5 Movies That Turned Out To Be Mostly About Matthew McConaughey's Abs

Magicmike600 You sometimes wonder how a lot of Hollywood films even made it past the pitch stage of production. It's often shocking to think that a few big-time execs gave someone millions and millions of dollars to make a movie that even the most film-illiterate viewers regard as awful. Forget world hunger - no, we need that money for films about kooky relationships and endless one-liners. Unfortunately, it happens a lot - pretty much all the time, in fact. Some actors are renowned for showing up in these blockbuster train-wrecks time and time again, but very few are as well-known as Matt McConaughey. When you watch a standard McConaughey film you can't help but feel that during the "brain-storm" process of making that film, the producers sat in a boardroom somewhere and just flicked bits of paper around while they hopelessly tried to come up with a new movie gimmick, until one of them eventually piped up (because it was nearing 4:30pm and they had tickets to see Les Miserables) and said "why don't we just get Matthew McConaughey to take his top off?", to which the others replied "yeah, that'll do". The result might be pretty, but it's never particularly good - so why does it keep happening? Click "Next" to see some sweet lats and flawless abs - and the films that were released as excuses to give them some screen time.
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