re: Thoughts on The Fall Guy

Watched it today with the wife. I wasn't that interested, but she was itching for something to do after we've spent the last month doing little more than yard work on the weekends.

The best description of the movie is that it was fun. Gosling and Blunt have good onscreen chemistry, but it's not overbearing.

The story itself wasn't all that deep, but set up in a way that didn't spoil it all within the first 15 minutes.

Some of the metas were a bit too much (like the split-screen) but it wasn't intolerable. I snickered at the comment about being careful with the truck because it was product placement so there were only two.

The easter eggs were fun for us old farts.
-The truck was a modern take on the original from the series
-During one fight scene Gosling pushes a guy away in a slightly slowed scene and we hear the Bionic Man sound effect for doing something strength-related
-Lee Majors and Heather Thomas
-The first song at the end (the country song) was the theme song for the show
-If memory serves, when the old theme song is playing the truck jump shot happens, this mirrors the intro on the show at about the same point in the song

The snippets at the closing were the stunt doubles doing their stuff during the making of the movie, I thought that was a nice touch considering the movie was about a stuntman.

This isn't a "summer blockbuster" by any stretch of the imagination, but it's worth going to see in a theater if only just to keep the theater in business a little longer.