{"id":11597,"date":"2016-12-12T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:19:45","slug":"the-nice-guys-2016-shane-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11597","title":{"rendered":"The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watched this after the great Killing Them Softly<\/a><\/em>. It passed the time – kind of a mismatched buddy cop movie along the lines of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<\/a><\/em> but with half the chemistry and humor of that one – or else I wasn’t in the most receptive mood. Can still appreciate the effort though, a fun, throwback action comedy with more careful work put into the characters and jokes than the twisty conspiracy plot.<\/p>\n

During a 1977 smog epidemic, Russell Crowe is hired to break private eye Ryan Gosling’s arm when Gosling has been snooping around on behalf of a client searching for her dead niece. Gosling’s surprisingly capable teenage daughter (Angourie Rice of the next Sofia Coppola movie) tags along, and I think Matt Bomer (Magic Mike<\/em>) plays a hit man threatening Crowe’s client Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers<\/em>) who is hiding out from her mom Kim Basinger, a sold-out politician whose dirty secrets are hidden in a porn film.<\/p>\n

My favorite shot: Gosling fighting with a guy on the roof, one falls into the pool, the other just misses<\/em>
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R. Collin in The Telegraph:<\/p>\n

Both leads aren’t playing to type, exactly, so much as types gone halfway to seed. Crowe is 52 years old now, and has warmly embraced the dramatic possibilities of middle-aged spread … Gosling, meanwhile, plays the kind of moustachioed bro who \u2014 for want of a better way of putting it \u2014 thinks he’s Ryan Gosling, giving Holland a loose-swaggering confidence that amusingly exceeds his practical abilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watched this after the great Killing Them Softly. It passed the time – kind of a mismatched buddy cop movie along the lines of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang but with half the chemistry and humor of that one – or else I wasn’t in the most receptive mood. Can still appreciate the effort though, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,1049,1218,372,778,551],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-2010s","tag-pornography","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-shane-black","tag-teen-detective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11645,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/11645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}