Matthew McConaughey = allegedly the sexiest man alive

a) physically he's above average- looks are nice, strong, tall, healthy looking. polite and soft spoken but hunky and confident. most likely well-endowed.

b) professionally- he seems to avoid all controversy or challenge, co-stars with actresses that most women can relate to. very agreeable.

c) personal life made public- laid back, avoids fame but lives in style and comfort, intriguing. total stoner and mellow guy that just wants to have fun, to savor life, to please. he's unpretentious, subscribes to some kind of spirituality, a bit aloof.

he's a typical pleasure model

someone at people was asleep at the wheel - tom wuz robbed!

Patrick "Ronnie Express" Dempsey
Terrence Howard
Viggo Mortensen
Vince Vaughn

So, he got a role? In what? TV, I guess.

Matthew McConaughey may name his son after beer

A-

(if only because his brother did it first)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5223977&page=1

The Fight for Celebrity Privacy Turns Violent
Fed Up, Surfers Take on Paparrazi in Malibu
By DEBORAH ROBERTS and LEE FERRAN
June 23, 2008

The paparazzi know that they can sell candid pictures of stars for a big paycheck, but often they don't realize how much it might cost them to get that perfect shot.
Surfers and paparazzi fight over Matthew McConaughey's privacy.

A photographer trying to snap shots of actor Matthew McConaughey surfing in Malibu, Calif., this weekend sparked a brawl between more than a dozen enraged surfers and several paparazzi, some of it caught on video.

"They don't want you here," a surfer yelled at a photographer just before the brawl broke out. "Nobody wants you here."

The video of the confrontations, which took place on two consecutive days, shows surfers surrounding the paparazzi and, then, when the paparazzi refused to leave, fists flying. Several photographers took punches to the face.

"Let's draw a line and we'll fight for the beach," the surfer told the photographers. "If you win, you can have the beach."

The beach brawl is the latest of several incidents involving the paparazzi in the tony beachside community that's home to a number of celebrities, according to Malibu Mayor Pamela Conley.

"We're getting major complaints of people getting put in harm's way," Conley told ABC News. "We have reports from all over Malibu that people are feeling their public safety is at risk."

Balancing Rights With Safety

To address Malibu's safety concerns, including several instances of paparazzi taking pictures in elementary schools, a First Amendment conference was held last April.

Attendees included representatives from the ACLU and Kenneth Starr, the lawyer and former judge who was the special prosecutor in the Clinton-Lewinsky case and is now the dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu.

does anyone else think the Lincoln Lawyer kinda looks like fun

has anyone seen it

i thought it looked a bit promising.

i like how ned's title for this thread almost seems tinged with envy.

haha

i kinda wanna hate this guy (esp. for being in all of this shitty chick flicks over the past decade), but i don't begrudge anyone for getting paid and he has been in some good films (mostly in the 1990s) and seems like a likeable enough fellow.

adam scott:

"I shot with Matthew McConaughey [in the last episode of season two], and he was the most confident person I had ever come in contact with. He's kind of become this mythic figure in show business. Like, when he came on the set it just got quiet – everybody’s just in awe of this guy, because he’s a terrific actor and everything but he also has this persona of being … it’s almost like he has this outlandish persona in the vein of Brando or something. Not as eccentric, but he just adds a presence – he kind of walks in the room before he does, you know? And he just looks incredible, his skin is perfectly tan, he smells just amazing … you’re around him and as a man you just feel like your penis disappears."

http://blog.craftzine.com/crafty_is_cool_matthew_mcconaughey_amigurumi.jpg

IIRC, this was part of his community service for the bongo incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA83Yx0-Cqw

the j's for just the k's for keep

http://www.matthewmcconaughey.com/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOPli7gUMAEJRQx.jpg

Maybe I was in the wrong mood, or maybe it's that the trailer sets you up for a different movie, but White Boy Rick seemed quite pointless to me. On the bright side, it's the first time since King of New York I've heard Schoolly-D at the movies (albeit at least a year off on a timeline).

https://i.imgur.com/gKCGGuj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/v5GEqeE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/8Bq2c9r.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/9UecZOo.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MT4h0Jf.jpg

the synopsis for his new one (SERENITY) is uh....

SPOILERS

The film takes place on a fishing island. Fisherman Baker Dill receives strange visions. Businessman Reid Miller is chasing after Baker with urgent news. Baker’s ex-wife Karen suddenly appears and tasks Baker with killing Frank, her abusive husband. Baker appears to have a telepathic connection with Patrick, the son he had with Karen, and through that decides to put aside his goal of catching a large tuna called “Justice” to help Karen and Patrick.

When Reid finds Baker, he explains he works as a fishing equipment company sales rep, and wants to give him a complimentary fish tracker. However Reid inadvertently reveals to Baker that he is a character in a video game Patrick is playing. The real Baker died during a war, and his son has reprogrammed a fishing video game to live out a fantasy of killing his abusive step-father. The digital Baker is communicating with Patrick through the game’s code. Digital Baker decides to follow his son’s wishes and kill the abusive step-father.

It turns out the scenes of Patrick playing the game were not flashbacks, but concurrent. Just after digital Baker kills the digital stepfather, Patrick picks up a knife to finally confront the real-life abusive step-father who has been beating his mother in the next room for years.

his son has reprogrammed a fishing video game to live out a fantasy of killing his abusive step-father

I saw this movie and it is bonkers and pretty bad but kinda fun to watch despite that

Kind of psyched for The Beach Bum.

I like Hathaway here giving people an out if they don’t want to see it but maintaining the obligation to promote

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtB5mujH-dM/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=zsj9jxuruxue

Baker Dill

his name is basically a fish preparation reference

agree Beach Bum has (limited) potential

I'm always a little bewildered when I discover that some shaggy dog first draft scrawled in an intoxicant haze managed to evade the critical faculties of however many hundreds of people are involved in making a film and who never at any point just came to their senses and said 'but what if we just stopped making this thing?'

i saw serenity this weekend, it was so bad and i loved it. everything about it is over-the-top and ridiculous.

i was sure for the first third of the NYT review that it was a comedy

I'm always a little bewildered when I discover that some shaggy dog first draft scrawled in an intoxicant haze managed to evade the critical faculties of however many hundreds of people are involved in making a film and who never at any point just came to their senses and said 'but what if we just stopped making this thing?'

― See you later, I'm going to go take a look at this suicide robot. (Old Lunch), Monday, January 28, 2019 1:34 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see i appreciate that this can still happen and not everything is focus-grouped into tasteful blandness. this isn't "the room" or anything but i like that there can still be movies that are bad in an entertaining way as opposed to just boring

I'm reading that oral history of Dazed and Confused--never knew about this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdCuduv0H0