My favorite line in the movie is during the final action sequence when Ryan Gosling's character concludes, "I think I'm invincible. It's the only thing that makes sense. I don't think I can die."
I like how they're both similar characters despite appearances. They both lost their wife through different circumstances, it emotionally destroyed them, neither is coping that well, and they both have a low self-image and by the end despite their posturing during their interactions they've kind of built each other up a bit and become friends.
Ryan's Character feels like he is unlucky but really, his Unluckiness is His Luck...yeah Bad stuff happens to him but with each thing that happens to him all the pieces come together to work itself out to reach the finish line/Goal 🤣🤣
It is such an incredible shame that this movie flopped so badly. It'll be an incredibly long time before a Hollywood studio makes a buddy movie ever again.
This is wonderful old school style entertainment, the kind of film they did all the time in the 80s. I'm still hoping the positive buzz it's gotten over time warrants a sequel.
I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this flick. Crowe and Gosling have really, really good chemistry together. And Ryan Gosling.....freaking hilarious!! It's a very re-watchable movie for me. Really good movie, so underrated.
The screenwriter Shane Black was Hollywood's first rock n roll scribe when in the mid 80's he sold his first self penned buddy cop spec script right out of college. That script waa Lethal Weapon. He went to cowrite Lethal 2, The Last Boyscout, Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Long Kiss Goodnight. Ryan Gosling is a comedic genuis in this role. Just legendary. The relationship of his daughter to the rest of the characters and film itsrlf is inspired. Simply put, I love this movie. It's pure brilliance and non stop amusement park ride.
Not the wackiest movie for Crowe.. that has to be "Virtuosity" with Denzel Washington.. It's not good but definitely wackier.. and Crowe looks to be having a blast in it at the over the top villain.
The Last Boy Scout is a good precursor to this as it has very similar character. The gritty private eye with a sassy daughter who helps her dad out. The wacky partner. However, Bruce Willis is playing the Russel Crowe character in that one.
This reaction was hilarious. I just discovered the movie about three weeks ago and have watched it about 4 times, just fantastic. And your reactions were perfection, it’s like I get to watch it again with someone new, which is great fun. Also, the Pun Police are on the way for “for the birds” and for “because it was shady” 🤣🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Honestly I don't think they knew how to market this movie properly. Amazing movie one of my favs would be a 10/10 if I could but I know no movie is perfect.
The actor who voiced the killer bee was Hannibal buress who played the PE teacher in the Sony Disney marvel Spider-Man movies along with the girl who played Ryan gosling's character's daughter
SO glad y'all finally watched this one! It's one of my absolute favorites, totally rewatchable and criminally underrated. One of my favorite bit was the "don't say 'and stuff'" one ("Don't say 'anal and stuff'. Just say 'and anal.'") Also, Hannibal Buress did the voice of Bumble the bee fyi.
Didn't know anything about this movie when we saw it in the theater. Absolutely blown away. Everyone I've shown this to has loved it. Really one of my favorite movies.
The Nice Guys is easily among the best movies of 2016, and the best Black movie since The Last Boyscout. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was a very cool movie, but what he did with this one, in the same genre, is a hundred times better. It's an almost perfect movie, imo, in the sense that as a comedy, it hits the mark 99% of the time (the number of memorable lines is astounding), the action is excellent, Black is very good at filming it, and... we don't just get one the best duos in a buddy movie ever, we get an AWESOME TRIO with March's daughter, who is the special effect of the movie. It's just freaking awesome. Critics who dissed on it when it was released don't deserve good things. And it should have had a FUCKING SEQUEL. u__u Your reaction was cool. It's too bad you didn't even keep a "fucking Chet" in your YT edit. "Fucking Chet" is THE recurring joke of the movie.
I don't think this movie was marketed correctly - I never had any idea from the ads that it is as hilarious as it is. The best laughs as you mentioned are setup/delivery so I guess they're not even preview-ready, so I never even saw it in the theater. What a masterpiece of the small category of gritty detective comedy. I like to imagine in the sequel they run into John Boy again, and he's still killing people, but thanks to his epiphany from being spared he's gone Dexter and only kills bad people to save good people and ends up coming to their rescue in a hilarious way, just brutally dispatching the bad guys so viciously you almost feel sorry for them, but not quite.
