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

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/magicmike/

^^ double appropriate display name action

lol

haha

into this

lol male strippers are so weird

I love Matthew Mcconaughey.

I don't know that I've ever seen C Tatum in anything before. He looks sort of dim.

I'll probably see this.

A dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers, "Magic Mike" is directed by Academy Award(R)-winning director Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic") and stars Channing Tatum in a story inspired by his real life.

o rly?

yeah, there was a bunch of press lately about how he used to be a stripper and the movie is loosely based on his experiences

Current trends suggest that every film will soon by directed by Steven Soderbergh. And star Michael Fassbender.

http://screencrush.com/files/2012/04/channing-tatum-elton-john.jpg

oh no

That's not good at all.

tatum actually tried to get nicholas winding refn over to america (before Drive happened) to direct it

i have a lot of affection for Tatum, because he seems kind of like a dude. The only thing he's been good in is 21 Jump Street, though he is serviceable in Haywire.

this....doesnt look good

it should be trashier, or something

the movies soderbergh built around the porn star and the MMA fighter weren't trashy either, tbf

we found love in a hopeless bachelorette party

What is Elton John doing in that picture?

digital disimpaction

Was just wondering how a thread hadn't been started on this one yet.

Wish there was a more ensemble vibe from the preview. There's a lot of, um, talent in this cast that didn't even show up in any of that footage.

Still, 21 Jump Street made me actually not dread the idea of Channing Tatum being at the center of this.

TBH, that trailer is a huge buzzkill. Is the whole thing about his relationship with junior stripper's sister?

i kind of hope ol' steve spends the rest of his career working his way through every sub-subgenre out there.

it's like a 2012 pretty woman innit?

not that i really want to see any of them, more that it's just pleasant to think of a steven soderbergh campus sex comedy starring former american idols and members of the u.s. curling team in 2015.

Ready to give Pettyfer best supporting actor award already.

http://www.caughtonset.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/alex-pettyfer-magic-mike.jpg

Don't mind Tatum at all, especially if he treats me like Elton John.

Very much ready to see Tatum grinding to "Pony."

Very much ready to see Tatum grinding on my pony

Each of my gay irl friends that I've discussed the movie agreed with me, tho, that Tatum is maybe the least attractive member of this movie's stripper troupe. To gay men, anyway.

what on earth is a pettyfer -- is it something gay men wear around their waists to protect their virtue?

Tatum is maybe the least attractive member of this movie's stripper troupe

nah -- McConaughey is by far.

Not c. 1996. Anyway, we disqualified in on account of he's playing the Joel Grey role.

oh yeah before, say, 1998 he was ok. Now I don't think he's seen Speed Stick in years.

i can't keep track of the euphemisms and non-euphemisms here

I didn't really expect the Step Up franchise to go in this direction

xpost Just enjoy the ride.

(The new Step Up is the only other movie I'm as excited to see this summer as this one. Tru story.)

I mentioned before that my sister-in-law had a cameo in Step Up 2 as the TV reporter talking about the dancing, haven't I?

Did she dance about talking, too?

Holy cow this Pettyfer dude is sure is handsome.

haha she did not

Tatum is maybe the least attractive member of this movie's stripper troupe

otm he looks like a doofus

which is nagl

well, the thing is that he IS A doofus

yeah

it's sad that he's a doofus

I mentioned before that my sister-in-law had a cameo in Step Up 2 as the TV reporter talking about the dancing, haven't I?

― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:30 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i remember this scene, she was talking about the fictitious Baltimore subway system!

I can't stop looking at pics of that other guy now though. Wow.

Alternate suggested title for Magic Mike:

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/love-in-the-butt.jpg

omg

that reminds of me a song in the movie "marci x" with lisa kudrow and damon wayans called "in da butt" ?

http://www.telefonica.net/web2/marcshaiman/cds/marci.jpg

also channing tatum is the best

trailer looked great!

i still need to see all this recent soderberghs

surm was marci x good?

