Tag Archive for Matt Bomer

Magic Mike

I would like to preface this by saying that I have never gone to a strip club (male, female or otherwise) and now I probably never will.

Oh, Magic Mike. Where do I begin?

Based on the ads, Magic Mike seems to be a movie about a male stripper who works at a male revue with a bunch of other buff dudes who also strip. The trailers make it look glossy and fun, but it’s really not what one might anticipate. It’s certainly more serious than I was expecting, or maybe just more than I wanted it to be. Now, I could be okay with that if the film was really good, but it lacks any real meat (no pun intended). Read more

In Time

At some unspecified time in the near (or not?) future, time has replaced money as currency and human beings have been genetically engineered to stop aging at 25, at which point you are given a year to die or to start “earning” more time. Of course, the rich have decades, even centuries of time stockpiled to give to their children and each other, while the poor must work, it seems, a whole day’s work just to earn another day’s life…in order to work another day to earn another day, forever. I wonder how much time it would cost to watch a movie in this world, i.e., would the length of the movie itself be factored into the cost? Would you, in other words, “pay” 2 hours of your life to watch a 2-hour movie (net cost: 4 hours)? Would the “price” of a longer movie be higher, or lower?

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