In the old days, film stuntman Colt Seavers moonlit as a bounty hunter when movie work is slow. He chased after bad guys and returned them to the Los Angeles area. Now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
With that let’s welcome back Steve & Izzy from EILFM, Brad, as well as executive producer of the Drive Thru Tania, Mountain Man Dan and special guest Jessica to Break/Fix!
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- Steve & Izzy from Everything I Learned from Movies Podcast invite us to review the 2024 Film “The Fall Guy” starring Ryan Gosling & Emily Blunt. and much, much more!
- THIS EPISODE IS INTENDED FOR MATURE LISTENERS; DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
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Crew Chief Brad: [00:00:00] Grand Touring Motorsports started as a social group of car enthusiasts, but we’ve expanded into all sorts of motorsports disciplines, and we want to share our stories with you. Years of racing, wrenching, and motorsports experience brings together a top notch collection of knowledge and information through our podcast, Brake Fix.
Ashley McAnelly: The following episode is intended for mature audiences. Please note that listener discretion is advised.
Crew Chief Eric: Back in the day, Film stuntman Colt Seavers moonlit as a bounty hunter when movie work was slow. He chased bad guys and returned them to Los Angeles. But today, he’s a stuntman fresh off an almost career ending accident.
He has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy, and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m Steve. And I’m Izzy. And this is Everything I Learned From Movies. And tonight. Oh, tonight. Ah, [00:01:00] besides my sexy, sexy voice.
Yeah, yeah. We are talking about 2024s. Oh, but we are not alone for this one, babe. Is it because I was made for loving you, baby? I was made for loving you, baby! So disappointed that was the one song throughout this movie. But now we have with us, from the Grand Touring Motorsports Brake Fix Podcast Network, Oh my gosh, we have Eric, Tanya, Brad and Jessica, welcome.
Wow,
Crew Chief Eric: wow, wow. Hey, thanks for having us back. Of course. Sweet. Thanks for having us back. Yeah.
Steve & Izzy: Wait, we’re doing
Crew Chief Eric: a collabo here. I know. And what’s fun about this one is we came to you and said, had you seen the Fall guy yet? And I was pretty shocked when you said no. We
Steve & Izzy: were waiting
Crew Chief Eric: for it to hit
Steve & Izzy: Peacock . Yeah.
We were waiting for it to go on the pack. Actually, no, we, we bought it the day it hit screaming for 20 bucks. We’re like sight unseen because we’re like, how could we possibly not like this movie? And then we watched it and then we were like, Oh my gosh, this [00:02:00] reminds me of a movie we talked about. Oh, it reminded
Crew Chief Eric: us of a movie
Steve & Izzy: too.
Oh, look who just
Crew Chief Brad: showed up.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, Matt. Mike is here.
Crew Chief Brad: That’s great. Everybody have a wonderful night. This was a fantastic podcast. We’ll see you all next time.
Crew Chief Eric: It’s good that mountain Mike, I mean, mountain man Dan showed up because this is really about him. This is square bodies at their finest. This is revenge for the stunt man review we did with you guys.
Is doing the proper stunt guy movie with action scenes and car
Steve & Izzy: chases and cool shit. And doing drugs till you see unicorns. That’s the fall guy. Wait.
So let’s get into it. Yeah, well before we get too deep into it, I don’t know about you guys, I’m a little thirsty. I’m still sober, so let’s continue that. Because I’m definitely not coming down with something here. Steve is definitely not sick, you guys, definitely not. Definitely not. We have from Guinness there, non alcoholic droth.
Less than 0. 5 percent alcohol by [00:03:00] volume. I’m going to talk. Get it on the mic, babe. Sorry. It’s a little bit of a bottle
Crew Chief Eric: bomb.
Steve & Izzy: Have you guys seen the Simpsons when, uh, Bart plays the, uh, the beer and the beer and the, uh, cake shaker and gives it to Homer. That’s kind of what may have just happened. Oh my God.
I can tell you one thing. It’s lukewarm. Can’t quite get any tasting notes. So it’s a proper British beer. It’s Lukewarm. We’re having it at room temperature. Yeah. Steve is covered in it head to toe. Yeah, it’s fantastic. The dog is pretending like he’s not trying to not notice. We’ll just hear Steve soon. No grundling, no grundling!
Uh, yeah, good and foamy. Chestnut color. Mmm, smells like a beer. Honestly, it smells like Guinness. The toasty notes, you get a little bit of coffee on the nose. Steve’s got in for the sip.
Executive Producer Tania: Mm.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Are you chasing it
Executive Producer Tania: with some Robitussin, some Delsin?
Steve & Izzy: Oh, no, no. I had, uh, some vitamin C earlier. I’ve been drinking all sorts of Gatorade and crap all day.
He’s gonna go [00:04:00] for the hard stuff. The NyQuil Double Z. Hot toddy. Anti congestant, uh, when we’re done here.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Hot toddy. Little Vicks Vapor Rub.
Steve & Izzy: I won’t lie, you guys. If this was just poured and served to me, I could be fooled.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah.
Steve & Izzy: Wow. Tastes like a Guinness. Like a Guinness. Yeah. And I’m not saying it tastes like all skunky and three years old in the can, like 90 percent of the Guinnesses you get in the U S.
No, this actually tastes kind of like a fresh Guinness. Wow. Yeah. Not bad at all. Yeah. So yeah, check it out. This year, the year of our podcast, 2024. I’ve been told three or four times by non alcoholic beers that I couldn’t have told the difference. And I’m a beer judge. They’re starting to figure it out.
They are. I highly recommend if you can find it, Athletic Non Alcoholic Beer. We had a friend drop like 30 bucks and then was pissed he wasn’t drunk. Is that like caffeinated
Executive Producer Tania: water?
Steve & Izzy: No, Athletic is a non alcoholic beer brand.
Executive Producer Tania: Oh, I see. I’ve seen it, I believe.
Steve & Izzy: Honestly, it’s worth a try. Yeah,
Executive Producer Tania: I can get it at Wegmans.
Wegmans. That’s where [00:05:00] I’ve seen
Steve & Izzy: it.
Executive Producer Tania: Well,
Steve & Izzy: speaking of doing it right, 2024 is the fall guy from director David Leach, a legendary stuntman coordinator for movies like basketball blade fight club, the Mexican Troy, Mr. And Mrs. Smith, the Buffy series replicant, of course, the Jean Claude Van Damme, where there’s two of them.
Wait, which Jean Claude Van Damme, where there’s two of them. Yeah, exactly. The one where it’s the clone that’s trying to hunt down the serial killer one. Which one? The score, Bangkok Dangerous Sex Men, Origins, Wolverine, Ninja Assassin, The Mechanic, and then he got the directing bug with a little movie called John Wick.
Ooh. And then since then, yeah, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Hobbs and Shaw, Bullet Train, this. Keep talking about doing a Hobson Shaw too, but that’s probably never going to happen. But I’m sure he’s making the next action movie for next year. Maybe the redo of
Crew Chief Eric: Running Man.
Crew Chief Brad: Oh, that would be nice.
Steve & Izzy: Edgar Wright’s doing that one.
Oh, okay. Excited! And this course based on the [00:06:00] Fall Guy TV series by Glenn A. Larson. Who’s he? Basically, any TV show you saw in the 80s, uh, Battlestar Galactica, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew Mysteries, uh, Buck Rogers 25th Century, Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, BJ and the Bear, Quincy M. E., Drama Center, Auto Man, Masquerade, Cover Up, Half Nelson, Knight Rider, this, Magnum P.
I., Knight Man, and all of the reboots. Mm hmm. I guess he passed away in 2014, but, you know, the Larson Estates. Still, uh, getting residuals from like the new Magnum PI and stuff like that.
Crew Chief Eric: So are you saving it for fun facts or do you want to talk about the origin of the Fall Guy and how it came about? Oh, go for it.
As I dug into this, cause you know, I watched the Fall Guy as a kid. I never really watched the pilot episode. And so I found some really interesting sort of mockumentaries online and people doing a retrospective on the Fall Guy. And it turns out Glenn Larson got the idea for the Fall Guy when he was on the set of one of the other shows and he overheard one of the crew people singing the song that he had made up and it’s [00:07:00] the Ballad of the Lone Stuntman.
Heh heh heh heh. And he asked the guy to come to his office and just sing the song to him and he’s like, There’s a show there! Yeah,
Steve & Izzy: so we got the whole show idea from a well, I may not be smart or rich, but I get plenty of poontang
Crew Chief Eric: Obviously edited for television later, but still completely made up and he’s like, oh we can build a show around that
Steve & Izzy: what yeah he’s a stunt guy, but he’s also a bounty hunter because we don’t pay stuntmen and And he’s got a hot chick who also wants to be in the stunt business a smarty cousin that Took a year of everything at university.
Yeah. We watched the first five or six episodes now. Oh. And the worst bail bondsman in the world. Oh, big Jack. Oh my God.
Crew Chief Eric: It follows the Glenn Larson formula, right? If you compare it to Knight Rider and Magnum and all the other shows that are of that genre and of that era, guy leaves whatever to become a private [00:08:00] detective, bounty hunter, vigilante, has a cool car.
I mean, Knight Rider, the first one. The Fall Guy truck is iconic, right? And that obviously is part of this movie, too. So, Larson didn’t stray too far from his norm, creating the Fall Guy. He just based it on this weird song. And it kind of went from there.
Steve & Izzy: So, fun fact, my dad had that truck. Oh. Like, before I was born and when I was a baby.
It’s named with super truck and there are more pictures of super truck than there are baby pictures of me.
Crew Chief Eric: Dan also has this truck. It’s just in 50, 000 pieces across the side of the mountain. Am I right?
Steve & Izzy: Yes, I have a collection of our body the stunt did not go as planned I don’t have one that looks like the fog.
Crew Chief Eric: They’re all brown because of the rust I mean, patina, not because they were painted that way, I’m just pointing that out.
