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Pain & Gain
Directed by Michael Bay
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to… From TMDB
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Pain & Gain is a 2013 comedy crime action film, directed by Michael Bay, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie.
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60 of 116 · most liked firstFun fact but Rebel Wilson was a virgin when she appeared in Ghost Rider, Bridesmaids, Pitch Perfect, Pain & Gain, the Ice Age movie she did, the Night at the Museum she was on, and Pitch Perfect 2. I dunno if that's what TC wanted to see though
neutral · AI labelView post →apropos of nothing, thinking about how, although he's very funny in THE RUNDOWN and legit amazing in PAIN & GAIN, Dwayne Johnson is inconceivable in a KNIVES OUT movie and could never put on those little glasses like in BLADE RUNNER 2049.
neutral · AI labelView post →The theater has an odd rule where it not only allows cell phone use but requires it. The man hands one to you and says to dial. This is the best Michael Bay movie since Pain & Gain
neutral · AI labelView post →Time-traveling GameCube controller on the floor in Michael Bay's PAIN & GAIN (2013), a movie set in 1994.
neutral · AI labelView post →PAIN & GAIN is on TV so I am happily watching PAIN & GAIN again because PAIN & GAIN is a phenomenal movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I still stand by my proposal that for every live-action remake of an animated film, a studio should be required to release an animated remake of a live-action film. If The Rock really had to make a live-action Moana, we should’ve gotten an animated Pain & Gain.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Pain & Gain last night and it's definitely about the latter camp. Is the most Trumpism coded movie I've seen.
neutral · AI labelView post →in a movie with a bunch of macho assholes, there's one I really like in Pain & Gain Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) asks Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) if he wants to go get a beer, and Doyle says he's sober Lugo says "it's just an expression, you don't have to order alcohol," comforting Doyle, who now has a friend
neutral · AI labelView post →I like The Rock! Pretty much! The movie not the guy. The grill master scene in Pain & Gain is top tier dark comedy. I don't remember the rest of the movie but hey! His Transformers movies suck but he produced Bumblebee and that's not nothin. See? I can be nice.
positive · AI labelView post →Did we get a season 2? Sure, in the show's universe, switching actors made complete sense. They literally can put their consciousness in another body, it's the entire premise, yes. Anthony Mackie isn't a bad actor whatsoever. I liked him in The Banker, Pain & Gain and some other shit he's done. Yet, to me, the show went to shit as soon as he became Kovacs. Just seemed like a huge tonal shift the show didn't need. And it's been a while, but if I remember correctly, the character felt like a…
neutral · AI labelView post →As the #1 Pain & Gain stan, I can't imagine a better casting choice than mark who clearly feels some kind of way in having to act with his body in the same frame as The Rock and Anthony Mackie's giant figures and it makes the film that much more insane.
positive · AI labelView post →In honor of THE SMASHING MACHINE trailer, here's me writing about The Rock's best movie performance (in Michael Bay's masterpiece PAIN & GAIN) www.slashfilm.com/1063301/dway...
neutral · AI labelView post →Up there with Pain&Gain for Bay's best film.
positive · AI labelView post →For the first time since Pain & Gain, Dwayne Johnson will act in a movie
neutral · AI labelView post →PAIN & GAIN is a masterpiece. Yes, I know you hate The Rock and Mark Wahlberg AND Michael Bay. That does not matter. That movie is a perfect fusion of director, cast, and subject matter, the kind of lightning in a bottle that very few have captured. Dwayne Johnson should have an Oscar.
positive · AI labelView post →He's great in PAIN & GAIN. Watching him do the cocaine jaw-clench is endlessly funny. He's an animal in that film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I rewatched Pain & Gain last night. It’s still the defining movie about America of the last 25 years. That’s not a compliment, though the film is a masterpiece boxd.it/8EMqZp
neutral · AI labelView post →Raising yet again the question of whether Pain & Gain was clever confession or brilliant self parody. (Either way, it’s Bay’s “best.”) larsenonfilm.com/pain-gain
neutral · AI labelView post →Pain & Gain, now that's a fucking movie
positive · AI labelView post →9. Pain & Gain by Michael Bay is actually a good movie. Probably his only great one
positive · AI labelView post →they could start by showing Michael Bay’s 2013 film “Pain & Gain,” because of what it is at the pump, and also because of what the price of the gas is doing.
