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The Fall Guy (2024)

In my quest for stupid action comedies as an alcohol substitute I broke an important rule of (consuming) lowbrow art which is to never watch the thing about making the thing, it's always solipsistic and horribly boring unless done with a deft touch (which this was not, I mean really the opposite of deft).

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