MAGIC MIKE, the male stripper movie starring channing tatum, matthew mcconaughey, dir. Steven Soderbergh

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some dude, Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

lebron traveled (am0n), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha

into this

Lamp, Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol male strippers are so weird

I love Matthew Mcconaughey.

I don't know that I've ever seen C Tatum in anything before. He looks sort of dim.

I'll probably see this.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

A dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers, "Magic Mike" is directed by Academy Award(R)-winning director Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic") and stars Channing Tatum in a story inspired by his real life.

o rly?

zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, there was a bunch of press lately about how he used to be a stripper and the movie is loosely based on his experiences

some dude, Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Current trends suggest that every film will soon by directed by Steven Soderbergh. And star Michael Fassbender.

seven league bootie (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

johnny crunch, Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh no

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

That's not good at all.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

tatum actually tried to get nicholas winding refn over to america (before Drive happened) to direct it

these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

i have a lot of affection for Tatum, because he seems kind of like a dude. The only thing he's been good in is 21 Jump Street, though he is serviceable in Haywire.

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

this....doesnt look good

call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

it should be trashier, or something

call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

the movies soderbergh built around the porn star and the MMA fighter weren't trashy either, tbf

some dude, Thursday, 19 April 2012 03:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

we found love in a hopeless bachelorette party

tits or kitfo (get bent), Thursday, 19 April 2012 03:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

What is Elton John doing in that picture?

People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Thursday, 19 April 2012 04:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

digital disimpaction

yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 April 2012 04:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Was just wondering how a thread hadn't been started on this one yet.

Wish there was a more ensemble vibe from the preview. There's a lot of, um, talent in this cast that didn't even show up in any of that footage.

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Still, 21 Jump Street made me actually not dread the idea of Channing Tatum being at the center of this.

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

TBH, that trailer is a huge buzzkill. Is the whole thing about his relationship with junior stripper's sister?

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

i kind of hope ol' steve spends the rest of his career working his way through every sub-subgenre out there.

jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's like a 2012 pretty woman innit?

dayo, Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

not that i really want to see any of them, more that it's just pleasant to think of a steven soderbergh campus sex comedy starring former american idols and members of the u.s. curling team in 2015.

jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ready to give Pettyfer best supporting actor award already.

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Don't mind Tatum at all, especially if he treats me like Elton John.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Very much ready to see Tatum grinding to "Pony."

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Very much ready to see Tatum grinding on my pony

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Each of my gay irl friends that I've discussed the movie agreed with me, tho, that Tatum is maybe the least attractive member of this movie's stripper troupe. To gay men, anyway.

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

what on earth is a pettyfer -- is it something gay men wear around their waists to protect their virtue?

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Tatum is maybe the least attractive member of this movie's stripper troupe

nah -- McConaughey is by far.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not c. 1996. Anyway, we disqualified in on account of he's playing the Joel Grey role.

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh yeah before, say, 1998 he was ok. Now I don't think he's seen Speed Stick in years.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

i can't keep track of the euphemisms and non-euphemisms here

jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

I didn't really expect the Step Up franchise to go in this direction

an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

xpost Just enjoy the ride.

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

(The new Step Up is the only other movie I'm as excited to see this summer as this one. Tru story.)

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

I mentioned before that my sister-in-law had a cameo in Step Up 2 as the TV reporter talking about the dancing, haven't I?

an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Did she dance about talking, too?

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

Holy cow this Pettyfer dude is sure is handsome.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha she did not

an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Tatum is maybe the least attractive member of this movie's stripper troupe

otm he looks like a doofus

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

which is nagl

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

well, the thing is that he IS A doofus

an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah

it's sad that he's a doofus

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I mentioned before that my sister-in-law had a cameo in Step Up 2 as the TV reporter talking about the dancing, haven't I?

― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:30 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i remember this scene, she was talking about the fictitious Baltimore subway system!

some dude, Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I can't stop looking at pics of that other guy now though. Wow.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Alternate suggested title for Magic Mike:

jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

omg

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

I loved all the perfect details of recession Florida, like the strip club signs being temporary banners, like those temporary Halloween stores that take over closed Linens 'n' Things

good catch. The shitty sports bars on the Gulf are also a nice touch.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:42 (10 months ago) Permalink

Also, something about that mostly-empty microbrew pub early on, the one where The Kid and his sister are meeting with the marketing guy, reminded me so much of the one new place in old shuttered downtowns.

Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:47 (10 months ago) Permalink

Did you hear MM on Kermode? He said his career was having "a McConaissance". Haha

gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Thursday, 26 July 2012 00:23 (9 months ago) Permalink

i thought this was incredible

tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:57 (9 months ago) Permalink

story lurched a little and pettyfer & horn weren't GREAT but from a cinematic standpoint i thought it was great and tatum & mcconaughey KILLED

tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah basically--i can't decide if i like what pettyfer did in this or not.

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 04:02 (9 months ago) Permalink

I don't like what he didn't do.

