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Saw it Saturday at noon. It had a good amount of action, decent laughs, great stunt work as expected. Gosling IMO exudes charisma like no other actor in his generation, really the closest thing to a younger Tom Cruise out there.
The weak spots were the lack of chemistry with Emily Blunt, which made the slower paced scenes last forever.
The last bit concerns the movie business itself, in a huge theater on day 2, well reviewed movie, on a Saturday at noon we were alone….a private show, sad really.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing this. In the past I've never been a Gosling fan, but after seeing him in Blade Runner, then numerous SNL skits, I'm starting to like him. And Emily Blunt is always a win.
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I'm completely stymied by the poor showing this film is getting right out of the gate. It would seem to have all the elements needed to make a blockbuster. I love Emily, but maybe they should have cast Rachel McAdams instead. It would be fun to see how well she and Ryan are holding up 20 years after The Notebook.
I wonder if it was the hoards of men that subconsciously didn't want to watch Gosling because it reminds them of the "overhyped" Barbie movie.
Were there "hoards of men" who hated the Barbie movie? Really??? Most guys I know really liked the movie, and that movie would NOT have been the hit it was if a lot of men hadn't gone to see it.
I suspect the movie is bombing for the same reason lots of movies are struggling these days: It costs too frickin' much to go the movies. Add to that cramped, uncomfortable seats and rude audiences, and who wants to go the movies anymore? Especially for a movie like this, which will very likely be OnDemand in 7 or 8 weeks.
I'd like to see this movie. It looks fun. But I'm not paying $50 to go see it when I can stream it for $12 in a month or two or get it from my library for free.
That said ...
I have been a little confused by all the trailers. Is this romantic comedy? An action flick? A little bit of both? It's kinda hard to know what you're getting with this movie based on the previews.
If they were hoping to appeal to fans of the old show (and it doesn't look like they were), they really missed the boat. This looks a lot more like a lighthearted FAST AND THE FURIOUS movie than it does THE FALL GUY that I watched as a kid.
Barbie didn't get a lot of hate because most people who would have hated it never even went to watch it. It's kind of a movie that isn't exactly subtle in what it was going to be about. Most movies that get real hate are ones that run away from their target audience (as in Star Wars makers intentionally trying to 'subvert' the expectations of its fanbase), Barbie was made to please its audience. But that's a separate subject.
I think the main issue here is that Fall Guy is a 're-imagination' of a TV show that certainly had its fans (my child self was one of them), but it was never a massive cultural touch stone to the point where everyone knows what it is. So you won't draw in crowds just on the back of anticipation or hype, there needs be an appeal to people totally unfamiliar with the TV show. And quite frankly the movie probably just isn't quite ambitious enough to do that. Decent but unspectacular flicks without a 'unique selling proposition' bomb all the time these days.
Agree, I liked Barbie and thought Gosling played the best character in it.
I assume they were going for an action/comedy with a romance angle…..kind of like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I felt like they got the action/comedy part right and failed miserably on the second part.
Nonetheless, I’m quite surprised it cratered this weekend as even as it sits it should have done better than this. As I said, we were all alone in their biggest theater.
Barbie didn't get a lot of hate because most people who would have hated it never even went to watch it. It's kind of a movie that isn't exactly subtle in what it was going to be about. Most movies that get real hate are ones that run away from their target audience (as in Star Wars makers intentionally trying to 'subvert' the expectations of its fanbase), Barbie was made to please its audience. But that's a separate subject.
I think the main issue here is that Fall Guy is a 're-imagination' of a TV show that certainly had its fans (my child self was one of them), but it was never a massive cultural touch stone to the point where everyone knows what it is. So you won't draw in crowds just on the back of anticipation or hype, there needs be an appeal to people totally unfamiliar with the TV show. And quite frankly the movie probably just isn't quite ambitious enough to do that. Decent but unspectacular flicks without a 'unique selling proposition' bomb all the time these days.
I planned on seeing it as a day off matinee. With the original TV Fall Guy a knock off of Burt Reynolds' as Hooper with a mix of then a first era of bounty hunter chic after the westerns died. I was surprised the bounty hunter part seemed to be left out, But I guess this century's bounty hunter chic phase died 15 years ago.
Lee Majors in his second staring run show, the one that he was not remembered for and the other Heather of the era I can't recall the last time it was syndicated. As a recall the original already had a lot of comic touches so turning it into a comedy as was done with 21/22 Jump Streets, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs and Baywatch also probably gets you nowhere for the middle aged folks who remember the 80s.
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