Best Ben Stiller Movie

[choke you]

Something about Mary although I haven't seen zoolander yet

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

Tropic thunder and the underrated Starsky and Hutch.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Voted for Zoolander but totally forgot about Something About Mary.

Fuck

The latter is much, much better

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

Well damn, I am the only one who voted Starsky n Hutch lol

But I do like most of the others just the same,so my vote couldve been for either or.

I voted Mary, but S & H was a close second

 

[wlu29]

The royal tenenbaums is the best movie but something about Mary is his best performance

 

[MacDuffle]

Don't get your nipples in a twist just because I was curious about where you heard such absurd things. It just seemed highly unlikely that Stiller would hate one of his most memorable characters, which he himself helped to write and create. Seemed like you were just making a bunch of nonsense up. That's all bruv. So do you just mean to say that at some point in 2008, around the release of Tropic Thunder and having nothing whatsoever to do with Zoolander, Ben Stiller expressed a desire to add a little bit more range to his directing and acting career/reputation?

Because this is what you originally said, and what I was originally addressing, and none of your response actually supports what you had said here:

This isn't true of course. Stiller never hated Zoolander, whether film or character, or else he probably wouldn't work on scripts for a sequel to reprise a role he hated.
It was only a few years after the release of Zoolander that work on the sequel began.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...n-stiller-on-how-zoolander-2-finally-happened
Then a few years after that, in 2008, Stiller expressed his desire to get this sequel up off the ground.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/12/ben-stiller-talks-zoolander-2.html
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0618008/

There's absolutely nothing that would give any indication that Stiller hated Zoolander.

lol you're still throwing a tantrum about getting trashed in threads that had nothing to do with this.

Zoolander was one of Stiller's earliest smash-hit comedies, cementing his reputation as a "comedy guy" and that's really all I meant by suggesting he'd have reasons to hate the role he created. Including suggesting that idea based on what I honestly meant about reading something OVER TEN YEARS AGO where he totally did insult the film for being a dumb premise. Also I hate to break this fact to you: He's not exactly the only person on the planet who thought "dumb" when they saw Zoolander, creator credits aside:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/zoolander-2001

That's the funniest thing about your defensiveness. The fact that you would bend your ass over to defend such a mixed-reception comedy (half of audiences think it's a cult classic, the other half can't fucking stand it lol) shows that you're hitting the books and poring over positive interviews because you're just doing it out of salty, defensive grudge-match with me.

Why don't you go back to stereotyping world cinema, and backing your claims up with zero evidence. Researching "Zoolander" this hard shows your hand.


*Edit:
Nice avatar, you pretentious, college-age poof.

 

[HenryFlower]

lol you're still throwing a tantrum about getting trashed in threads that had nothing to do with this.

Zoolander was one of Stiller's earliest smash-hit comedies, cementing his reputation as a "comedy guy" and that's really all I meant by suggesting he'd have reasons to hate the role he created. Including suggesting that idea based on what I honestly meant about reading something OVER TEN YEARS AGO where he totally did insult the film for being a dumb premise. Also I hate to break this fact to you: He's not exactly the only person on the planet who thought "dumb" when they saw Zoolander, creator credits aside:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/zoolander-2001

That's the funniest thing about your defensiveness. The fact that you would bend your ass over to defend such a mixed-reception comedy (half of audiences think it's a cult classic, the other half can't fucking stand it lol) shows that you're hitting the books and poring over positive interviews because you're just doing it out of salty, defensive grudge-match with me.

You sure do have delusions of grandeur about yourself, yeah? It's uncomfortable and awkward. Just saying.