Steve & Izzy: Well, and I also want to mention the writer of the movie, based on the TV series, but it wasn’t written by Glenn Ellison. Drew Pierce. You may know him from Iron Man 3, Izzy’s favorite. Uh, the one where Iron Man sits in the car and [00:09:00] cries for two hours?
That’s the one. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation. All right, now we’re getting better. Hotel Artemis and Hobbs and Shaw. That’s what we’re doing this, so it just keeps getting better. From zero to hero. Yeah. Of course the cast, yeah, we have Ryan Gosling as Colt Seavers, the titular Fall Guy, Emily Blunt as Jodie Moreno, Aaron Taylor Johnson as Tom Rider, we got Theresa Palmer, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke, Lee Majors for a cameo, and Heather Thomas from the original series too.
Like, every time we’ve watched this and Lee Majors pops up, I go, which stunt guy is it that I keep thinking he is? Oh, Reynolds? No, the guy who directed it. Oh, Hal Needham. I keep asking, is this Hal Needham? Yeah. He’s like, I keep telling you, he’s 85 years old. Oh, then dad.
Crew Chief Eric: Did lead majors show up more than once?
Did I miss it? No, no, no. Just at the end. Yeah, we’ve okay. We’ve watched it a couple of
Steve & Izzy: times and I’m like, is that Hal Needham? And he’s like, no! No, it’s lead majors, man. They all just turned into old white guy.
Crew Chief Eric: Just, [00:10:00] just, just, I also fall back to Scrooge in that scene when Lee Majors shows up at the beginning and Santa’s like, you’ve been a good boy this year, Lee.
I don’t know why my mind goes there every time I see
Steve & Izzy: him. No, maybe that’s the guy that sings the song. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but I’ve been seen with Farrah.
Executive Producer Tania: I was kind of expecting him to be the one singing it at the end and said, it was what’s the guy’s name? Blake Shelton or something. Yeah.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah.
And I was
Crew Chief Eric: like, Oh, all right. This is okay. I guess. Steve’s voice being what it is right now. It kind of sounds like Lee Majors. Go for it, man.
Steve & Izzy: Well, we say it all. Did you guys watch this on Peacock? I assume they have like extended cut and all that, of course, because that’s the way to watch it guys. Look, technically the movie flopped and we’ll get into that a little later, but I have no idea why.
Maybe just, I know I didn’t see it in theaters because it came out right in the middle of show season for us, but like I said, the instant it hit streaming like two weeks later or whatever, we’re like, [00:11:00] 20 bucks. Yes. Did it have
Executive Producer Tania: a theatrical
Steve & Izzy: release? Oh,
Executive Producer Tania: absolutely. Oh yeah. Yeah.
Steve & Izzy: This is like major, major release.
Executive Producer Tania: Oh, shoot. I missed that.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Yeah. Like the month of May, apparently every single movie that came out that month and nobody went and saw like this and Furiosa.
Executive Producer Tania: Well, you know, all the previews I saw this movie made me go, this is hot trash and I don’t want to see it because the way they clipped everything made it look like it was going to be Ryan Gosling acting like Ken from the Barbie movie.
being a gigantic simp for Emily Blunt’s character and a total, like, idiot. Also,
Steve & Izzy: he kind of is.
Executive Producer Tania: Well, But not the whole time.
Steve & Izzy: Not as bad. I mean, it’s not like he’s not. We all agreed on an unrecorded portion of this podcast. The way they should have advertised this movie is just show the clips of Metal Storm.
Crew Chief Eric: Yes, 100 percent. Advertise it
Steve & Izzy: as Metal Storm and let the rest of it be a surprise.
Crew Chief Brad: Don’t you mean Edge of Tomorrow? Don’t you mean
Crew Chief Eric: Borderlands?
Steve & Izzy: No, Metal Storm. [00:12:00] And guys, we watched that movie. We watched the real Metal Storm, allegedly, that it was kinda sorta based on. It’s really not the same. It’s really bad.
It’s also not Space McConaughey falling in love with an alien or whatever. No, it did have that, like, showdown at the edge of the universe. I mean, it kinda did, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They did say that. I think it was the tagline that he also used on three other movies.
Crew Chief Eric: I don’t even recall how much marketing had been done to even put it out there originally.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, it was pushed more for like date night, almost like rom com kind of thing, like, Oh yeah, a little action for the boys, but a love story for the ladies, you know?
Crew Chief Eric: And that is not how it plays out. That’s for
Crew Chief Brad: sure. Did anybody see the movie Edge of Tomorrow? Another Emily Blunt film where she was with Tom Cruise?
Oh
Steve & Izzy: yes!
Crew Chief Brad: I feel like there were many references to that movie indirectly. In this one, Ryan Gosling talks about putting Tom Cruise’s face through a deep bake. Emily Blunt is directing a sci fi movie. I know it’s [00:13:00] metal storm and it’s based off the real movie or whatever, but even the tagline, like at the edge of the universe, edge of tomorrow, I couldn’t help but make those connections.
Steve & Izzy: Guys, let’s not beat around the bush. Tom Ryder is supposed to be Tom Cruise, even though they mentioned like, Oh, he thinks he’s Tom Cruise or something like that. Like in the movie, I’m like, that’s not going to help. That’s like doing the McConaughey impression later. Oh my God.
Crew Chief Brad: That So annoying.
Steve & Izzy: I just see McConaughey in the theater going, motherfuckers.
I mean, Oh, that, like, as we’re watching this, Steve was constantly like, so McConaughey is going to sue them, right?
Executive Producer Tania: I was expecting McConaughey to come out and said it was Jason Momoa.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. Which there was a reference to Jason Momoa on the, or foreshadowing on the fridge, is it Momoa or Momoa? Yeah, that’s right.
Crew Chief Eric: Pronounce it like Samwah. That was the memento thing with the post it notes everywhere, right?
Crew Chief Brad: Yes.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Post it notes. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Steve & Izzy: Okay. Of course, we start [00:14:00] off with the incredible, I believe, John Williams inspired score for this movie. The, uh, I was made for loving you, baby. You were made for loving me.
Only
Crew Chief Brad: about 15 different versions of that song. Yeah. It was
Steve & Izzy: epic. It was a throwback to the seventies. A hundred percent where you have your theme and that’s your theme. Yeah. You’ll get it 11 different ways. Even when they loved it. I loved it. I especially love the like sneaking around version of it when you are like sneaking around the apartment and it’s like,
Executive Producer Tania: I like the soundtrack of the movie. Oh, oh, me too.
Steve & Izzy: I mean it’s no Fall Guy TV series song, but it’s pretty good. Tanya’s just a
Crew Chief Brad: huge Kiss fan. .
Steve & Izzy: Yeah. I’m just picturing Ryan Gosling singing that song or whatever with the acoustic guitar on the beach like in Barbie. He’s waiting for it to come up it’s a karaoke.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. By the way, I gotta say to start, Ryan Gosling was so dreamy in the beginning of this film, I just gotta say.
Steve & Izzy: [00:15:00] What? And
Crew Chief Brad: I’m a huge fan of Emily Blunt.
Steve & Izzy: God. Yeah, that’s the spirit.
Crew Chief Brad: There we go.
Steve & Izzy: Rad. What?
Crew Chief Brad: Different strokes my friend.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, whatever floats your strokes. Whatever strokes your float. Emily Blunt or Gosling in this movie?
Crew Chief Eric: Both.
Steve & Izzy: Both
Crew Chief Eric: is good.
Steve & Izzy: Perfect.
Crew Chief Eric: And then the other lady was from
Crew Chief Brad: Ted Lasso.
Crew Chief Eric: Ted Lasso, yes. In the Waddingtons. Exactly. I recognize
Executive Producer Tania: her from her like three minute appearance in the new Hocus Pocus. Hocus Pocus. He was the witch. Yes, she was dressed like the original kid,
Crew Chief Brad: which I’m disappointed. She didn’t sing a karaoke night because she’s an amazing singer.
Jessica: Well, Eric always refers to her as one of the lesbian moms from sex education.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Yes, it’s true. Hannah Waddingham. Every time I think about that, I’m like, that’s where I saw her the first time. I’m like, all right.
Steve & Izzy: So yeah, movie starts off and we, uh, meet Tom Ryder [00:16:00] and his stunt double Colt Severs.
Definitely not Tom Cruise and his stunt double or whatever. They got the stunt set up where they got a rig where they’re gonna drop them backwards from like, I think they say like 150 feet or something like that. And they’re like, yeah, we just need one more take, Colt. If you could do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I’ll get up there and along the way he’s on the mic hitting on Emily Blunt. Jodi.
Crew Chief Brad: Planning his vacation.
Executive Producer Tania: Spicy margaritas. I love a spicy margarita. Margaritas.
Crew Chief Brad: What is it? They’re swim costumes?
Steve & Izzy: Yeah.
Executive Producer Tania: They’re
Steve & Izzy: swim costumes. You gotta put on your swim costumes. Is that what he called them? But, you know, they do the stunt.
We see him falling.
Crew Chief Eric: It was very minority report, right, where it’s like, thought he was gonna stop like a foot from the ground. Oh, he did, but we didn’t see it.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, it just like cuts to black and we hear a shriek. Yeah, then we see him getting carried down on a stretcher and you know, like the bomb going off where it’s like super slow and everybody’s talking like, whoa, whoa, you okay?
Like that stuff. You know? Mm hmm. And then we cut to dot dot dot later and he’s a valet and I love that [00:17:00] he’s getting a car for a guy. He’s like, Oh, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. Oh, what happened to you? That’s right. You were the stunt guy and you, uh, you got fucked up, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is the fall guy I was telling you about.
Epic fall, man. Oh my God. What are you doing? He’s like, I’m picking up your car as a valet. So my life is hell. He was less dreamy at this point.
Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, that long hair. Didn’t he have like the long fake hair now? Yeah,
Crew Chief Brad: yeah. Yeah.
Steve & Izzy: You have
Executive Producer Tania: to have a
Steve & Izzy: mullet. Cut it. Not into that hobo chic.
