Tag: the nice guys

I liked it! If I ever ran a campaign about private investigators in a 1970s world without any kind of supernatural or fantastical stuff, this could have been an adventure in it. I mean, good Lord but the body count was impressive, in its way – and nobody said a goram word about it. I could almost hear the dice clatter at key points in the narrative: Yup, you manage to land in the pool. :clatter: The other guy… well, let’s just say he was about six feet off. Yeah, I’m not gonna bother to roll for damage for him.

Again: this is not bad! As a RPG adventure it was a fun one.  I was laughing throughout the film, and in a good way.  The character interactions between the three main PCs – I’m including the teenage daughter in the party there, by the way – were just good from start to finish. I don’t think that they’re going to make a sequel, but it wouldn’t make for a bad limited TV miniseries.

I find this remarkable, given that there are no exploding starships or cyber-ninja or giant monsters in it or anything. Still, it looks funny and there’s a heavy Seventies vibe to it; plus, my mother and my sisters have deftly separated me out from my children and told me to go have a nice day off, so who am I to argue? That’s right; I am not to argue at all. I am to go eat the colorful native foodstuffs of my childhood* and go watch a movie while the family goes on with sucking up as much grandson/nephew time as they possibly can. Continue reading Gonna go see The Nice Guys today.

I really do think that I’m going to see this. It looks funny, and the first trailer piqued my interest, too.  Weird: I have pretty strict tastes when it comes to what genres I watch.

This is not my usual style of movie, but it’s a damn good trailer. Which is full of sex, violence, and cursing, so don’t watch it at work.