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/buff-oily-raw-new-photos-from-male-stripper-film-magic-mike-20120607?page=1

A+ SEO

buff oily raw

oh hai Matt Bomer

O_O

http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/85/790d00b0ce11e1bcc4123138165f92/file/Matthew-McConaughey--Magic-Mike-skip-crop.jpg

looking kinda haggard in the face these days imho

per catherine deneuve, at a certain age you have to choose between your face and your ass, and i'm not convinced mcconaughey made the correct choice tbh

Haha, never heard that one before, but I think in this case, McC made the only choice he could.

totally works in the context of this role though

Channing Tatum is so not my type but I can get with this.

Buff, Oily and Raw should be a boy band

i kind of hope ol' steve spends the rest of his career working his way through every sub-subgenre out there.

probably the only Channing Tatum movie I have anticipated and wd willingly watch

i want to see this but channing tatum still looks like a talking wax statue to me

http://i.imgur.com/z33QD.jpg

whys he holding magic don juan's goblet

why indeed

He probably stinks of BO and cocoa butter

channing tatum reminds me of a ventriloquist dummy, or like...idk...jaime in get smart

like his head is going to start smoking if he has to talk for too long

steven soderbergh's rolodex must be really fucking out there

"oh sorry, wen jiang, i meant to call sasha grey."

http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/magic-mike-nude-trailer-channing-tatum-alex-pettyfer.html

not apropos to Messrs. Soderbergh or McConaughey but to another post/picture in this thread: that funny Chinese movie title is really "love in the buff"

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/love-in-the-butt.jpg

You guys hating on Big Mac is just sad

you stanning for him is v amusing :)

just keep livin'

(I hardly see any of his films, is the key)

i'm not hating on Wooderson, yo! though i've also never watched any of his chick-flick/beefcake films.

hey, i love mcconnaughey. and hes actually doing good/interesting work these days too

lookin at Sotosyn

steven soderbergh's rolodex must be really fucking out there

I want to see a thread/poll for deciding which director probably has the weirdest rolodex.

David Lynch's is unusually mundane, probably.

Meanwhile, someone like Joe Dante or Richard Donner has one that is actually the most bizarre and hair-raising.

Wooderson 4 life

http://gifsoup.com/view/399075/wooderson-o.gif

A good read:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-ca-magic-mike-20120624,0,7675777.story

Let's all bow our heads in thanks to the wisdom of Chris Rock

Manganiello, who's well known as the werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO series"True Blood"and recently played a buff object of envy in the movie"What to Expect When You're Expecting,"was a bit more hesitant.

"The clothes come off a lot on 'True Blood' so there was a sense of 'OK, when am I going to have my shirt on again?'" Manganiello, 35, said. The actor said he consulted his "What to Expect" costar Chris Rock on the decision, telling him, "I don't know, because my shirt's off again, and I just think dudes are going to hate my guts if I don't put a shirt on soon. And Chris was like, 'Guys are going to hate your guts anyway. Brad Pitt spent 15 years with his shirt off. He's doing fine.'"

Very much ready to see Tatum grinding to "Pony" a second time.

otm

welllll? I fear someone is working on a comparative piece featuring this and Showgirls.

I am going to see this on Saturday -- if it provides even half of the entertainment of Burlesque, I'll be content.

Trades are all into it. Hollywood Reporter: "Arguably the raunchiest, funniest and most enjoyably nonjudgmental American movie about selling sex since Boogie Nights,"

Any reason this won't be this generation's A NIGHT IN HEAVEN (which, before you say "Soderberg" I'll remind you was also directed by an Oscar winning filmmaker)?

yes, the hugely iconic John G Avildsen.

I find the default assumption that this is a junk movie premature. No one would be so ready to dismiss if this was a period piece about a brothel.

(much more interesting about ANiH is that it was by the writer of Nashville)

I don't necessarily think it will be junk, but good or bad it is bound to be entertaining.

I'm thinking of seeing it this weekend.

DO IT.

