answer to Patrick Swayze. I would argue, then, that ‘Fight Club’ is Brad Pitt’s ‘Road House’. By the time the film came around he’d had a few roles where he’d ripped his shirt off and pranced around in slow motion ‘para los mujeres’ as they say and he wanted something to make him look tough. So…’Fight Club’.

Don’t get me wrong. I really like ‘Fight Club’. A lot. But you have to ask yourself, how long is going to be before ‘Fight Club’ looks as silly as ‘Road House’? I mean the whole basis for ‘Fight Club’ seems to be those clubs where married ’straight’ men get together to suck each others’ cocks but claim they aren’t gay, just ‘on the low’ as R-Kelly would say. I’ve got news for you, if your cock touches another guy and it’s NOT an accident and you DON’T apologize profusely…you’re total homo.

Anyway a quick comparison of these two immortal classics:

In RH Dalton says, “I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice.”
In FC Tyler says, “I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”

In RH Dr. Clay (Kelly Lynch) says, “How’d a guy like you end up a bouncer?”
In FC Marla Singer (Helena B. Carter) says, “I want to have your abortion.”

How long will it be until ‘Fight Club’ is as big a piece of stinky cheese as ‘Road House’?