It is a bit odd that you would call Zoolander a smash hit so that you can defend a point you are trying to make, but then completely contradict that so that you can attempt to disregard what I was saying by pointing out that Zoolander has a mixed reception. Gr8 deb8 m8. If anything cemented Stiller's reputation as a "comedy guy" it is his stretch of films from 2004-2008. Zoolander was by no means a nail in that coffin, not even close. Without any evidence of that interview the context of saying "a dumb premise" is completely ambiguous and by no means indicative of him "hating that fucking role." Not to mention, in that interview you took a snippet from, Stiller doesn't even express any hatred for comedy or working with comedy, so I cannot perceive how you would deduce that as potential evidence for this idea that Stiller hates the Zoolander role/film. And thank you, but it is no mystery that Zoolander received a lukewarm critical reception at the time of its release. Not sure what you are trying to prove by that, except for contradicting yourself I guess.

If I'm being defensive you're being equally defensive, surely you must realize that. No ass being bent over on my end either. One Google search does the trick, easy reeses pieces. No need to weed through "positive" or "negative" interviews either, since there really isn't a divide like that, nor are there a plethora of interviews to begin with. They're all primarily optimistic, for which ones exist out there. Not quite "hitting the books" or "researching" tbh, since it took three minutes. Think what you must though, because I imagine you have trouble sleeping at night.

Why don't you go back to stereotyping world cinema, and backing your claims up with zero evidence. Researching "Zoolander" this hard shows your hand.


*Edit:
Nice avatar, you pretentious, college-age poof.

This really shows your ineptitude and uncontrollable rage. You just completely misread my posts in that thread, assumed I was saying one thing when I was saying another, and flipped your bitch fit switch, blind to any legitimate reasoning to dispel your raging. How often do you need to buy a new keyboard?

Also cute that you whined about hurling insults in the world cinema thread when nobody actually insulted you, yet right here you use a pretty direct insult. You must be mad, friendo. You fired up or something?

 

[MacDuffle]

You sure do have delusions of grandeur about yourself, yeah? It's uncomfortable and awkward. Just saying.

It is a bit odd that you would call Zoolander a smash hit so that you can defend a point you are trying to make, but then completely contradict that so that you can attempt to disregard what I was saying by pointing out that Zoolander has a mixed reception. Gr8 deb8 m8. If anything cemented Stiller's reputation as a "comedy guy" it is his stretch of films from 2004-2008. Zoolander was by no means a nail in that coffin, not even close. Without any evidence of that interview the context of saying "a dumb premise" is completely ambiguous and by no means indicative of him "hating that fucking role." Not to mention, in that interview you took a snippet from, Stiller doesn't even express any hatred for comedy or working with comedy, so I cannot perceive how you would deduce that as potential evidence for this idea that Stiller hates the Zoolander role/film. And thank you, but it is no mystery that Zoolander received a lukewarm critical reception at the time of its release. Not sure what you are trying to prove by that, except for contradicting yourself I guess.

If I'm being defensive you're being equally defensive, surely you must realize that. No ass being bent over on my end either. One Google search does the trick, easy reeses pieces. No need to weed through "positive" or "negative" interviews either, since there really isn't a divide like that, nor are there a plethora of interviews to begin with. They're all primarily optimistic, for which ones exist out there. Not quite "hitting the books" or "researching" tbh, since it took three minutes. Think what you must though, because I imagine you have trouble sleeping at night.


This really shows your ineptitude and uncontrollable rage. You just completely misread my posts in that thread, assumed I was saying one thing when I was saying another, and flipped your bitch fit switch, blind to any legitimate reasoning to dispel your raging. How often do you need to buy a new keyboard?

Also cute that you whined about hurling insults in the world cinema thread when nobody actually insulted you, yet right here you use a pretty direct insult. You must be mad, friendo. You fired up or something?

I said "cult classic" you salty bitch.
Be specific, as you've been told before. Be smart about what you pick fights over. You'll take less shit for it.

Cult classic. Totally different meaning. It implies mixed reception.

Zoolander added to Stiller's "shallow comedic" rep, when he's wanted to be taken seriously as a writer/director for years.

That's really the gist of my OP. Piss about all you want, poofda.

You're spiraling out on film press articles, born from a grudge for getting told off in another thread. Zoolander is great at a lot of things.

Boosting Stiller's rep into being "taken seriously" wasn't one of them.