22 May 2016

And though "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" was actually 1979, it fits

The Nice Guys

Crit
I tried to resist this, I swear I did, and if you demanded that I eviscerate it on cold critical principles, I could, but dammit, I had fun, so piss off with your cold critical principles. A good, goofy comic noir, and I don't care what you hear elsewhere: Ryan Gosling is a fine comic actor, with a mastery of slapstick, and while comedy doesn't seem to come as naturally to Russell Crowe, he holds up his end OK.

One lie the movie tells: that all popular music by white people in 1977 sucked and all popular music by black people in 1977 was awesome. In fact, all popular music in 1977 sucked.
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