Roadhouse will screen at the Somerville Theatre at midnight on Friday, July 27, and Saturday, July 29. It will also screen Monday, July 30, at 7:30 pm.

Cult classic Road House, featuring Patrick Swayze as a philosophy-spouting bouncer, is running at the Somerville Theater this weekend. Why is Road House, made in 1989, so much better than other action flicks of the '80s?

Swayze's collected, Zen demeanor in many of his movies led the Onion AV Club to christen him "The Swayze." To reveal why Swayze is a thinker for the modern age, here's a quiz. You pick which line is Swayze, as the bouncer Dalton in Road House, Sun Tzu, or Socrates:

1. "The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

2. "People who really want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse."

3. "Nobody ever wins a fight."

4. "Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

5. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

6. "All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. And three, be nice."

7. "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting."

8. "Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."

9. "To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know."

10. "I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice."

Image of Road House poster from Wikipedia. Answers after the jump! Is it Socrates, Sun Tzu, or Swayze?

1. "The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim." – Sun Tzu

2. "People who really want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse."--Swayze

3. "Nobody ever wins a fight." –Swayze

4. "Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence." – Socrates

5. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." – Sun Tzu

6. "All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. And three, be nice." --Swayze

7. "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting." – Sun Tzu

8. "Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires." – Socrates

9. "To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know." – Socrates

10. "I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice." –Swayze