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Post by Nora on May 4, 2024 2:43:50 GMT
so entertaining. Really easy on the eyes. My favorite Leitch movie so far. 8/10 from me easy. Blunt and Gosling have a great chemistry… but then again does anyone Not have a chemistry with Ryan?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 8, 2024 13:15:20 GMT
It was alright. When it was funny, it was really funny, but it couldn't sustain its momentum. It was much more of a romcom than I was anticipating. I wondered if Lee Majors would have a cameo, and he did, so that was cool.
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Post by Nora on May 8, 2024 15:46:28 GMT
It was alright. When it was funny, it was really funny, but it couldn't sustain its momentum. It was much more of a romcom than I was anticipating. I wondered if Lee Majors would have a cameo, and he did, so that was cool. I expected it to be a full on rom com so i am satisfied.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on May 11, 2024 9:51:56 GMT
I actually found The Fall Guy "lousy." The film begins as a satire of sorts, but it soon devolves into a largely unfunny parody that is too zany for its own good. The movie is well-cast—Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in particular—but the actors are let down by the material. The Fall Guy could have served as a clever satire of Hollywood filmmaking, rich in romantic repartee, and it shows the occasional sign of that quality early on. But instead, the majority of the movie does not even take place on a film set. The action sequences are dynamically edited, but that is about the only consistent strong point offered by The Fall Guy. Indeed, the tone and pacing are both erratic and slack.
The other option would have been to just make an all-out cultural parody, as during the coda, when the trailer for the movie-within-the-movie cites the male star as an "MTV Video Music Award Best Kiss Nominee." That was a good joke, and more in that vein could have worked. Instead, we have a madcap action parody that strikes me as lame, unsophisticated, and pointless. Again, The Fall Guy occasionally offers glimpses of something more sophisticated and ironic, but the bubbles prove to be fizzle rather than percolation.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 13, 2024 4:08:12 GMT
I thought it was okay. Nothing special.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 13, 2024 4:33:47 GMT
BCertainly not what I'd anticipated for Gosling's hype coming off Barbie, & esp what the trailers hinted at. I was expecting his character to not be so intelligent or at least so street smarts, thus taking some wind out of its elongated non-action sequence sails. Still, its 3rd act rebounded quite nicely for me, offering the film stronger balance than I was expecting at the 40 minute mark or so. I thought Blunt's character dressing down of Gosling's on set with the repeated fire suit slams gave us a leading lady not worth fighting for. If she didn't want to be in on things, why should he/we?? The double entendre of the film's title worked, & alas the actor/producer's crime cover up story seemed a bit of a reach every time they tried to explain it. The producer character was pretty weak imo. Anyways, this will likely help pave the way for stunt buzz at the Oscars. Long overdue imo. I was thinking the director maybe tried his hand at making a love story of his craft, & didn't succeed nearly as well as fight coordinator aced his John Wick project years ago. Sometimes, directing isn't as easy as it seems. Shoutout Sydney Austraila ftw... fairly certain I'd never been so close up in film/tv as this. The Harbour Bridge was used fairly extensively.
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Fall Guy
May 13, 2024 15:58:57 GMT
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Post by Nora on May 13, 2024 15:58:57 GMT
interesting, i seem to be so far the only one who loved it … maybe its simply more appealing to women due to its romantic nature and chemistry between the leads?
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Post by Prime etc. on May 13, 2024 21:41:09 GMT
Was the original show for women? I thought it was a relative of the A-Team which Peppard said was a guy's show.
I don't remember it as a romance show
It sounds like someone thought
Gosling Ken doll = Gosling as the guy who was a Bionic Man doll.
Also how politically correct can you get--the original was about someone catching people who skipped bail. But I guess since so many blue states are against bail that makes it un-pc?
I saw the article saying it is underperforming compared to Oppenheimer but first of all-no one was desperate for a Fall Guy movie, and not one that is designed as an action romance picture.
The complaint last year was that the action films like the Flash and Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones focused on 60-80 year old heroes-enhanced by cgi---opting to do a romance action film about a stunt man---that feels very phony if they wanted to bring in the allegedly important 18-25 male (which they used to claim was the most important group for demographics).
This reminds me of how they hyped up DiCaprio after Titanic but he didn't draw the same crowds for the Beach or Man in the Iron Mask.
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Fall Guy
May 14, 2024 5:36:07 GMT
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Post by Nora on May 14, 2024 5:36:07 GMT
never seen the original show but from what i read its quite different, much more romance in this one.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 14, 2024 23:07:53 GMT
interesting, i seem to be so far the only one who loved it … maybe its simply more appealing to women due to its romantic nature and chemistry between the leads? Nobody is really hating it either, which has to be seen as a positive. I think men were looking for a little more rock 'em sock 'em, and less romcom energy. A lot of movies in the last 10-15 years fall into this category, as the studios are trying to broaden the action net to catch women as well. It's not a bad movie, it really did have its moments. I thought it did a pretty good job capturing the 'down and out tough guy but a little bit of a screwball' action/comedy tone of the show, I just didn't need the romcom angle leaned into so heavily. Looks like it found its market in you, but the studio probably wishes there were more of you out there!
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 14, 2024 23:11:22 GMT
Was the original show for women? I thought it was a relative of the A-Team which Peppard said was a guy's show. I don't remember it as a romance show It sounds like someone thought Gosling Ken doll = Gosling as the guy who was a Bionic Man doll. Also how politically correct can you get--the original was about someone catching people who skipped bail. But I guess since so many blue states are against bail that makes it un-pc?I saw the article saying it is underperforming compared to Oppenheimer but first of all-no one was desperate for a Fall Guy movie, and not one that is designed as an action romance picture. The complaint last year was that the action films like the Flash and Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones focused on 60-80 year old heroes-enhanced by cgi---opting to do a romance action film about a stunt man---that feels very phony if they wanted to bring in the allegedly important 18-25 male (which they used to claim was the most important group for demographics). This reminds me of how they hyped up DiCaprio after Titanic but he didn't draw the same crowds for the Beach or Man in the Iron Mask. I think they changed him from bounty hunter to just a dude caught up in a murder mystery because it fits the romcom angle they were going for better, and it works really well using the title as a play on words.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 14, 2024 23:25:42 GMT
I think they changed him from bounty hunter to just a dude caught up in a murder mystery because it fits the romcom angle they were going for better, and it works really well using the title as a play on words.
because they don't want to do something that is traditional in masculine portrayals it somehow is offensive to whatever audience they claim to be aiming for. The Barbie audience i guess--boy you can't further from the Fall Guy tv viewer than that.
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