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Plot:
The Story of Made features Bobby (Jon Favreau) and Ricky (Vince Vaughn), two aspiring boxers with limited mob connections. Given the opportunity to handle a job for L.A. mob boss Max (Peter Falk), Bob...( read more 
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MCT:June 30, 2008Vince Vaughn pissed me off sooo much the first time I watched this movie I hated it... now its one of my favorites
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Jon Favreau has become one of the most promising directors in all of Hollywood. In films like Elf, Iron Man, and Zathura - he provides entertainment to a wide array of age groups, never once mistaking the audience for mindless idiots. They show so much more heart, class, and charm then your typical Hollywood fare. But, before all those modern family classics, there was Made.
I've had Made on DVD for a few years now and never got around to watching it. It came packaged with Swingers, which is one of my favorite comedies... and although I was excited to see Favreau and Vaughn reprise similar roles to Swingers, the crime thriller to me is very predictable and uninteresting. After watching this I can say I should have watched it a lot sooner because at times it was an absolute blast, but I also feel that it's shortcomings were all to blame on, as expected, the crime aspect.
Favreau and Vaughn play similar roles to their characters in Swingers. Favreau is the "straight" guy of the pair - he's more compassionate, has good intentions, and takes the job very seriously. Vaughn, on the other hand, is the more reckless of the two... to the point where you think he's just a miserable human being. A lot of people hated the character and thought he was too much of a jerk, but I thought he was hilarious and a blast to watch.
All the stuff before the characters head to New York is great, and so are all the scenes early on in the hotel room. The heart of the movie IS the interaction between Ricky and Bobby, and whenever the dialogue is the focal point of the scene it's great entertainment. However, when the plot ventures out a bit too far, especially in the third act, it loses all it's charm and becomes "just another crime movie". You've never seen a movie that could be so entertaining one minute, and so flat the next.
Sean Combs was surprisingly very good in this... I had absolutely no expectations for his performance, but he showed confidence and had good delivery for all of his lines. He was able to hang in well with Vaughn and Favreau, whom are both great. Vaughn is especially wonderful, I feel he's certainly he's one of the most underrated and underutilized talents in Hollywood.
I can't say I didn't enjoy Made, and it's certainly not a bad movie... but, I think it tries to hard to be what it can't be. The crime scenes seem so uninspired and lame, and even some scenes involving Favreau and his wife were powerful, yet completely out of place. Really, there was three movies in one.
Swingers is much better, but this is worth seeing just for the wonderful on-screen chemistry between Vaughn and Favreau. -
MCT:May 12, 2008this is very good with actor jon favreau who director of this film. mob boss(peter falk)senting bobby(jon favreau)and his friend ricky(vince vaughn)from california trip to new york to meet ruiz(sean combs).
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MCT:May 5, 2008
Very nice "gangster comedy", with effective characters. The best thing is that a particular character made me feel something special: I hated to death Ricky, as Vince Vaughn portrayed a perfectly detestable and annoying good-for-nothing.
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MCT:February 7, 2008
Ricky Slade: Here's what I'm gonna ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. I want you to take it back to the business class, I want you to round up a couple of honeys... At our hotel room we're gonna have kind of a pool party. A California gangster-style, you know what I mean? Kick ass pool party thing.
The team from Swingers return with a mob comedy. Two guys are working odd jobs for a mobster, including boxing and body guarding, and are eventually sent to from LA to New York to help out on a deal.
Ricky Slade: Did you just let the SCREECH in the fucking club?
The movie is mainly about hilarious rants that Vince Vaughn gets into, between this movie and Swingers Vaughn is at his best. Besides Vaughn, everyone else is also good. Peter "Columbo" Falk is hilarious as the west coast mob boss, while P Diddy is also surprisingly very funny as the east coast mobster, when dealing with Vaughn.
Ricky Slade: We need guns.
Bobby: We don't need guns.
Ricky Slade: I'm telling you man, I'm pretty sure we need guns.
Bobby: I listened to them and they specifically said we don't need guns.
Ricky Slade: That's all the more reason why you do need a gun.
Bobby: You couldn't even get a gun.
Ricky Slade: You wanna bet, you wanna bet me if I could get a gun?
Bobby: You couldn't get a handjob from the bridge and tunnel posse.
Jon Favreau makes good work of writing, directing, and starring along with Vaughn and playing it as the straight man, who like the rest of us, just need Vince to shut up for a second.
The plot is fine, works well enough as basically the breaks between the bantering between Vaughn and Favreau, as is the soundtrack which fits well with the club scene that these guys inhabit for a lot of the movie.
This is a very funny follow up to go along with Swingers.
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MCT:February 7, 2008Extremely underrated. Make no mistake about it, this is a comedy. It succeeds to such a high degree as a comedy that the other genre's don't really matter all that much. Those who complain about the plot lacking substance, or that it doesn't succeed as a drama should also complain about the plot when reviewing other comedies, such as Superbad. Ultimately, this is hilarious, which allowed me to happily turn a blind eye to all of the films other problems.
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MCT:February 4, 2008
Great writing! Hilarious movie very dialogy though so you have to be into that....You couldn't even get a handjob from the bridge and tunnel posse at the club last night!
