The Fall Guy (2024): “Crash Landings, Crushed Feelings, and an Unexpectedly Great Night In”

In this episode of Can I Change My Score?, Sophie and Matt finally catch up with The Fall Guy, the stunt-filled action comedy they somehow missed in cinemas, only to discover on Netflix that it’s exactly the kind of film that makes you wonder why you didn’t watch it sooner. Ryan Gosling plays Colt Seavers, a stuntman with feelings he can’t quite articulate, Emily Blunt is the director-love-interest Jody Moreno with sharp comic timing and plenty of bite, and together they stumble through explosions, conspiracies, movie-within-a-movie chaos, and a romance that somehow manages to be sweet, funny, and never too syrupy.They chat about why the film feels like a love letter to old-school Hollywood, how the chemistry between Gosling and Blunt does a lot of heavy lifting, why the second half loses just a little momentum, and how a practical stunt movie about stunt people somehow ended up helping the stunt industry get its long-overdue Oscar category. There’s also room for cowboy-level Ryan Gosling admiration, Miami Vice boat trivia, a hat accident that stayed in the film, and a brief detour into why some actors simply have that movie star thing.Not every film needs to reinvent cinema; some just need to be funny, charming, practical, and packed with enough crashing cars to make Steven Spielberg happy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.