[kj] OT Boycott .the film Tropic Thunder

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Stiller had a very bit part at a young age in Empire of the Sun.

I am a fan of about 50% of Stiller's works, personally. Hated Night at 
the Museum, liked Something About Mary and Meet the Parents (but not the 
sequel), which I think are his two best. I do like Zoolander. As one 
critic noted, he either plays a supremely UN-confident man, crouching 
through life awaiting the next insult or put-down (Meet the Parents), or 
he plays an over-the-top arrogantly confident, yet absurd guy -- as in 
his role in Dodgeball, which I kind of liked. It's the latter he also 
apparently plays in Tropic Thunder.

I am starved for comedies that actually make me laugh, so I might see 
Tropic Thunder. Maybe I'll try to find a way to see it without paying, 
in case the dsiability put-dpwns really are gratuitous. But my 
understanding is that Still and the other characetrs are unlikable jerks 
anyway, very self-obsessed, so they're using the word retard is "in 
character" for them, and adds to their unlikable-ness.

-Oliver

folk devil wrote:

> I guess I'm opposite to you, Sade. I won't go to see the film, because 

> of Stiller. The guy's face is enough to put me off.

> I am curious whether this is something of a 'cultural difference' 

> between North Americans and Euros and Antipodeans?? 

> I had no recollection of him being in Empire of the Sun?

>