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

They may have been sleeping.

the local paper said this was (iirc) "surprisingly dark" with "betrayal, fistfights, and puking"

Also: Channing Tatum in Marilyn Monroe drag for no discernable reason
McConaughey playing the bongos
a baby pig consuming human vomit

I bet McConaughey had the inclusion of a bongo scene written into his contract

He really was the best part of the movie. I wish he would take on more interesting supporting roles.

Exactly, i haven't liked him in anything else really, but his performance here was insane (I don't mean like, "insanely good", just legitmately nuts)

I wish he would take on more interesting supporting roles.

― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 1:26 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

hes doing a lot of that lately! mcconnaugheys back baby!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe one day I can forgive him for Sahara.

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The Lincoln Lawyer was the bomb imo

Ok some one tell me: when was mcconnaghy ever good? Surely we are not waxing nostalgic over A Time To Kill.

he was funny in Bernie

but yeah his talent has been almost totally wasted

I can't think of anything where he was decent as the lead but he is ALL TIME for Wooderson imho

He really plays the bongos in this because the fact that he got arrested naked and stoned whilst doing so irl is one of my fav things ever and now I need to see this.

Haven't seen Bernie yet. Maybe he's only good in Linklater films (I ask knowing someone's gonna bring up Dazed and Confused)?

he is ALL TIME for Wooderson imho

― your petty attempt at destroying me is laughable (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 2:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

someone just did

I don't think he's wasted his talent at all: playing goofs with a smirk in romcoms is what he's best at.

D&C and his bit here are riffs on the same thing

sure, I can see that

but he should stick to riffs and not, say, attempt to be Jodie Foster's boyfriend

good advice for anybody really

lol

Eww, him in Contact. Temporarily forgot abt that.

Jodie Foster and Matt in a movie called "Contact."

I mean do they have sex at least

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I hope he single-handedly kicks off the 90s belly shirt revival.

that contact role is great! "we need a love interest here! how about uh uhh prominent religious scholar! not some chopra bullshit tho, a southerner, but not an asshole. zen, kinda. great hair. who do you see?"

"is Robert Mitchum dead?"

He was on Today last week and I thougt A Curry was going to have to start fanning herself during the interview. He was pretty hot though so I can't say I blame her. He just has something that's extremely hot.

The Lincoln Lawyer was the bomb imo

― some dude, Tuesday, July 3, 2012 2:15 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

one of my fav movies last year

Fwiw up close in real life, McConaughey looks like a real-deal Movie Star and smells like cigarettes.

Oh I loved the LL. Awesome movie. I am also VERY eager to see MM. lol

lol can I say hot more in one post? I meant that it's something beyond being handsome. It's the smirk and the drawl, I think. He's just very . . . smooth in a way I feel like you don't see very often.

huh I've never even heard of lincoln lawyer.

a friend of a friend was sexed up by McConaughey in a hotel bar in 2002. They got as far as the elevator before she changed her mind.

Alfred, she hit her head against a wall? I mean, WTF.

Two of my least fave actors, yet I aboslutely LOVED the movie.

From what I remember she said he was a total bro -- no star entitlement at all (he wore flip-flops with pants). But she didn't want to see her picture in The National Enquirer.

Up next for McConaughey is The Paperboy, where he doesn't get pissed on by Nicole Kidman (but Zac Efron does).

hes doing a lot of that lately! mcconnaugheys back baby!!!!!!!!!!!

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

Lincoln Lawyer looked like a tv episode blown up for the big screen based on the trailers I saw, but I've heard from all different kinds of people about how good it was. I'll see it some day.

i watched it on a plane, it was perfect

mcconaughey was a genius in this. the women in the audience where i saw it were hilariously rowdy throughout. i sort of wish it had committed to being pure spectacle and not even attempted narrative; also i wish there had been fewer naked women but what are you going to do. channing tatum is super-charming and now i need to see step up.

I could smell that ending coming but until Adam turns into Dirk Diggler in the last thirty minutes this was the best time I've had in a movie all year.

Cody Horn reminds me of Renee Zellweger as a Mormon wife-to-be.

am I wrong for thinking some of Tatum's speech patterns resemble Patrick Swayze's in Dirty Dancing?

McConnaughey totally steals this. I've heard good things about him in Friedkin's Killer Joe, too.

Man, maybe it's the Al-Anonner in me, but I thought Cody Horn was fantastic. Still waters run deep. One of the best characters I've seen in a movie in a long time. And McConnaughey is perfect and credible.

And 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.

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