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Birds of a Feather

I have basically this exact thing on my main blog, but I felt the need to add some stuff and put it on this blog properly.

Rule #4: Fish in a Birdcage, Fish in a Birdcage | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou | Song for Sasha Banks, The Mountain Goats | Elektra, Sophocles | I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson | Up the Wolves, The Mountain Goats | Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted, Eden Robinson | Photo, Graham Holtshausen | Uwani, Rudy Francisco | Antigone | I Knew You Once, Dodie Clark | Quote by Hannah Gadsby | Brother, Kodaline | Two Birds, Regina Spektor | Quote by Dan Pearce | The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang

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The Fall Guy (2024) Review

Colt Seavers is a down and out stuntman who after suffering a life changing injury shutdown from the film world, but when being told his ex-girlfriend Jody Moreno requested him for her first director role of a film he makes a comeback. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading The Fall Guy (2024) Review

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Universal's THE FALL GUY has premiered to middling box office. Which is unfortunate. It's a fun and funny film.

In the past few months, I have seen an interesting mix of action films. MONKEY MAN Is superior. It's incredible. THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE is great fun - one of the best Guy Ritchie films in a while. ARGYLLE was awful. I hate the use of sped up action and Matthew Vaughn needs to be brought before The Hauge for his overuse of it. BOY KILLS WORLD uses it, too, which is unfortunate, but at least everything else works (to a degree). It certainly has the feel of a cult film. The entire time I was watching I thought, "This would kill at Beyond Fest or Fantastic Fest". It's a bit too off-kilter so you really had to adjust my thinking of it.

But THE FALL GUY is not really like those films. Action-packed to be sure, but in the vein of the JOHN WICK films, they are more about stunts, falls, punches etc; than gun violence and bloodshed. Which makes sense as director/producer David Leitch (ATOMIC BLONDE, DEADPOOL 2, BULLET TRAIN, JOHN WICK franchise ) is a former stuntman. This film - aside from being a reboot of the 80's television series starring Lee Majors - is a love letter to the stunt community and a not so silent campaign for the stunt community to be recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

Leitch & Co. have made sure that this roll-out to this film has centered Stunts.

Compilation of their promotion of stunt people: Ryan Gosling on Jimmy Kimmel, stunts on the red carpet at the L.A. premiere and a demo of stunts at the L.A premiere.

SPOILERS FOR THE FALL GUY. MORE SPOILERS THAN THE (ALLEGED) FILLERS IN RYAN GOSLING'S FACE.

What is it about: The film is about stuntman Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling), who suffers an on-set accident, which ends his career as the #1 stuntman for actor Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).

With Colt's career goes his relationship with Jody (Emily Blunt), a camerawoman.

Eighteen months later, Colt is beckoned by Ryder's producing partner Gail Meyers (Hannah Waddingham)

to work stunts on Tom's new film with first-time director Jody at the helm.

When Tom goes missing, Gail implores Colt to locate him before the studio shuts down production, which will destroy Jody's career. With Jody's career at stake Colt begrudgingly throws himself into locating Tom, which drags him into the dodgy lifestyle the actor he's been doubling has been into.

WHAT I LOVED

-Ryan Gosling is incredible at comedy. Most people discovered that with BARBIE, but those who loved THE NICE GUYS knew that. Or maybe even saw his promise in THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB and YOUNG HERCULES.

The humour doen't stick the way THE NICE GUY does, but it is still an extremely funny film. The film is very self-referential and meta, so the comedy works more if you know about the issues surrounding the entertainment industry and the stunt community. If you don't, the jokes are still there, but may not land as well as it would if you understood the reference.

-Emily Blunt can have chemistry with a sponge, so it makes it very easy to care about Jody and Colt's relationship, despite we get very little time with them as a couple. Because of how great they are individually as portraying lost love, you really do root for these crazy kids to reconcile.

-Something that may very seem like a point against it, is something I count as an asset - it is extremely meta. People may find that anvilicious, but as a film that throws restraint out the window - doesn't even bother acting as if it has restraint - it's easy to lean into it. You have a script supervisor advising Jody to make the in-film character do a wall of exposition about how there is no third act, while in the film Jody is really dealing with the fact that her film has no third act; which is a reference to big blockbusters being filmed without a finished script.

Or Jody talking with Colt about if she should do a split-screen effect, while Jody and Colt are in the split-screen . You just have to embrace it.

And as much as it is a full-throated love letter to stunt and a cry to have them recognized by the Academy (there is even an end-credit song that is all about how stunts is deserving of gold), the film is a love letter to movies with Colt and his stunt coordinator Dan (Winston Duke) reciting movie quotes to each other. There is even a point in the film where Colt says something profound to Jodie and he's trying to figure out if he made it up or if it was a quote. It's a gorgeous film for people who love movies.

They even call out stunts by other films and seemingly recreate them. It's great.

