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?"
― goole, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
"is Robert Mitchum dead?"
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Fwiw up close in real life, McConaughey looks like a real-deal Movie Star and smells like cigarettes.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I loved the LL. Awesome movie. I am also VERY eager to see MM. lol
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Alfred, she hit her head against a wall? I mean, WTF.
Two of my least fave actors, yet I aboslutely LOVED the movie.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
Up next for McConaughey is The Paperboy, where he doesn't get pissed on by Nicole Kidman (but Zac Efron does).
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
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
:)
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
i watched it on a plane, it was perfect
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Cody Horn reminds me of Renee Zellweger as a Mormon wife-to-be.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
am I wrong for thinking some of Tatum's speech patterns resemble Patrick Swayze's in Dirty Dancing?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 July 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
McConnaughey totally steals this. I've heard good things about him in Friedkin's Killer Joe, too.
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 July 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I thought Horn was good too.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
Did you hear MM on Kermode? He said his career was having "a McConaissance". Haha
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Thursday, 26 July 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
i thought this was incredible
― tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
story lurched a little and pettyfer & horn weren't GREAT but from a cinematic standpoint i thought it was great and tatum & mcconaughey KILLED
― tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah basically--i can't decide if i like what pettyfer did in this or not.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
I don't like what he didn't do.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 1 August 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I loved this thing
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
― 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