I must decide b/w watching this and In The Family, inexplicably playing again.

gotta make sure I have enough singles to get a good show

I see a lot of lawbreakers in this thread

Going to be a lot of Slate think pieces about this and 50 Shades when it opens big.

oh joy

this and In The Family covers the spectrum, Sotosyn. Do it!

wiki sez the budget of this was only $5 mil? doesnt really seem possible

Soderbergh innit

he used a styrofoam camera this time.

saved some $$ on wardrobe too I imagine

most enjoyably nonjudgmental

Gonna go ahead and call bullshit on this one, for both Boogie Nights and Magic Mike. It's no doubt possible to make a non-judgy movie about this trade, but neither BN or MM are that movie.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/06/27/channing-tatum-today-flash-mob/

Made $19.4 million on Friday. The budget was $7 million.

this was decent if ultimately unsatisfying. great fun at the start but (and you're not gonna believe this) it has a lot of probs turning the corner into being abt "serious" things

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

this was decent if ultimately unsatisfying. great fun at the start but (and you're not gonna believe this) it has a lot of probs turning the corner into being abt "serious" things

OTM. It reminded me a bit of Saturday Night Fever but it was waaaay less successful at pulling off the serious material.

yeah i'd say this was decent enough, and it held my interest, but i probably won't remember much beyond some of the better strip routines in a few weeks/months.

some of the semi-improvished stuff between tatum and cody horn was good, but a lot of it was pretty bad. horn doesn't have the most expressive face. there were a lot of reaction shots of her where i was wondering what she was supposed to be thinking/feeling.

but i liked it well enough. i feel like soderbergh's lack of a certain kind of ambition (he seems content to take these sort of underdeveloped genre scripts and shoot them in very stylish and offhandedly convincing ways) is both an advantage and a problem, in that his films lack the sort of reach and strangeness that distinguishes a good film from an excellent one. he always seems to be measuring risk. maybe he's just aware of the limits of his talent.

i was thinking about this b/c i rewatched michael mann's heat the other day. i'd rather spend time listening to soderbergh give interviews than mann, that's for sure. and when the balance between michael mann's skill with narrative/visual style and portentousness is off i really have a difficult time w/ his films--honestly i think heat is the only place where he gets it almost exactly right. but heat is kind of ambitious and nuts and idiosyncratic than anything soderbergh has made in a genre mold, and soderbergh has and never will make anything remotely as good, even if his overall batting average is about as strong as mann's. if that makes any sense.

tatum is totally charming though.

re: the low budget - probably also helped that there were basically 3 locations (strip club, mikes house, kid's house)

thought this was pretty ok. tatum is unexpectedly charming for a big meathead-lookin dude.

Good points, am.

Have you guys seen 21 Jump Street? Tatum is pretty good by this point at playing palookas in a smart way.

Zach Baron from his recent Tatum profile: "These days Soderbergh makes movies to solve problems, not tell stories — he wants to see Gina Carano run. The script is just an excuse." He likes this development.

lol we actually watched 21 jump street on friday (as well as pieces of dear john and gi joe on tv for the rarely-seen four-channing weekend).

his charm is actually v. straightforward, just plays dumb guys with hearts of gold but is extremely good at it.

cody horn was kind of a problem in this (nepotism alert she got the part without reading for it)--the character is a little underdeveloped but she is definitely not the actress who could make more of it than what it was.

I also watched 21 jump st on Friday

I liked Cody Horn

He's the thinking man's less thinking Josh Hartmett.

It didn't take much thought to forget Josh Hartnett.

I appreciate this movie more for what it didn't do than what it did; 1) not bothering to reshoot the scenes where Tatum stumbles over his lines, and 2) after he says "I'm not that guy you see on stage", Cody Horn's character does NOT say "then who are you?", followed by Tatum looking sad for a while. It's the little things

my eyes are not going to forget Josh Hartnett easily.

ppl stumble over their lines irl.

is this, like The Girlfriend Experience, really about CAPITALISM?

Is this as deadly boring as TGE?

TGE was not boring, and was onlh 79 min or something

Small favors.

Zach Baron from his recent Tatum profile: "These days Soderbergh makes movies to solve problems, not tell stories — he wants to see Gina Carano run. The script is just an excuse." He likes this development.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, July 1, 2012 7:05 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1) i think more filmmakers than soderbergh do this, soderbergh just has bracingly smart and direct way of owning up to it.

