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RT Score: 86% as of 5/1/24

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Officially opens tomorrow, but early screenings start Tonight at 7pm. This is technically the 1st "summer blockbuster"

I believe this has already opened in some international territories.

I'm catching this tonight. From everything I'd heard and read, this is basically a love letter to the stuntman.

Just got back from seeing it. I’d give it 4 out of 5 and a B+

There is a fun introduction from Leitch and Gosling before the movie begins.

Overall, It was really fun. Great action and stunts. Also it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is totally hamming it up as the cocky movie star. Gosling and Blunt do have good chemistry. As mentioned before, it’s definitely an ode to the stuntman profession.

Stay through the entire credits. And there are also two cameos.

And yes, “The Unknown Stuntman” is played on the end credits. But, Gosling isn’t singing it. They do re-work some of the lyrics as the original song is super dated.

The wife and I loved it. Funny and charming all around.

Yeah my wife and I are REALLY looking forward to this since we have not seen anything new in the theater in a long time.

I have my ticket for a tomorrow 12:45 pm showing at the AMC Newpark Dolby theater. I have to say that I was not surprised to see that the weekend forecast on Deadline for this film is maybe $28 million (which is low for a $100 million+ budgeted film) because the theater had tons of seats still open.

The showings for Ghostbusters and Kong X Godzilla had Sat early matinee showings where most of the primo seats in the Dolby theater (I saw both film in the same theater I am seeing The Fall Guy) were booked at least 3-5 days before the films release on a Friday. The Fall Guy is far from even 1/4 of the theater being booked at least as of a few hours earlier. Maybe word of mouth will kick-in and the film will have legs at the box office, but despite what seems to be great marketing for the film, folks are choosing not to attend this weekend.

I would say blame it on the weather, but at least in the Bay area it will be slightly wet Friday night into Saturday, and pretty cold this weekend, so it does not seem like great let's do something outdoors weather that would keep folks from theaters and on the road to go the beach or something like that.

Saw it tonight. I’m really torn about this. Not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, it was cute, fun and had some really good stunts. Gosling and Blunt are super charming and attractive and have great chemistry together. On the other hand it was SO STUPID. Like way stupider than it needed to be. There were wild shifts in tones, at some points it’s supposed to be kind of a paranoid thriller, then suddenly everyone acts as dumb as parents on a Disney Channel sitcom. If they wanted to make a comedy, it should have been much funnier.
Also were other viewers as confused as I was about Colt’s relationship with Jody at the beginning? It sure looked like they were just flirting and had a crush. Then suddenly it flashes forward and they’re resentful spurned ex-lovers. If they were supposed to have a deep, important relationship, it sure didn’t seem that way.
And the less said about Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Hannah Waddingham’s characters, the better,
I didn’t dislike it, but damn I wish it was less silly and dumb.

Why the fuck was this the movie that Jody was born to (re)make??

Holy shit! It was a real film?

And while we're at it, Jody went from camera operator on an action film to director, actively shooting a big-budget blockbuster in 18 months???

Caught this today. It was a lot of fun. Shame it's not doing so well. I hope its underperformance doesn't harm the effort to call more attention to stunt performers.

I pretty much are like what you wrote, the "love" story drags this down bad. My wife and I were looking at each other goin WTF this is stupid. There were just so any parts that was dumb as fuck.

I loved the use of the KISS song in it that got a half star bump for me. I gave it 2 stars

The trailer for this looked incredible. What a shame it was done so poorly. The 2 cameos at the end

I think the prologue made it abundantly clear they were having a fling and getting serious before his accident. In terms of the overall tone, I figured the comedic approach wouldn't be for everyone.

That was Gail’s doing - she admitted to putting Jody on the film so she could be easily controlled

My wife and I just got back and had a blast. The tone was perfect, Blunt and Gosling were incredible. Loved Duke and everyone else in the cast too.

i haven’t laughed like that at a movie in a long time. The unicorn bit was HILARIOUS.

Shame it didn’t do well - we could use movies that had more fun.

I also really enjoyed this. I was smiling through most of the movie. The soundtrack was amazing as well.

I knew Metalstorm was an 80s movie, but I had no idea that the tagline used in The Fall Guy was the same one the movie had used.

One of the fun things about seeing this at the Alamo is they showed the original Metalstorm trailer during the pre-show before The Fall Guy. I had no idea why they showed it but once that became clear it was even funnier.

Coming to PVOD on Tuesday

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I enjoyed the movie. Sucks that most people passed on this as a theatrical experience.

They have got to stop with these rapid streaming releases.

Why? Do you think that would result in more people going to the theater? Best to release it when the film is still in people's mind to maximize rental revenue.

As someone that still like the theater experience, the impossibly short 2.5 week window does give more weight to "Just wait for it on video".

It doesn't mean I think any individual title would benefit from it, it's just in general.

I am curious what the sales numbers are on these titles via PVOD, I assume most just watch it on bootleg platforms.

If it opened to more than $50mil it wouldn't be coming to PVOD after 3 weeks. This is the guideline Universal has been going on for years now and it works well for them.

This - might as well put it out and make some money on it since it has good word of mouth but apparently not good enough to warrant going to the theater.

An Extended Cut:

Share some of the same sentiments here, some fun moments, but overall just silly

Just FYI…the extended cut is 20 more minutes than theatrical, which clocks in at 2:06.

The extended cut is really long-winded.

seemed pretty mediocre overall.

Maybe one day I will watch the theatrical cut to see if it flows any better.