[kj] OT Boycott .the film Tropic Thunder

[Brendan]

I recommend 'Bottle Rocket,' if you haven't already seen it, Owen and Luke
Wilson back in the late 90s or early 2000s, classic.

Meet the Parents is so rewatchable, I've seen it about half a dozen times
at least...Stiller the dufus cracks me up generally. The other jock
character he plays is a bit lame. What was that movie where he was the
sadicstic school camp fitness teacher? Lame.


> 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?

>>

>

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