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

i want to see this but channing tatum still looks like a talking wax statue to me

http://i.imgur.com/z33QD.jpg

whys he holding magic don juan's goblet

why indeed

He probably stinks of BO and cocoa butter

channing tatum reminds me of a ventriloquist dummy, or like...idk...jaime in get smart

like his head is going to start smoking if he has to talk for too long

steven soderbergh's rolodex must be really fucking out there

"oh sorry, wen jiang, i meant to call sasha grey."

http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/magic-mike-nude-trailer-channing-tatum-alex-pettyfer.html

not apropos to Messrs. Soderbergh or McConaughey but to another post/picture in this thread: that funny Chinese movie title is really "love in the buff"

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/love-in-the-butt.jpg

You guys hating on Big Mac is just sad

you stanning for him is v amusing :)

just keep livin'

(I hardly see any of his films, is the key)

i'm not hating on Wooderson, yo! though i've also never watched any of his chick-flick/beefcake films.

hey, i love mcconnaughey. and hes actually doing good/interesting work these days too

lookin at Sotosyn

steven soderbergh's rolodex must be really fucking out there

I want to see a thread/poll for deciding which director probably has the weirdest rolodex.

David Lynch's is unusually mundane, probably.

Meanwhile, someone like Joe Dante or Richard Donner has one that is actually the most bizarre and hair-raising.

Wooderson 4 life

http://gifsoup.com/view/399075/wooderson-o.gif

A good read:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-ca-magic-mike-20120624,0,7675777.story

Let's all bow our heads in thanks to the wisdom of Chris Rock

Manganiello, who's well known as the werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO series"True Blood"and recently played a buff object of envy in the movie"What to Expect When You're Expecting,"was a bit more hesitant.

"The clothes come off a lot on 'True Blood' so there was a sense of 'OK, when am I going to have my shirt on again?'" Manganiello, 35, said. The actor said he consulted his "What to Expect" costar Chris Rock on the decision, telling him, "I don't know, because my shirt's off again, and I just think dudes are going to hate my guts if I don't put a shirt on soon. And Chris was like, 'Guys are going to hate your guts anyway. Brad Pitt spent 15 years with his shirt off. He's doing fine.'"

Very much ready to see Tatum grinding to "Pony" a second time.

otm

welllll? I fear someone is working on a comparative piece featuring this and Showgirls.

I am going to see this on Saturday -- if it provides even half of the entertainment of Burlesque, I'll be content.

Trades are all into it. Hollywood Reporter: "Arguably the raunchiest, funniest and most enjoyably nonjudgmental American movie about selling sex since Boogie Nights,"

Any reason this won't be this generation's A NIGHT IN HEAVEN (which, before you say "Soderberg" I'll remind you was also directed by an Oscar winning filmmaker)?

yes, the hugely iconic John G Avildsen.

I find the default assumption that this is a junk movie premature. No one would be so ready to dismiss if this was a period piece about a brothel.

(much more interesting about ANiH is that it was by the writer of Nashville)

I don't necessarily think it will be junk, but good or bad it is bound to be entertaining.

I'm thinking of seeing it this weekend.

DO IT.

I must decide b/w watching this and In The Family, inexplicably playing again.

gotta make sure I have enough singles to get a good show

I see a lot of lawbreakers in this thread

Going to be a lot of Slate think pieces about this and 50 Shades when it opens big.

oh joy

this and In The Family covers the spectrum, Sotosyn. Do it!

wiki sez the budget of this was only $5 mil? doesnt really seem possible

Soderbergh innit

he used a styrofoam camera this time.

saved some $$ on wardrobe too I imagine

most enjoyably nonjudgmental

Gonna go ahead and call bullshit on this one, for both Boogie Nights and Magic Mike. It's no doubt possible to make a non-judgy movie about this trade, but neither BN or MM are that movie.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/06/27/channing-tatum-today-flash-mob/

Made $19.4 million on Friday. The budget was $7 million.

this was decent if ultimately unsatisfying. great fun at the start but (and you're not gonna believe this) it has a lot of probs turning the corner into being abt "serious" things

Yep, June and July are fine. August is problematic.

this was decent if ultimately unsatisfying. great fun at the start but (and you're not gonna believe this) it has a lot of probs turning the corner into being abt "serious" things

OTM. It reminded me a bit of Saturday Night Fever but it was waaaay less successful at pulling off the serious material.

yeah i'd say this was decent enough, and it held my interest, but i probably won't remember much beyond some of the better strip routines in a few weeks/months.

some of the semi-improvished stuff between tatum and cody horn was good, but a lot of it was pretty bad. horn doesn't have the most expressive face. there were a lot of reaction shots of her where i was wondering what she was supposed to be thinking/feeling.

but i liked it well enough. i feel like soderbergh's lack of a certain kind of ambition (he seems content to take these sort of underdeveloped genre scripts and shoot them in very stylish and offhandedly convincing ways) is both an advantage and a problem, in that his films lack the sort of reach and strangeness that distinguishes a good film from an excellent one. he always seems to be measuring risk. maybe he's just aware of the limits of his talent.

i was thinking about this b/c i rewatched michael mann's heat the other day. i'd rather spend time listening to soderbergh give interviews than mann, that's for sure. and when the balance between michael mann's skill with narrative/visual style and portentousness is off i really have a difficult time w/ his films--honestly i think heat is the only place where he gets it almost exactly right. but heat is kind of ambitious and nuts and idiosyncratic than anything soderbergh has made in a genre mold, and soderbergh has and never will make anything remotely as good, even if his overall batting average is about as strong as mann's. if that makes any sense.