Gosling plays an imprisoned murderer recruited to be a “Gray Man,” a CIA assassin, because he’s already killed somebody. And the globe-trotting “plot” is so embarrassing that “novelist” Mark Greaney should take his Netflix millions and flee the country. I mean, staging a couple of slaughter scenes to the 50 year old pop hit “Silver Bird” is a reminder than only James Gunn should have access to the action cinema cheese tray. Still, they got Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Evans’ “Knives Out” co-star Ana de Armas, Billy Bob and Alfre and a pretty good Indian action star, Dhanush (“Karan”) for it, so it can’t be all bad.

It’s so hackneyed it’s like the Russos are trying to parody hackneyed, blowing their own punchlines as they do. Yes, some have been blinded by the Spandex, by all those comic book heroes playing together like Superfriends, by famous actors who all “stick the superhero landing.” Take those bomb-proof trappings away and the Russos can still stage an over-the-top action beat - a decent fight, a pretty-good digitally-augmented chase adhering to the laws of Bugs Bunny Physics.īut man, “The Gray Man” is one seriously stupid movie. Imagine staring, slack-jawed as the “Gray” credits roll, and realizing for the first time, “Wait, the Russos suck?” Such genuine affection & attraction between them with a dose of wonderfully sweet misunderstanding in later chapters (without falling into misunderstanding-ville cliché).If “The Gray Man” does nothing else, Netflix’s latest blank-check action thriller is going rock the worlds of legions of Marvelettes, those fanatics who have been whining about the latest “Doctor Strange” and “Thor” on Twitter because, as one wag put it, the acclaimed directors behind them “didn’t make me cry” and “didn’t have the depth of story” of - you know - the Russo Brothers’ many Marvel outings. In the meantime:Īsahi and Noya meeting again after a few years Asahi having come into his own a little and Noya feeling like he’s lost something essential. I don’t want to over-praise it because part of the joy of fic reading comes from discovering something and realizing “wow, this is really good, like really really good” but at the same time I don’t think I /can/ overpraise. I was in a pretty blah place when Paula gave me this WIP to read (and I’ve read future chapters, and they are So Good Too, Even Better Than This One) and it was like curling up warm inside with a storm raging outside-like being safe. I’ve ranted about this fic to a few different people already but I’m going to rant to a few more and say that if you like asanoya & have ever felt lonely or directionless, this is the fic for you Going forward, in the chapters that contained sexual content, the author provided a phrase that readers could skip to if they wished not to read those parts. While originally rated Mature, the rating was increased to Explicit after chapter 6.

It also incorporates (or possibly originates) several popular headcanons, such as Asahi being the youngest in his family and Noya being the oldest. The story is told from the perspective of Nishinoya Yuu as he struggles with depression and young adulthood, and chronicles how he and Azumane Asahi get together in the midst of a dark period in Noya's life. Many fan artists have created art inspired by or illustrating scenes from the fic, and it routinely appears on rec lists for the pairing. It is one of the most popular fics for the pairing, with 600 bookmarks and over 38,000 hits on Ao3 as of June 2020.

Vienna Waits For You is an AsaNoya fanfic by Pouler.

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