Best Ben Stiller Movie

Best Ben Stiller Movie

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Something About Mary made me laugh the most when i first saw it, so i voted that, but i enjoy watching Zoolander more nowadays if it's on.
 
That scrolling ad at the top of the page boils my f'n wee wee. Went to vote Tropic thunder but the ad scrolled down so i hit Night at the museum by mistake.

Keeping the Faith is an under rated movie
 
FyrFytr998 said:
Lots of haters of Walter Mitty. Didn't even make the poll.

If you like it, I gots luv for you bro.
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Mitty was an incredible film. It doesn't belong in this poll (neither does The Royal Tenenbaums, but I'll take every opportunity to applaud Wes Anderson given to me).

Flirting with Disaster, Along Came Polly, Keeping the Faith, While We're Young, Reality Bites, Permanent Midnight, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Royal Tenenbaums...these should have a separate poll. There was even a thread on here once asking if posters preferred the "comedic Ben Stiller" or the "dramatic Ben stiller". I share his love, I think, for tragicomedy. It's my favorite of all subgenres.
 
iThrillhouse said:
Tropic Thunder for this bit alone



"Well at least you get to choose yours....and im stuck with mine..."

god that part slays me every time.

brilliant comedic performances from McConaughey, Cruise, Hader, and RDJ
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My favorite scene.... Lol at 1:45... So good
 
Dodgeball

Tropic Thunder and Zoolander are incredible as well. Heavyweights is another fantastic movie, although Stiller didn't get as much screen time there.
 
meet the parents 1 beats out anything else by a mile.
 
HenryFlower said:
Uhhhhh, source? Smells like complete made up bullshit to me, considering Stiller wrote the character, directed the movie, and is directing/co-writing the sequel--a Zoolander sequel being something he has expressed interest in making for years.
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lol your not-so-secret grudge feud against me continues.

Funny you should talk about made-up bullshit, since that's actually been your trademark opinion-piece theatre around film threads I've called you on. You'll never see me be anything less than quantitative about replies.

Stiller wrote and created the character, but refused press repeatedly for the original Zoolander, according to Owen Wilson and The Guardian - preferring the writer/director side of the table and less of the constant comedy association, which his in-character pressers reinforced -

He was born to a showbiz family, the son of the stand-up duo Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller. You could say that comedy is in his blood except that he has always seen himself, first and foremost, as a director. In the early days he bobbed between jobs and genres. He made a sketch show for MTV, directed Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy and played dramatic roles in the likes of Next of Kin, Permanent Midnight and Your Friends and Neighbors.

"It was a weird development process, and I was just trying to figure it out. Then all of a sudden you do a couple of comedies, and that's that. It defines who you are and how people see you. But I have to accept it," he shrugs. "Even if that wasn't my plan. Even if I wish people didn't see me like that."
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Zoolander was a huge hit, with tons of fans including me. I'm saying Stiller's shown his fatigue with the comedy rep, and Zoolander reinforced every bit of that. His refusal of multiple Zoolander pressers (that Owen Wilson attended) was reported on.

Not to mention going on record calling the film's "pretty dumb" years later in an interview, seeing as I don't exactly make it a habit of bothering to write a post about something that hadn't caught my eye, years ago-

I'd been looking for the magazine in question, just to satisfy your salty ass, but it's obviously been 15 fucking years since that film came out, and the post-release press has aged, accordingly. The Guardian, Rolling Stone and tons of web archives dump their stuff. Rage on, brother.
 
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Zoolander simply because of the song. Meet the parents comes second because of Robert De Niro.
 
I haven't seen every movie on that list, but of the ones I had seen I have to vote for Meet The Parents. I can't think of many movies where I have felt so vicariously embarrassed for a protagonist before.
 
mrsenor said:
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Bravo sir!

I would hands down agree with this.

Although he is not the star I think one of his best works is The Cable Guy which he directed.

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MacDuffle said:
lol your not-so-secret grudge feud against me continues.

Funny you should talk about made-up bullshit, since that's actually been your trademark opinion-piece theatre around film threads I've called you on. You'll never see me be anything less than quantitative about replies.

Stiller wrote and created the character, but refused press repeatedly for the original Zoolander, according to Owen Wilson and The Guardian, preferring the writer/director side of the table, and less of the constant comedy association, which his in-character pressers reinforced -



Zoolander was a huge hit, with tons of fans including me. I'm saying Stiller's shown his fatigue with the comedy rep, and Zoolander reinforced every bit of that. His refusal of multiple Zoolander pressers (that Owen Wilson attended) was reported on.

Not to mention going on record calling the film's "pretty dumb" years later in an interview, seeing as I don't exactly make it a habit of bothering to write a post about something that hadn't caught my eye, years ago-

I'd been looking for the magazine in question, just to satisfy your salty ass, but it's obviously been 15 fucking years since that film came out, and the post-release press has aged, accordingly. The Guardian and Rolling Stone and tons of web archives dump their stuff.
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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:
MacDuffle said:
Ben Stiller apparently hated that fucking role
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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.
"It was a gradual process, honestly. We started working on a script back in 2005."
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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.
"I’ve been trying to get Zoolander 2 together and we’ve had a few scripts. I feel that is the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first."
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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.
 
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Zero Effect

An underrated gem from the 90s. No one ever casually talks about this movie and it's very very good.
 
Also Ben Stiller is awesome. Who doesn't like him, Seems like a real nice guy.

Plus he played an asshole on Curb Your Enthusiasim and he was great on it. And he's made plenty of funny ass movies.
 
As I stated earllier it's Something about Mary hands down, but this thread inspired me to rewatch Tropic Thunder. Really good movie. That could have gone so wrong but it didnt. And overall Ben has a pretty solid list. I have probably somewhat underrated him.

On a side note, here is the interesting thing for me about S.A.M. When that movie came out the ad campaign sucked. They had no idea how to market that movie. But then a few people saw it, and they laughed their asses off. Then they told people, and those people told people and the word spread. It took weeks before it was a hit. This was before the internet was widespread like it is now. There are very few movies that make more money week after week after release. It says a lot about how how different that movie is.
 
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