Tropic Thunder (Stiller is Hyooge)

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[quote]dday wrote:
Stillers ok but he’s not Brad Pitt in fight club, now that’s jacked, you know he did all kinds of roids to look like that. I read Pitt was on the NO2, that shit’s like illegal in 54 states.[/quote]

I heard he drinks water that’s been filtered by conch snails of the Caribbean. At least, that is what the Soviets have been doing for decades. Maybe that’s how the Canadian Olympic bobsledders got such amazing work capacity. I also heard that Mariusz Pudzianowski went to lift at their gym and was laughed all the way home because they were warming up with his top set weight while text messaging.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
WhiteFlash wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Stiller is an ass.

I have a good friend who along with his wife worked as extras on “Along Came Polly”. They both told me Stiller was an arrogant, condescending prima donna who showed nothing but contempt for the “regular folks” on the set.

FWIW, my buddy and his wife are in what I believe is the opening scene of the movie on the Hawaiian beach - she in her bikini lying on a blanket.

Along those same lines I have an ex who bartends at a club in Miami called SET, and Mickey Rourke is a regular. She tells me he is a world class douchebag. So fucked up he can’t articulate a sentence, doesn’t tip, drools on himself, all kinds of shit.

He was sitting at her bar when she had to stand on the bar to get a bottle and he stuffed what she thinks was meth in her boot. She asks what he’s doing and he stumbles over himself and walks off. She trhew the bag away and the night went on.

I’ve got a handful of jerkoff celebrity stories now that I think about it.

Oh ya Stiller is SWOLEZ!!!

I’ve heard the guy is more of a douche since The Wrestler. See how I bothered to put the title of the movie in italics? That’s how much I care.

I have a theory and it’s nothing more than a theory so don’t think anymore of it than that but I think he’s a John Wayne actor. Hear me out. I don’t think he “acts”; I think he says his lines and acts like himself. He plays douchebag roles and he plays them effectively just like the Duke played the western hero role so effectively because that was his personality.

Face it, Stiller has typecast himself as a jerk and it may just be that way because he truly is one. Convenient for him because he doesn’t have to work too hard and he still gets the big bucks.

I think Rourke might just fit in with my theory too. Think about it. He almost always plays the weeeeeeird, twisted guy, right?[/quote]

I don’t disagree with you at all. I haven’t seen The Wrestler, but I totally believe that the character wasn’t a stretch for him at all, just as much as any dipshit character Stiller ever played.

I liked Rourke in Sin City, but any semi-muscular, angry guy could have played that role. Several guys on this very Forum could have done that role the same justice.

I should be a f’ing actor…or at least a movie critic.

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It’s a shame that most Hollywood actors are niche actors.

Look at Will Ferrel. Ben Stiller. Johnny Depp. Al Pacino…lots of others. It is RARE to see an actor play roles that are so diverse that you don’t even recognize them.

An actor might play different roles between two films but they might play those two roles the SAME way, hence why I call them niche actors. They should not be recognizable in any role.

Great example of a non-niche actor: Don Cheadle or Hank Azarea (think Bird Cage, then his role as the boyfriend in Heat…worlds apart).

Brad Pitt can be odd ball roles and play them well, actually, but he tends to play any serious role the same way (Benjamin Button is an example of this…Snatch is a good counter example).

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I believe he used a 50/50 mix of Kettlebells and fluorescent stretch bands.

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[quote]Rattler wrote:
abcd1234 wrote:
A marked improvement over his Dodgeball physique.

Yet still, he was bigger than most actors in hollywood.[/quote]

…and bigger than most members here.

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don’t hate. it’s not cute.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
Jay-B wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Stiller is an ass.

I have a good friend who along with his wife worked as extras on “Along Came Polly”. They both told me Stiller was an arrogant, condescending prima donna who showed nothing but contempt for the “regular folks” on the set.

FWIW, my buddy and his wife are in what I believe is the opening scene of the movie on the Hawaiian beach - she in her bikini lying on a blanket.

So Stiller is an ass because you heard that he is from a friend of yours who never talked to the guy and never really got to know him? Interesting.

No, precisely the opposite. My friend DID talk to him and DID get to know him. And that’s what makes it interesting.

