I watched The Fall Guy purely for the Coltland Twins AU thing but i genuinely enjoyed the movie a lot. I’m gonna try to keep this spoiler free in case any other PHM fans decide to watch the movie
Something i really appreciate about The Fall Guy is that Colt Seavers is smart. He’s intelligent. He knows exactly who he is and what he can handle and his situational awareness is off the charts. Examples:
-Even though the comment he makes about “bad sand” is played off as stalling he was completely right. The sand had bad traction and it ended up costing Jody a camera.
-He immediately clocks that the drink was spiked and stops drinking it
- He is remarkably calm about being drugged and almost shrugs it off except for the damn unicorn and even then ignores it and manages to hold a completely normal conversation with Jody
- Does NOT fall for the protagonist trap of avoiding authorities he gets the police involved IMMEDIATELY it is not his fault the antagonist got to it first.
- Has the emotional maturity and intelligence to actually articulate his side of their breakup while still taking accountability and keeping it in line with the thinly veiled plot
- During the scene where he and Dan comb Ryder’s place we see him rearranging the couches, pushing one into place and pushing the other away. Later in that scene he and the guy he’s fighting fall through the glass partition down to the living room and Colt falls i to the sofa while the other guy hits the floor. He basically simulated the fight choreography in his head and calculated and planned accordingly
- After being captured and delivered the monologue he’s like you need Carbs!! Your brain runs on GLUCOSE!! I mean we love a guy who keeps track of his macros and actually knows shit about biology and nutrition
- Also learned a certain amount of French just to converse with Ryder’s dog which is adorable
- During the helicopter scene he literally keeps count of the bullets so that he knows when she’s out of them.
I’m sure there more tiny things but that’s all i remember off the top of my head
Like it would be really easy to make the stunt guy just some macho guy with a heart of gold but they made him emotionally mature and genuinely brilliant
Another thing i loved about this movie is all the fourth wall breaks that were just homages or caricatures of classic movie things like the split screen, the “it’s a product placement” car, or the “it’s plot heavy, you’ll lose the audience” but it’s all so fun and enjoyable