Crew Chief Brad: Deer a leek. Deer a leek.
Being a stunt
Crew Chief Eric: man, he was obligated to do some car stunts. I thought the parking job was. Excellent. Yeah.
Crew Chief Brad: It’s a
Crew Chief Eric: rental. Nothing like smoking the tires down to the cords on a Challenger. That was awesome. The Hemi sounds fantastic. It was brilliant. Yeah. At that moment, I was like, I’m in it. Where is this going?
Steve & Izzy: I’d have given that guy like a 20 tip. Like, Hey, here you go, my friend. That was awesome. Thanks for not rolling it. They ain’t my tires.
Executive Producer Tania: But then the other valet guys were all applauding him
Steve & Izzy: [00:18:00] when he came in. I’m not gonna lie. I love that there was a Challenger for this because everybody I know who like Owns one of those challengers is a piece of shit.
Crew Chief Brad: I was gonna say is a douche
Steve & Izzy: I’m, sorry guys, and i’m sorry if i’ve offended everybody anybody here, but no viewers went down Guys gals folks out there listening if you have a challenger Maybe just like think really deeply about why I might have that opinion and it’s simply based on the people I’ve known if you drive a challenger is he has a challenge for you prove to me.
You’re not a huge fan
Crew Chief Eric: Or just remove the pre purchase inspection tape from your spoiler. I mean, that’s all I’m gonna say But that keeps it safe
Steve & Izzy: But then we see him, you know driving off in his truck. Yeah, it’s the truck And he gets a call from producer gail definitely not big jack in this one she’s like oh I’m not even gonna try to do the bad accent.
Executive Producer Tania: Wait, are you saying that she had a bad accent? Or you’re gonna do a bad accent?
Steve & Izzy: My bad accent. No, no,
Executive Producer Tania: no.
Steve & Izzy: [00:19:00] Her’s is spot on pottity or whatever.
Executive Producer Tania: Like, cause her accent is just her voice. Since she is British.
Steve & Izzy: Steve, in fact, I dare say she thinks What? Oh. Oh, ooh! Hello, Kotes, how have you been? Hey! Umm, so, yeah, we’re filming this movie called Metal Storm.
You remember Tom, your favorite actor, who you double four? She’s like, but the director of this movie asked specifically for you. It’s Jodie. Ooooh, Jodie! Dun dun dun Cue The Simp. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Love was made for loving you, baby. Oh Let’s see, my next note just says, Earth, Minerals, Stone. Remind me what that was?
It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve actually seen the movie. Earth, Minerals, Stone. Oh, shit, no, I remember what it is. He’s like considering it, but then he like glances over and he sees Oh yeah, the Perky commercial that Tom Ryder’s doing. Yeah. And he’s like, Earth, minerals, stone, [00:20:00] cologne for men. That’s right.
I
Crew Chief Eric: was gonna say, I love when they try to do these Dior commercials and they end up like Zoolander where it’s like, moisture is the essence of water.
Steve & Izzy: Obviously somebody doesn’t remember the Johnny Depp perfume commercials. Oh, I do. From like a decade and a half ago. They’re still showing up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right, right next to the Natalie Portman ones in the Charlize Theron one. Isn’t it Sauvage? I think it’s Sauvage. Yeah, Sauvage. I see it, I’m like, so this is making fun of the Zoolander thing, right?
This can’t be real. What’s this? The Dior one? The Natalie Portman? The Natalie Portman one where she’s like driving a car full of flowers and then like sitting on top of a whale. We had to like explain that one to a fellow podcaster recently. Why does
Crew Chief Eric: Natalie Portman look like she’s 18? Because that’s what she was when they filmed that.
It was right after the professional,
Executive Producer Tania: short hair. I think it might’ve been right after a B for [00:21:00] Vendetta
Steve & Izzy: and the, uh, someone that Charlize Theron coming out of the pool of gold. Like, I mean, that had to be like straight off of devil’s advocate. Yeah, right after Astronaut’s Wife, Johnny Depp was like, Hey, I’ve got an idea for you.
Wow. Guys, have you seen Astronaut’s Wife? No. It’s a dumb movie, but it has the greatest Okay, this movie wins the ratio of stupidest movie to greatest single line in cinema. So, so the story is Johnny Depp is an astronaut, and Shirley Staronis is his wife. Johnny Depp goes up into space and like, basically a symbiote, like venom or whatever, organism gets into him, an alien takes him over basically, and tries to impregnate Charlize and blah blah blah, and it goes from there.
In the third act, Charlize is onto it, and she’s like, You killed my husband! Yeah, and then I fucked his wife. Oh, that’s brilliant. That’s writing genius right there.
That was a [00:22:00] feature film. Not like a Charles Band movie or Like Polanski or somebody directed that thing,
Jessica: you know, that was ours. I would explain some things.
Steve & Izzy: So anyway, where were we?
Jessica: Earth, wind, and fire.
Steve & Izzy: Oh yeah, so yeah, so we’re going to Australia for Metal Storm, right? Because Jody wants him on for a stunt.
We’re introduced to the deep fake technology going on where they scan Colt and show that like, oh yeah, we can just pop the actor’s face on there and then blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, guys, it’s like three years away. They’re already doing it to a little bit right now, but like, Soon they’re not going to have actors.
They’re just going to scan them and it’s going to go great. They’re going to have like eight fingers on each hand. It’s going to be fantastic.
Crew Chief Eric: That’s how William Shatner is going to live to be 150 years old. I mean, let’s face it.
Steve & Izzy: Rides again, young William Shatner popping up in a Dior commercial. What would you do for love?
Earth. Minerals. Stone.
Crew Chief Eric: The whole cat and mouse [00:23:00] of this stunt, he’s hiding behind the car. Not trying to, is Jody there? She’s not there. I don’t want to see her. She doesn’t want to see me. If we skip over that BS and get to the stunt itself, the first big stunt of the movie. Oh, you mean the car roll? Yeah.
Take it away, Eric. I mean, I looked at it and went death race, the new death race stuff. And I was like, okay, the cars are, you know, sort of post apocalyptic a little bit, Mad Max, this and that. But I appreciated it. They were using vehicles, they were doing the old school ramps, like all this kind of stuff.
It wasn’t CGI, but the idea was that they were doing it old school. School and I appreciate that needed a stunt guy that needed somebody to drive the truck. So when it all went down with the explosions and the multiple angles and rolling the car and the hit that it took real or otherwise, I was like,
Executive Producer Tania: Ooh, it was real.
Cause if you stayed to the end and we’re watching kind of like the prequel. Reddits, they were showing real footage and they were showing, they actually did flip it. The real stunt guy. Yeah. They really did break the
Steve & Izzy: world record on
Executive Producer Tania: it.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Eight and a half rolls. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. You don’t see [00:24:00] that too much anymore.
I really appreciated that. And I liked that. I was again, I’m like, I was in it back at the valet scene, but now I’m, I’m like, okay, this is cool. This is different. Where are we going with this? And the movie is. Again, a little bit tongue in cheek even up to this point, right? The margarita thing, the ballet thing with the mullet and the Dior commercials and all.
And you’re kind of like, why is this a bad movie again? Like, why did nobody watch this? Like, it’s entertaining and it’s, you’re not dragging through it. It’s pulling you along very quickly because everything happens in very kind of rapid succession over a two and a half hour period, which is pretty incredible.
Yeah. Although
Steve & Izzy: I will say this scene has one of my irts. If you’re going to do something like break the Fucking world record doing roles. Stop cutting away from it, making it look fake.
Crew Chief Eric: That’s true.
Steve & Izzy: Just show it once. At least they couldn’t show it, which makes me then doubt them. And then I have to Google it.
You know, you’re a huge fan of when they start quoting Rocky and Fast and Furious. Last of the Mohicans and stuff later. Like that’s a nice little running gag between [00:25:00] stunt coordinator, Dan and Colt, right? Everybody loves that. Yeah. Referencing potentially better movies. I’ll say on par movies. I love those.
But then yeah, after breaking the world record, you know, on his first stunt back in, what was like 18 months or whatever, since he broke his back, he gets to see the director and it’s Jody and she had no idea he was there. You know, the music starts swelling and she’s like, whose fucking idea was this?
Who’s getting fired?
Crew Chief Eric: I don’t understand why she was so bitter. I mean, I get it. She made a big deal about him abandoning her and I’m like, he was in traction, like in the hospital and you didn’t even bother to come see him. Like I don’t get it.
Crew Chief Brad: No. So she tried to come around and everything. Yeah. He basically just ignored her.
And then when he’s, once he got out, he just abandoned everything, just disappeared off the map. And she didn’t get any closure or anything. Apparently during her little monologue explaining to him about what the movie was about that she was making, she talked about all the experiences. that she had after him.
Executive Producer Tania: You and he kept lighting him on fire. Did you miss [00:26:00] that part?
Steve & Izzy: That was so good. Yeah. Yeah. Light, light him on fire and slammed
Crew Chief Brad: him into a rock. Let’s do that again. Yeah. Let’s do it again. We need to do it again.
Crew Chief Eric: Do the rock thing was painful, but then it just got stupid cartoon funny. Like the more they did it, the funnier it was.
Steve & Izzy: My note for this whole next 10 minutes is just say you’re sorry. God damn it. Wrong com.
Crew Chief Eric: Yes.
Crew Chief Brad: Yes. I didn’t know what to say, so I said nothing at all.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, and
Crew Chief Brad: how’d that work out for ya? See, how about you start with, I’m sorry. Yeah, but it was hilarious at least. Yeah, you got set on fire several times. Then you
Steve & Izzy: start singing the, uh, Fall Guy song, and all is forgiven.
Yep. Yeah, so yeah, after, uh, being slammed into a rock while set on fire, like, 18 times, you know, it eventually comes out, He’d love another chance. And so then he talks with producer Gale. She’s basically like, oh that’s great, that’s great, that’s great, you guys are, uh, talking again. So Ryder is missing. What?
