Was re-watching The Nice Guys last night, with my mother, since it's been probably a year or two since we watched it and I guess it's just easier to pick something you know is entertaining rather than taking a gamble and trying to find something new on Netflix.
I really, really like this movie. I think the first time I saw it I got kinda hung up on a couple of the later action scenes, plus I read a whole heap of negativity about it online which I think may have got to me, and on top of that my mother was of the opinion that it wasn't very believable as being set in the '70s (though it's more likely she just didn't notice how weird it was that everyone was wearing flares and using pay phones, haha), but me, myself, I love this damn movie.
The earlier fight scenes are fantastic, the interplay between the three main characters is brilliant, and it kinda feels to me like some tabletop RPG turned into a movie, with the disparate bunch of characters thrown reluctantly together for different reasons and gradually finding a common cause and friendship amongst all the violence and hijinks. Also, one of them in particular tends to roll a lot of crit fails, hahaha...
Pretty sure one of the goofy action scenes is still to come, but I watched one of them last night and found it a lot more tolerable than I did the first time. Entertaining, even! Of course, the earlier ones were still great and I think I realised that more than I did the first time around. Possibly because just the other night we were watching something with the kind of cringily over-the-top fight scenes that they try so hard to make exciting but it just makes me groan and roll my eyes.
This has some truly great ones, understated but brutal. Almost as good (without being quite so horrific) as that one movie I remember seeing but have never managed to find again where the guy turns on a stove burner underneath his oversized opponent to give himself an edge.
This one, the fight scenes are pretty gnarly but not quite so likely to give you nightmares, haha.
I think I love this movie.