tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post6349115891132259848..comments2024-03-10T07:42:17.071-04:00Comments on The Film Doctor: Ben Stiller's gross-out cinematic heritage: There's Something about MaryThe Film Doctor http://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-38008605213311607552008-08-27T16:36:00.000-04:002008-08-27T16:36:00.000-04:00I agree. I was disconcerted with Stiller undermin...I agree. I was disconcerted with Stiller undermining his better ideas at times in Tropic Thunder. The latter third seemed to devolve into comical battles with bad guys, and much of the initial satire of Hollywood excess seemed lost in the process. Stiller still seems to be working out how much he wants to include crude humor in his movies.The Film Doctor https://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-82005125543136217042008-08-27T16:16:00.000-04:002008-08-27T16:16:00.000-04:00Ben Stiller is not all bad or dumb and dumber movi...Ben Stiller is not all bad or dumb and dumber movies. He acted in a movie directed by Edward Norton called In Good Faith, in which Stiller is a young rabbi and Norton is his childhood friend who has become a Catholic priest. Both men are in love with one childhood sweetheart, and the comic problem is that the rabbi can't marry outside his faith and the Catholic priest can't marry at all. <BR/><BR/>Being about organized religions, the movie will never do well, and it is a romantic comedy with no skin showing, so it is like Knocked Up without the dirty jokes. But Stiller and Norton, at least, do a commendable job showing the tensions between religious beliefs and youthful desires.BeaufortBayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07066990039747224641noreply@blogger.com