Yeah, Tom Ryder, yeah, he’s missing. We can’t call the cops, and if we don’t find him soon, we’re gonna have to pull the plug on the movie. It was at this moment, the first time watching [00:27:00] this, I’m like, Gale is in on it. There will be no surprise at the end because a real producer is like worst case if Tom Ryder doesn’t show guess what you get all of his money in restoration to pay for lost time and movies you can’t release and it becomes a tax write off roll credits guys what do we think about corporate guy?
Crew Chief Eric: You say bye
Steve & Izzy: bye
Crew Chief Brad: Tom.
Steve & Izzy: But no basically she’s like look you’re the invisible stunt man you could just sneak around and find Tom Ryder nobody gives a shit about you and he’s Yeah, thanks. That’s exactly what I’m going for. So
Crew Chief Brad: he becomes a superhero at this point. He becomes a detective. He becomes the bounty hunter
Steve & Izzy: equivalent.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, the bounty hunter.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah. He’s got to save the movie because it’s Jodie’s directorial debut. And if it gets shelved, who knows if she’ll ever get a chance again. And you know, do it for love.
Crew Chief Brad: For Jodie.
Steve & Izzy: Right. Cue the song. Yeah. And they also showed the new truck and I’m like, boo, you movie. You should have shipped it to Australia.
The new truck was terrible. So [00:28:00] big. I
Crew Chief Brad: thought the new truck was awesome.
Steve & Izzy: What? No, the new truck sucks balls. Yeah, the new truck was
Crew Chief Eric: awesome. Big old bloated piece of junk. Ugh.
Steve & Izzy: 95 percent plastic.
Crew Chief Eric: Well, you’re not wrong about the new Chevy Silverado that they used for this film to replace the original Fall Guy truck.
Although they used the old K 1500 plenty. In the movie is our C10 or whatever. Dan will correct me at some point.
Mountain Man Dan: I’m going to throw some information out regarding vehicles since, uh, that’s what we’ll
Steve & Izzy: do.
Mountain Man Dan: For the original Fall Guys show, the original square body was a 1980 K 25 or 2, 500, which is the three quarter ton.
And then in later episodes, they switched to an 82. And then for this movie, the square body they had in the background was an 85. Those are just, uh, things to there.
Crew Chief Eric: You hear that? That was my head hitting my desk. But either way, the old square body classic will run till eternity. It’ll be around forever as long as you take care of it.
The new one, I don’t think I [00:29:00] could say the same thing. Although the new one’s got all sorts of whiz bang gizmos and all wheel this and this and that and the other thing. So I can cry listening to Taylor Swift. Yeah, 100%. Yes, that was. Oh,
Steve & Izzy: God damn it. It’s sad, but we know we don’t have shortages of, though.
Donuts. Donuts! Yes! Yeah! Donuts in that new Chevy Silverado. But they didn’t do
Executive Producer Tania: any. Didn’t do donuts.
Crew Chief Eric: I don’t know. They
Steve & Izzy: just built her car. You
Crew Chief Eric: want to do some donuts?
Steve & Izzy: They did
Crew Chief Eric: donuts with the old truck, though, because it’s capable of doing it. I know.
Steve & Izzy: This one probably, like, the tire gauge would go off, and then it would stall itself out.
It
Crew Chief Eric: would call on stop. Must have update. I think you were in a wreck.
Steve & Izzy: I won’t lie, the uh, I’ll have to drive you to your car scene. It got me. I’m just crawling up the 20 feet. It was good. That was some shit I would do. Now Detective Colt is on the case and he goes to check out Tom’s place. And this is where we’re introduced to all the post its that he has everywhere, like, Why is Chinese chicken [00:30:00] orange?
You know, shit like that. Those were so funny. Very memento, though. I
Crew Chief Eric: enjoyed all of that. But then, out of nowhere, Kitana assassin!
Steve & Izzy: Hyah! Hyah! Hyah! This was the
Crew Chief Eric: Pink Panther scene, right? Where, like, Totally was! Kato flies out of the window, and then they’re flying back! Fighting for the next 10 minutes. Like what the hell is this?
It was a good fight scene. It was enjoyable. It was reminiscent also of the total recall fight scene with Kate Beckinsale. Thank you. The fight scene with Kate Beckinsale.
Crew Chief Brad: Oh, the new total recall. Great job. Totally recalling that, Eric. Yes.
Crew Chief Eric: You know where, and then where she lands on it with her legs between his head, the whole thing.
Yeah. It’s like the same scene. It was great. That’s
Steve & Izzy: like saying, Oh, you know, like in point break, what’s his name? Luke Bracey or whoever the fuck is. I had like, Nobody knows that 20 Break exists.
Executive Producer Tania: Doesn’t exist.
Steve & Izzy: Nobody cares. Nope. If you’re not talking about Johnny Utah, we’re not listening. It was a fun fight scene.
It was a good fight
Crew Chief Eric: scene. I enjoyed it.
Steve & Izzy: Now, correct me if I’m wrong. Was that the same movie that had the, uh, subway train through the core of the earth to China? Yes. Okay. I thought so. No, Steve. That’s the [00:31:00] core. No, that’s the total recall 2012. Maybe coming soon on the podcast. Call me, I’m there. Steve is always looking for movies for our Fuck You Science Award.
Say, we got you guys, was it The Last Drive or whatever that was? The Last Chase. Last Chase, that’s the one. We got you scheduled and everything, don’t worry about it. Nice. So yeah, he’s looking around, yeah, and eventually he subdues the assassin, we find out, Oh, it’s the lead actress of the movie slash Tom Rider’s girlfriend, and she was attacking him with a prop sword, and it’s like, oh, okay, cool.
Yeah, I’m trying to find Tom, you know where he might be? I don’t know, check out the club. That, uh, guy with the leopard tattoos on his head probably knows where he is, and I’m like, alright, cool. He’s like, how am I gonna get into the club? Oh, you just dress like Tom Rider and act like him, I mean, you are his stunt double.
Duh. Yeah. Dude, that Dayglo suit.
Jessica: I love the way that scene looked
Steve & Izzy: like if that had happened in a john wick movie, it wouldn’t have been that different, you know, like there’s all kinds of like scenes in those movies where it’s like, who designed this coloring of this dark space, like all this [00:32:00] weird neon and stuff going on.
You
Crew Chief Eric: also have to appreciate the GoPro to his chest and he’s doing the wobble around kind of thing. And then, you know, he does enough cocaine to see unicorns and stuff. And I mean, it’s beautiful. It’s brilliant, right? I mean, it’s absolutely
Steve & Izzy: fantastic.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. You know,
Steve & Izzy: he does the special drug to make him see unicorns.
Crew Chief Brad: Liquid cocaine. Okay. Yeah. Because somebody, somebody dirtied his Shirley.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, I hate it when my Shirley gets dirtied.
Executive Producer Tania: That scene, when you step back and then look at the movie as a whole, that whole kind of scene feels out of place. That’s the director’s cut. Is that the difference? I don’t know. Because I only watched the extended.
Steve & Izzy: What I saw it as is, uh, okay, we’re running a low on budget, but we need the, we need Luckily, we have CGI unicorns we can throw all over the place.
Crew Chief Eric: Dude, it was so funny, though. I remember Jess and I were laughing. It was so ridiculous.
Steve & Izzy: Stumbling through the club, beating up on people, falling through, like, glass panes, and the bus stop.
For me, it felt like I had elements of, like, The [00:33:00] Matrix and John Wick, but, like, made fun.
Crew Chief Brad: Watching that scene. I thought for sure he was hallucinating the whole thing and they were talking to him, like dancing around, pretending like he was beating up people. Yeah.
Crew Chief Eric: Oh, like the wolf of wall street
Crew Chief Brad: sitting there, punching the air and shit.
Yeah. You
Crew Chief Eric: should have seen me. I drove home and it was amazing. And you see the car and it’s completely trashed.
Steve & Izzy: It cuts back to him just on the couch. Just like filling himself up. Like he’s on next day. Oh, kick her ass. Red unicorn in a battle. I do my own. This does lead to one of my favorite things in this movie that would be ultimately totally infuriating in real life.
His like, terrible breakdowns of events that are happening. Yeah. Oh yeah, his recaps for people. He is the most unreliable narrator. But that might be part of the point? Totally. Oh 100 percent that’s how he gets himself into all of these situations. Geneticans! But eventually he does catch up with leperhead guy and is like, Hey, I need to know where Tom [00:34:00] Ryder is.
And he’s like, okay, okay. I’m sorry, man. Security told me to drug you. You need to go to the hotel. Ask for Kevin. Ask for a fruit plate. And he’s like, that’s not gonna be any more drugs. Is it like, no, no, no. It’s a, it’s a thing. Waiting for it to be gay code for something. Yeah, right, like, going with the unicorn thing.
Yeah, he goes to the hotel, and he runs into Jody, who’s there, like, I guess, staying at the same hotel, and he’s like, Oh, hey, hey, I’m totally not high, what’s up? Are you gonna come to, uh, karaoke? No, the karaoke’s later. Yeah, he’s supposed to meet her for something I’m gonna see you later. Yeah. Yeah, totally.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I’m just gonna get some sleep
Crew Chief Brad: They were gonna discuss some aspects of the film.
Steve & Izzy: That’s right. They’re gonna talk about the problem with the third act trope That’s what it was because they’re referencing. Are they gonna get back together? That’s right. They have the conversation about that shit later.
Crew Chief Brad: She did a split screen.
Steve & Izzy: That’s right. We got the split screen Yeah with him and Jodi. They’re talking about like look I just don’t know if these guys wouldn’t get together cuz you know I’m sorry I thought [00:35:00] the splits were really cool. You can’t do the tropes and call out the tropes. No, but I kind of like that they’re doing the tropes while they’re calling out the tropes.
Like, I dig it.
Crew Chief Eric: It
Steve & Izzy: was
Crew Chief Eric: very
Steve & Izzy: cool. I agree with you.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, that’s what Jess was saying too. She’s like, when was the last time you saw a good split screen? And I’m like, Ocean’s 11?
