Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s action rom-com The Fall Guy looks like a total delight
It's too early to say that The Fall Guy will be the best movie ever, but it has all the things a good movie needs
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If someone were to boil moviemaking down to a science and compile a list of all things that a good, crowd-pleasing film should have—action, romance, suspense, humor, Ryan Gosling—then the results of that mad Frankenstein experiment might look a lot like director David Leitch’s The Fall Guy (a loose adaptation of the ‘80s TV show of the same name). And so we must ask the question on everyone’s minds: Could this be, simply, the best movie?
This trailer seems to at least suggest that it’s a possibility, because while the trailer itself isn’t perfect, even the shocking overuse of “You Give Love A Bad Name” can’t stop The Fall Guy from looking like a whole lot of fun. It centers on Gosling as a movie stunt performer (much like Leitch himself used to be, so he knows his way around this kind of thing) who has a flirty/antagonistic relationship with a big director (played by Emily Blunt). When her movie’s star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) goes missing, she asks Gosling’s character to help track him down, setting him up for all sorts of opportunities to use his stunt training in real-life dangerous situations—and giving them both all sorts of opportunities to fall in love! It’s Drive meets Barbie meets Romancing The Stone meets… maybe Jungle Cruise? Or a better example than that?
Gosling is in full dopey-charm mode here, and Blunt is in full begrudging-charmed mode, plus Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke, and Hannah Waddingham will show up as well. We like all of them, right? And, if you’re a skeptic, you intend to argue that a film with this cast does not have a chance to be the best movie? Plus, “You Give Love A Bad Name” isn’t the worst song ever.
We’ll know if our theory is true when The Fall Guy opens in theaters on March 1.
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Should have been Tom Cruise.
He already made that movie. It was called Knight and Day. It was not good.
Knight and Day is a totally different movie, lol.
Maybe as the ‘star’ that’s gone missing. The fact that it’s his ‘stuntman’ of all people that has to go looking for him just make it all the more meta.
We also have Peter O’Toole starring in The Stunt Man.
I mentioned The Stunt Man elsewhere and now saw your comment. Good comment.
Gosling in dopey-charm mode is pretty much unstoppable.
Yeah this looks like a less scuzzy version of his Nice Guys character. I’m in.
You had me at “Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.”
Gunt would make a great celebrity couple name!
Yes, because a portmanteau with her real husband, John Krazinski, would be…unfortunate. And only even remotely suitable in the U.K. and Australia.
That’s the Australian/British word for a F.U.P.A.
Gut + C*** = Gunt
yeah, we know. above statement still stands.
Blunsling, or go home.
Who Gos the Blunts? WE Gos the Blunts!
I suspect John Krasinski might disagree.
Serves him right for getting his character killed in A Quiet Place. He can’t even co-star with her in her major franchise now!
This reminds me of his role in ‘Nice Guys’, here he’s a little cooler.
“When her movie’s star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) goes missing, she asks Gosling’s character to help track him down”
It’s a two-minute fucking trailer, did you not bother to even watch the whole thing?
Hannah Waddingham’s character, the producer, asks him to help, NOT Blunt’s director character, for fuck’s sake.
Good cast, but I have a rule against watching movies about movies or movie-making.
Singin’ in the Rain??
Tropic Thunder?
Barton Fink
The Bad and the Beautiful?Two Weeks in Another Town?The Barefoot Contessa?
Immersion destroying!
…DAY FOR NIGHT?!?!
State And Main?Living In Oblivion?Get Shorty?
The Player!?
The Stunt Man?
Bowfinger?!Okay, that might not be the best counterpoint.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit??
Your loss for missing the glory that is Peter O’Toole in The Stunt Man.
Is Lee Majors actually in this as a remake cameo, or is that just IMDb doing its thing?
I’m going 99% he has a cameo. But what we really need is Heather Thomas as Blunt’s mother.
I fondly recall the Great Heather Wars of the ‘80s.
It was a glorious time on the planet Earth.
I know it isn’t the Fall Guy…but same vibes.
“You Give Love a Bad Name” is fine, but come on, the right song is right there:
You can even get Gosling to record it and change the lyrics a bit if need be for some more recent names.
If there were a god, that recording would be over the closing credits.
The only problem is that most, if not all, of the actresses he mentions in the song are dead. Not exactly the vibe you are looking for when courting a new, younger audience.
Like I said, Gosling should sing the song with updated lyrics with more contemporary actors. But the original should definitely be over the end credits.
It had been a while since I’d actually listened to the song, so I looked up all the actors he mentions:Farrah (Fawcett), a fun meta joke right at the topSally FieldBo (Derek)(Robert) RedfordCheryl TiegsRaquel Welch(Clint) EastwoodJacky (Jaclyn) SmithCheryl (Ladd since he already mentioned Cheryl Tiegs?)Burt ReynoldsAnd the song is a bop. Also, I totally forgot Markie Post was in the show!
Wondering who they’d use now. And would it fly, with the implication throughout that the leads always hook up.
From the OP:You can even get Gosling to record it and change the lyrics a bit if need be for some more recent names.
I can only guess that a version with updated lyrics will appear in the closing credits.
“You Give Love A Bad Name” isn’t the worst song ever.No, but it’s pretty damn close. Perhaps only GnR’s “Sweet Child of Mine” or “Welcome to the Jungle” makes me change the station faster.(I will admit to liking the use of “Jungle” in The Dead Pool)
If you’re not singing the guitar solo of “Sweet Child O’Mine” with the radio cranked, you have no soul.
Sounds like Air Supply or Billy Ocean might be better for you
What is wrong with air supply and Billy Ocean? Or GNR for that matter?
yeah, he must be a total weakling if he doesn’t enjoy hair metal produced for teens
I never said he was a weakling. He can probably beat me up!I just thought that if two of the best songs off one of history’s greatest hard rock albums weren’t his speed, something a little easier to listen to might be just what he needed!Also, calling GnR “hair metal” is ludicrous.
““You Give Love A Bad Name” isn’t the worst song ever.”No, the existence of “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas saves it from that fate.
To reuse the response to when someone says “We Built This City” is the worst song ever: it isn’t even the worst song on that album.
Just a fun movie? Perfect!
“it has all the things a good movie needs”Including stunts?
Did they go Fury Road on this, or is it going to be a bunch of CG cars blowing up?
Kinda gives me some “The Stuntman” vibes as well.
Ryan being adorable while doing comedy…yes please.
Ryan Gosling seems to be in his “shits and giggles” career phase, and I’m enjoying it immensely.
He finally got past needing to distance himself from The Mickey Mouse Club, and we are at last reaping the benefits.
The one time Barsanti is positive and it’s a blatantly sponsored article. He can retweet stuff about how G/O Media is bad for using AI all he likes, but we all know when the revolution comes he’ll be first against the wall for being such a fucking toady.
Yes, because clearly The AV Club would NEVER report on a new movie trailer unless it’s sponsored.
If you don’t know the difference between “reporting on” and “being unnecessarily shitty and snarky about”, it’s entirely possible you’ve spent too much time on contemporary AV Club!
No one is sponsoring AV Club for an obsequious article, let alone an unnecessarily snarky one.
You don’t think that Daisy Ridley article was sponsored?
Yes, thank you.