Sunday, 7 December 2025

The Nice Guys (2016 Shane Black & co-scr)

Hilarious moment where Ryan interrupts an award Russell is presenting here.

I know, we keep watching it, but Q wanted something Christmassy so I suggested Shane Black (well actually I suggested Shane Meadows before getting the right writer-director) but actually, apart from one Christmas song in the background in a bar near the end, this is the least Christmassy Black.


Things happen in Shane Black films that just don't happen in others. For example, there's a scene where Russell Crowe pulls out a gun and shoots - he misses the bad guy but a woman in the apartment behind is the unintended and unexpected victim - and it shouldn't be funny but it is.

'It's Shane!' I kept insisting - but I've no idea why.

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