Magic Mike

JP Liz V1

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/12/26/magic-mike-first-photo/

^ This is one for us ladies the first official photo from Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper movie Magic Mike

I'd be more impressed if Matthew McConaughey kept his shirt on for a change. He's quite a talented actor and proved that last year in The Lincoln Lawyer where he acted for the first time in a decade. But alas, he seems to prefer to accept any role where he can get his shirt off and act the foil to some vapid, aging 30 something in search of true love.

JP Liz V1

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMU7s6cwxEM

Sad Professor

This is going to bomb - badly. It could have been another Boogie Nights, but instead it looks like a cross between Showgirls and The OC.

Skinfull

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd be more impressed if Matthew McConaughey kept his shirt on for a change. He's quite a talented actor and proved that last year in The Lincoln Lawyer where he acted for the first time in a decade. But alas, he seems to prefer to accept any role where he can get his shirt off and act the foil to some vapid, aging 30 something in search of true love.

LOL Even the pic that was posted before your post has McConaughey with his shirt off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6niC0hlgX0

JP Liz V1

Sad Professor wrote: »

This is going to bomb - badly. It could have been another Boogie Nights, but instead it looks like a cross between Showgirls and The OC.

I expected better considering Steven Soderbergh's attachment

JP Liz V1

Out here this weekend but alas not in 3D , it did well in the US and Channing Tatum is now box office gold

Fishooks12

getting good reviews but still very sceptical because of the god awful trailer

Fishooks12

Fishooks12 wrote: »

getting good reviews but still very sceptical because of the god awful trailer

I think that this is a case of a film being completely missold by the trailer. From what I have read it seems that the film starts off rather bright and breezy but gets much darker as it progresses.

The decline into drug addiction is supposed to be expertly handled and the script is said to be quite adult.

Da Shins Kelly

I saw it and I really don't understand why it's getting good reviews. I thought it was God-awful. It's not what it seems in the trailer at all.

It's not a funny, light-hearted look at male stripping, but gets into more heavy material

. The problem is that the acting is not good, and the dialogue is terrible, in my opinion. There were also a lot of inexplicable scenes that were just really weird and I didn't like how it was shot -

over-lapping conversations happening at the same time

. Matthew McConaughey also makes my skin crawl like no other man. It didn't have an redeeming factors for me at all. It wasn't quite as bad as Showgirls (which has come full circle to being awesome ), but it is certainly not good. I don't know what movie some reviewers were watching.

JP Liz V1

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd be more impressed if Matthew McConaughey kept his shirt on for a change. He's quite a talented actor and proved that last year in The Lincoln Lawyer where he acted for the first time in a decade. But alas, he seems to prefer to accept any role where he can get his shirt off and act the foil to some vapid, aging 30 something in search of true love.

Matthew McConaughey is best thing in the film, he is both equally charming and slimy as Dallas

I agree the trailer is misleading as the film is quite dark there isnt much comedic moments bar one or two scenes involving Dallas

I think it might have been much better if Tatum wasnt lead he was awful imo as was Cody Horn as the female lead and Alex Pettyfer as the kid brother

The "stripping" group looked like a boyband on stage with Kevin Nash as their bodyguard

BTW there isnt an awful lot of actually stripping in the movie

Just back from this and while I enjoyed the film it really could have been so much more. More and more I'm getting the impression that Steven Soderbergh really, really likes making films and hanging with out with his friends on set, he just doesn't like spending time making his films. Magic Mike is a great example of how little effort Soderbergh seems to be putting into his films of late. The script feels like a first draft that Soderbergh got his hands on and thought lets just shoot the thing. There's some interesting ideas in play and it's nowhere near as light as i trailers sell it but as a film, it really doesn't amount to much. it easily passes 2 hours but I doubt I'll ever return to it now will I remember it in a weeks time.

johnny_ultimate

I liked it. Visually, Soderburgh is at his slick, playful best: the cinematography was actually some of the most unusual and engaging I've seen in a mainstream film in a while. Yellow hues, crystal clear dance sequences, inventive angles. The shot of a blurry

penis in a pump

may be one of the funniest & deadpan visual gags of the year

Acting wise, I actually enjoyed it too. With the exception of the OTT McConaughey (who was good, but Killer Joe was his real revelatory performance), I thought they were largely grounded and 'realistic' performances. Some may call that 'bad', but I like that sort of style and thought it suited the tone of the film. Great performances they aren't, but Horn and Tatum particularly kept their characters grounded in some sort of recognisable emotional reality. Not exactly the most spectacular emotional range ever displayed on film, and the script paints Horn as the 'concerned matriarch' too often, but there's other scenes where Soderburgh leaves the camera dangling on their subtle facial reactions to good effect.

Storywise, a mix of the mildly insightful and the familiar. Nothing groundbreaking, but mostly harmless. A cautionary tale that doesn't really give in to hyperbole, and is a mostly balanced portrait of the profession for the most part. The love story I was less certain of:

it presents itself as a happy ending, but I struggled to completely buy into it as they effectively left Adam on his path of mindless self-destruction. But hey, at least his sister and his best friend got together! A necessarily morally ambiguous conclusion basically presented as a victory for the protagonist.

Just felt a little on the odd side IMO.

Mostly it was a slick and engaging tale. No masterpiece, but a film that has heart and a strange sort of honesty beneath its glossy surface.

eternal

It has the premise of a light hearted, love story but none could be further than the truth. It is a squalid decline into sordid world of sex and drugs and shallow submersion. The idea of the love unfolding seems to be the salvation for Mike but to be fair she has a sour face on for the whole film.
It has a dark element which seems moralistic in terms but has some very funny moments which are so tongue in cheek you can not help but smile. It kind of focuses on the relationship between Mike and Adam, what started out as a fun and innocent beginning soon turns into something dark and unlimited. Good show but ended abruptly.