{"id":3089,"date":"2024-11-29T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2024-11-29T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T06:21:00","slug":"film-the-fall-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/11\/29\/film-the-fall-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: The Fall Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j7jPnwVGdZ8?si=33G_HWSzGEHc_YHn\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Fall Guy<br><\/strong>directed by David Leitch<br>from Universal Pictures<br>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This cute action-comedy about an interrupted film crew romance, combined with a murder mystery and behind-the-scenes-making-of-a-(fictional)-space-opera, is a tribute to professional stunt performers doing real, traditional (non-CGI) stunts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stars are attractive, the comic timing is good <em>(a song reaches a crescendo and there is&#8230; <strong>not<\/strong> a matching peak in the story!)<\/em>, the coming-back-from-career-ending-injury story is so American, the villains are appropriately villainous, and THERE IS A VIOLENT ACTION SCENE SET TO A PHIL COLLINS SONG (a song I can now tolerate playing in my head because the action was well performed). The credits show actual-making-of scenes to ensure you appreciate the stuntfolk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[Sound of me patting myself on the back for NOT using the word paean in this entry, and also having belated revelations about why people understand my legal writing.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall Guydirected by David Leitchfrom Universal Pictures2024 This cute action-comedy about an interrupted film crew romance, combined with a murder mystery and behind-the-scenes-making-of-a-(fictional)-space-opera, is a tribute to professional stunt performers doing real, traditional (non-CGI) stunts. The stars are attractive, the comic timing is good (a song reaches a crescendo and there is&#8230; not a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/11\/29\/film-the-fall-guy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film: The Fall Guy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action-comedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}