Love this movie! I saw it in theatres when it came out and couldn’t stop laughing, especially when Keith David turned to jelly off the fall. This definitely ranks among my favorite reactions of yours.
Russell Crowe put on weight to play Jackson Healy because he thought the character should look like a big bruiser/brawler, and the extra gravelly is part of that characterization.
Very underrated and yes, this and Kiss Kiss bang bang is a great double feature night! (LA Confidential is a MUST watch BTW, different tone but still good)
We're going to need to get Emily a "First Time Music Reaction" channel going. How did she not know that was The Temptations, "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" in the opening credits?
2016 was a great summer for movies, I watched this 6 times in theaters and Hell or High Water 7 times in theaters, this always makes me laugh so much, great reaction
At the big party when Pinocchio says "It's not my nose that grows" that was in reference to a Pinocchio porno with the same tag line released during that time period.
I hate that this film never received the love it deserved in its original theatrical run. We all deserved at least 2 sequels and a COVID-era limited streaming series.
I actually watched this reaction twice back to back. I love this movie it is so very underrated. Mermaids and unicorns and tiddies a great Emily movie.
The song at the beginning of the film is "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" (nothing to do with the rock band), a number one hit for Motown greats, The Temptations.
Fantastic choice! This movie is just a gem. So freaking underrated and underappreciated. If y'all haven't seen it I highly recommend The Man from Uncle and the gentlemen.
Between this one and the last Thor film I'm beginning to wish Russell Crowe had done more comedies in his career. He certainly seems to have a knack for the silly. Come to think of it he had some funny moments in the first thing I ever saw him in waaaaaaay back in the day (Virtuosity) despite him playing a chilling villain.
If you liked this, please take a look at The Last Boy Scout - earlier Shane Black movie, with this one’s DNA (similar plot motifs - degenerate loser has-beens team up to solve action/mystery, bratty daughter, snappy one liners, corporate/political conspiracy).
I laughed my Butt Off watching this reaction. I LOVE this movie. Nice catch in the kid Emily. Please consider watching ARTICLE 99 for Veteran's Day Y'all! Keith David is in that one with a Substantial role. In fact it's an All Star Cast and it's SO Relevant to veterans' plight. Thanks in advance 😊👍
"As much as he fell down, it never felt like slapstick" Slapstick is funny violence *out of place.* Slipping on a banana peel or stepping on a rake is funny because it's really hard to do by accident and is so random and unlikely. Funny violence in actually dangerous and violent situations is just *dark humor.* There's an "out of nowhere" feel to slapstick where the victim is taken by complete surprise by something no one would be reasonably expected to be ready for. With dark humor it's more "what did you *think* was going to happen?" like when he cut his arm open punching through the window.
This movie is criminally underrated/underappreciated. I don't recall seeing any hype about it at all.
I saw it on an airplane. Had never heard of it before. L-O-V-E it. I'm still hoping for a sequel.
Hell, it was barely even promoted. Such a shame. It’s such an awesome and hilarious movie
I really liked it I remember I got it on redbox
True
It's such a brilliant movie that it deserved a sequel. Big time.
Ryan Gosling is absolutely hilarious in this, the bathroom scene alone is a all timer 😂😂
I had never considered him someone who would/could do comedy well until he hosted SNL. That plus this movie sold me on him. He kills me.
My favorite line in the movie is during the final action sequence when Ryan Gosling's character concludes, "I think I'm invincible. It's the only thing that makes sense. I don't think I can die."
Gosling growling "No!" before Crowe snaps his arm is too funny. My guy can't catch a (lucky) break.
Good save.
"Never trusted that tree."
"Because it was shady."
Pure comedy gold.
God I love this movie, the cast and the line delivery is just incredible.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys is Shane Black at its finest.
I agree, but I find TNG even (ten times) better than KKBB.
@@SCharlesDennicon same
“You made a porno film where the point was the plot”….Line that made me fall in love with this movie first time I saw it…I was crying for hours
That nearly made my friend piss himself. He was stoned too, so that made it way worse 🤣
When I saw this in the theater, some dude screamed out when Nixon was in the pool "That's Tricky Dick!" and I fuckin' lost it.
Ryan Gosling’s comedic acting is so friggin’ on point in this movie. The dude is talented.
