Southpaw (movie thread) July 31 - Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whittaker, Rachel McAdams

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This movie looks incredible. 
 
I swear it creeps me out how his sister looks just like him if he was an old lady
Damn she ugly
 
Gonna watch but i wish these actors could spend a couple years and actually learn how to box instead of juicing up to make em look like bodybuilders. Imo Daniel day lewis in the boxer would be able to handle every actor thats pretended to be a fighter for a movie role.
 
Well actors has to do others films and they can't just train boxing for a couple of years, I mean dude has to be super skinny for is Nightcrawler role so obviously he can't just train and train when he is trying to maintain a different image for different roles. For this film, Jake didn't just get jacked but also trained boxing albeit only for 6 months but still better than just roiding up.



According to director Antoine Fuqua, the Jarhead actor would be in the boxing ring seven days a week in preparation for the role, with a six-hours-a-day training routine.

“I had him training twice a day in the boxing ring; he did two-a-days, seven days a week,” Fuqua told an American news site.

“I had him train at Floyd Mayweather’s gym in Vegas and we watched Floyd’s fights, and the Manny Pacquiao fight. He trained in New York at Church Gym with real fighters. We literally turned him into a beast.

“He was training like a fighter. I had him sparring, really getting hit. I put him in situations where I wanted to see what he was made of. No one but fighters understand the sacrifice it takes to be a fighter.”

Scott Laider, a fitness coach and columnist for Telegraph Men, suggests that Gyllenhaal would also have gone to several weight-training sessions a week in the six months leading up to filming, but that he would not have done this to the same extent as other body-builders.
“For him, it’s not just a question of gaining muscle mass,” Laider said. “He also had to learn to move and look like a boxer.

“If he was doing high volume workouts - a typical bodybuilder might do 16 sets a day - he would have been aching too much to box. I think he would have done weight training three times a week. There would have been a focus on big compound movements, like squats, deadlifts and military push-ups.”

The fitness coach added that while actors seeking to dramatically reduce their weight for a role - such as McConaughey for The Dallas Buyers Club - may be damaging their bodies in the long-term, it is “not inherently unhealthy” to gain a large amount of muscle mass in a short amount of time.

“It’s not easy to do. How many people can dedicate themselves to six hours a day working out, apart from athletes and actors? Depending on what their starting point was, I think someone coming to me and looking to gain muscle mass could do a similar thing in a year or 18 months.”
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Plot was predictable but still a good watch nonetheless.

JG just killed it as usual. 

His character was really inspiring/motivational. 

Whitaker nailed it too. 
 
Maybe I'm the only one but I wasn't expecting it to be so emotional... I thought the plot was totally about something else. It was ok though... Didn't like how he played like was drugged out..
 
Watched it during the screening so I got to see it for free. It was a good movie to me, I would watch it again. 
 
Just watched this a few days ago and must say this is one of the best movies I've seen in a while.  Predictable for the most part, but for me, it got my emotions attached to the characters and storyline- that's something most movies don't do. JG is should definately be considered for an oscar nominee. His last few movies like Nightcrawler and the other cop movie (cant remember the name), he played great characters as well. 
 
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Unfortunately I saw the trailer when I saw Mad Max which spoils the entire movie. Will probably watch on discount day or wait and rent it later.
 
SoleWoman said:
Maybe I'm the only one but I wasn't expecting it to be so emotional... I thought the plot was totally about something else. It was ok though... Didn't like how he played like was drugged out..
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I was expecting something. Completely different too, left pleasantly surprised tho
 
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