2) i don't think this aspect of soderbergh's approach is bad, either. i just think it kind of places limits on his films, makes them feel a little hemmed in. which is why i think he's an admirable and extremely interesting filmmaker who probably hasn't and never will make a knocked-it-out-of-the-park masterpiece. which is probably OK with him?

also yeah the stumbling over lines stuff was interesting insofar as it was impossible to tell if it was the actor or the character doing the stumbling. occasionally that threw me out of the film occasionally, but ultimately i found it mildly charming and effective.

the guy playing "the kid" was kind of a blank, no? as were lots of the other actors. mcconauggggghhheeey was pretty great--glad he got his moment to, uh, shine at the end. man, is that guy in good shape for 40 y.o.

he's one of those dudes (like nic cage) who should have just been a character actor in weird roles for his entire career instead of ever being a leading man

nic cage is amazing as a leading man, what are you talking about

yeah nic cage can carry a movie pretty well, he just happens to be in a lot of shit movies.

Picturing Nic Cage in g-string & six shooters all "look like ah see lotta lawbraahk in haaaahr."

Well, that ruined my afternoon.

****spoilers****

i like how they get the are-we-gonna-show-channing-tatum's-bare-ass out of the way pretty much immediately. lots of ladies in the audience squealed but were actually rather sedate throughout the rest of the movie.

They may have been sleeping.

the local paper said this was (iirc) "surprisingly dark" with "betrayal, fistfights, and puking"

Also: Channing Tatum in Marilyn Monroe drag for no discernable reason
McConaughey playing the bongos
a baby pig consuming human vomit

I bet McConaughey had the inclusion of a bongo scene written into his contract

He really was the best part of the movie. I wish he would take on more interesting supporting roles.

Exactly, i haven't liked him in anything else really, but his performance here was insane (I don't mean like, "insanely good", just legitmately nuts)

I wish he would take on more interesting supporting roles.

― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 1:26 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

hes doing a lot of that lately! mcconnaugheys back baby!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe one day I can forgive him for Sahara.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQs7f8I8FOkShAe8ypmLQY_fovjqcefLHdmLOyNcP9FNxmRjTjBv1qw5fcCvg

The Lincoln Lawyer was the bomb imo

Ok some one tell me: when was mcconnaghy ever good? Surely we are not waxing nostalgic over A Time To Kill.

he was funny in Bernie

but yeah his talent has been almost totally wasted

I can't think of anything where he was decent as the lead but he is ALL TIME for Wooderson imho

He really plays the bongos in this because the fact that he got arrested naked and stoned whilst doing so irl is one of my fav things ever and now I need to see this.

Haven't seen Bernie yet. Maybe he's only good in Linklater films (I ask knowing someone's gonna bring up Dazed and Confused)?

he is ALL TIME for Wooderson imho

― your petty attempt at destroying me is laughable (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 2:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

someone just did

I don't think he's wasted his talent at all: playing goofs with a smirk in romcoms is what he's best at.

D&C and his bit here are riffs on the same thing

sure, I can see that

but he should stick to riffs and not, say, attempt to be Jodie Foster's boyfriend

good advice for anybody really

lol

Eww, him in Contact. Temporarily forgot abt that.

Jodie Foster and Matt in a movie called "Contact."

I mean do they have sex at least

http://static.moviefanatic.com/images/gallery/alex-pettyfer-and-matthew-mcconaughey-magic-mike_612x408.jpg

I hope he single-handedly kicks off the 90s belly shirt revival.

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?"

"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

― some dude, Tuesday, July 3, 2012 2:15 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

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!!!!!!!!!!!

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

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)

most of our strip clubs are car-themed

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.

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

Sorry, I just grossed myself out with that so I apologize to the rest of y'all. xp

*cancels lunch plans*

ugh

Shakey, Tampa is all strip clubs.

male strip clubs?

that cater to hetero women?

Midget strip clubs, nun strip clubs.

you name it, they strip

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. :)

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.

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

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.

His incompetence at stripping was absolutely mesmerizing.

I'm just glad I still don't know what "Pony" is.

there's a bar called Pony across the street from me. I don't remember why I bookmarked this thread tho

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.