Gael Garcia Bernal did a Criterion Closet pull and he lamented on how there are no longer movies like Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN that make you come out of the cinema that makes you want to live and have sex and love and enjoy people. While THE FALL GUY may not make you want to have sex, it is a big, bold, film that makes you think back at classics that were all about the indomitable spirit of the reluctant hero and of the hero trying to get their love. It really does feel a Valentine to cinema as a whole.

-Colt literally being made into a fall guy by Gail. Genius!

-The fact that the "Miami Vice" reference had a pay off and ties into Universal Studios' long running stunt shows.

Gosling popping up at Universal's stunt show.

WHAT I DIDN'T LOVE

-They had Blake Shelton remake the series theme song, "The Unknown Stuntman" which was performed by the 80s series lead Lee Majors (who cameos in the film, along with his costar Heather Thomas), but they took out all the references to celebrities. And since this film is all about Colt's love for Jodie, the song has been retooled to make it more a dedication to their love, then the love of stunts and leading ladies.

Thankfully, there are great songs in the tracks, especially Yungblood's cover of Kiss's "I Was Made for Loving You".

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The Fall Guy Trailer

After taking a year off working to focus on his physical and mental health, Colt is pulled back into working as a stuntman on his ex's film. The star of the movie goes missing and Colt is tasked by the producer to find him. Meanwhile, Colt is also trying to get back into his ex's good graces. As the mystery of the star's disappearance deepens, Colt finds himself trapped in a criminal plot.

The Fall Guy stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke, and Stephanie Hsu. David Leitch directs from a screenplay by Drew Pearce. The film is inspired by the 1980s TV series of the same name.

The Fall Guy hits theaters on March 1, 2024.

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THE FALL GUY:

Stuntman back in game

Stumbles on conspiracy

Tries to win back love

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STUNTED DEVELOPEMENT

Now in theaters:

The Fall Guy--Beyond the title, this action comedy only borrows a little from Glen Larson's TV series, which ran on ABC from 1981 to 1986: the basic premise, the names of the main characters and the cornpone theme song over the closing credits. But it seems intended as a semi-throwback, a modern take on the easygoing car stunt movies and TV shows popular from the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s, not only The Fall Guy but Hooper��and the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run flicks.

Directed by stunt veteran David Leitch from a script by Drew Pearce, The Fall Guy concerns a Hollywood stuntman with the perfect '80s TV name of Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) who drops out of the industry after an on-set accident. A noxious producer (Hannah Waddingham) persuades him to get back in the saddle, doubling for a putridly narcissistic star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) on a sci-fi actioner being shot in Sydney. Mostly Colt goes because he's in love with the director, Jody (Emily Blunt). Before long, however, he realizes that he's been pulled into the project for more sinister reasons.

None of this is meant to be taken very seriously; the tone is near-farcical, though sometimes with a macabre edge. The plot is just an excuse for a string of spectacular car, boat, aerial and combat stunts, both in the movie-within-the-movie and in the external story.

The stars are strong. Gosling gets across some of the same addled, highly sympathetic goofiness that he showed as Ken in Barbie, and he seems to bring out the best in Blunt. Always capable, she has a delightful openhearted sweetness here. The villains--Taylor-Johnson, Waddingham and their brutish henchmen--are also on point, and overall, the movie goes down easy; it's not bad. It's a lot of movie to just be not bad, I suppose, but I certainly found it preferable to the modern iteration of the stunt movie, the humorless and possibly pernicious Fast and the Furious flicks.

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The Fall Guy, David Leitch (2024)

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WHAT A PLOT TWIST

~ Me after watching National Treasure Edge of History ep9: A Meeting with Salazar

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The Fall Guy (12): Fatuous Popcorn Nonsense... That is Simply Brilliant Entertainment!

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "The Fall Guy". #TheFallGuy. A blast of popcorn fun and spectacular stunts that had me smiling from ear to ear. 5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Fall Guy” (2024). The casting dream of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in a stunt-filled action/comedy based on the 80’s TV series “The Fall Guy”? I was “in” from the get-go. Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) is stunt double to the mega star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and boyfriend to cinematographer Jody Moreno (Emily…

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Ryan Gosling en el Tráiler de 'Fall Guy'.....

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#Country Music

CMT 11-26-22

So today I will be bringing you the Hottest 20 Country Music Videos for the week of 11/26/22 from CMT (Country Music Television). So let's get started right now.

Number 20 belongs to Hannah Ellis who is new to the list this week - Country can.

Number 19 belongs to Cody Johnson who is new to the list this week - Human.

Number 18 belongs to Dierks Bentley who is moving up 1 spot this week - Gold.

Number 17 belongs to Dustin Lynch who is dropping 8 spots this week - Party mode.

Number 16 belongs to Hardy featuring Lainey Wilson who are moving up 1 spot this week - wait in the truck.

Number 15 belongs to Carly Pearce who is moving up 1 spot this week - What he didn't do.

Number 14 belongs to Sam Hunt who is moving up 1 spot this week - Water under the bridge.

Number 13 belongs to Blake Shelton who is staying in the same spot as last week - No body.

Number 12 belongs to Lainey Wilson who is moving up 2 spots this week - Heart like a truck.