Steve & Izzy: No. Here it
Crew Chief Eric: is!
Steve & Izzy: 500 Days of Summer. That’s what I remember. Good movie, Steve. It was good. Really? Yeah, have you not seen 500 Days of Summer?
I love it. Yeah, it’s not the greatest. Again, because it’s one of those movies where if they just had a goddamn conversation, the movie would be four minutes long. But they did have the conversation, but they were thinking different things. That’s the whole thing. But, uh, so yeah, he gets the fruit plate, which is a key card to, to work upstairs.
Oh my God, there’s a dead guy in the bathtub covered in ice. Oh, thank
Crew Chief Eric: God this rom com has ended. That was another, like, Brad, where I wasn’t sure if he was sober yet. And it didn’t really happen, because it was very, you know, murder mystery at that point. Mm hmm. The body disappears, right? It goes back and poof, it’s gone.
So, what do we know? Even as the viewer, we’re like, well, was it really there or not?
Steve & Izzy: Maybe he’s just still really high. Maybe he should have told the [00:36:00] cops about the unicorn, too. He tried to. Yeah. Nobody believes him. Now it’s on to the next stunt. Because they have to get a truck set up to do a 250 foot jump in a one shot.
Yeah. Joey says something like, look, I just need you to do this movie. Just say it, guys. And then, yeah, we get the nice little, uh, I believe in a thing called love at the opera house. Big ol
Executive Producer Tania: Hadn’t heard that song in a hot minute.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah.
Executive Producer Tania: You
Steve & Izzy: need to come hang out at our house. He doesn’t sing it to me, which would be great.
No, he just sings it while like in the shower or like occasionally to the cats. Occasionally I’ll just belt out Touching you Touching me But after shooting that scene scene for the whole day and you know, haha, laughing and stuff and a little montage. Hey, you should come with the crew out for karaoke.
It’s going to be fun. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Uh, let me just change and blah, blah, blah. Who’s that waiting in his trailer? Oh shit. It’s Gail. And she’s [00:37:00] like, all right, here’s your tickets. You need to get the fuck out of Dodge and never look back. And he’s like, wait, what are you talking about? Like look, you found a dead guy.
Okay. I remember that from the phone call last night. Some stuff about unicorns, but the cops are going to be looking for you. No need to worry. Why? Just get the hell out of the country before it’s too late. Uh, what? What? What? He gets like the idea, like he’s got to go talk to Tom’s assistant Alma and like pick up his dog, Jean Claude.
Yeah, he has like five dogs, but specifically they need to go talk to Jean Claude. Him and Colt have a history because he only understands French commands. Yeah, they filmed on a movie together. It was like Top Dog or something.
Crew Chief Eric: Over the Top Dog or something, yeah. Another reference to Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Dog.
Yeah.
Steve & Izzy: Jean Claude has one specific trick he does. Attaque! Attaque!
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, yeah.
Steve & Izzy: We know the trick. We know the trick. Also, if anybody’s a fan of dogs, this particular dog is a Kelpie, which is an Australian breed. If you thought Australian cattle dogs and border collies were crazy, meet the Kelpie. They make those breeds look tame.
There you go. But Alma, you know, he’s [00:38:00] like asking, like, Hey, you have any idea where Tom might be? No, I really have no idea, but maybe the phone here that I have of his has the information, but you gotta be able to hack it and I don’t know how to do it. So I’ll give it to you in exchange for a producer credit.
And then he says, you know, I’m a stunt guy. Yeah, yeah. Stunt guy who used to fuck the director. Get me the producer credit. Well, I mean, okay, well, I’ll see what I can do. And then zap, they’re both tased off screen by some big guys. And then, uh, that’s right. The guy’s like kidnap Alma and like, where’s the phone Lebowski?
And, uh, The money Lebowski. Well, Colton Jean Clatter in Hot Pursuit, he’s chasing him in the new Chevy Silverado and he is like, engage your core. Jean Claude makes him put Jean Claude’s seatbelt on.
Crew Chief Eric: That was funny.
Steve & Izzy: Oh yes,
Crew Chief Eric: of course, of course. Yes. This whole scene is a lot of fun because it brings us into the next big stunt, which I walked away from this going, I’ve never seen this before.
It was sort of like ballroom dancing with a dumpster, like I never. I don’t know how else to describe it, but it was like [00:39:00] super cool, right? I mean, it was the typical Indiana Jones jump from one truck to the other big bulky Brutus guy, got to take them down, you know, all this kind of thing. But when they got to the dumpster hanging off the back of the truck and it’s just swinging around, Oh, that was so cool.
Very well done.
Steve & Izzy: Hey guys, you may remember when we talked about the movie The Stuntman, which has kind of the same plot. Hey, we need you to fill in for this actor so the production doesn’t get shot down while hijinx ensues. Blah, blah, blah. But then something else happened in this movie that was like, Holy shit, we need to talk about this with Grand Touring Motorsports.
Because at karaoke, someone is singing Against All Odds.
Crew Chief Eric: Oh, yeah, I thought that was awesome.
Steve & Izzy: And I’m like, if Shatner shows up for a cameo, like, this is too much. This movie has instantly become the greatest movie in the world. Yeah, I did notice that too. I was like, look
Crew Chief Eric: at that. That’s like a double cross.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, big, beautiful chase fight scene, the whole back of jump from truck to truck going through town with not a cop to be found. Afterwards he gets the [00:40:00] phone, he’s like, Alright, I need the video on this, but, Oh shit, I need to get to karaoke! And he gets there just in time to be like 45 minutes late.
Everybody’s
Crew Chief Eric: late. It must be a square body owner’s thing, cause Dan does the same thing, I’m just calling it out. What?!
Steve & Izzy: Bah, bah, bah! But who is there? Oh, it’s stunt coordinator, Dan, you know Winston Duke, and he is basically like, Hey, I need your help with something. I need you to help me check Tom’s apartment because he’s got these post-its all over the place.
And I’m sure one of ’em has to be the password for this phone of his, because they asked the tech gal who’s drunk and she’s like, oh no, you’re not getting in that fucking phone. Yeah. Yeah. I think she’s the one who’s like, you know, knowing that guy, he probably has a. Post a note of it somewhere. Oh,
Crew Chief Eric: yeah.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, we got to go break into his apartment.
Crew Chief Eric: Which is sort of like against all odds in the sense that we’re going back to the building. Remember that Jeff Bridges went back a couple of times. So I’m like, okay, so we’re doing this again, back to Nakatomi tower. So wait, did they cut out the scene where
Steve & Izzy: Colton Jody banged on a national monument?
Ancient ruins, just raw dog in on ancient ruins. [00:41:00] And then the dad from Webster shows up just on top of the Sydney Opera House just plowing one out. Yeah, I think that got left on the cutting room floor. Yeah. Damn PG 13. They eventually find the password, open it up, and they’re like looking through his videos.
Basically see one of him like drop kicking his stunt double Henry and killing him. Maybe like hits his head on table or something. For me, this was so
Crew Chief Eric: funny because it was the dodgeball moment. Got another Ben Stiller reference where he’s like, nobody makes me bleed my own blood, right? That kind of thing.
Yeah. Marty McFly, you know, don’t call me chicken. Don’t call me chicken. Yeah, it’s the same thing. And I’m like, oh my God, we’re just pulling all the threads, aren’t we?
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, like the instant they see that video. Oh, well, the news is on for some reason. And Cold Steve is a suspect in the death of Henry Vuh vuh vuh or whatever.
The baddies are closing in on the apartment. And now, guys, we get stunts! Yeah! Stunts, stunts, stunts, stunts, stunts, stunts. Yeah, just a whole bunch of fighting all over the apartment. Guns [00:42:00] blasting. Stuntman Dan does one of those, what we call the Bobby Sixkiller, the clothesline. Yeah, got a renegade references.
I think Cultiverse even does like the Reno Raines dive from upstairs onto somebody. By the way, for those who don’t know what we’re talking about, Steve and I have watched every single episode of the Lorenzo Llamas Vehicle Renegade. In the last six months. Yeah, my dad used to watch that. It was bad then.
You know what? It has some really bad episodes, but it’s also not that bad. So here’s the thing. There’s so many things were like, you watched it back in the day and you’re like, Oh, this was great. And it sort of aged like milk. This was not that great. And therefore has aged exactly as it still is.
Crew Chief Eric: Aged like milk.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, I might not pull that right. That went out on you. Use it wisely.
So you basically, yeah, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, and it ends up onto a boat. And holy shit, Tom Ryder’s on this boat. [00:43:00] So Colt gets knocked out and he wakes up all, you know, tied up and they’re like, where’s the phone Lebowski? Oh, we did forget to mention a few scenes before this. Somebody did ask Gosling why he always wears his Miami Vice jacket.
Executive Producer Tania: Oh, that was way back with the
Steve & Izzy: fight with the lady back in sail. Yeah. It’s because he used to work on the Miami Vice. Stunts at Lake Orlando. Yeah, the stunt show or whatever. And he can do boat stunts with his hands tied behind his back. Yeah, that’s important. That’s a key point to the plot. This was planted like an hour earlier in the movie.
Yeah, so he’s tied up. Where’s the phone Lebowski? And he’s like, why would I tell you my only insurance of still being alive? And like, All right, good point. And then Gail, she ends up calling Jody and is like, Oh my God, uh, Colt’s a suspect in a murder. I know it’s the craziest thing. And I’m like, okay, further confirming.
Gail is obviously
Crew Chief Eric: the bad guy.
Steve & Izzy: Tied up into a blah, blah, blah. It’s not going to be a big reveal. Like, why are they dragging this along? Tom Ryder, he’s like monologuing. We’re like, Oh man, look, I just try and do this. And you were trying to hog the spotlight as the cool [00:44:00] stunt guy. And so I had to fuck up your stunt or whatever.
