Originally published at: The first trailer for "The Fall Guy" looks fantastic | Boing Boing
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In my head cannon this is Ken: The Action Movie
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My first thought “Is he Kenough to be Colt Seavers?”
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They thought his only job was Beach. And they were dead wrong
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It does look worth a look. But not until March? You get me interested then force me to wait!
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Here’s how every episode of the Fall Guy went:
A scantily clad model would show up looking for Colt and Howie’s (hope I remember that right) help. The model would explain the problem and Colt would head off to solve it. Before he left, he’d implore Howie to watch the model. “Keep her safe, don’t let her follow me!”
The minute Colt left, the model would disappear into the bedroom and call for Howie. “Howie, my dress is stuck in the closet, please help!” Howie would enter the closet and she’d lock him in and then go after Colt, usually getting captured by the bad guys.
At the end, after Colt had fixed everything, they’d let Howie out of the closet and he’d sputter, “Sorry, Colt, the girl got away.” Cue everyone laughing. The end.
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And I watched almost all of them because that model was some of the best cheesecake on network TV.
You know, every single A-Team show was the same too: 4 men on the run from the US government who can’t find them but a grandmother in Dustheap, Kansas is able to contact them to save her kitten from a tree. They fly there in a plane, which BA was given drugged milk to knock him out as he’s scared of planes, just like he was last week and said he wouldn’t drink again. Said kitten turns out to be connected to the mob somehow and the gang is forced to take their van into a random garage which happens to have all the equipment needed to turn the van into a tank. Said tank would then bust out of the garage, shooting 4.7 million bullets and killing no one. The mob gives up. Grandma is happy and gives them a cookie. The gang drives off and 2 minutes later the government agent pulls up and asks if anyone has seen them, ignoring that the area looks like Kuwait during the Gulf War. Everyone looks confused. Roll credits.
And they made that into a movie and it was cheesier than Chester Cheetah and I loved it.
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I have to admit - I can’t wait to watch this foolishness.
Also, I love Hannah Waddingham. Don’t tell my wife.
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That trailer had a serious lack of one of the best theme songs of all time. I’m gonna boycott if it isn’t in the film.
Maybe.
I mean, damn I loved this show as a kid.
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I did, too. I mean, I was a teenager at the time.
Plus it was fun to watch the Six Million Dollar Man (my all time fav when I was a kid) in another show.
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They don’t make tv like that anymore. Some dweeb on the web would tweet about plot holes.
Of course if someone did make it a show now, a single episode would take three seasons of 8 hour-long episodes to tell the single deconstructed story. And it would take 7 years for all the seasons to come out.
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Looks less like a Fall Guy sequel than a prequel of Brad Pitt’s character from Tarantino-land.
And man, I hope the actual movie is mixed better the trailer. The music is cranked beyond hearing any dialogue.
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I know Fall Guy was more of a crime fighting show but the best stunt man movie ever, period, was Hooper.
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan Michael Vincent, and Brian Keith.
My favorite scene after the bar fight.
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Ah pity da foo…
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So it wasn’t just me! I had a hard time understanding the dialogue and kept wanting to adjust the volume.
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Fall Guy, eh?
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Ryan Gosling has really committed to the role as a fall guy
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Seriously, though, looks fun, I’ll watch it. Always on board for an action flick that isn’t military fetish or gun worship.
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Totally read that in “gravelly movie preview guy voice”.
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I couldn’t get halfway through it. The truck was the only thing I recognized. At least the A-Team movie was more or less in the spirit of the TV show. This is terrible.