Eric H., Wednesday, 1 August 2012 04:16 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah I loved this thing

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 11:07 (9 months ago) Permalink

Did you hear MM on Kermode? He said his career was having "a McConaissance". Haha

― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loollll

goole, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 15:07 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Eric is right, the whole Just Say No moralism of the second half was routine, and a drag. McConaughey hilarious throughout, and delivers the goods in his last number. Rest of the actors OK to good; I thought Pettyfer was serviceable since his sweet smile translates easily as a dim-bulb sign.

kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 September 2012 20:05 (8 months ago) Permalink

$6 matinees finally commonplace in NYC btw

kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 September 2012 01:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

the whole thing was such a breeze -- so assured of the good times it's bringing -- that I can shrug past the moralism.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 September 2012 01:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

nah, I found the last 40 minutes pretty sludgy going whenev Big Mac wasn't threatening Tatum.

kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 September 2012 01:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

Soderbergh nailed the Tampa vibe. That's exactly how those long weekend sandbar parties are; that's exactly how those condo units look (and are decorated). After a while I blocked out the homilies and concentrated on the architecture like it was Claire Denis or Antonioni.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

perhaps it doesn't play as well north of the Panhandle.

kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:03 (8 months ago) Permalink

Look lahk I seeuh lotta Yankuhs'n haaahr.

Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:04 (8 months ago) Permalink

Definitely felt a sense of place in every scene (in ways I detailed earlier above).

I'd really like to mix a house track that samples McConaughey's opening rules-and-regulations speech.

canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:35 (8 months ago) Permalink

"Can You Touch This (Midnight Lawbreakers Remix)"

canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

was there dick in this movie?

the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

nah, his name was Mike.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

Guessing this is the most profitable film of 2012: $113 mil domestic gross from a $7 million budget.

canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

that probably depends on whether you define "most profitable" as how much more it made than its budget or how many times over it made back its budget -- i've never really been clear on which is the most popular definition

some dude, Monday, 17 September 2012 02:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, I just mean percentage return on budget. Also just found the big number: $155 million worldwide.

canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:56 (8 months ago) Permalink

no way that includes the promo budget.

kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

when I picked this up from the video store (along with "Treasure Planet", for my daughter) the clerk joked "nothing for yourself today?"

thoroughly enjoyed it tho

Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:26 (3 months ago) Permalink

lol

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:28 (3 months ago) Permalink

it did make me wonder... do these places really exist? I mean, is Chippendale's still in business? the whole phenomenon of straight women going to male strip clubs seems completely unreal to me, have literally never met any women who have done this, nor do I even know where they would go - all the male strip clubs I'm aware of are 100% gay.

Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:52 (3 months ago) Permalink

I believe they are all in Vegas and Atlanta now

This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:53 (3 months ago) Permalink

(the most hilarious thing about Atlanta that I noticed in my last visit was that every neighborhood we drove through had a local strip club and/or sex shop)

This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:54 (3 months ago) Permalink

most of our strip clubs are car-themed

:C (crüt), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:55 (3 months ago) Permalink

There's a big strip club in Windsor that's quite famous because they can get away with full frontal nudity and the American strip clubs can't. My bridal party wanted to go there for my bachelorette party but I didn't want too because it seemed pretty unappealing to me -- someone who had been there once told me you could see the crabs jumping off the guys' pubes.

Ulna (Nicole), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:58 (3 months ago) Permalink

there's a huge srip club off the freeway on my drive to work, for a while it was right next to a huge billboard for a Tahoe Casino advertising LOOSE SLOTS

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:59 (3 months ago) Permalink

Sorry, I just grossed myself out with that so I apologize to the rest of y'all. xp

Ulna (Nicole), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:59 (3 months ago) Permalink

*cancels lunch plans*

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:59 (3 months ago) Permalink

ugh

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:59 (3 months ago) Permalink

Shakey, Tampa is all strip clubs.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:00 (3 months ago) Permalink

male strip clubs?

Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:05 (3 months ago) Permalink

that cater to hetero women?

Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:05 (3 months ago) Permalink

Midget strip clubs, nun strip clubs.

Doc Vig (Eazy), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:07 (3 months ago) Permalink

you name it, they strip

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:11 (3 months ago) Permalink

I would believe that Windsor strippers would have crabs.

I think there is a male stripper night at a Toronto strip club here but otherwise the men are only in gay clubs. As a lady myself the only one I've ever been to had female strippers, I went with a lesbian friend who'd just suffered a breakup. :)

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 February 2013 23:53 (3 months ago) Permalink

it did make me wonder... do these places really exist? I mean, is Chippendale's still in business?

shakey mo, in a video rental store.

caek, Friday, 22 February 2013 08:07 (2 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

i finally saw this and mostly dug it. Morbs otm that the more serious it gets the more of a drag it becomes. it didnt really earn the Saturday Night Fever ending

cody horn gave one of the most annoying performances i've seen in a while. even when she's not saying anything in the single intonation she's capable of, she's making weird shapes with her dumb mouth and looking vacant and naggy and basically driving me insane

turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

one of the funniest things about it was kevin nash looking like he didnt even rehearse any of the dances. there was one point where all the guys were doing their coordinated routine and he's the only one whose lower body is completely motionless.

turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:06 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

His incompetence at stripping was absolutely mesmerizing.

cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:31 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

I'm just glad I still don't know what "Pony" is.

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:33 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

there's a bar called Pony across the street from me. I don't remember why I bookmarked this thread tho

resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:50 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

i saw this a while back and liked it quite a bit. there was something really compelling to me about the naturalistic and easy way people would interact with each other...it felt almost improvised but didn't have that weird halting thing that so much improvised dialogue does.

ryan, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:01 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

I lost my shit at that scene where Tatum bitches out the other guy for messing with the protective seals on his dashboard chrome.

Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:25 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

that part was great.

turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 06:14 (3 weeks ago) Permalink


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