Magazine Dreams

[beakdoctor]

A movie adapted from royalty's diaries.

A weird incel wants to be a bodybuilder while living with an elderly parent, hates himself and ruins what pathetic life he had.

Surprised that I haven't seen this come up on GB yet. Brutal portrayal of incel, over compensating by trying to become a bodybuilder and make it on a magazine cover.

Some hilights-

●He idolizes Mike O'Hearn in the movie.

●Actually goes on a date but scares the woman off by scripting quotes from pumping iron.

●makes a video about training and posts it online. The online comments tell him to kill himself.

Movie was produced by George Soros nephew, Jeff Soros. It was the most cringe worthy movie ever. I couldn't make it past the half way point; just like Royalty's posts.

[hench]

Apart from it being cringe it seems to be rated pretty highly on imdb and rottentomatoes, is it well acted etc? Is it intentionally cringe?
 Let's be honest alot of stuff in bodybuilding has been cringey for a long time, there's that scene in pumping iron where the black guy hits his crab shot moving his arms about and a guy in the audience is stamping his feet and screaming 

[beakdoctor]

Apart from it being cringe it seems to be rated pretty highly on imdb and rottentomatoes, is it well acted etc? Is it intentionally cringe?
 Let's be honest alot of stuff in bodybuilding has been cringey for a long time, there's that scene in pumping iron where the black guy hits his crab shot moving his arms about and a guy in the audience is stamping his feet and screaming 

I thought the acting was mid. Jonathan Majors is a well regarded actor but I thought he waaay overplayed the part. He didn't come across as a fan of bodybuilding,  or even a fanatic but more like someone with aspbergers.

Midway through the film loses direction. Starts of sbout a guy who has dreams of being a pro bodybuilder and getting on the cover of muscle and fitness.  Then it turns into something more about him being an incel then about mental illness and anger issues.

Majors imo wasn't "acting" the part of a bodybuilder.  It was more like poorly pretending. And there's a difference between acting and pretending.  Though he was more believable in the anger sequences of the movie.

Lastly, it was a character study of a wholly unlikeable person. At first you want him to do well but by the 3/4 part of the movie he's a character that you don't like or care about. His elderly father, who's only a bit part in the movie is a far more compelling character, imo. Ultimately it was so depressing I didn't finish watching it, again much like a royalty post.

[Kwon]

Is this movie the reason they removed Jonathan Mayors from Marvel and playing We WUz Kang?

[hench]

Interesting.
Did you enjoy the wrestler with mickey rourke, that was a good character study movie.

I thought the acting was mid. Jonathan Majors is a well regarded actor but I thought he waaay overplayed the part. He didn't come across as a fan of bodybuilding,  or even a fanatic but more like someone with aspbergers.

Midway through the film loses direction. Starts of sbout a guy who has dreams of being a pro bodybuilder and getting on the cover of muscle and fitness.  Then it turns into something more about him being an incel then about mental illness and anger issues.

Majors imo wasn't "acting" the part of a bodybuilder.  It was more like poorly pretending. And there's a difference between acting and pretending.  Though he was more believable in the anger sequences of the movie.

Lastly, it was a character study of a wholly unlikeable person. At first you want him to do well but by the 3/4 part of the movie he's a character that you don't like or care about. His elderly father, who's only a bit part in the movie is a far more compelling character, imo. Ultimately it was so depressing I didn't finish watching it, again much like a royalty post.

[NarcissisticDeity]

When is this supposed to be set? 1995 because who wants to on the cover of a magazine in this day & age? For exposure? Because a free Instagram account gets unknowns all the exposure the desire and even that medium is dying

[Raymondo]

I thought it was an ok movie. It dragged on quite a bit. The acting is good but will not earn the dude any awards. Someone probably told him this would be his Taxi Driver and to go crazy.

The scene in Mike O's trailer made me laugh out loud, I knew then I was watching a bodybuilding movie!

[beakdoctor]

Interesting.
Did you enjoy the wrestler with mickey rourke, that was a good character study movie.

I dod. I enjoyed that one quite a bit and thought it was very well acted and an entertaining character study.

[beakdoctor]

When is this supposed to be set? 1995 because who wants to on the cover of a magazine in this day & age? For exposure? Because a free Instagram account gets unknowns all the exposure the desire and even that medium is dying

I don't remember it specifically stated in the movie but all the cars are late 90's, no one uses a cell phone in the entire movie, no flat screen TVs either. Uses a landlines, i think the phone even had a cord. So you've probably right.

In fact for the video he posts online, he films it with a camcorder and when he views the online comments  he's on a desktop computer. So the era seems like early 00's.

[Rambone]

I believe you mean Ice Machine Dreams

[LurkerNoMore]

Never heard of this.  If it were really Royalty, she would ruin the date by constantly talking about Danimal and showing the other person her collection of photos of GB member hands she stores in the Favorite folder of her phone.  While constantly yawning because she has been up all night spree posting the same three things over and over.

[NaturalWonder83]

It didn't play in any cinemas in my area. And I think reviews were pretty atrocious. They really botched the film by having Johnathon "Gyno Boobs" Majors and Mike "Dirty Grandpa" O'Hearn in it. They both had too much negative baggage going into the film. 

[Griffith]

The timeline is all over the place.

The main character uses a camcorder and mentions he watches WWF, the NWO and Sting which made me think early 2000's and he's watching videotapes of Yates on a CRT but then later he mentions the 2015 Arnold and taking part in a 2016 bodybuilding contest.

The film stops being about bodybuilding about 30 mins in, it was watchable, but seems to lose focus towards the end.

I give it a 5/10.

[beakdoctor]

The timeline is all over the place.

The main character uses a camcorder and mentions he watches WWF, the NWO and Sting which made me think early 2000's and he's watching videotapes of Yates on a CRT but then later he mentions the 2015 Arnold and taking part in a 2016 bodybuilding contest.

The film stops being about bodybuilding about 30 mins in, it was watchable, but seems to lose focus towards the end.

I give it a 5/10.

Yep. Though 5/10 is generous.  I didn't finish it. But otherwise spot on.