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The Fall Guy flops, despite being praised as the most "non-woke" Hollywood film in years
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I've seen youtube videos praising it for being the most non-woke film to come out of mainstream Hollywood in a very long time. Yet, every trade is reporting that the movie's box office numbers are extremely disappointing. It has a strong white male lead, a female character who is a damsel in distress for most of her screen time and is very secondary to the story. No LGBTQ content. No anti-male message, no anti-capitalism message. And now that the BO numbers are out, the fandom menace is refusing to talk about the movie's failure.
Top Comment: I've seen a couple trailers for this movie and it looked alright. What exactly about it is "non-woke"?
Guy fails the first assignment (free A+ if you don’t start the day before it’s due) and tries to pull this in the discord
Main Post: Guy fails the first assignment (free A+ if you don’t start the day before it’s due) and tries to pull this in the discord
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Aside from how immature this person comes across when they were given a perfectly reasonable response from the professor, they are being completely unprofessional.
Under no circumstances have I ever seen someone put a professor on blast with this level of language in a class or public forum. It is inexcusable.
Why did “Mr. Bad Guy” fail with the public?
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As a fan of eight years I really should know far more details of the inner workings of all this stuff, but was Freddie not really a draw to the public on his own?
Now he's a a mystical rock god, but did he not have the same pull back then outside of Queen? Was it his sexuality that kept people at bay, but was acceptable within the vehicle of Queen? Was the material just subpar? Badly marketed?
He realized it quick and that was a reason why he was so adamant about A Kind of Magic being done, he knew Queen was his ticket to carrying out his persona.
Top Comment: Numerous reason why Mr Bad Guy failed. If numerous documentaries were to be taken at face value, Freddie lost interest in the project due to the lack of challenge and push back from other people. From a marketing standpoint, outside of maybe a hand full of adverts and spots; you only really had music videos for Made In Heaven, I Was Born to Love You and Living on my Own to promote the album. Because Queen were in the middle of The Works tour when the album released, Freddie (who very rarely did interviews) never took part in the albums marketing. None of these songs were played live or performed/mimed on TV during Freddie's life. Lastly, Mr Bad Guy is a subpar album. A lot of the tracks were either rejects from Hot Space or The Works. The rest of of the tracks are really Freddie on auto-pilot. Really if Freddie had to make a solo album with the budget of Mr Bad Guy (which reportedly was higher than Hot Space/The Works if documentaries/interviews are to be believed); it really should have taken place after A Day at the Races where arguably, Freddie was at his most creative phase of his career.
The Fall Guy just doesn't work
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It's getting generally phenomenal reviews, and it's always great to see a big fun summer movie with likeable stars, so I'm expecting my opinion to catch some heat, but after seeing it last night on a huge screen, I've gotta say, The Fall Guy just doesn't WORK, for a few fundamental reasons -
- For a film ostensibly all about glorifying stunt design, stunt performers, and stunt tech, every single stunt is shot, edited, graded, and composited in a way that makes it look 100% fake. The reason we enjoy stunts is their visceral reality; witnessing incredible people really DO amazing things. We're even shown the BTS footage of all the stunts during the end credits, and in the BTS footage, it looks amazing and risky and REAL, but it never does in the actual movie. The cinematography and grade seem to do ALL the wrong things when it comes to stunts and action and coverage. I get that it's the director's style, but it's completely mismatched with the intentions and very publicly stated goals of the film - to draw attention to below the line stunt workers.
- It never actually commits to a cohesive tone. Is it a parody? Is it a meta-commentary on itself? Is it a romantic comedy we're supposed to invest in? It simultaneously is never sincere enough for us to engage with the characters, and never sarcastic enough to land the parody. The characters are so hugely broad and arch that they never register as humans, just 2D cartoon characters. That's fine for a Jason Statham actioner, but not for romantic comedies. While Gosling and Blunt DO have a weird kind of chemistry, we never spend enough time with them being actual people for that chemistry to matter.
- The plot/writing/story is just a MESS. Character motivations are all over the place. The pacing is erratic and without any rhythm. Entire plot points make no sense. A movie star has his own paramilitary force. The huge accident that sets up the entire film is never actually explained. With this many glaring plot issues, there's just no way of knowing what level of reality we're supposed to be sitting on.
Long story short, I totally GET that this is intended as a big, silly piece of popcorn blockbuster entertainment, and it's GREAT to see an original property (kinda) open so big and really swing for the fences, but with the talent involved, this just SHOULD have been so much better, and I spent the entire viewing experience trying to work out what the fuck the movie was even trying to BE.
The whole thing just felt dissonant, even if it was legitimately entertaining.
No shade at all if you really enjoyed it, I wish I did too!
Anyone feel similarly?
Top Comment: I haven't seen the film but it sounded like a David Leitch film alright. Saw someone said there's a split screen/fourth wall jokes in the movie that reminded me of Hobbs & Shaw sight unseen lol. I'm keeping my expectation on the same level of that movie when I get to it next week.
"The Fall Guy" has unfortunately failed at the box office
Main Post: "The Fall Guy" has unfortunately failed at the box office
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It's almost like the increasingly inflated budgets of modern blockbusters are making it difficult for films to be "successful".