The Gray Man (Russo Brothers; July 22, 2022) Movie • Page 3

good argument for mcu house style taking the drivers seat. or better argument than normal, anyway

 

this was whatever, chris rescued this best as he could

 

I actually loved this? It was bad and dumb but I had a lot of fun and Chris Evans was great.

 

I liked it a lot and I think the general reaction helped with that. It ended up pleasantly surprising me rather than disappointing me. Still wasn't quite as good as I was hoping for but I had fun with it.

 

dammit, now I have to watch it…

 

it’s not a good movie but I had a ton of fun, it’s like they tried to mix the MI movies with the John Wick movies.

 

Yeah I could barely stomach this movie. I’m a Gosling fanboy to the point of watching the really bad Gangster Squad just for Gosling/Stone playing dressup — and I still could barely get through this. Evans wore thin on me within 2 minutes (more the dialogue’s fault than his). Gosling’s so wasted here that I get why he’s thrilled to spend his entire press tour talking about Barbie instead.

This being a $200 million movie is hilarious. It looks, for the most part, AWFUL. The larger the setpieces get, the worse they look. And the non-action scenes are arranged, lit, and staged so poorly that it feels genuinely jarring seeing actors of this caliber in something so lifeless. I love dumbass, self-aware corny action movies. This feels more like an action movie made by dumbasses.

The Russos ruined a story that should’ve been a home-run movie in Cherry and now wasted my favorite actor’s comeback on this shlock….dead to me!

 

Yeah the book Cherry was so good and the movie was complete dogshit.

 

I also didn’t realize Gosling hasn’t been in anything since first man.

 

Watching “Barry” and it’s amazing to me how HBO’s original stuff routinely looks so good and Netflix’s non-award nominated stuff almost always looks like they cheaped out and cut corners (despite having some of the biggest stars in the world). Like it is crazy this cost $200 million.

 

I bet the largest portion of the budget actually went to paying the cast

 

100% — I think that’s the main reason the movie rubbed me in the wrong way to the extent that it did. Like I totally get how someone could watch it and be like “that was okay, I wasn’t bored.” But all I could think about was all the incredibly well-directed, gorgeous-looking movies and TV shows that have a sliver of the budget this has.

You could give the Russos $200 billion and they wouldn’t be able to create something half as impressive as the highway chase in Barry season 3. That is skill, incredibly hard work, imagination, craft, etc. This is “we’ve got the money to go to Exotic Location #1-10, have our A-list actors run and jump around expensive sets, and then smother it in CGI.”

 

The plane scene did crack me up because once they were falling the CGI looked so bad when a few years ago Tom cruise actually jumped out of a plane and it was amazing and looked so good.

 

Yeah the plane scene I was laughing because it looked like a PS3 cutscene or something. It had b-movie energy which is even funnier considering how expensive it was.

 

I was expecting something more in the Bourne/storyline driven vein of things instead of a full on mindless Mission Impossible action movie. Casting was actually good Except for the CIA lead guy (niece actually did good considering teens in those kinds of movies drag them down). Also, I kind of was good with how they kept it in like the pg-13 range of things. Movie was way too over the top for me from the Russo’s and it feels like they tried to keep the door open for a sequel. Locations were pretty cool though. Ana De Armas sold the field agent real well, Evan’s was a memorable villain and Gosling’s character lacked development but had human quirks to not seems personality invincible.

 

I thought this was okay, it was a fun movie. Nothing groundbreaking or even great but I enjoyed my time with it a lot. Gosling and Evans both clearly had a lot of fun getting their paychecks

 

This is getting a sequel and a spin off. Both gosling and the Russo’s are returning.


The Gray Man Is Already Getting a Sequel and a Spin-Off
https://ign.com/articles/the-gray-man-is-already-getting-a-sequel-and-a-spin-off

 

Expected

Hopefully not needing to setup characters for the sequel gives the script more room to develop competent dialog and plot points

 

I thought originally that this was going to be a series. Probably would have been able to develop the story more and not try and cram in just a bunch of action. I’d probably watch a second movie just because, but these over the top action Netflix releases aren’t ground breaking or memorable amongst my typical movie watching.

 

This seems so far out of Gosling's wheel house that I'm not even sure who he is anymore.

 

Seems like he’s probably considering paychecks a lot more now that he’s got a family. He took 4 years off when he had kids & it’s no coincidence that his first two movies back are probably his biggest paychecks ever (though Gerwig/Bambauch mean that Barbie is likely more than a paycheck movie). With his wife putting her career on hold to be with the kids, I doubt we’ll see him take as many “one for me” independent roles over the next few years.

The stuff he’s got in pre-production is much more promising though. A Cianfrance-directed Wolfman movie for Blumhouse seems like the best case scenario of him doing an IP-driven movie.

I knew a Gray Man sequel was inevitable but was praying the Russos would hand it over to someone else. Sigh.

 

Didn’t they say some stupid shit about having a gray man trilogy and they acted like they invented the trilogy?

 

https://deadline.com/2022/07/netfli...el-spinoff-in-the-works-interview-1235077926/

I can’t find the tweet but somebody said to read this in Trump’s voice and yeah, it fits…

JOE RUSSO: Everybody loves the movie. The audience score is fantastic, the response has been overwhelming, No. 1 in 93 countries. Evans and Gosling are very happy with the film, Ryan has told me his mother said it’s her favorite movie he’s ever made. We’ll take that as certification that we need a sequel, that feedback from Ryan’s mother. Everyone’s happy, loved working together. We just got back from traveling the globe and the response was tremendous. We’re excited to expand the story.

— — —

I really don’t like these motherfuckers lol

 

Someone needs to get Goslings mother OUTTA HERE