"This smog is disgusting... all the bees are riding around in cars these days" - makes me LOL every time.
I like how they're both similar characters despite appearances. They both lost their wife through different circumstances, it emotionally destroyed them, neither is coping that well, and they both have a low self-image and by the end despite their posturing during their interactions they've kind of built each other up a bit and become friends.
Ryan's Character feels like he is unlucky but really, his Unluckiness is His Luck...yeah Bad stuff happens to him but with each thing that happens to him all the pieces come together to work itself out to reach the finish line/Goal 🤣🤣
"Action-mystery-comedy" AKA "The Shane Black Special". It's just what he does.
It is such an incredible shame that this movie flopped so badly. It'll be an incredibly long time before a Hollywood studio makes a buddy movie ever again.
This is wonderful old school style entertainment, the kind of film they did all the time in the 80s. I'm still hoping the positive buzz it's gotten over time warrants a sequel.
This isn’t a buddy movie but it looked like it was going to become one at the end.
I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this flick. Crowe and Gosling have really, really good chemistry together. And Ryan Gosling.....freaking hilarious!! It's a very re-watchable movie for me. Really good movie, so underrated.
The screenwriter Shane Black was Hollywood's first rock n roll scribe when in the mid 80's he sold his first self penned buddy cop spec script right out of college. That script waa Lethal Weapon. He went to cowrite Lethal 2, The Last Boyscout, Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Long Kiss Goodnight. Ryan Gosling is a comedic genuis in this role. Just legendary. The relationship of his daughter to the rest of the characters and film itsrlf is inspired. Simply put, I love this movie. It's pure brilliance and non stop amusement park ride.
I wish we got a whole bunch of these movies. So much fun.
Right? I would watch the living shit out of a whole series of films set in the Nice Guys Cinematic Universe!
This may be the wackiest movie for both Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. It's too bad a lot of people slept on it.
Yeah, I was disappointed how empty the theater was when I went to see it on opening night.
Not the wackiest movie for Crowe.. that has to be "Virtuosity" with Denzel Washington.. It's not good but definitely wackier.. and Crowe looks to be having a blast in it at the over the top villain.
The Last Boy Scout is a good precursor to this as it has very similar character. The gritty private eye with a sassy daughter who helps her dad out. The wacky partner. However, Bruce Willis is playing the Russel Crowe character in that one.
This is the perfect sibling piece to Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. They're such a great pair, and both so darn funny.
This reaction was hilarious. I just discovered the movie about three weeks ago and have watched it about 4 times, just fantastic. And your reactions were perfection, it’s like I get to watch it again with someone new, which is great fun.
Also, the Pun Police are on the way for “for the birds” and for “because it was shady” 🤣🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Fun fact: The body that they threw over the fence at the party was and uncredited cameo by Robert Downey Jr.
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang is my all time favourite movie, so when The Nice Guys came out I made sure to see it in theatres. Such a great film.
As an homage to his Oscar winning role, Russell Crow uses the same punch combination on Keith David that he used on Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator."
Ryan did a good job in this movie! Him and Russel had great chemistry
Watched it the first time out of pure boredom - almost died laughing. Since then I watch it for fun :)
I dare to disagree with the "I wish there was a sequel"...not everything needs to be done to death.
Some things stand on their own just perfect.
Yeah but they're a team now! We need more adventures!
An underrated film. Was quite amused by it when I saw it. Reminded me a lot of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Both wrote and directed by Shane Black.
Honestly I don't think they knew how to market this movie properly. Amazing movie one of my favs would be a 10/10 if I could but I know no movie is perfect.
5:24 I used to fold tips into shirts at restaurants, too.
6:09 This is my favorite movie spit take.
Ryan Gosling has perfect comedic timing.
The actor who voiced the killer bee was Hannibal buress who played the PE teacher in the Sony Disney marvel Spider-Man movies along with the girl who played Ryan gosling's character's daughter
And the dead guy was Robert Downey Jr.
Emily had me at her delight over seeing Keith David's name. 😃
I love that this movie is basically 2 hours of Ryan Gosling just getting the shit kicked out him. 7 years on and im still holding out for a sequel
Emily the actress who played Ryan gosling's characters daughter was in all three Sony/disney Spider-Man movies
Her name is Angourie Rice.