Like, wait, what are you talking about? Oh yeah, the accident where you broke your back. Like. That’s because of me. It was me, Austin. It was me all along, Austin. Awesome bitch. And then he’s like, yeah, that’s why I had to kill Henry too, because Henry humiliated me in front of everybody. And so I had to kill him.
Okay, cool. And Gale took care of it for me. What? Anyway. Well, the boat scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the boat scene, like all the other people that know Colt’s been like looking for Tom or whatever. They all get like bagged and killed immediately. Yeah. Like bags over the head. What was his name, Kevin, or whatever, from the hotel Dune.
The guy with the leper tattoos. They’re all just fucking killed. I like how, uh, Colt’s like, Tom, listen to me. You need carbs. Get a grilled cheese. You’ll feel better. You’ll make better decisions.
Crew Chief Eric: Again, a bunch of one liners throughout the movie that just, not that the movie needed it, but it was nice because it just kept you revved up through the whole thing.
You’re like, got these action scenes. We’ve got some comedy, got some bad rom com in there. Oh, so much [00:45:00] fun.
Steve & Izzy: But then eventually Colt’s like, look, you guys have been beating me up for the last 10 minutes. Man bun over here shot the phone. So there’s no more phone. Oh, cool. So then they start dumping gas on them You know eventually colt just spit some on them and you know guys we got the lighter he spits the gas on him Oh shit, so we got the stunts of like guys on fire And then he drives off to the miami vice music in reverse because he did the stunt show remember from like an hour earlier While he’s driving, Jody calls, answers his phone, and tells her the reason that stunt guys do the thumbs up.
Yeah, it hurts, but not as much as, not as much as without you, or whatever, you know, rom com bullshit. I was made for loving you, baby, you were made for loving me, BOOM! Boat explodes. Awesome, that was awesome. And, like, that’s a wrap on Colt. Roll credits, guys. What do we think about the Fall Guy? Nope, not even close.
What? There’s still 45 minutes in this fucking movie? What? Exactly! The news is like, oh yeah, it’s a [00:46:00] suicide, and oh yeah, here’s a deepfake video they made of Colt killing Henry, you know, the video from the phone or whatever, but they superimposed his face. The next morning, the baddies, they’re looking for Stuntman Dan on set.
Cause they know he was in the apartment and stuff. No loose ends, right? But then one of the aliens from the show starts sneaking around in Jody’s trailer or whatever, and then a fight breaks out, but the aliens got the voice modulator. No, don’t hurt me. Cause you know, he’s getting his ass whooped. That
Crew Chief Eric: scene was so funny too.
Crew Chief Brad: What I don’t understand is why didn’t he take the fucking mask off? He had. 30, 45 seconds from the time he walked into the trailer. It’s not velcro. Probably got some snaps
Steve & Izzy: or
Crew Chief Brad: zippers. No, he
Steve & Izzy: took
Crew Chief Brad: it off easily afterward.
Crew Chief Eric: It’s like the scene with the rock where he’s getting beat up against it two dozen times.
All these things that were just overly exaggerated. Just say you’re sorry. Exactly. And this just adds to it. You’re just like, this is so stupid. But it’s hilarious at the same time.
Steve & Izzy: So, you know, he [00:47:00] gives the thumbs up and Jody helps him get the thing off. And he tells Jody everything like, I got fucking gales in on it, and unicorns, and yeah, all that shit.
Goes back to his terrible description of what’s happening. And she’s like, We need to go to the police and clear your name. And he’s like, No, no, no, no, no, no. See, if they think I’m dead, then they’ll finish your movie. You need to finish the movie, meanwhile, I’m gonna sneak around and do some cool shit, right?
Inspire all the little Jodies of the world to do their thing, and they kiss, and, oh! Yeah, it was like, besides, I have a plan. We’re gonna lure them back, and then I’m gonna kick their ass. Or we could give them over to the cops! Or I can kick their ass. Yeah, yeah. I like this through line keeps going. I think Gail shows up and she’s like, Hey, so we’re not going to do the car jump.
We’re just going to do visual effects and we got to shoot Tom’s monologue. He has like eight more pages for it or something like that.
Crew Chief Brad: Is Matthew McConaughey log?
Steve & Izzy: Yeah. We get the McConaughey monologue. The McConaughey log.
Executive Producer Tania: It’s high noon on the edge of tomorrow.
Steve & Izzy: Giggity, giggity.
Executive Producer Tania: Alright, alright. All [00:48:00] right.
Steve & Izzy: All right. All right.
Crew Chief Brad: Um,
Steve & Izzy: uh, I was shooting aliens long before I was banging them or whatever. It was awesome. There’s one thing that will help us love.
Yeah, yeah, so the whole plan is, uh, you know, Don McConaughey, Tom Ryder, he’s, uh, he’s mic’d up, but he always forgets that he’s mic’d up, and so they’re gonna try to trick him to force a confession out of him. Ron Burgundy! Yeah, exactly. Don’t put it on the prompter, then. I’m Ron Burgundy. I’m Ted Baxter. Go fuck yourself, Metal Storm.
But yeah, so then, Jody, she’s putting up a front, like, Oh, I’m so sorry to hear about Colt, and she’s like, Oh yeah, Colt was dead to me anyway, fuck that guy. Anyway, we just need one more take of your monologue here. Then we’re gonna rig this canyon up with all the charges and stuff. They have like the green screen or whatever backed up around the car, like, Alright, we just need a couple establishing shots of you shooting some aliens, and then we’ll have the stunt guys go in.
We just need some time to rig up the canyon for them, [00:49:00] blah blah blah. But then, wouldn’t you know it, somebody comes in and handcuffs Tom right to the inside of the, uh, car. And it’s like, what, what the hell’s going on? Oh, you boys been to Mexico? No, and they go driving through that cannon. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And he’s like, Colt, you were dead. What the hell, man? That’s right, bitch. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And then, you, you tried to kill me and it didn’t work. And he’s like, you know, just trying to get a confession out of them as all the stuff’s going on. And all the security guys, Manbun and all those guys are chasing after him and they’re drugs.
And I like the, uh, like, I, Cole Seifers, was set You ready for this 250 foot jump? We’re gonna go film in Louise. They died at the end. Whatever. Yeah.
Crew Chief Eric: Being chased by the BMWs that the man bun had. Yeah. But it was awesome to see those get destroyed too. I was like,
Steve & Izzy: excellent. Yeah. Yeah. Take out the bad guys.
It’s all like 10 minute cool ass stunt scene, but eventually, Tom confesses or whatever And he’s all like Alright, here’s the [00:50:00] jump. They jump like it’s the end of Hooper. BOOM! Roll a couple times. And Tom’s alive. What?! Gail shows up. It’s all the, Gotta get the tape. Gotta get the tape. Right, that’s right she’s gotta get the tape cause that’s the evidence they’re gonna use.
Crew Chief Eric: And that was being recorded in one of the vans. So she went after that guy first. Where I drew a parallel to this whole scene with her and the white suit, and the helicopter, and the prop wash. Do you guys remember? Wayne Newton was in License to Kill. Remember the whole scene at the end, and he’s, the shit’s all over him, and he’s on the side of that wherever the hell he was?
Yeah. To me, it was like the same scene. Bond takes care of business at the end of the day, but I saw Gale and Wayne Newton kind of in
Steve & Izzy: As a cult leader? Yes, that
Crew Chief Eric: too.
Steve & Izzy: And also you got other security guys, you know, just going after cult. But then, you know, Stuntman Dan, he’s like, Stunt set! Assemble and attack!
And, you know, a whole bunch of fighting and stuff there. Very Game of Thrones at that point. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s a group of people you don’t want to fuck with. It’s stunt people. [00:51:00] They will fuck your
Crew Chief Brad: shit up. They’re like fucking carnies.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, dude. Yeah, eventually Tom and Gail, they get to the choppa.
Colt’s chasing after them. Jody’s like in the truck with the camera thing on it. Colt jumps on that and he’s hanging out. You know, straight out of, uh, The Stuntman, where it’s got the guy in the little chair or whatever, and extending the arm out, you know, so he can jump on that under part of the car.
Chopper, hang off that, and meanwhile the pyros are blowing to slow down the chopper. Buh, buh, oh shit, we’re about to get tailspin or whatever. And, I don’t know, he says quippy lines to the girl because, you know, he’s the fall guy. Yeah, he gets to the chopper and they just start beating the shit out of everybody, and then he jumps.
I say onto the pillow. Oh, that’s right. He jumps out and lands on the giant airbag. That’s right Survive that yeah, that’s right the chopper like tail spins It’s struggling and then the cops show up
Crew Chief Eric: and everybody gets arrested. Basically.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, like the song comes on
Crew Chief Eric: Well, it sort of ended like remember Monty Python and the quest for the Holy Grail all of a sudden the [00:52:00] cops show up It’s for me.
It was the same thing. It was like somebody called them But Stuntman was the same thing though at the end all of a sudden the cops are there and the helicopter as well and all those other parallels you could make to the Stuntman movie.
Steve & Izzy: Absolutely every scene and then the second half of Stuntman it’s like it represented this movie it’s great.
Minus Barbara Hershey. I mean you know Emily Blunt I’ll take Emily. But uh yeah so Colton, Jodie Kiss and as the pyros go off boom we get the trailer for Metal Storm. Oh my god. And who’s starring in Metal Storm? Now the Tom Ryder’s rotting away in ass back in prison.
Crew Chief Brad: All the pectorals. Jason
Steve & Izzy: Samosa. Jason.
Mama. So good. And we see that all the gets her producer credit. Yay. Was it H hall or whatever at Comic Con baby. Woo. And we see, uh, Colton, he’s got his new jacket that says fall guy stunts. What? Oh, he’s the fall guy. [00:53:00] Get it guys. It’s an origin story! Anyway. And then the real song by Blake Shelton comes on and we start getting outtakes just like the great stunt movies of late 70s and early 80s.
