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

Loved this. Far more subtle and naturalistic than I expected and the final scene is a peach. Reminded me a bit of the end of The Apartment.

I also loved how Mike has non-stop slick patter when he's presenting himself to the world, ie in the club and the meeting with the bank, and borderline incoherent when he's talking about emotions. I couldn't imagine what was in the script at those points because he was just fumbling from one half-sentence to another, and in the scene where he realises Olivia Munn has a fiance he's pretty much dumbstruck. It won me over on both the character and the theme of selling yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPR0q5es0A

Directed by
Gregory Jacobs

Produced by
Reid Carolin
Gregory Jacobs
Channing Tatum
Nick Wechsler

Written by
Reid Carolin
Channing Tatum

Starring
Channing Tatum
Matt Bomer
Joe Manganiello
Kevin Nash
Adam Rodriguez
Gabriel Iglesias
Andie Macdowell
Amber Heard
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jane McNeill
Max Webster
Elizabeth Banks
Donald Glover
Michael Strahan

Cinematography
Steven Soderbergh

Edited by
Steven Soderbergh

cast is lmao

goole this isn't quite fit for the MRA thread but i feel it shld be on your radar

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11395576/Men-are-now-objectified-more-than-women.html

"regular people" essentially took no notice of the arty touches in MM, so they'll show up for this.

Written by
Reid Carolin
Channing Tatum

you can look but you still cannot touch

wait a sec Matthew McConaughey isn't in it? why bother making this then!?!?

http://redcarpetroxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/magicmikexxl_huge-five-things-you-need-to-know-about-magic-mike-the-sequel.jpg

I can play this part any way you want!

wait a sec Matthew McConaughey isn't in it? why bother making this then!?!?

Because he has an Oscar now, and wants $$$$$$.

*searches cast list for Cody Horn & sighs in relievf*

Pettyfer isn't in this either.

Strange that I hadn't noticed.

They could've cast either of these chicks over Cody Horn and they would've been like Maria Falconetti in comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqrjN8peOiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDXwOzG7fE

lol what a h8r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5qOjhsang

So this is a Soderbergh movie without his name on it as director, right?

Yes, it's his Poltergeist.

why would you assume that?

Because it ends with rotting corpses erupting from the earth.

bcz he's "formally" "retired" from feature directing, but is cinematographer and editor on this, when he doesn't even usually credit himself as editor on his own stuff, seems likely that he was at least somewhat more involved than the credits allow

nb the credited director is not Shock G from Digital Underground, but has been Soderbergh's AD for over two decades

nb the credited director is not Shock G from Digital Underground

welp the likelihood of me seeing this movie drops back to nil

haha

soderbergh did shoot and edit many of his own features, he just did so under different names

bcz he's "formally" "retired" from feature directing, but is cinematographer and editor on this, when he doesn't even usually credit himself as editor on his own stuff, seems likely that he was at least somewhat more involved than the credits allow

― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Thursday, June 25, 2015 10:24 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, soderbergh himself sez he didn't direct it, i'd take him at his word until we get evidence to the contrary, no?

he just did so under different names

hence me saying "credit himself"

I'm not saying he did ghost-direct it, just why people* might suspect that he did

(nb Spielberg didn't actually ghost Poltergeist and was only on set as producer a few days or occasionally iirc? for me knowing he shot & cut MM XXL made it more than enough of a Soderbergh film to want to see it after all, preferably in a cinema full of women)

ignore asterisk

there's a lot of evidence spielberg did in fact direct or co-direct most of poltergeist

enjoyed the hell out of XXL! Can't believe they lost McC and might've made a better movie.

a little better than the first I'd say, Manganiello the MVP this time imo

XXL is definitely much better than the first, and the first was good

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

― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Saturday, June 30, 2012 6:24 PM

no dog days in this one, really.

saw xxl a couple of weeks ago and it's a blast. it's hilariously stakes-free (the event they're road-trippin' towards isn't even a competition!) but the cast have really good chemistry and it's fun just to hang out with them for a couple of hours. joe mangianello's gas-station strip is all-time.

rewatched the first one, forgot that the supporting strippers hardly do anything but dance (save for the Pettyfer-Bomer "I love YOU, man" drug scene, which wd have led to a pansexual quadrilateral in a pr0n).

forgot that the supporting strippers hardly do anything but dance

Best thing about the movie.

i meant "gyrate in a ridiculous fashion"

like this?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rgwH07Mm0XA/VZVzF6uOLkI/AAAAAAACUK8/1loFEkQjgdI/s1600/105.gif

bingo

Fella that was in the mood.

i liked Tatum's first dance in his house in XXL better than any in the first.

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, April 24, 2013 4:06 PM (2 years ago)

His incompetence at stripping was absolutely mesmerizing.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Monday, April 29, 2013 9:31 PM (2 years ago)

I still laugh whenever I flash back to Nash's pathetic strip game.

he's there for the grizzled-daddy lovers, and the jokes

do any of you guys have a decent amateur strip style? my birthday is only 7 months away.

I am an excellent bathroom mirror working girl.

Super entertainment, as good if not better than the other studio stuff I've seen this year. The cheapo attitude -- no name director, same cast, no script besides routines and one-liners that sound improvised -- is just what this concept needed (no Pettyfur already a plus).

I forgot Matt Bomer was in the original. Fuck Matt Damon for saying an out gay actor would never convince anyone he can play a part. Guess it helped that he's playing the gayest straight male stripper.

what was that about matt damon?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matt-damon-gay-actors-closet-827767

yeah he's been on a roll lately