If you love Keith David and have not seen Men at Work, you gots to watch. I think that's his funniest performance!
SO glad y'all finally watched this one! It's one of my absolute favorites, totally rewatchable and criminally underrated. One of my favorite bit was the "don't say 'and stuff'" one ("Don't say 'anal and stuff'. Just say 'and anal.'") Also, Hannibal Buress did the voice of Bumble the bee fyi.
Ok russel crows laugh at the bad breath tie was so genuine and infectious is nearly impossible not to laugh too
This is, by far, my favorite reaction that you two have done. ... I've watched it at least five times already.
Great react. 👍😊
Reason why this movie underperformed: it was released on the same weekend with Captain America: Civil War and Angry Birds movie
Didn't know anything about this movie when we saw it in the theater. Absolutely blown away. Everyone I've shown this to has loved it. Really one of my favorite movies.
The Nice Guys is easily among the best movies of 2016, and the best Black movie since The Last Boyscout. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was a very cool movie, but what he did with this one, in the same genre, is a hundred times better. It's an almost perfect movie, imo, in the sense that as a comedy, it hits the mark 99% of the time (the number of memorable lines is astounding), the action is excellent, Black is very good at filming it, and... we don't just get one the best duos in a buddy movie ever, we get an AWESOME TRIO with March's daughter, who is the special effect of the movie. It's just freaking awesome. Critics who dissed on it when it was released don't deserve good things. And it should have had a FUCKING SEQUEL. u__u
Your reaction was cool. It's too bad you didn't even keep a "fucking Chet" in your YT edit. "Fucking Chet" is THE recurring joke of the movie.
This movie reminded me of an adult Scooby-Doo doo movie.
I don't think this movie was marketed correctly - I never had any idea from the ads that it is as hilarious as it is. The best laughs as you mentioned are setup/delivery so I guess they're not even preview-ready, so I never even saw it in the theater. What a masterpiece of the small category of gritty detective comedy.
I like to imagine in the sequel they run into John Boy again, and he's still killing people, but thanks to his epiphany from being spared he's gone Dexter and only kills bad people to save good people and ends up coming to their rescue in a hilarious way, just brutally dispatching the bad guys so viciously you almost feel sorry for them, but not quite.
One of my favourite movies of all time! Absolute underrated masterpiece! Love you guys for reacting to it! 😍😍😍
"Give me your left arm."
"NO! NnnnnnnNO!"
YES!!! Can't wait. Love this movie.
I just stumbled on this movie one day & could not believe how damn funny it was! Never stops being hilarious. Glad you two are reacting to it!
Love this movie! I saw it in theatres when it came out and couldn’t stop laughing, especially when Keith David turned to jelly off the fall. This definitely ranks among my favorite reactions of yours.
One of my all-time favorite movies. So glad SOMEONE reacted to this, but even better that YOU two did👍😉😊😁.
This was one of my favorite movies, so overlooked. I even read the novelization put out by Hard Case Crime publishing.
Russell Crowe put on weight to play Jackson Healy because he thought the character should look like a big bruiser/brawler, and the extra gravelly is part of that characterization.
Awesome reaction, it was a good movie and I'm still waiting for a sequel so badly.
Criminally often forgotten film - it's brilliant!
That double look from Matt was great! I hope you're feeling better Emily.
21:20 "You're so stupid"
Reminds me of the kitten mittons bit of It's Always Sunny.
Very underrated and yes, this and Kiss Kiss bang bang is a great double feature night! (LA Confidential is a MUST watch BTW, different tone but still good)
We're going to need to get Emily a "First Time Music Reaction" channel going. How did she not know that was The Temptations, "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" in the opening credits?
The phone book ad, and the gun in the cookie jar were Rockford Files refrences
Also the sneakers Jack Healy were wearing are the same Jim Rockford wore in the pilot "Backlash Of The Hunter".
2016 was a great summer for movies, I watched this 6 times in theaters and Hell or High Water 7 times in theaters, this always makes me laugh so much, great reaction
I'm so amazed that this movie didnt do better and that more people dont know about it. It's such a good surprise of a movie.
At the big party when Pinocchio says "It's not my nose that grows" that was in reference to a Pinocchio porno with the same tag line released during that time period.
