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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
$6 matinees finally commonplace in NYC btw
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 September 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
perhaps it doesn't play as well north of the Panhandle.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
Look lahk I seeuh lotta Yankuhs'n haaahr.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"Can You Touch This (Midnight Lawbreakers Remix)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJzhzw_XLbc
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
was there dick in this movie?
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
nah, his name was Mike.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
no way that includes the promo budget.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I believe they are all in Vegas and Atlanta now
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
(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 (eleven years ago) link
most of our strip clubs are car-themed
― :C (crüt), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
*cancels lunch plans*
ugh
Shakey, Tampa is all strip clubs.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
male strip clubs?
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
that cater to hetero women?
Midget strip clubs, nun strip clubs.
― Doc Vig (Eazy), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
you name it, they strip
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
His incompetence at stripping was absolutely mesmerizing.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just glad I still don't know what "Pony" is.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
that part was great.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
this was a really good movie
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
color palette is incred & love that everything is shot so wide
i really like that the characterization is v shallow for basically everyone, they all care abt sorta common dumb stuff, small talk abt 'rich dad, poor dad'; plus everything feels just super casual, even when it gets "dramatic", yeah ryan otm re: naturalistic vibe
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
h4a so far offtm abt cody horn tho
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
i found this mostly boring
halfway through I felt like I'd been conned into one of those timeshare conferences: "$500 gift certificate if you sit through four hour powerpoint", but instead it was "10 minutes of lol terrible stripclub if you sit through stilted conversation about furniture & Channing Tatum applying for bank loans"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
damn girl -- I'd have loved to watch this with you after chicken wings and beer and a trip to Mons Venus.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Would've given Cody Horn Best Supporting Actress (knew nothing when watching, didn't google her til later).
― The End**^ (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit, Mons Venus is a real name and the best name ever.
― The End**^ (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link