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

I thought Horn was good too.

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.

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.

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

i thought this was incredible

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

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

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

yeah I loved this thing

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

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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.

$6 matinees finally commonplace in NYC btw

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

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

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.

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

Look lahk I seeuh lotta Yankuhs'n haaahr.

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.

"Can You Touch This (Midnight Lawbreakers Remix)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJzhzw_XLbc

was there dick in this movie?

nah, his name was Mike.

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

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

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

no way that includes the promo budget.

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

lol

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.

I believe they are all in Vegas and Atlanta now

(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)

most of our strip clubs are car-themed

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.

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

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

*cancels lunch plans*

ugh

Shakey, Tampa is all strip clubs.

male strip clubs?

that cater to hetero women?

Midget strip clubs, nun strip clubs.

you name it, they strip

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. :)

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.

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

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.

His incompetence at stripping was absolutely mesmerizing.

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

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

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.

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