Alternative monitoring of popular culture ~ broadly defined ~ in the pursuit of deeper understanding
Monday, August 22, 2016
The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys is a funny flick about good guys doing bad things to worse people. Crowe and Gosling are a ball-busting Abbott & Costello in disco-era polyester with a 13-year-old moppet sidekick as they lay waste to half of L.A. while searching for a missing social activist porno actress. It’s all ludicrous but so much fun.
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