{"id":47151,"date":"2024-05-31T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=47151"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:21:07","slug":"stephen-king-reveals-which-ryan-gosling-movie-isnt-as-good-as-people-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/stephen-king-reveals-which-ryan-gosling-movie-isnt-as-good-as-people-say\/47151\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King reveals which Ryan Gosling movie isn\u2019t as good as people say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let\u2019s get something straight here, folks; it is okay to be wrong. In any healthy relationship, most of all the one you have with yourself, there is a bountiful margin in which making mistakes is a safe thing to do.<\/p>\n

Stephen King is, by all reasonable observations, not a man of many mistakes; his novels have laid the groundwork for some timeless big-screen classics, and his Netflix recommendations have a tendency to be\u2014and I\u2019m speaking in scientific terms here\u2014pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

But we all have our misfires, and Stephen King is only human after all. As such, we should at least consider forgiving him for suggesting that The Fall Guy<\/strong>\u2014a recent David Leitch action-comedy blockbuster led by one Ryan Gosling\u2014isn\u2019t actually as good as the world is rightfully making it out to be.<\/p>\n

Now, the celebrated horror author didn\u2019t outrightly say The Fall Guy<\/strong> wasn\u2019t a good movie; he acknowledges in the tweet above that it\u2019s a fun movie, with the caveat that it just isn\u2019t \u201cgreat fun,\u201d as his colleague Linwood Barclay characterized it.<\/p>\n

Still, you have to consider the fact that King felt compelled to point out that The Fall Guy<\/strong> wasn\u2019t \u201cgreat fun,\u201d but just average fun, which suggests that he felt strongest about not praising The Fall Guy<\/strong> out of whatever emotional responses he may or may not have had to it. That is a relatively peculiar emotion to give the lead to, but to direct it towards The Fall Guy<\/strong> is an outright infraction.<\/p>\n

To King\u2019s credit, the movie is absolutely not the cup of tea you\u2019d associate with the novelist, whose interests chiefly lie in his bread-and-butter genre of horror and other thrillers ranging from dark to psychological. The Fall Guy<\/strong> is none of these things; indeed, Leitch\u2019s film plays in the way that plenty of movies play, but also in ways that most movies don\u2019t (and when they do, they do a poor job of it). It has the most fun with itself first and foremost, and that translates superbly to our own fun.<\/p>\n

So, as far as blockbusters that are head-over-heels in love with being a movie\u2014so much so that it evokes an energy that could best be described as the antithesis to cynicism\u2014The Fall Guy<\/strong> is one of the best you can get, and even if it doesn\u2019t win you over in the way that it didn\u2019t win King over, it\u2019s very hard to deny the sheer nutrition of the creative space that it occupies.<\/p>\n

So by all means, King, sound the alarm on the Baby Reindeers of the world, but as far as action comedies go, watch your step.<\/p>\n

The Fall Guy<\/strong> is now available on VOD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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