S2E18 - Episode #26 - The Nice Guys

And, uh, this, this quote comes from f- you know, a, a podcast quoted regular Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com who gave The Nice Guys three out of four stars and wrote, "The cast is perfect, but The Nice Guys could have used one more rewrite and another trip to the editing bay to really streamline jokes that don't work and a plot that gets more cluttered than engaging.

It's not until an actual villain shows up more than an hour into the piece that you realize that the movie didn't have one before then, and some of the bits get repetitive before the movie's over." He gave it three out of four stars.

That sounds harsher than I think he means it to be.

I definitely, like, thought that, you know, the, the...

It gets kind of convoluted story-wise, but it's-

For sure

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so fun that I think I forgave a lot of that as I was watching it.

I don't know.

What about you?

I think a, uh, some of that could be chalked up to the genre and-

Mm

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the fact that it is a Shane Black movie.

Um, [lip smack] as I was watching it, I was kinda just picking up more and more similarities between his other works.

And, uh, it actually kinda started this sort of internal debate in my mind of where's the line of a director recycling material from previous movies-

[laughs]

... versus, "Oh, well, this is just, you know, it's a Shane Black joint.

That's what he does." You know, we, we cut Nolan a lot of slack for reusing, you know, non-sequential timelines, um, because that's just what he does.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, so, so what's, what's the difference here?

Fair enough.

And to be honest, I'm not really familiar with Shane Black's work.

L- looking at his filmography, the only other movie of his I've seen is Iron Man 3.

Uh, but y- he ...