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Last night after a really weird day, writing club and I crashed the second midnight showing of Magic Mike--there were maybe ten people in the place. But their advertising sucked.
ANYHOO, so the movie was surprisingly interesting? And I find I have stuff to say about it, soooo under the cut it goes.
- CHANNING TATUM HOW ARE YOU SO GORGEOUS AND YET SO. DAMN. LIKEABLE AND VULNERABLE AND SWEET. DOES NOT COMPUTE. HALP.
- That being said I'm not sure I buy the romance between him and Brooke? I mean. It's just...something wonky about the writing I think, that she seems to be criticizing him for not living up to his potential but she doesn't seem really happy filling out paperwork for nurses? Also there seemed to be a pretty big age gap (or Brooke just LOOKED very young, younger than her definitely-not-nineteen-year-old-little-brother). IDK.
- For the love of god, someone introduce Channing to the internet where he can sell his fancy furniture without acquiring a bank loan first (omggg his business suit and the fake glasses to make him seem responsible and adult PRECIOUS SCENE)
- You know, usually I have no problem buying that the characters Matt Bomer plays are straight (or at least bisexual) but this movie? NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. And it's not his fault! He's surrounded by beautiful naked men! And then all of a sudden he has a wife and he tells people to fondle her boobs, just. Matt. Honey. No one is fooled. Also it wouldn't have killed this movie to have one queer character especially considering their content wtf.
- I really liked the natural dialogue feeling in this movie, where you could tell people were improvising or just speaking like normal people do, tripping over their words a little bit, stumbling into other peoples' sentences. Sometimes when movies shoot for that it's really heavy-handed, but this movie balanced it really well.
- CHANNING TATUM IN A MARYLIN MONROE DRESS & WIG OH MY GOD I COULDN'T. MY EYEBALLS COULDN'T EVEN PROCESS WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
- I think it worked well from a story-telling pov that The Kid slid so seamlessly into the part Magic Mike left behind (in a social narrative way, this is a niche that really appeals to young men looking for easy money/sex/attention/a good time) but I would have liked a little token protest of The Kid standing up for his self-declared best friend.
- Convinced Matthew McConaughey just kept showing up on set uninvited until they had to write him into the movie. CONVINCED.
- Also WHOEVER ALLOWED MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY TO A) SING, B) SMASH A GUITAR SHOULD BE GIVEN A STERN TALKING-TO AND PUT IN TIMEOUT.
tl;dr, I actually kind of digged (dug?) this movie. And not just for the pretty!
Theory that Neal Caffrey was secretly doing a deep-cover sting and Peter was sitting mortified in the van night after night while El sat up front with a fistful of singles because she wants to be supportive, y/y/awwwwwwwwwyiss?
ANYHOO, so the movie was surprisingly interesting? And I find I have stuff to say about it, soooo under the cut it goes.
- CHANNING TATUM HOW ARE YOU SO GORGEOUS AND YET SO. DAMN. LIKEABLE AND VULNERABLE AND SWEET. DOES NOT COMPUTE. HALP.
- That being said I'm not sure I buy the romance between him and Brooke? I mean. It's just...something wonky about the writing I think, that she seems to be criticizing him for not living up to his potential but she doesn't seem really happy filling out paperwork for nurses? Also there seemed to be a pretty big age gap (or Brooke just LOOKED very young, younger than her definitely-not-nineteen-year-old-little-brother). IDK.
- For the love of god, someone introduce Channing to the internet where he can sell his fancy furniture without acquiring a bank loan first (omggg his business suit and the fake glasses to make him seem responsible and adult PRECIOUS SCENE)
- You know, usually I have no problem buying that the characters Matt Bomer plays are straight (or at least bisexual) but this movie? NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. And it's not his fault! He's surrounded by beautiful naked men! And then all of a sudden he has a wife and he tells people to fondle her boobs, just. Matt. Honey. No one is fooled. Also it wouldn't have killed this movie to have one queer character especially considering their content wtf.
- I really liked the natural dialogue feeling in this movie, where you could tell people were improvising or just speaking like normal people do, tripping over their words a little bit, stumbling into other peoples' sentences. Sometimes when movies shoot for that it's really heavy-handed, but this movie balanced it really well.
- CHANNING TATUM IN A MARYLIN MONROE DRESS & WIG OH MY GOD I COULDN'T. MY EYEBALLS COULDN'T EVEN PROCESS WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
- I think it worked well from a story-telling pov that The Kid slid so seamlessly into the part Magic Mike left behind (in a social narrative way, this is a niche that really appeals to young men looking for easy money/sex/attention/a good time) but I would have liked a little token protest of The Kid standing up for his self-declared best friend.
- Convinced Matthew McConaughey just kept showing up on set uninvited until they had to write him into the movie. CONVINCED.
- Also WHOEVER ALLOWED MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY TO A) SING, B) SMASH A GUITAR SHOULD BE GIVEN A STERN TALKING-TO AND PUT IN TIMEOUT.
tl;dr, I actually kind of digged (dug?) this movie. And not just for the pretty!
Theory that Neal Caffrey was secretly doing a deep-cover sting and Peter was sitting mortified in the van night after night while El sat up front with a fistful of singles because she wants to be supportive, y/y/awwwwwwwwwyiss?