I think restorative nostalgia is the number one issue with comic book fans.
A fine distinction between two types of Nostalgia:
Reflective Nostalgia allows us to savor our memories but accepts that they are in the past
Restorative Nostalgia pushes back against the here and now, keeping us stuck trying to relive our glory days.
Should do a crossover with Bryan Brown from the FX movies...
I think restorative nostalgia is the number one issue with comic book fans.
A fine distinction between two types of Nostalgia:
Reflective Nostalgia allows us to savor our memories but accepts that they are in the past
Restorative Nostalgia pushes back against the here and now, keeping us stuck trying to relive our glory days.
Stuntman=check
Truck=check
That's all I spotted that pays the slightest nod to The Fall Guy. This could literally be called anything.
- Shelved
- Development Hell
- The Denouement
- Plot Twist
It is an action movie about a missing lead Hollywood actor. Literally name it anything because this trailer is as thin a veneer for The Fall Guy as could be.
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" - Optimus Prime
^^^Agreed across the board.
Speaking as someone who’s not in the entertainment industry and really has no idea how these decisions get made, at what point does the movie stray so far from the source material that they may as well just name it something else?
And why don’t they just do that?
I remember watching Godzilla (1998) and thinking, “This was a good monster movie. Lots of action, humor, the effects were on point. It wasn’t Godzilla, though”.
^^^I have a soft spot for Starship Troopers though yeah, it’s a good example of what I was talking about.
But let’s get back to The Fall Guy movie!
My first thought on seeing Ryan Gosling was, “he’s too young”. Turns out he’s about a year older than Lee Majors was when the show started.
I might start watching it when it comes on a streaming service but it seems to have no connection at all to the characters from the show. I might proceed to stop watching it ounce that becomes undeniable. At least give me a Lee Majors as retired stuntman Colt Seavers cameo.
Power with Girl is better.
Having read the book and then, years later, seeing the movie, I never watched any of the Starship Troopers movies after the first one. Superficial is about right. But I guess it's often a Catch-22 because they have to get name recognition. Of course, since it then became a part of the ST plot, but left out everything of substance...
Power with Girl is better.
I get that it doesn't exactly look like what some of us know/remember as The Fall Guy, but has anyone considered that perhaps they're setting up the premise of the show; a stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter? Like, maybe this is the thing the sets Colt on that path. Maybe they're laying the groundwork for another or more films if it turns out to be a success.
Conn Seanery
CBR Forums Administrator ~ Ron Swansonite ~ Brock Samson will show us the way
THE CBR COMMUNITY STANDARDS & RULES ~ Know them. Follow them. Love them.
"Hnh. Could Bowie have been a mutant?" ~Dr. Doom (Hellfire Gala 2022)