I lost my shit at that scene where Tatum bitches out the other guy for messing with the protective seals on his dashboard chrome.

that part was great.

this was a really good movie

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

h4a so far offtm abt cody horn tho

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"

damn girl -- I'd have loved to watch this with you after chicken wings and beer and a trip to Mons Venus.

lool

Would've given Cody Horn Best Supporting Actress (knew nothing when watching, didn't google her til later).

Holy shit, Mons Venus is a real name and the best name ever.

I liked the Florida-ness of it, but there wasn't enough to interest me, idk

the naturalism is fine but those lives were kinda boring

tatum & that sister chick had all the chemistry of a block of wood

my first strip club experience

xpost

i liked the slice of life aspect of the first half of the movie, the Actual Conflict And Danger of the second half felt a little forced and unnecessary

otm, it felt like soderbergh was tryna emulate the ~darkness~ of similar movies like Boogie Nights and Saturday Night Fever and stuff and it fell a little flat at points. good movie overall though

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, Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

h4a so far offtm abt cody horn tho

― johnny crunch, Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Would've given Cody Horn Best Supporting Actress (knew nothing when watching, didn't google her til later).

― The End**^ (Eazy), Thursday, June 6, 2013 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/1jh2w.png

gotta love that piss-drenched color palette... or something

i think i see a lotta piss drenchers up in this house

lol

was there dick in this movie?

― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Sunday, September 16, 2012 10:40 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uncommented-upon penis pumping large in the front of the frame is p funny

that was so funny! I had such high hopes for the movie based on that moment

i finally saw this, and it was better than i thought it would be in spite of the corny tacked-on unnecessary happy ending romance with the sister.
CT played a convincing misunderstood bohunk with rather impressive dancing skills. that's about all i remember.

gotta love that piss-drenched color palette... or something

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, June 7, 2013 1:19 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

soderbergh has been doing that for a while. i kind of Don't Get It. i mean, I get that he's emulating to some extent the subdued, flashed-out palettes of 70s New Hollywood cinematography, but I don't recall that stuff being so soft, blown-out, and sickly-looking. i mean i suppose soderbergh is getting the results he wants, and he's very thoughtful and consistent about it, but it still looks like shit a lot of the time.

see also the informant, parts of traffic, haywire... side effects looked a bit better/cleaner, as did contagion (some of the time)

basically a lot of his recent films give me eye strain even when i see them in a theater

pee-vision

"see the new Soderbergh movie in bold vibrant PEE-D"

erin brokovich was completely drenched in piss iirc

Traffic was this was in the Peeajuana sections.

soderbergh has been doing that for a while. i kind of Don't Get It. i mean, I get that he's emulating to some extent the subdued, flashed-out palettes of 70s New Hollywood cinematography, but I don't recall that stuff being so soft, blown-out, and sickly-looking. i mean i suppose soderbergh is getting the results he wants, and he's very thoughtful and consistent about it, but it still looks like shit a lot of the time.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, June 14, 2013 10:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

wes anderson is addicted to the piss filter too and it drives me even crazier with him because his movies would be amazing looking without it. i think soderbergh's movies have looked worse since he switched to digital... DPs have figured out how to shoot good-looking movies on digital now, to the extent that it's pretty difficult to tell when you're watching digital nowadays unless you're looking out for the right things, but soderbergh either hasnt figured that out or just isnt interested in looking like film. he even admits that DPing his own movies means they dont look as good as they could, but i think he likes the level of control it gives him

For Soderbergh it worked best in the sand-blasted landscape of Erin Brockovich.

piss-blasted i think u mean

well moonrise kingdom was on super 16mm which gives it a bit of grain and anderson definitely gave it a more subdued palette than the previous films, more '70s. but all his films before that make a lot of use of really sharp photography and eye-popping color. darjeeling limited is pretty intense that way, although there are a few sequences that are self-consciously otherwise.

soderbergh has been going for variations on the flashed 70s look for a while but i agree it's when he moved to digital that it started looking dim and ugly. when i saw the informant on the theater i had to ask the manager if the bulb in their projector was dim. a problem is that by default digital cameras don't have as much latitude as 35mm, so if you aren't careful to balance the range of light intensity in a shot, you end up with either some parts of the frame incredibly blown out or parts that are really dim. that eastwood film on hoover tried to use this as a positive by making it a basic part of its almost-monochromatic "prestige" look, but i thought that film was incredibly ugly.

