Friends of Mike #1
“There is likely no major American filmmaker so tuned in to the intertwined axes of life and work as Steven Soderbergh,” writes Boxoffice.com’s Mark Olsen in his review of Magic Mike (Warner Bros., 6.29). “In film after film he’s explored the way jobs both build up and destroy the contemporary American soul.
“If at times it is hard to parse from Soderbergh’s prolific output which films are proper, big-time movies and which are in-the-margins sidebars (‘They’re all for me,’ he notoriously likes to say), Magic Mike combines those conflicting impulses perhaps more than any of his other films. The flick is a study of modern economic reality and the rationalizations that get us through the day, acknowledging the glamour and the glitter and sweat required to get us there.”
I am going out on a limb to predict that no hetrosexual males will see this film, Hence, the bo for this film will be really small. Wells seems to enjoy it though.
Brad – no heterosexual males AT ALL? That is going out on a limb.
Tristan,
Wells saw it so I guess he counts. Yeah, maybe some guys drug to watch it with gal pals, and some guys who are rabid Soderbergh fans. But really what regular guy wants to go watch a film with Channing Tatum etc stripping?
BTW I am not picking on Soderbergh here. Just saying limited market for this thing
I think you’re underplaying the box off power of females alone. I don’t know many regular straight guys who actually “wanted” to go watch Twilight movies… but that didn’t stop them from breaking the bank. Nor do I know any guys that want to see your standard Katherine Heigl / Kate Hudson rom-com’s – but they tend to do just fine.
Chances are you’re right about dudes not turning out for this thing in force, but when it supposedly cost less than $20 million to make, I wouldn’t bet against it turning a profit.
There’s no shortage of movies aimed almost exclusively at men, and yet you never hear anyone stating, “There are no straight women who are going to be interested in this! It’s gonna bomb!”
If I hear it’s a good movie (which seems to be the consensus at the moment) I will absolutely go see it. Why not? Believe it or not I feel extremely confident that I will be able to survive the movie and even leave the theater still confident in my sexuality!
Like Bents says, women have been able to deal with overly-sexualized women for a long time in movies, but one “Magic Mike” comes out and all these men jump up and exclaim that there’s no way they’ll see this, despite the fact that it apparently may actually be good.
I agree with you, but the blockbusters are of course a different kind of film, I think that the hits like Avengers or Transformers are more male friendly, but also crossover, and are also seen more than once. That is how they make so much money. From what I read Twilight as well as Hunger Games crossed over both male and female auds.
Yes, this one might be a good film for some people, including some hetro guys, I just do not care to see it. If this was a 20 mil film it can make 60mil and go into the black, so pretty good chance it will make that much. And I think we can count on Europe to enjoy the folly of watching american males take their clothes off and make fools of themselves.
Jeff Coxworthy: If you can’t sit in a movie theater and watch a movie about greased-up male strippers without being uncomfortable and thinking that everyone else in the movie theater is looking at you and wondering if you are a gay, then you’re probably a gay.
If you come out of this thing bisexual, you’ve doubled your prospects.
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Jeff Coxworthy: If you can’t sit in a movie theater and watch a movie about greased-up male strippers without being uncomfortable and thinking that everyone else in the movie theater is looking at you and wondering if you are a gay, then you’re probably a gay.