And
Crew Chief Eric: a cameo by Lee Majors himself.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah! Lee Majors shows up and Tom’s trying to like run away or whatever and he uh stumbles onto you know the pyro field but basically like landmines or whatever. What was that, Fizana cell phone?
Crew Chief Eric: Yeaaaaaah. Wasn’t there a cartoon that was like that, where they ran off into the desert and Wile E.
Coyote, probably? That sounds about right. Yeah, one of those, right? Very cartoonish. But that doesn’t take away from the movie in any way, that just adds to it, actually. I know, and guys, that’s the extended cut. Of the
Steve & Izzy: fall guy. Now going around the room, would we recommend it ladies first?
Executive Producer Tania: Yes, I would. And I normally have been, I know to a lot of the movies we watch.
I
Jessica: watched this one twice. Wow.
Steve & Izzy: All right. How about you, Jessica?
Jessica: Yes. I would recommend it. [00:54:00] I like having a movie that doesn’t challenge me in any way, shape, or form. Fully aware that it is only there for entertainment, and it really commits to being very entertaining, sometimes in a very creative way. Yeah, it’s unchallenging, and it’s stupid, and it’s nice to look at.
What’s not to like?
Crew Chief Eric: There you
Steve & Izzy: go. Eric, how
Crew Chief Eric: about you? I like the fact that it didn’t take itself too seriously. It is an homage to the original Fall Guy. If you watched the pilot episode of Fall Guy, that’s basically the premise of this movie. I mean, I enjoyed the Fall Guy as a kid, so I go back to those memories as well.
I think it was a great reboot. I don’t know that they could do a sequel, but to Tanya’s point, this might be one of the only two. We are all going to maybe come to the same consensus here that this movie was awesome, highly underrated, and if you haven’t seen it, you should watch it because it’s a great pass a Saturday afternoon when it’s snowing outside kind of movie.
Crew Chief Brad: How about you, Brad? Yes, thousand percent. I totally recommend this. I’m really easily entertained.
Mountain Man Dan: All right, Mountain Man [00:55:00] Dan. So, I’m on the fence.
Steve & Izzy: What? What?
Mountain Man Dan: Because here’s the thing, I disagree with you, Eric, on the fact, I don’t see being similar to the show with the exception of names and him being a stunt guy.
There’s a lot that’s completely different than the show, in my opinion. Well, it’s the origin story and in further sequels, that’s when he gets the bounty gigs. But even so, if you’re going to go with that logic of it being the origin story, he was a mentor to Jody. It wasn’t a love interest of his. Still can be.
Crew Chief Eric: They had to modernize it a little bit.
Steve & Izzy: To be fair, Jody was also maybe 19 years old or whatever in the series. Valid point. A little creepy these days. The majors didn’t look
Mountain Man Dan: a day under 60. I go into anything like this open minded, not trying to compare it to the origin. Therefore, it did have some good action scenes and everything.
Storyline was good. Kind of cheesy, but to be expected it’s based off the 1980s cheesy storyline for a show in a sense, but A show
Crew Chief Eric: that’s based on a made up song
Mountain Man Dan: But the sad thing is that [00:56:00] song it’s more about him not getting laid and not getting the women than actually no No, he gets laid. He just doesn’t get paid
Steve & Izzy: If you
Mountain Man Dan: listen to the song the lyrics of the song He’s seen with him on screen.
Oh,
Steve & Izzy: yeah. And then all the girls run off with Bert. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Mountain Man Dan: Yeah So it’s like he’s there with it, but he’s friend zoned all the time for everything all in all It’s not a bad movie, but it’s not a favorite I’d put it that way
Steve & Izzy: which you’re saying if it was called the stuntman instead of the fall guy You’d probably 10 plus 10
Mountain Man Dan: I don’t know about 10 but it would definitely be a better stuntman than the movie called stuntman.
Yes There you go Oh,
Steve & Izzy: this movie is amazing. This should be mandatory viewing. Everybody go watch this. Yeah, guys, spoilers. This will be mentioned in the Stevie awards at the end of 2024 as I’ll say top 10, but you can guess somewhere in the top 10 where this movie is going to be. This was a good year for movies though.
This was the year of Steve for movie. There was a stunt movie. There was an eight movie. There was an eight versus Godzilla movie. There was a [00:57:00] dune movie. There’s, uh, Deadpool and Wolverine movie. All you’re missing is a Star Trek movie. Maybe next year. There you go. There’s like eight Star Trek series going on.
Like they don’t need to put another movie. JJ Abrams is probably ruining some other franchise. Well, he didn’t ruin this one.
Crew Chief Eric: This
Steve & Izzy: is good
Crew Chief Eric: stuff.
Steve & Izzy: All right. Well, then we’ll take a quick commercial break. Oh, but when we come back. We have more beer, fun facts, and what we learned from the Fall Guy.
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Steve & Izzy: Oh my god, Steve, those are the greatest ads that have ever added in the history of adding!
She said it! They get better every week! I don’t know, but I’ve been told. I’ve been made for loving you, baby. Steve, you were made for loving me. Can you take a knife for me? So, I’m a little under weather, so we’re gonna skip the beer part. Would any of you be interested in any fun facts about this movie?
Absolutely. Yes. I don’t know, [00:59:00] Steve. Are they super fun facts? Cause fun, fun facts. I was made for giving you fun. I was made for receiving.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, I sense a theme here. Somebody’s about to get backed anyway.
Steve & Izzy: All right, guys.
What do you think the critics thought of the fog A Oh, they hated it. Oh, yeah. But what percentage did you think, what percentage gave it a positive review? Ah,
Executive Producer Tania: yeah. Zero to 100%. 40% gave it positive. 40. I’m going middle
Crew Chief Eric: 50,
Executive Producer Tania: 65.
Jessica: Everybody likes stupid things. 65 .
Crew Chief Eric: No, the critics, critics don’t like stupid things.
They’re mean. Are we talking
Jessica: Rotten Tomatoes or are we talking like actual critics?
Crew Chief Eric: Rotten Tomato Critics. Rotten Tomato Critics.
Crew Chief Brad: Critics usually think that they’re smarter than they really are. And they try to be more sophisticated.
Jessica: Well, everyone who’s slammed Idiocracy, look now.
Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, look at him
Steve & Izzy: living it now.
I think the critics are idiots, and I’m really sad to say this, [01:00:00] but I think they gave it 17%. Ladies and gentlemen, this movie is certified fresh 81 percent with the critics and 85 percent with the audience.
Crew Chief Eric: Nice, that deserves a round of applause. Everybody
Steve & Izzy: who has actually seen this movie loves it. We’re what, 8 for 8 on this episode here?
So Yeah, that’s 100 percent of us critics.
Crew Chief Eric: That’s right. The IMDB popularity score is 97
Steve & Izzy: Yeah! It’s really
Crew Chief Eric: high. Did you see what the IMDB score is out of
Steve & Izzy: 10? Not so great, 69. 69. 6. 9. All right, 125 million dollar budget. Actually not that bad nowadays, right? Usually you hear like 200,
Jessica: 250.
Steve & Izzy: What do you think the worldwide gross was?
Ooh, that’s gonna be low.
Jessica: 125 million. Considering Tanya didn’t even know it was theatrically released.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, was that in theaters for like two weeks or whatever? Yeah.
Jessica: Did you better internationally? It feels like one of those movies though that like did really well.
Steve & Izzy: Where? In Slovenia?
Jessica: Other [01:01:00] countries who are like, yes, America style.
Steve & Izzy: Stuntistan. Yeah.
Jessica: Turns out, Germany. Well, yeah.
Steve & Izzy: Eastern Europe where all the stunts usually happened.
Crew Chief Eric: I’m going to go with like a 75 percent number and just say it did like 80. It did
Steve & Izzy: 93 million in the US, 181 worldwide. But the studio claims that lost like 200 million or whatever, because of all the advertising or whatever.
And I’m like, that’s just bullshit tax write off stuff.
Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Yeah.
Steve & Izzy: And I know they got 20, 25 bucks from us. The The ation. Woo. This movie has been in development since 2010. Holy crap. Really? Yep. Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Cage, Jason Statham, and Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Were all eye to play. Colt Seavers over the years.
Guys, what if Nicolas Cage was Colt Zevers? Oh no! Oh man!
Executive Producer Tania: Movie would be trash. Oh yeah! Movie would be a dumpster fire. Let’s give
Steve & Izzy: him the benefit of a doubt. Let’s say 2010 Nicolas Cage when it was first conceived. So like National [01:02:00] Treasure
Crew Chief Eric: time period?
Steve & Izzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. National Treasure, Sorcerer’s Apprentice era Nicolas Cage.
I’m
Executive Producer Tania: in. I’m here for it. Would still be a dumpster fire. Give it to me.
Crew Chief Brad: It has to be Con Air, Nicolas Cage. Yeah,
Steve & Izzy: yeah, yeah. If it were the 90s, I could totally see it.
Executive Producer Tania: No, it has to be Moonstruck, Nicolas Cage. That’s the one we’ll share, right? Yeah, Vampire’s
Steve & Izzy: Kiss and Era, Nicolas Cage.
Crew Chief Eric: Yay! I can’t see Nicolas Cage pulling this off just because of his mannerisms, you know what I mean?
I think Ryan Gosling was a good choice. The other ones you listed, only because they’re all action heroes, in a sense, it’d be like, all right, we’re going to do Sylvester Stallone. alone 20 years ago as a fall guy. It doesn’t make sense. You know what I mean?
Executive Producer Tania: No, none of those people. Only person off that list that could have maybe done it.
I hate to say it.
Crew Chief Brad: Statham, I think. Joyce and Statham.
Executive Producer Tania: No, Tom Cruise. Oh yeah,
Steve & Izzy: Tom Cruise flipping roles. And it’s this stunt double that’s the star.
Executive Producer Tania: You can’t forget this isn’t just an action movie. This is an action movie with romance. None of those people you listed are romantic leads [01:03:00] other than Tom Cruise.
Like none of them. No, no, no.
