How is it possible that Matthew McConaughey just starred in a movie about a pot-smoking wave rider — called Surfer, Dude no less — and no one knew about it? Two weeks ago, Dude bowed in an Austin theater to a dismal $6,000 before expanding to 69 screens, including a bunch of seaside locales. Its total gross at press time: $36,497.
What happened? Seems Dude was little more than a $6 million passion project for the actor, and even the promise of his shirtless surfing couldn’t entice studios to release it — especially since we all see the same thing on the Internet every day. So he turned to Anchor Bay, a direct-to-DVD company that gave it a limited theatrical run with no TV ads to support it. (The DVD will follow in December.) That was probably a good idea: Dude‘s Metacritic score is a depressing 16 out of 100, which proves that no amount of pecs appeal could have saved this wipeout.
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Shocking. Matthew is such a terrific actor…NOT!
Awesome. Can we start sending all of his movies straight to DVD?
I was thinking the other day: Brad Pitt, Leo DiCaprio, George Clooney- these are hot ass actors who aren’t afraid to take actual challenging roles. But McConaughey, the hottest of them all, takes dumbed-down roles time and time again. He can act (see Frailty, A Time to Kill, Contact), but he seems as of late to be afraid to take any role that belies his lovable hunk status. I for one will watch him in about anything just for the eye candy, but I readily admit its a pretty dismal way for such a talented actor to spend a film career.
Wait….did someone just say McConaughey was hotter than Brad, Leo and George???? mmmmkay.
I remember Best Week Ever making fun of the poster ages ago for this movie.
After seeing him ‘try to surf’ in malibu; and after watching his idiot friends attack the papa-nazi’s and throw their cameras in the pacific, i’d say this Oprah lov’en cum-ba-ya singing bozo has about had it. Sean Penn already did this role to perfection in Fast Times. T.V. people need to get a grip and find something truly worth while. The should have tried Vince Vaughn; he can’t surf either but man… lemme tell ya!
It boils down to this: he’s lazy. Lately there have been no roles where he has to stretch himself and doesn’t. He’s boring.
he is a d*mn dirty bongo playing hippy. he’s a lousy actor and a despicable human being and i hate him.
I don’t know…he’s lazy, but he’s good to look at. Besides, I thought he was hilarious in “Tropic Thunder.”
I think he should stick to making babies and smoken … not a classic for sure
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