LOVE this movie. Still hoping for a sequel
I hate that this film never received the love it deserved in its original theatrical run. We all deserved at least 2 sequels and a COVID-era limited streaming series.
It takes some serious sack to hire Robert Downey, Jr--one of the most highly paid actors in the industry--to play a corpse.
I actually watched this reaction twice back to back. I love this movie it is so very underrated. Mermaids and unicorns and tiddies a great Emily movie.
"it was shady" OMG!!!! Comedy genius
The song at the beginning of the film is "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" (nothing to do with the rock band), a number one hit for Motown greats, The Temptations.
My favorite line in the movie: "You know who else was following orders? Hitler!"
A week without you both is a week wasted. This has become my go to RUclips channel.
14:09 i just hear the cat saying "Geezus Sharon, calm down. It's not that funny."
...and the cat would be wrong, that was HI-larious!😜
Fantastic choice! This movie is just a gem. So freaking underrated and underappreciated. If y'all haven't seen it I highly recommend The Man from Uncle and the gentlemen.
29:24 thank god for watching nonhorror movies in October.
major burnout.
I'm here for any neo noir, this is one of the best imo in the last several years
that line, "at least you're drinking again."
"Because it was SHADY!" Damn!! Emily with the Mic Drop
The Long Kiss Goodnight is also a movie Shane Black wrote, not directed but I believe you guys may enjoy.
Yessss I love that movie!! It makes for a great Christmas movie as well!
feels like this movie is wildly under-recognized for what it is
I laughed with Emily so hard .
The scene that got me"so when was the last time you saw your husband" sha say "at the funeral" as he looks at the urn. 😂
Saw this in an almost empty theatre. After watching it, my wife and I were flabbergasted as to why there were so few people.
I already Loved this movie, but y'alls reaction made me love it even more😂😅😂 Y'all are Awesome! and Pippin is Precious ❤
Between this one and the last Thor film I'm beginning to wish Russell Crowe had done more comedies in his career. He certainly seems to have a knack for the silly. Come to think of it he had some funny moments in the first thing I ever saw him in waaaaaaay back in the day (Virtuosity) despite him playing a chilling villain.
Thanks to Emily, Matthew and Pippin! 😆 My ex-husband (still a dear friend) was a production assistant for this one.
When it was over my first thought was damn, I wish it was a TV show. I'd watch the hell out of that.
Shane Black also wrote the script for The Last Boyscout.
Please watch the original STAR TREK movies. 🖖
Especially Wrath of Khan.
If you liked this, please take a look at The Last Boy Scout - earlier Shane Black movie, with this one’s DNA (similar plot motifs - degenerate loser has-beens team up to solve action/mystery, bratty daughter, snappy one liners, corporate/political conspiracy).
Just one of the absolute best films of the last 30 years. So criminally underrated. We should have gotten so many sequels with those two characters.
I laughed my Butt Off watching this reaction. I LOVE this movie. Nice catch in the kid Emily. Please consider watching ARTICLE 99 for Veteran's Day Y'all! Keith David is in that one with a Substantial role. In fact it's an All Star Cast and it's SO Relevant to veterans' plight. Thanks in advance 😊👍
They should make a sequel to this movie.
...that takes place in the EIGHTIES! ☝️😉
I'm hoping.
The girl who played Ryan Goslings daughter went on to be in the MCU spiderman movies
THIS MOVIE IS GOLD!!!!!!! ❤
"As much as he fell down, it never felt like slapstick"
Slapstick is funny violence *out of place.* Slipping on a banana peel or stepping on a rake is funny because it's really hard to do by accident and is so random and unlikely. Funny violence in actually dangerous and violent situations is just *dark humor.*
There's an "out of nowhere" feel to slapstick where the victim is taken by complete surprise by something no one would be reasonably expected to be ready for. With dark humor it's more "what did you *think* was going to happen?" like when he cut his arm open punching through the window.
I have to see this movie! And everyone should see "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."
Must watch Gosling in "The Gray Man"
fun fun fun.
great reaction Emily.
Matt, nice to see you, as always.
Keith David. ✅
Next:. Bruce Willis as another Shane Black private eye in The Last Boy Scout.
Much like Dredd, this movie deserved a sequel.
Ryan Gosling doing a Lou Costello impression will never be NOT funny to me
I love this movie too and YES L A Confidential is absolutely amazing!!!