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SPOILERS BELOW
I can't imagine the world of male stripping is a 24-7 lighthearted romp . . . also most reviews noted a dark undercurrent (the dark parts played like a relatively sanitized version of the second half of Boogie Nights to me).
>it was okay. channing tatum still can't act, but he was
>serviceable here.
Biographical elements aside, there is still no other actor that could have played Mike. He was good to borderline great IMO. Very charming and believable for much of the movie . . . excellent chemistry with everyone involved. I only questioned his line reading near the end in a scene with the sister where he's supposed to be stumbling over his words (and there was no reason to have a tear down his cheek as drove away from the club).
>Alex Pettyfer: don't give him an acting job *EVER* again
>hollywood. please and thanks.
He looked and felt the part and was convincing as the teenage douchebag punk character, but he has no spark. There's nothing interesting about him. The movie needed like a young Ryan Phillippe, at least. Pettyfer didn't detract, but he also didn't add.
>Cody Horn: I dug her feistiness as Brooke and thought her
>relationship with Mike was interesting.
In most scripts they hook-up and do so early. Here, I liked how they were allowed to interact at an unconventional pace.
>the other characters were barely there. like, was it me or did
>Ken (Matt Bomer) come off kind of..weird and psychotic? like
>willfully letting dudes fuck his "wife"? to the fact that he
>had way more chemistry with the other guys in the movie than
>the woman who played his wife? odd...
>
>I don't know if it was the fact that Ken just came off as
>being a bit sexually ambivalent or if it is the fact that
>Bomer really never has been able to play a convincing romantic
>lead the few times he's done it because he's gay or
>what...White Collar included
You may be be using your knowledge of Bomer as gay to unfairly color your perception of his portrayal. I don't think the character is even worth dedicating that much to because of how generally inconsequential it is. That being said, he was all about positive energy, knowing your skin is your largest organ, etc. . . . so I buy him being the kind of open, easy going guy that would enjoy watching someone else bring pleasure / positive energy to even his own wife.
>but, i oddly walked away expecting more from this movie for
>some reason...I wasn't disappointed. I just expected more to
>happen (i.e. Adam mabye getting his shit together in the end
>or the hint that he might, etc.)
But that's a different movie for a different director. I appreciated how Soderbergh skirted or played soft most of the usual melodramatic moments and didn't offer any tacked-on endings or forced resolutions. It did the characters and stories more justice that way.
In fact, the ending actually reminded me of the ending of Soderbergh's Out of Sight (with Sam Jackson and George Clooney in the police van).
>sidenote: there were a LOT of women and men at my screening
>yesterday...but half of them walked out because once they
>realized they weren't getting dick shots and lots of
>stripping, folk were pissed and bounced. lol
I didn't see anyone walk out. There were three other guys at my screening. Two were alone and one was with a woman, as was I (he says trying not to seem insecure . . .).
As far as nudity, I think the movie peppers it in pretty effectively. You get the gratuitous ass shot of Tatum early on, as if to say, "let's get this out of the way", and then that is almost immediately counter-balanced by Olivia Munn's breasts: "fear not straight men of the world". And then the nudity stretches all the way until the last bit with Mcconaughey's reveal.
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