Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 1219

Ben Stiller was not a movie star. A big actor, sure, but not a movie star.

 

they made like eight night at the museum movies and he carried the biggest studio comedies for like a few year stretch

if he isn’t a movie star, people like owen wilson and seth rogen aren’t either (they are)

 

You also can’t count out how popular the Meet The Parents movies were.

 

None of them are

 

Yeah Rogen is more of a big time producer than a big star actor now. He basically became Judd Apatow.

Wilson has been riding off voiceover work and Wes Anderson films for a decade. The biggest live action role he had in the last 10 years was as a supporting character in a streaming superhero show.

 

i typed something long out laying out a disagreement but i don’t actually care to put on my cape for ben stiller that badly. yall win.

 

He is/was a movie star. His box office totals are massive

 

Movie stars are guys like Will Smith or Bruce Willis. Ben Stiller was never on the same level as guys like Sandler or Jim Carrey.

 

Ben is good. A star.

 

He was a massive comedy star, in an entirely different era. But he can't carry a theatrical film to success in this current era. That is my pov at least. He is representative of a type of a style that frankly feels dated in 2024. I like Ben Stiller too, Heavyweights and Cable Guy were my childhood, but his star has faded a lot since his peak in Tropic Thunder.

Although I did hear that 20th Century did greenlight Dodgeball 2.

 

The best argument for Stiller being a star was when theaters had to put up signs warning people that Greenberg was not what they thought it was because he was in it.

 

it’s not just guys like stiller who faded. Clooney / Pitt / Hanks / Smith (will) have all faded in the same way stiller did.

 

I would agree with all those except Hanks. Although he has had more misses than hits in the past 10 years, Sully, The Post, and Elvis were still very successful.

 

sure I just mean compared to the 90s lol

 

tbf, neither can jim carrey without the help of a cartoon character and a cgi mustache

 

But fuck I gotta keep remembering the 90s were 25-35 years ago

 

pitt just won an oscar and has opened several successful movies lately. wolfs failing is not his fault, it’s apple’s. he is absolutely a movie star. what.

 

Pitt is leading in Kosinki's $300 million budget attempt at doing a Top Gun: Maverick but for race cars this summer, so we will see if if he still has the box office juice that Cruise still has. That will be A big test.

 

i think that movie is supposed to be closer to him recapturing moneyball than it is to maverick, it just has the same director lol

 

Pitt is absolutely still a movie star, my opinion is that his star has begun to fade

 

From the budget and director my assumption is it is going to be a practical effects showpiece.

 

Deservedly so

 

(Ad Astra should have been as big as interstellar)

 

they marketed that movie horrendously, half the trailer is the space pirates scene and that scene in the movie is like three minutes of the movie and never replicated lol

 

Ad Astra should have been advertised as Tommy Lee Jones’s anticipated return to outer space.