[Gaffer]

I was kind of ambivalent about this movie based on the trailers. I’ll probably not see it if it is a two-life fantasy piece.

Honestly, there are so many ‘stars’ who at some point in their careers who’ve become famous for, say comedy or other aspect, venture off into roles and stories they feel have to validate themselves as a ‘serious actor’.

There are several luminaries (Sandler, Stiller, Carrey, Williams, Dreyfus, et al) who fit this description, and they have made some of the most god-awful pigs one can imagine. Additionally most of them inevitably turn out to be pure liberal leftists.

[SoFloFreeper]

I understand.

I think Stiller, by and large, is a bit different from the others you mentioned. Granted he is likely a pretty leftist Hollywood type....but he is talented in front and behind the camera....Even though I probably do not agree with him politically, he has been relatively funny and apolitical.

His films can have some excellent social commentary, even if they do so in a crass fashion....I’m thinking of his pointed mockery of the modern notion of beauty; or his “Cable Guy” where the protagonist is someone whose social skills are retarded because his “babysitter” when he was was a child was television.

[SoFloFreeper]

Regarding post 5: the mockery of beauty was a reference to his film “Zoolander”....

And “Dodgeball” was pretty good...about teamwork, never giving up, etc.

[grania]

Add Will Ferrell to your list. ANCHORMAN 2 is awful. Instead of telling what could have been a very funny movie about the sad state of TV "news", it devolved into a lot of comedians trying to prove to their friends what dumb skits they can do.

I would love to find DVDs of the old WKRP in Cincinnati. It's the same basic theme, but funny.