neutral · AI labelView post →I will forever say he got robbed a nom on Pain & Gain simply because no one was gonna nominate a Bay film for a top Oscar.
positive · AI labelView post →i hope michael bay’s skibidi toilet movie is more like if you threw Pain & Gain into a meat grinder with Transformers
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney+ released a list of essential projects to watch before AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY: The Shaggy Dog (2006) Bubble Boy Mannequin Not Another Teen Movie Hot Tub Time Machine Pain & Gain Anger Management Penguins of Madagascar Snakes on a Plane The Island
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah, from Michael Bay to Coen Brothers, like the dark and light of my soul. Also, it was really funny when Bay tried to make a Coen Brothers style film with Pain & Gain and wound up making - SURPRISE, SURPRISE - a comically inhumane, nihilistic farce! #TheFilmCrowd
neutral · AI labelView post →"Here’s why it already sounds like a terrible idea. Michael Bay, the filmmaker behind Pearl Harbor, Pain & Gain and the Transformers movies, is set to direct a film about Operation Epic Fury." They could just stop the article there.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's wild how good Pain & Gain is, such an excellently crafted and pointed film about the lie of the American Dream with such a disdain for pretty much every single character in the film
positive · AI labelView post →A few recommends of titles that are better than you might expect or lesser known but good. Deepwater Horizon (2016) Jarhead (2005) Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) October Sky (1999) Pain & Gain (2013) - The Rocks best movie Silence (2016) - A Scorsese no one talks about Speed Racer (2008) - Insane
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★ review of Pain & Gain on Letterboxd boxd.it/9bUiPJ 🎬 #moviesky #movie #series #filmsky #tvshow
neutral · AI labelView post →This read fits very well with PAIN & GAIN (2013) the (imo excellent and criminally underappreciated) movie Michael Bay made for himself instead of for a franchise paycheck
positive · AI labelView post →Listen, there are very hard limits to my defenses of Michael Bay (primarily The Rock and Pain & Gain), but I'm blaming that one on the director and writers more than Bay as producer. I don't think he HELPED (and he's the one who gave that guy a career) but I don't think of it as a Bay movie
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Pain & Gain on @letterboxd: boxd.it/Xl0vL
positive · AI labelView post →HILARIOUS!! Have you seen the movie "Pain & Gain?" Anthony Mackie is TOO FUNNY in this movie. Anyway, The Rock steals a bag of $ with a dye pack. It explodes & he has neon green all over him as he's running from the Popo!!His toe gets shot off as he's swimming underwater. It's too much!! BWAHAHAHA!🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →I really thought he found himself as an actor with Pain & Gain and seemed content that it was only a Michael Bay movie about douchebags and thoroughly enjoyed himself in that role. I don’t remember him writing letters for it to be at Cannes that year.
positive · AI labelView post →DAY 21: Pain & Gain. This is an absolutely hilarious nihilistic dark comedy crime movie from Michael Bay that i love so so much. One of the BEST Dwayne Johnson performances, some insane shots, and just the dumbest bunch of assholes ever. God this movie is funny and stupid. I love it to bits.
positive · AI labelView post →Joyride is a great choice. Every great NYT list has an outlier normie movie (mine was Pain & Gain). I suspect the instinct driving this is something like: some of us have a template in our minds for what mass market entertainment could accomplish in a better world
neutral · AI labelView post →Jesus. I’m definitely not defending Michael Bay. Now I feel like I need a shower. For the most part I find his movies unwatchable. Pain & Gain is the exception. It’s a genuinely well done movie, where the suspense is real, the humor lands and the drama has depth.
positive · AI labelView post →Pain & Gain is actually a good movie! The Rock is also a fun movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Meanwhile from that era we have stuff like Pain & Gain sitting with ass reviews and one of the most fun experiences I've ever had with a movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, relax. No one's questioning your vocational acumen. But I do still feel like I'm owed an apology for the slanderous comment made about myself and the movie Pain & Gain.
