The One Thought I Had While Staring At The Nice Guys Poster
Monday, March 21, 2016 at 7:40AM
Manuel here. I was making my way through recent casting news, and trailers dropped, and posters revealed to see what I should share with you all this morning when I found the new poster for the Russell Crowe/Ryan Gosling buddy action comedy The Nice Guys and well… I was hypnotized by one specific detail about it.
Did you spot it? I can’t unsee it and I keep going back and forth on whether it’s an intentional flourish on the part of the marketing team (if so, thank you Concept Arts, you know your Gosling audience well!) or just an inadvertent consequence of the period-appropriate attire the Shane Black flick is going for (it would also mesh well with the cheeky tone of the film's very funny trailer). Either way, I had to open it up to the TFE readership at large: will you be watching the film to see if this VPL is a key plot point in the film?
Oh, yeah, I guess we should talk more about the film's plot which pairs a bumbling private eye (Gosling) with a no-nonsense er, "enforcer" (Crowe) to solve a missing person's case (Kim Bassinger's daughter in the film; oh, did I bury the lede that Bassinger is in this? Wait til you hear Matt Bomer is in it too!). The film definitely feels well within the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wheelhouse but that's not a complaint since I very much enjoyed that 2005 film which, we have to admit, paved the way for the Robert Downey Jr. renaissance we all thought might never come to pass. Pre-Iron Man RDJ—remember that? Seems like a lifetime ago. And yes, that's also a reminder that Black is fresh off directing Iron Man 3 which makes his return to more off-kilter filmmaking a welcome change (oftentimes you just lose directors to the sequel/blockbuster-making machine, you know?)
Feel free to watch the trailer and let us know which way you’re leaning.
Reader Comments (13)
Goshwing.
The battle of the bulges!
I'd almost forgotten about the movie's existence until the trailer hit a few weeks ago and I just thought it was a well-done hilarious trailer so I'm definitely going to watch it. Ryan's bulge will be a hopeful bonus.
70's facial hair is very alpha male and easily trumps a pants bulge.
Basinger for all her talent and beauty simply cannot escape poor decision making. She has signed up for the Fifty Shades sequels. I will always defend her Oscar win despite the category exclusion of Weaver and the best in the category defeat of Moore.
Oh how I miss that big cock. </3
I hope we're getting some really groovy tunes on the soundtrack--Helen Reddy is a must!
I'm not paying to see that movie even if he shows it.
Your lost, Piggy Sue!
It look like fun
That looks fun!
And now I can't unsee Manuel seeing it.
Oh my. I first noticed this in Believer...and then again in Half Nelson...
If you see the new DVD version of the poster now, or at least the huge one on the Red Box, the world "Private Dick" is just over his bulge now..Hmm...