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MCT:January 15, 2008
2 characters we've already seen before, to a point where vince vaughn becomes annoying. okay story but didnt really have a solid narrative.
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MCT:January 9, 2008
Favreau doing what he does best. Giving Vince Vaugh plenty to say and not enough time to say it creating his signature rapid-fire succession speech. Aside from the comedy there were moments where I actually felt worried or sad for the characters which I did not expect. The ending is touching and makes me think Favreau has had deep relationship problems of his own judging from how he writes and directs his movies.
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MCT:January 9, 2008Made, is the film that reunited Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, and is often seen as the spiritual successor of their 1996 cult film Swingers. Favreau again writes the screenplay, but this time he directs as well.
The film centers around a pair of bumbling construction workers who decide to run an errand for their local mob boss to make ends meet. The two are sent on a mission to make a ?drop? in New York.
That?s an extremely simple plot, and one should never take this seriously as a mafia film. There is no real drama or tension in the crime elements in this story, nor does there need to be. This is a fairly pointless movie, and there?s nothing wrong than that, Swingers was also pointless. These films are meant less as a narrative works than as delivery methods for the entertaining banter between Favreau and Vaughn. While this can work, it places a lot of pressure on a single element of the film, and if that element doesn?t completely deliver, the movie is in pretty big trouble.
Luckily, this entertaining banter does eventually deliver, but only after a very boring first act that wastes a full half hour of a ninety minute film on unneeded exposition. However, the film really does pick up as soon as the duo get their mission and head for New York. I enjoyed the second and third acts to some degree, but they are hardly transcendent. Vaughn is at his best here, but Favreau doesn?t adequately support him as an actor. Favreau has the vital role of the straight man here, his reactions to Vaughn?s antics are supposed to be providing the real laughs here, but he doesn?t really deliver. The comic timing of the film?s editing are just not quite on here, had the editing been more on track I suspect there would be twice as many laughs here as there are.
This is not a great film but it did pass the time, I can?t quite recommend it, but it has its moments and there are worse ways to kill an evening. -
MCT:December 13, 2007I love watching crap movies, because I can have the best bitch about them afterwards. I'm about to have a phenomenal one right now.
Vince Vaughn a.k.a the loud - mouthed, stereotyped guy who's going prematurely bald is as irritating as ever alongside co - star Jon Favreau a.k.a the guy who looks disturbingly like his inane co - star. The plot is so thin not even Jesus himself could have taken a stroll on it without falling through. On the light side, P. Diddy is surprisingly good.
Possibly the worst part of made is the part that does not, as far as I could assess, exist. I mean, it's not that it has too much of anything. It's more like the absence of anything. What the movie lacks is substance itself.
If you are male, I'm sure you'll have more fun tying a 5 kg weight to your balls. If you're female ... well, I'm sure you'll think of something. Avoid, if this means anything to you. -
MCT:November 7, 2007
Jon Favreau is a movie god. I never thought he'd be able to make a film comparable to "Swingers", one of my favorite films, but he did. Vince Vaughn's performance is irresistibly funny.
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MCT:October 27, 2007
In Ricky, Vince Vaughn may have created the single most annoying character on film...and I loved every second. From his "wink", to the airplane, to the final scene in Chucky Cheese ("where were you 5 minutes ago when the kids were here?"). Favreau wrote the character for Vaughn, and I`m so glad he did. I love every minute of this film.
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MCT:August 17, 2007
It's a good movie if you enjoy watching Vince Vaughn make an ass out of himself. After coming off the heels of Swingers, I treated Made as a spiritual successor because it had Favreau and Vaughn teamed up again. It was nothing like Swingers. I still enjoyed it as a bit of drunken entertainment though. Just don't have much else to say about it.
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MCT:August 16, 2007
swingers co stars, vince vaughn, and john faverou, team up again in faverous directorial debut, faerou plays a wuld be boxer wanting to settle down, his pal, played by vaughn, is a wannabee mafia hotshot. mobboss max, peter falk offers the 2 guys a chance, all they gotta do is go to newyork, for a simple job, they jump at the chance, but when they get there things arnt as simple as they imagined, as dealing with newyork types, does not come easy, fareau and aughn are great here repeating the comedy pairing you saw in swingers, a sharp and witty script seeing the pair bumbling there way out of situations, remember the scene in swingers, faverou trying phone the girl, here see vaughn in 1st class on plane doing the same sortof thing, great supporting cast as well, and mr columbo, himself, being really good, and puff daddy him self putting in a great performance as a n.y hoodlum, a great watch.
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MCT:July 25, 2007
I can't watch this moive, its too well-acted. I hate Vince Vauhgan forever now. Fucking amazing. Oh, and Puffy's in it too.
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MCT:July 16, 2007
a good wee film but never really gets going to the full potential of the cast. all round good performances especially from vaughn and favreau who create some hilarious moments between their two characters. good soundtrack keeps this ticking over so worth watching for the comedy moments.
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MCT:July 12, 2007
The comedy is in the tension between the two main characters, and how one of them keeps pushing the envelope. Nearly a really great movie.
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MCT:May 23, 2007
Of this and Swingers, I liked Swingers better. But Favreau and Vaughn are a great acting pair. Their dialogue is always entertaining.
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