The Nice Guys might be one of Hollywood’s biggest missed opportunities

When the Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe movie came out in May 2016, almost nobody cared.

Superhero movies were dominating theaters, franchises were everywhere, and this weird detective comedy somehow got buried in the middle of it all.

At one point, even Angry Birds made more money at the box office.

But fast forward 10 years… and people suddenly can’t stop rewatching it.

Fans now call The Nice Guys one of the smartest and funniest buddy-action movies of the modern era — especially because Gosling and Crowe somehow worked ridiculously well together.

And honestly, the movie also predicted Ryan Gosling’s comedy era long before the world fully noticed it.

Today, every time the film hits streaming again, the same reaction appears online:

“Wait… THIS movie flopped?”

And maybe the craziest part:

Hollywood still never made a sequel.