Road House director Doug Liman comments on the film's CGI fight scenes after pushback on the technique from within the industry and beyond. Serving as a remake of 1989's Road House starring Patrick Swayze, Liman's film landed on Prime Video earlier this year, with Jake Gyllenhaal stepping into the role of Dalton, a bouncer at a violent Florida bar.
Part of why shooting fights is a little boring to me is that you're constrained about where you can put the camera and where you put the edits because people are not actually punching each other. I thought, "I just want to put the camera where I would put it as a filmmaker if they were actually hitting each other. I'm putting the camera here, so how can we make it look like the fist is connecting with the face?" That required bringing in visual effects.
Related Jake Gyllenhaal vs. Patrick Swayze: Which Version Of Road House's Dalton Would Win In A Fight After watching the two Road House films, it is hard not to be curious whether Jake Gyllenhaal's Dalton would beat Patrick Swayze's version in a fight. Though there have been advancements and tweaks over the years, movie fight scenes have largely been accomplished using the same methods for decades. The cameras are put in specific positions to hide the fact that actors or stunt performers aren't actually hitting each other, and editing and sound design are also used to help sell an impact.