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

"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

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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!!!!!!!!!!!

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:)

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

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

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

loollll

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)