Number 11 belongs to Tyler Hubbard who is dropping 5 spots this week - 5 foot 9.

Number 10 belongs to Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown who are moving up 1 spot this week - Thank God.

Number 9 belongs to Lee Brice who is moving up 1 spot this week - Soul.

Number 8 belongs to Jordan Davis who is moving up 4 spots this week - What my world spins around.

Number 7 belongs to Kelsea Ballerini who is moving up 1 spot this week - HEARTFIRST.

Number 6 belongs to Nate Smith who is moving up 1 spot this week - Whiskey on you.

Number 5 belongs to Gabby Barrett who is dropping 1 spot this week - Pick me up.

Number 4 belongs to the Zac Brown band who are moving up 1 spot this week - Out in the middle.

Number 3 belongs to Jimmie Allen who is staying in the same spot as last week - Down home.

Number 2 belongs to Bailey Zimmerman who is staying in the same spot as last week - Fall in love.

Number 1 belongs to Luke Bryan who is staying in the top spot for another week - Country on.

And that's a wrap for the Hottest 20 Country Music Videos for the week of 11/26/22 from CMT (Country Music Television). Thanks as always goes out to CMT for doing their weekly Country Music Video Countdowns. And thanks as well goes out to you for taking the time to read this weekly list. See ya all next time.

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It seems like that Drew Pearce, the writer, used Amber Heard/johnny depp joke in the movie ''The Fall Guy''.

It baffles me that still some people treat domestic abuse as a joke.

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do you know if any of the recent Bway Elphabas or Glindas are queer? feel like it elevates the show so much if so, i feel like just don't know how the performers feel about Gelphie/who is leaning into that element of the characters

That I know of, openly queer women who are playing/have played Elphaba on Broadway: Mary Kate Morrissey, Lissa deGuzman, Lindsay Pearce, Hannah Corneau.

And not on Broadway (unfortunately) but Cynthia Erivo is openly bi :)

For Glinda I only know of Suzie Mathers, who wasn't on Broadway either but still deserves to be mentioned because she was insane in the role.

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The Fall Guy Trailer 2

After taking a year off working to focus on his physical and mental health after a nearly career-ending accident, Colt is pulled back into working as a stuntman on his ex's film. When the star of the movie goes missing and Colt is tasked by the producer to find him. Meanwhile, Colt is also trying to get back into his ex's good graces and still do his day job. As the mystery of the star's disappearance deepens, Colt finds himself trapped in a criminal plot.

The Fall Guy stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke, and Stephanie Hsu. David Leitch directs from a screenplay by Drew Pearce. The film is inspired by the 1980s TV series of the same name.

The Fall Guy hits theaters on May 3, 2024.

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Scott scowled in the direction of the pile of rubble which had been a shopping mall. The damned building was nearly new, built using the latest technology and materials so architect and construction companies arses would be hanging from sharp, painful walls if he had anything to do with it.

Beside him, Virgil was discussing with the local fire chief who had led the rescue, finalizing their comments for the report while Gordon packed up the last of their equipment in the pod.

It had been a bloody mess, they'd rescued more survivors than expected but as always, each person the teams failed to bring out alive was one person too many.

Chief Halford tugged his helmet off and ran a hand through his grey, sweaty hair.

"My guys are bringing out the last pair they could find." he said, groaning at the stiff cramp in his neck.

There were calls for extra hands as firefighters slowly emerged carrying a stretcher with a young woman strapped to it.

They had immobilised her neck with a brace and she had cuts on her face and arms, her dark jeans had traces of concrete and plaster dust and dark patches here and there which were likely more bleeding injuries.

Her shoulder length hair was brown but the ends had been bleached and dyed blue and around her right wrist was a charm bracelet.

"What?" murmured Scott under his breath. "No." he said a little louder, starting to walk towards the group, then running. "No-no-no-No-no!"

"Scott?" Virgil called after him.

Stopping next to the stretcher, Scott looked down in horror at a familiar face.

"Is she alive?" he asked, fighting a wave of nausea, brushing blood stained hair from her pale, lifeless face.

"Yes, but we need to evac her now."

As the paramedics took the stretcher and moved towards the ambulance, Scott kept pace with them, grabbing Hannah's hand. Virgil had caught up with him and was surprised not only to see who the injured woman was but also his brother's reaction.

"We're taking her to Pearce Memorial Hospital, if you wanna meet us there?"

Scott nodded mutely, watching as the doors slammed shut and the driver fired up the engine and their sirens, pulling away and speeding for the hospital.

"What the hell?" Scott groaned, rubbing his face with his hands. "Why was she even here? This isn't her neighborhood, she's supposed to be working today! She told me she was working the lunch shift."

"Was that Havoc?" asked Gordon.

"Her name's Hannah!" snapped Scott, without thinking, digging his phone out and plotting the quickest route to the hospital. He needed to be there when she woke up. When, not if. Because she had to. She had to wake up, if she didn't... Well, that was a possibility Scott didn't want to consider.