Steve & Izzy: So somebody mentioned Edge of Tomorrow earlier and Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Here I am going to argue with that one. It is a romantic movie, but I think it’s really more of a charisma thing. Yeah. And that’s where I say, I think the reason The Rock doesn’t work is because who’s he fucking stunt doubling for?
He doesn’t look like anybody. But yeah, I think Jason Statham could pull it off because I think he has enough charisma to be able to pull off the like, I’m sort of an asshole and I’m kind of likable. I just want to see Statham putting on wigs. There’s that too.
Crew Chief Eric: If we’re going to use that as a criteria, then my number one choice.
Of a recast would have been Chris Evans, because if you watch the losers, it’s very similar to this. He plays a similar character to Colt Seavers. He could have pulled this off if Ryan Gosling couldn’t done it. I can see it.
Steve & Izzy: Yeah. Captain America. Ryan Reynolds could have done it. No.
Executive Producer Tania: No. Talk about
Steve & Izzy: people who are one speed
Executive Producer Tania: actors.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, he only has one character. I like Ryan Reynolds. That’s why I love Blade Trinity. He’s still the, he’s [01:04:00] just Ryan Reynolds in the middle of Blade movie.
Crew Chief Eric: Except for Just Friends.
Steve & Izzy: Never watched it. What?! Wow, it’s so cute! It’s so I don’t watch cute movies! I watch
Jessica: good movies! It’s funny, it is funny. This movie was almost too cute.
A little gross. But yeah, no, it’s good.
Crew Chief Eric: You gotta watch Just Friends. No,
Jessica: you gotta watch The Proposal. Ha ha
Crew Chief Eric: ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!
Jessica: Or Well, Buying the Cow was really your favorite.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, Buying the Cow is excellent. Or the one where he’s buried alive. Because that’s why you watch Ryan Reynolds, to watch him slowly suffocate.
I mean, isn’t it? No. Ha ha ha! Shh! Chris Evans, that’s my vote. That’s a good one. Yeah, I buy it. Ryan Gosling has a fear of heights, but still did the 150 foot fall at the beginning of the movie. Wow. Yeah, yeah. That like, the pseudo one take where he goes all the way up the stairs and everything and then drops or whatever, like, I never would have guessed he was afraid of heights.
No. Also, Rangostling has eight stunt doubles. You get to see a couple of them.
Jessica: I liked that at the end. Yeah, they showed a bunch of the stunt doubles [01:05:00] at the end. One of them
Steve & Izzy: was Jackie Chan, did you see?
One of them was John Cena. No, I didn’t see him. John Cena, that’d be good too. Alright, and the film within a film, Metal Storm, was heavily inspired by the real film Metal Storm colon The Destruction of Jared Sin 1983. The entire concept, costumes, and desert setting and car based stunts are right from the Charles Band film which has been described as Star Wars meets Mad Max.
Guys, we watched that movie. It is not that. It’s definitely Star Wars meets Mad Max, but it’s not cowboys and aliens falling in love bullshit. The tagline, It’s High Noon at the Edge of the Universe, is used in that movie, and is also the tagline for several other Full Moon Entertainment productions, including Oblivion and Oblivion 2 Colon Backlash.
Ooh, you do not want backlash in your colon.
Crew Chief Eric: So let’s pull on that thread, not the colon one.
Steve & Izzy: Don’t pull on your colon’s thread. We talked about this off
Crew Chief Eric: air a little bit, but for the benefit of our audience, I want to see [01:06:00] this Metal Storm, Jason Momoa movie be made. Like that should be the sequel to Fall
Steve & Izzy: Guy.
Hell, I’ll even watch Aaron Taylor Johnson in it. I don’t care. Or McConaughey. I want them to make that movie. And then use clips from this movie as the outtakes and the credits, like in the credits. Oh, it’s like the chasing with the helicopter and stuff at the
Crew Chief Eric: end. And they’re like, what the hell is this movie?
We should check this out. Couldn’t be any worse than black Adam at the end of the day. So just leave it at that. Right.
Steve & Izzy: Oh, Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached the most important part. Yes. What did we learn from the Fall Guy? Jessica, would you like to go first? What did I
Jessica: learn? That really one of the best fight scenes I’ve seen in a long time happened in a dumpster.
Executive Producer Tania: Yeah Tonya? That Ryan Gosling can speak some French. Attache! Or whatever.
Steve & Izzy: Attaque! Attaque! I was waiting for, Ryan Gosling can get it. J’accuse! How about you, babe? I learned that I was made for loving you, baby. You [01:07:00] were made for loving me. Mwah!
Mountain Man Dan: All right, mountain man, Dan, how about you? I’ll say the one thing I learned was the fact that Brian Gosselin being afraid of heights.
That’s an interesting tidbit of information.
Crew Chief Brad: All right, Brad,
Steve & Izzy: how about you? What’d you
Crew Chief Brad: learn? I am such an idiot. I learned Nothing. No, I learned from watching the movie that Fall Guy was a double reference. Not just for the stunt man, but also for the fact that he was the fall guy for the murder.
Steve & Izzy: So many levels!
Crew Chief Eric: All right, Eric, how about you? I learned that movies can still be made the old school way and they can be a lot of fun. And not all of this movie is old school, but going back to the world record setting rollover, the dumpster scene and all the other stunts that they did, it’s far Fun to see movies can still be put together this way.
All hope is not lost. Points for practical facts. Exactly. Exactly.
Steve & Izzy: They say, they mention in the movie, uh, like, hey, you get an Oscar for stunts? No, no, we don’t. Like, guys, why don’t we give Oscars for [01:08:00] stunts? We get it for sound editing or whatever the hell, gaffing. Yeah, for sure. What I learned, nihilism is a viable worldview.
It’s true though. Gail said that or something early on in the movie and I’m like, that’s my girl. We believe in nothing! Babe, wait, what is it that we learn from all the Gales movies? Other than nihilism is a valid worldview? But that’s really just a vehicle? What? They said it a couple of times. Never give up, which you’re supposed to learn from Gales movies.
Oh yeah, never give up, never give up hope or whatever, yeah. But guys, yeah, thank you for joining us here on Everything I Learned From Movies. I understand you also have a podcast, just the eight of you or whatever.
Crew Chief Eric: We have several podcasts now on the Motoring Podcast Network. You can follow us on social media under our new handle at Motoring Podcast Network, but you can always find our headliner breakfast.
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Steve & Izzy: So anything else you guys want to promote any, uh, Side hustles,
Crew Chief Eric: looking around the room.
Louie’s got something going on.
Crew Chief Brad: Eric has OnlyFans.
Crew Chief Eric: Oh yeah, Patreon! OnlyFans, same difference. Babe, how about you? You, uh, got anything to promote?
Steve & Izzy: You find me everywhere at, uh, Untidy Venus, like a goddess who’s bad at housekeeping. I’m on all the social medias at Untidy Venus. Eve! Yes? Where can we find you?
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Y’all nihilism is a viable worldview in 2025. We believe in nothing and we’re going to have grand touring motorsports joining us again, sometime later for the last chase. Another Lee Majors film. It’s gonna be awesome. Yeah, Lee Majors in the [01:10:00] post apocalyptic wasteland. It’s gonna be great. And I think there’s a Burgess Meredith on a jet, right?
Mm hmm. Look, I’m not gonna lie, y’all. There are so many good cars in post apocalyptic movies. There’s custom builds. They pull out vintage. It’s gonna be a good year for cars. Yeah. And a good year for morale. Yeah, just like, it could be slightly worse, guys. I mean, uh, see, because until next time, I’m Steve.
And I believe in nothing. And I’m Eric, and I’m Tanya, and I’m out in my ink, and I’m Brian, and I’m Jessica. Oh, was that our cue?
Crew Chief Eric: And this is everything you’ll learn from movies. Cause I was made for loving you, baby.
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Highlights
Skip ahead if you must… Here’s the highlights from this episode you might be most interested in and their corresponding time stamps.
- 00:00 Introduction to Grand Touring Motorsports
- 00:52 Meet the Hosts: Steve and Izzy
- 01:19 Special Guests from Brake Fix Podcast
- 01:38 Discussing ‘The Fall Guy’ Movie
- 02:39 Beer Tasting and Fun Banter
- 05:02 Director David Leach’s Filmography
- 06:31 The Origin of ‘The Fall Guy’ TV Series
- 09:13 Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s Performances
- 11:37 Analyzing the Movie’s Stunts and Action Scenes
- 29:51 Detective Colt’s Investigation
- 35:32 The Fruit Plate Key Card
- 35:37 The Dead Guy in the Bathtub
- 36:05 The Truck Stunt Setup
- 36:51 Karaoke Night
- 36:59 Gail’s Warning
- 37:16 Jean Claude the Dog
- 38:43 Dumpster Ballroom Dancing
- 41:48 The Apartment Fight
- 42:57 The Boat Scene
- 47:40 The Canyon Chase
- 49:54 The Final Showdown
- 53:39 Movie Review and Recommendations
- 58:55 Fun Facts and Trivia
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Fun, Fun facts – in fact… they are Super Fun Facts!
- 6.9 on IMDb, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes critics, 85% audience score!!!
- $125 M budget, $92.9 M US gross, $181.1 M worldwide gross
- This movie had been in development since 2010. Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Nicolas Cage, Jason Statham, and Dwayne Johnson were all eyed to play Colt Seavers over the years.
- Ryan Gosling has a fear of heights, but still did the 150-foot fall at the beginning of the movie.
- Ryan Gosling also has EIGHT stunt doubles
- With 8.5 car rolls called the cannon roll and on the second try, the stunt team for this movie broke the Guinness World Record of the most car rolls, (a fact which Gail actually mentions in the dialogue).
- The film-within-a-film Metalstorm was heavily inspired by the real film Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983). The entire concept, costumes and desert setting and car based stunts are right from Charles Band’s film which has been described as “Star Wars meets Mad Max.” The tagline, “It’s High Noon at the End of the Universe” is used for the movie within is also the tagline from the 1983 film as well as for the Full Moon Entertainment production Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996).