i think you're right that soderbergh likes having direct control over cinematography, and of course he knows that there are ways to get around the sort of problems i mention above, as many digitally-shot films (among them david fincher's) look a fuckton like 35mm. but i think he's become enamored of the "ugly" look he gets. which is why i note above that it's clearly intentional. it just hurts my eyes (literally).

except for the good german i can't think of a film where soderbergh uses the kind of expressive depth of field that anderson relies on. and anderson still relies a lot on wide-angle lenses (although i think they were less in evidence in moonrise kingdom) which soderbergh def does not. just note all the very long-lens work in magic mike.

to be pretentious i think most of anderson's films starting w/ rushmore est. a kind of internal dialectic b/t the sort of depth of field/wide angle stuff associated w/ welles (and also to a great extent, scorsese and bogdanovich, both big influences on anderson) and (in smaller doses) the longer-lens, hazier, more freewheeling (zooms etc) photography closely associated with other new hollywood stuff anderson loves (think ashby, altman, much of the graduate, etc....)

i think anderson is probably the smartest director working in terms of knowingly and expressively utilizing past styles. see e.g. the rough handheld work used to cover the max fischer players staging of "serpico" in rushmore. or the weird sloooowww zooms in darjeeling limited.

soderbergh's aesthetic has always seemed less eclectic, and a little too stuck on notions of "realism" as the motivation for different forms of camerawork (or perhpas more charitably, he tends to work within a range of period and contemporary styles that signify "realism"). i think he's a fascinating filmmaker but because he's so whip-smart in interviews he maybe gets more credit than he deserves for the sharpness of his style....

a problem is that by default digital cameras don't have as much latitude as 35mm, so if you aren't careful to balance the range of light intensity in a shot, you end up with either some parts of the frame incredibly blown out or parts that are really dim. that eastwood film on hoover tried to use this as a positive by making it a basic part of its almost-monochromatic "prestige" look, but i thought that film was incredibly ugly.

j. edgar was shot on film, and used the expensive silver retaining process that WB indulges clint with on all his movies. i agree it was really ugly

really? well then they intentionally went for that blown-out look that comes more naturally to digital. and yeah it really did look like shit, it seems like a not-uncommon look for prestigious historical pictures nowadays though?--although clint went over the top with it.

it's like he decided to remove all the color from color film, but then also eliminated the full greyscale range, so it just ended up looking a 23rd generation print or something.

hmmmm I don't know anything about this stuff, really

i don't either but i am interested in the discussion. also i agree that j.edgar is one of the ugliest films i've ever seen.

Fight Club seems like the first major Piss Filter movie I can recall, but it worked great there

what about o brother where art thou?

could be, I saw that once on video and was just overwhelmed by the cement-truck humor (last film in the God I Hate the Coen Bros cycle)

i tend to be a little autistic about style btw, some poor cinematography decisions or imprecise editing can almost ruin a decent film for me.

e.g. the only reason l'argent isn't my favorite bresson film is b/c of two cuts in the 3rd act

much more basic things come first for me, such as DiCaprio is playing Hoover; OK, not entering theater.

i must have missed that part of l'argent

what about o brother where art thou?

i watched this again last year and was really distracted by all the digital color gradin (?) in it, the look of that film has not aged well imho

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

I like him but oof man stop talking maybe

Refreshing to watch a movie by white dudes who show curiosity in black women.

Kevin Nash was an extremely broken down wrestler who once tore his quad while running across the ring, so yes it's pretty funny he's in these movies.

I think Tatum or Soderbergh or somebody said that Nash's character is a stripping "Lifer" who just doesn't try anymore, isn't good for anything else etc.

Now a Broadway-bound stage musical!

it turns out me and mark s watched this the same week (this week)

XXL i mean

a copy should be be graven on a golden blu-ray and sent beyond the stars as a testament to the argument that once there was goodness in humankind

that and the rock hard abs obv

No mention of the new film here in a few weeks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBIGdw-BRxw

well yeah i’m preparing my areas aren’t i