<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, matthew mconaughey]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, matthew mconaughey]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/matthewmconaughey http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/matthewmconaughey <![CDATA[Tomorrow's In-Flight Viewing Today, Starring Matthew McConaughey]]> The good news for Matthew McConaughey: His forthcoming romcom Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is certain to debut to at least 200 times the opening gross of his singular flop Surfer, Dude. The bad news?

The new trailer for Ghosts hardly suggests McConaughey's latest signature genre effort is 200 times better than Surfer, Dude. Or even one time better, really, instead smashing convention boilerplate — successful, recalcitrant cad meets match (Jennifer Garner) en route to star-crossed matrimony — into A Christmas Carol, complete with dead playboy (Michael Douglas) and three ghostly girlfriends to help shepherd... oh, for Christ's sake. Here. Here's the fucking trailer — this year's reductive model, the movie you'll be lip-reading five months from now when the passenger next to you in coach leaves the seat-back monitor on before falling asleep, the Talk! Of! Access Hollywood! for five minutes in late April, and very likely the first film to keep Violet Affleck up at night wondering what Daddy meant when he yelled all that stuff at Mommy about "slumming." They grow up so fast.

Or maybe it symbolizes something more significant to you (the continued flogging of New Line's corpse?); we're open to any interpretations you have. Fire away. [YouTube]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5144811&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA['Surfer, Dude' Confirms Matthew McConaughey's Schtick Not So Cute When You're Required To Pay For It]]> Just two weeks after Matthew McConaughey had his first child, he's already lost the pregnancy weight. If that's not reason enough to hate him, there's also this trailer for Surfer, Dude (if you're confused by that comma, just wait until you watch the the video!), a stoner comedy for people turned off by Pineapple Express's high production values and ability to elicit laughter. What's going on here? Well, several famous weed-enthusiasts (Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson) have contributed their talents to a project seemingly conceived not to send up McConaughey's reputation, but rather to enable it: The entire thing seems like it was shot in short bursts between surfing runs and rent-a-car hotboxing opportunities, by the very same P.A.s who sauntered up to McConaughey in Malibu with tar-stained outline in hand, pledging, "We'd throw paparazzi down for you, brah."

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