{"id":4089,"date":"2024-12-03T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2024-11-30T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:20:02","slug":"movie-the-fall-guy-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/movie-the-fall-guy-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: The Fall Guy (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/1f\/The_Fall_Guy_%282024%29_poster.jpg\" alt=\"The Fall Guy\" width=\"251\" height=\"397\" \/>The Fall Guy<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2024<br \/>Rating: PG-13<br \/>Length: 126 minutes \/ 2.10 hours<\/p>\n<p>I have a bit of a soft spot for movies that focus on the creative act of making movies. Most of the time, these &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; films focus on the more managerial aspects of movies. In <em>The Fall Guy<\/em> (2024), there&#8217;s a fun meta that ties together stunts for the movie being made and stunts in the &#8220;real world&#8221; that may bring down the entire production. As a pseudo-heist movie, <em>The Fall Guy<\/em> is a fun action romp that I found entertaining and educational.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has seen Ryan Gosling in <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/movie-barbie-2023\/\"><em>Barbie<\/em><\/a> (2023) knows that he has the comedic chops to hold up his side of a film. Honestly, he was the main reason I wanted to see this film, as I was expecting &#8220;Ken&#8221; levels of machismo, but with maybe a little more intelligence. Gosling definitely delivers, and this is a great film to watch for fans of his work. Emily Blunt is good as well, but so much of the plot is focused on Gosling&#8217;s dive into a big conspiracy that ends up being much more entertaining than the interpersonal play between his character and Blunt&#8217;s director role.<\/p>\n<p>For a movie about stuntmen and the stunts they perform, there was a lot of interesting information about this process that made its way onto the screen. It&#8217;s always interesting to see how Hollywood does practical effects, and this movie plays up that aspect by showing that for the in-film movie, but also at moments where there are scenarios not captured for this meta film-making project. If anything, this film should give you an honest appreciation for all the work that goes into action films. Especially the work by all the talented stuntmen.<\/p>\n<p>A fun action movie filled with stunts on and off screen, I give <em>The Fall Guy<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-640x244.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall GuyYear: 2024Rating: PG-13Length: 126 minutes \/ 2.10 hours I have a bit of a soft spot for movies that focus on the creative act of making movies. Most of the time, these &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; films focus on the more managerial aspects of movies. In The Fall Guy (2024), there&#8217;s a fun meta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[3845,18,2344,13,8,25,1530,3911],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-movie","tag-3845","tag-action","tag-emily-blunt","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-stunts","tag-the-fall-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}