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Who is the target audience for this film?
Does it make sense that Abigail. . .
I enjoyed it
Didn't expect gay propaganda in a Godzilla show with Kurt Russell
How did he learn to play chess?
PG version?
I would like a three-hour director's cut
Career went straight to hell after the 80s
Five positives and one big negative
Super Mario Bros Movie ($1.3 billion box office) vs Sonic the Hedgehog ($320 million)
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I would like to see him make one more movie before he dies. Carpenter's a legend and it's a shame that his career essentially died after Ghosts of Mars.
Nice post. I appreciate the effort.
I was really hoping that Indy V was going to be a great grand finale for the series. I didn't hate the movie like many did--I at least thought it was an improvement over Skull--but it certainly did not match the original trilogy in terms of quality.
In truth, Ford was probably just too old to really "be" Indiana Jones any more, regardless of the script. There was always going to be a kind of sadness to whatever was made, as we would be forced to face the aging of the actor, the character and ourselves. But with the right script and director it could've been a fitting swan song.
Was Spielberg the right director? Indy 4 would suggest otherwise, though if his heart was really in it, maybe he could've made something great. Was Mangold the right director? I didn't like his excessive use of CGI and the final product was not great, so I would have to conclude that no, he was not the right director.
Speaking specifically to Indy in China and Argentina, while I understand that Indy is allowed to go on adventures all around the world, to me the setting doesn't FEEL right, much how China didn't feel right in the third Mummy movie. I guess, to me, it just seems like Indy should be adventuring around in Europe and the Middle East and leave the rest of the world to someone else.
I don't expect to change your opinion. But it is an objective fact that the majority of opinion are contrary to yours. This can be measured through means like the RT audience score, the IMDB score and the CinemaScore.
You and your brood may have disliked it, but that doesn't mean that most people did. Or, for that matter, that it's a bad film.
If that's how the director and Gosling described the movie then I have to say that they succeeded. Because that was exactly my impression of the film.
I think that it's the emphasis on stunts and being a stuntman that sets this film apart from others. There aren't a lot of films where the lead character is not only a stunt performer, but you get something of a behind-the-scenes view (albeit a fictionalized and highly-stylized one) of what those guys do and what it's like to work in that corner of the film industry.
The film also largely eschews CGI for practical effects, which I appreciated.
Also, you say that the jokes fail, but I will point out that, at least in the first half of the film--which I thought was overall superior to the second half--I laughed out loud a handful of times and so did other people in my theater.
I've seen the movie and my description is exactly what the movie is. I'm not sure where you're coming up with Romancing the Stone. Romancing the Stone is much closer to Indiana Jones than it is to this film, and Indy is nothing like Fall Guy. That is a strange comparison to make, except for the fact that both could be classified as action-comedies where a male lead and his female co-star do stuff together.
You might be right. Though I guess the TV show may have provided some original impetus to make the film and maybe the studio thought that by calling the movie "The Fall Guy" that would attract at least a FEW people who watched the show back in the day.
In regard to originality, I have to say that it's the only action-rom-com-love-letter-to-stunt-performers that I've ever seen. I literally can't think of another movie that's quite like it.
And while people are saying it's a remake of a TV show . . . is it really? Is the Fall Guy TV show actually much at all like this movie?
David Leitch is a former stuntman and he wanted to make this film as a tribute to stunt performers and their profession.
I watched this movie not even knowing it was based on any TV show. I just thought it sounded like a cool concept that hadn't been done to death, and the trailers looked good.
Why not, it's a fun and unique concept that doesn't feel overplayed?
Well, to be fair, the film has a ton of action set pieces and stunts, and considering the concept it the film, it needs them. If you dropped the budget to $75 million, how much of that would they have had to cut out?
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