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(26,607 posts)CTyankee
(63,914 posts)Then, it moved to one of our Cineplex's. I couldn't figure it out till I got there. The theater was filled with women and hardly any men.
The movie is about the intertwining lives of two male strippers, one a confident 30 yr. old and the other an immature 19 yr. old who has real magnetism. Grim things happen. It has LOTS of men performing strip routines for audiences of screaming women. It's about the subculture of the male strippers jobs. It is gritty and sometimes gross and sometimes funny. It strikes you as realistic, even if you have no firsthand knowledge of male strip clubs in Tampa.
The performances were very good and actually one of the stars of the film did some phenomenal strip break dancing. It is long.
I've not seen a Soderberg film so I really don't know much about him. As a hetero senior woman I can't speak for how a man would react to it. I did feel the acting and direction were very good. It is a high quality film. But you have to be prepared to see a lot of male stripper routines. It wasn't my thing, but the men's bodies were nice, the routines were sometimes surprisingly witty and well performed, and the acting first rate.
so it's just a matter of individual preference.
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)though no doubt there were probably quite a few. I've always thought stripping (both male and female) was funny, if done correctly, though not particularly sexy - just doesn't really do it for me.
I'd heard it dealt with the life, lifestyle, good and bad; not just the hot semi-nekkid guys.
I don't see movies in theaters, but I'd like to see this when it's on DVD. Pretty sure my husband won't want to watch, though. Could be wrong.
avebury
(10,953 posts)tips from it.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)qualities of this movie. You are right about the life and lifestyle part. That is the point of the movie, IMO. It's not about women getting off on men's bodies altho there is really nothing wrong with that.
Personally, I feel it is about the dead end of dreams in our society. These young men are snared into a life they think is all hedonism and wonderful and at age 30 they kinda wake up and realize that they are in a trap and they need to get out. Their bodies won't be that young forever and they might not even live that much longer, given the drug and alcohol abuse they indulge in.
It is a kind of morality tale, but without any preaching. It just is. Matthew McConnaghy's body looks great but his face is aged way beyond. He is kind of like the nightclub guy in Cabaret, a grinning , joking narrator of a bad scene. A great performance, by the way. I hope he's nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar.
petronius
(26,607 posts)CTyankee
(63,914 posts)were a lot more aesthetically interesting than "dirty." Now, that can mean different things. I have known art works to be extremely sensual. It really depends on the individual.
It is NOT a non-thinking person's movie. But to the extent you want to think about it, it is of interest. Male stripping might not be your thing...even as an artistic hook...
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)You said to ask you anything.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)but the funny thing is my daughter wants to go with my aunt but not my wife...
"Yeah I wanna see it but not with my mother!"
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)so aesthetically pleasing. But that depends on your sense of the erotic. To each her or his own on that. I don't think I'd want to see it with my mother either...
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)and it was SRO for paint drying!
The movie sounds as dumb as that one with Demi Moore, whatever that was called!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)That wasn't terrible but the book was way better - it was from a Carl Hiaasen novel and I love me some Carl Hiassen. He is a good friend to Florida's environment. Strip Tease wasn't really about stripping (although it had some in it since the main character was a stripper).
from wiki:
Like many Hiaasen novels, the books plot is set against a backdrop of a particular environmental crime or corruption issue that angers the author. In this case, it is the plutocracy of sugar growers in Florida, and the exorbitant subsidies regularly granted to them by the U.S. Congress.
Plus it was funny watching Burt.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)CTyankee
(63,914 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)CTyankee
(63,914 posts)Funny how his body was buff and his face was old and leathery. His performance was chilling...
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)CTyankee
(63,914 posts)were brief.
Nice male bodies, well choreographed (by a woman I think) and probably better dancing than you would see in your average male strip club in Tampa. But I don't know. I've never been to a male strip club.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Of course, the gratuitous naked female shots are obligatory in such movies. Even "The Full Monty" had a naked female butt. On the other hand, it also had a still shot of six naked male butts.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)frontal nudity when you said "naked."
The two shots with naked women were (IIRC) profile bare breasts from waist up and a naked woman, seen from the rear, sleeping on her side in a bed. Not exactly titillating.