Do you have problems with dyslexia?[/quote]

Nope, I don’t have problems with dyslexia. Do you have problems with dysgraphia? Your initial post was ambiguous and poorly written. Furthermore, you did not clarify that your friends actually talked to Stiller, merely that they were extras on a set with him. Now that you clarify your point more succinctly it does in fact make it interesting.

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[quote]Jay-B wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Jay-B wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Stiller is an ass.

I have a good friend who along with his wife worked as extras on “Along Came Polly”. They both told me Stiller was an arrogant, condescending prima donna who showed nothing but contempt for the “regular folks” on the set.

FWIW, my buddy and his wife are in what I believe is the opening scene of the movie on the Hawaiian beach - she in her bikini lying on a blanket.

So Stiller is an ass because you heard that he is from a friend of yours who never talked to the guy and never really got to know him? Interesting.

No, precisely the opposite. My friend DID talk to him and DID get to know him. And that’s what makes it interesting.

Do you have problems with dyslexia?

Nope, I don’t have problems with dyslexia. Do you have problems with dysgraphia? Your initial post was ambiguous and poorly written. Furthermore, you did not clarify that your friends actually talked to Stiller, merely that they were extras on a set with him. Now that you clarify your point more succinctly it does in fact make it interesting.

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Final point, ‘problems with dyslexia’ is redundant. Further proof that you may need to get checked for dysgraphia.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
It’s a shame that most Hollywood actors are niche actors.

Look at Will Ferrel. Ben Stiller. Johnny Depp. Al Pacino…lots of others. It is RARE to see an actor play roles that are so diverse that you don’t even recognize them.

An actor might play different roles between two films but they might play those two roles the SAME way, hence why I call them niche actors. They should not be recognizable in any role.

Great example of a non-niche actor: Don Cheadle or Hank Azarea (think Bird Cage, then his role as the boyfriend in Heat…worlds apart).

Brad Pitt can be odd ball roles and play them well, actually, but he tends to play any serious role the same way (Benjamin Button is an example of this…Snatch is a good counter example).[/quote]

I’d throw Russel Crowe in the list of those who play different actors.

Gladiator? That last movie with DiCaprio? That one cutesy one… “A Good Year”, and Beautiful Mind.

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Goona get me some crrrraawfish

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u know how rocky got all shredded up for rocky 2? that’s kinda how you look now, all shredded up like rocky 2 not rocky 1.
rocky 2 shredded = squat rack curls with a safety or spider bar

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I don’t give a shit that movie has me rolling every time I watch it. Downey Jr. owns it till Cruise steals it. “No mo’ frequent flya bitch miles for my boi!”

Wasn’t Stiller pimping Biotest stuff at least for awhile? Had T-Nation shirts hanging in his shop in Dodgeball?

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lance?! …shit everybody is gay sometime.

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Now i don’t know for a fact whether he was on steroids or not, but simply being an actor opens up a good bit of time for someone like stiller to train. I mean think about it, if your a millionaire, you have: Money, time, and people.

All Stiller had to do was hire a personal trainer, personal chef/dietitian and go out and buy tons of T-Nation supps. Now i’m sure he worked hard for the results, but if i had a person cooking me 5 healthy means a day and someone working out with me whenever i want i’d have some impressive results also

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ben stiller > zach braff

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[quote]jahall wrote:
Now i don’t know for a fact whether he was on steroids or not, but simply being an actor opens up a good bit of time for someone like stiller to train. I mean think about it, if your a millionaire, you have: Money, time, and people.

All Stiller had to do was hire a personal trainer, personal chef/dietitian and go out and buy tons of T-Nation supps. Now i’m sure he worked hard for the results, but if i had a person cooking me 5 healthy means a day and someone working out with me whenever i want i’d have some impressive results also[/quote]

he has less free time, i’m sure, than people assume. he has family. he has been directing and producing while acting on his projects from a young age. and i hardly think it was easy to keep that cast in line and on point and still able to shine. downey jr may be sweet and genius but he is and will always be an addict. nolte is kooky. j. black acts like a fool but looks like he knows how to be a professional. cruise is dynamic to say the least.

it’s a different life. it has perks but pressure to go along with it. not to make him out to be a superhero but by the same token why assume people have an easy life. it’s easy when you are doing what you always wanted to do but effort is effort. hollywood takes itself seriously so i’m sure no one but him and those working on the film were supportive of the concept.