positive · AI labelView post →Oh wow! She was great in the show! Did you ever see the movie Pain & Gain with Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson? I lived in North Bay Village and it was largely shot at my local shopping center on 79th St. and at the motel next door to my condo.
neutral · AI labelView post →grudging respect by refusing to cooperate. ("You're a very difficult victim," one character tells him.) There isn't really anyone to root for in Pain & Gain, but the film sweeps you into its strange, shiny world of fitness, self-help and stupid, violent crime all the same.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the 2013 Michael Bay film "Pain & Gain," about a trio of lunkheaded bodybuilders - Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie - who kidnap a wealthy businessman to steal his money. Like all Bay films, Pain & Gain is bombastic and over the top, but I was with it all the way. The film
positive · AI labelView post →Do you have an explainer that’s twice as long as the movie for Pain & Gain? Cause I might want to check that out.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve never seen it either but I bet it’s somethin. You know what’s movie is obnoxiously American that I genuinely like even though it’s a big ol pile of dog shit? Pain & Gain.
neutral · AI labelView post →I especially love Eddington, but I'd also nominate Michael Bay's Pain & Gain, which I recently saw. His take on a Coen Brothers film, it's an ugly and crass portrait of the ugly and crass parts of the USA. @willsloanesq.bsky.social does a good job breaking it down here letterboxd.com/will_sloan/f...
positive · AI labelView post →I'm intrigued by the idea of Mark Wahlberg being directed by Elegance Bratton but when was the last time he was actually in a good movie? I know there are PAIN & GAIN apologists + I have a soft spot for the first TED but arguably the last time he really "tried" was in THE FIGHTER, 16 years ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pain & Gain was released in movie theaters 13 years ago today. I stumbled across this one a few years ago for the first time. It is one wild story! youtu.be/U_MNiopwFxs?... #Movies #Cinema #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →2013 Movies (2) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone: ⭐⭐/4 Olympus Has Fallen: ⭐⭐⭐/4 The Host: ⭐⭐/4 Evil Dead: ⭐⭐⭐/4 Scary Movie 5: ⭐/4 Oblivion: ⭐⭐⭐/4 Pain & Gain: ⭐⭐⭐/4
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the all time movie noises I think about is this hilarious wheeze-cry-laugh The Rock does in "Pain & Gain" when he gets busted during a home invasion for coke money
neutral · AI labelView post →Pain & Gain changed my entire mind about Michael Bay- I realized he really is auteur with a cinematic vision who just needs to be let go and be allowed to make whatever he wants to make that movie is so good, it's insane, it's basically "Florida men: the movie, and it's based on a real story"
positive · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Something (someone!) is duct taped in a movie. Pain & Gain (2013)
neutral · AI labelView post →Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Movies, Ranked: www.metacritic.com/pictures/dwa... #25 - Pain & Gain - "Wahlberg and Johnson are the saving graces of an in-your-face movie." - Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow, can't believe you managed to put aside your hatred of Emily Blunt to write this. Blink twice if you're the real Hannah. ;) (Glad I'll finally have another film to put next to Pain & Gain on the "The Rock CAN act when arsed" shelf.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Pain & Gain (2013) and rated it 4 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/mo333/film/pain-gain/ #FilmSky 📽️🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Pain & Gain. First off: watching this on YouTube TV was a miserable experience, but that’s not the movie’s fault. Pain & Gain is basically an elaborate, true Florida Man story, filmed as the big, flashy action movie that its characters see themselves living in. Unexpected brilliance from Bay
positive · AI labelView post →Michael Bay’s movie PAIN & GAIN was dismissed at the time, in 2013. But it plays like a warning for the future of America and our tendency fully embrace the con artist. youtu.be/EEG5ZeIiPM4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →We talk about the insanely fun 2013 Michael Bay movie PAIN & GAIN, featuring what is probably The Rock's best performance, in the newest entry in our Summer of Rock miniseries. YouTube: youtu.be/sFaY5hRAP1E Spotify: bit.ly/416Auyq Apple: bit.ly/413OKbe
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my movie critic opinions is that the Invitation, Hateful 8 and Pain & Gain form a tryptic that foresees our current world.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm offended about Pain & Gain lol that movie is incredibly entertaining!
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