Shane Black can eat my dick

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"Why don't we invite him in?"

"No animals in the house, sweetheart."

Goes right into a certain pile of movies (The Big Lebowski, Inherent Vice, The Long Goodbye) which utilize comedic trappings to explore emptiness, loss, and the strangling grip of capitalism. The tightest, snappiest, most deceptively beautiful screenplay in years.

i was depressed for two weeks but ryan gosling's scream has brighten my mood up alot so thank you for that, ry

feels like it was one draft away from being a really good movie (which puts it several drafts ahead of most other studio films so far this year). nice to have the real Shane Black back and doing the shtick he does so well, but too many of the gags fall flat, and the noir plot window-dressing — while meant to be inscrutable — is frustratingly empty. Johnny Gossamer would not approve.

on the other hand, russell crowe is *fantastic,* and gosling gets the job done.

Great, fun, brutal film.

For me, the chemistry between Crowe and Gosling was enough to overcome the movie's many, many plot contrivances.

That, and the number of people who jumped/were thrown through glass windows.

Glad that I rewatched this.

My second time seeing this, and I still think this is a case of a screenplay that needed a few more drafts. I don't think I've wanted to like a film so much since Inherent Vice, but it just doesn't work for me (funny because the first hour or so of this was almost what I pictured Inherent VIce being when I read the novel, yet stylistically the two couldn't be further apart). I think this might be a bigger problem I'm having with the detective genre in general in that these films too often tend to revolve around thinly sketched and passive protagonists who feel like excuses to move the narrative from wacky scene to scene.

Gr8.

Ryan’s screams was the highlight of this hilarious movie

One of the best comedies of the decade

With a nice recreation of the 70s eccentric atmosphere and benefiting from great leads, The Nice Guys is a superior entertainment. Thanks to its well-constructed story, fantastic key scenes (oh the finale !!!) and a good dose of humor, this buddy cop renaissance really works.