Sometimes you don't realize that you missed something until it returns. For me, that thing was fun. More specifically, fun movies.
There was a time, not so long ago, that going to the movies held the promise of a good time. Sure it was hit or miss, but generally speaking the discerning fan could sniff out the crap and escape the stress of the real world for two hours or so. Today, however, fun seems to be a four letter word to the geniuses in Hollywood. There are reasons for this. Reasons that are mostly of a socio-political nature that I won't expand on here, but the point is that after a decade or so of rising ticket prices and diminishing returns, I think that the audience is craving the return of the "f" word. That's why it's such a shame that "The Fall Guy" wasn't a bigger hit.
Make no mistake, "The Fall Guy" isn't a classic. It's probably not even a movie that most people are likely to ever revisit. But it's a seriously entertaining movie with laugh out loud humor and great action that is also far more clever than it appears to be on the surface. And there are no agendas or people dressed in spandex costumes. That alone makes this a movie worth checking out.
"The Fall Guy" is a good time and nothing more, and that's okay.
There was a time, not so long ago, that going to the movies held the promise of a good time. Sure it was hit or miss, but generally speaking the discerning fan could sniff out the crap and escape the stress of the real world for two hours or so. Today, however, fun seems to be a four letter word to the geniuses in Hollywood. There are reasons for this. Reasons that are mostly of a socio-political nature that I won't expand on here, but the point is that after a decade or so of rising ticket prices and diminishing returns, I think that the audience is craving the return of the "f" word. That's why it's such a shame that "The Fall Guy" wasn't a bigger hit.
Make no mistake, "The Fall Guy" isn't a classic. It's probably not even a movie that most people are likely to ever revisit. But it's a seriously entertaining movie with laugh out loud humor and great action that is also far more clever than it appears to be on the surface. And there are no agendas or people dressed in spandex costumes. That alone makes this a movie worth checking out.
"The Fall Guy" is a good time and nothing more, and that's okay.