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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2024-04-30 15:51:44 +0000, Kyonshi said:   
   > On 4/26/2024 3:05 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   >> Actor Ben Stiller expressed his shock at how badly “Zoolander 2”   
   >> performed at the box office following its release in 2016 despite the   
   >> original film’s success in 2001.   
   >>   
   >> The 58-year-old star discussed his thoughts during a recent episode of   
   >> David Duchovny’s “Fail Better” podcast. “I thought everybody wanted   
   >> this,” Stiller said of making the sequel. “And then it’s like,   
   ‘Wow, I   
   >> must have really f***ed this up. Everybody didn’t go to it. And it’s   
   >> gotten these horrible reviews.”   
   >>   
   >> “It really freaked me out because I was like, ‘I didn’t know, was that   
   >> bad?’ What scared me the most on that one was I’m losing what I think   
   >> what’s funny, the questioning yourself … on ‘Zoolander 2,’ it was   
   >> definitely blindsiding to me. And it definitely affected me for a long   
   >> time.”   
   >>   
   >> Stiller directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the sequel, just as   
   >> he did with the original. The first “Zoolander” was a critical and   
   >> commercial success. The movie satirized the fashion industry as it   
   >> documented the life of a male model, Derek Zoolander (Stiller), and his   
   >> rival Hansel (Owen Wilson). It earned $60.8 million against a   
   >> production budget of $28 million.   
   >>   
   >> The sequel fared much worse. Set ten years after the original,   
   >> “Zoolander 2” included many of the original cast members, including   
   >> Stiller and Wilson, while Will Ferrell, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Wiig,   
   >> Naomi Campbell, and Justin Bieber were also co-stars. Benedict   
   >> Cumberbatch played a transgender model named AII.   
   >>   
   >> As The Guardian noted, “Zoolander 2” barely broke even on its $50   
   >> million production budget and received terrible reviews.   
   >>   
   >> Stiller told Duchovny that the failure became a learning experience for   
   >> him.   
   >>   
   >> “The wonderful thing that came out of that for me was just having space   
   >> where, if that had been a hit, and they said ‘Make Zoolander 3 right   
   >> now,’ or offered some other movie, I would have just probably jumped in   
   >> and done that,” the “Meet the Parents” star said.   
   >>   
   >> “But I had this space to kind of sit with myself and have to deal with   
   >> it and other projects that I had been working on – not comedies, some   
   >> of them – I have the time to actually just work on and develop. Even if   
   >> somebody said, ‘Well, why don’t you go do another comedy or do this?’   
   I   
   >> probably could have figured out something to do. But I just didn’t want   
   >> to,” Stiller continued.   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> Let's go Brandon!   
   >>   
   >   
   > The main problem was that this movie   
      
      
   A. Starred the hopeless cretin Ben Stiller.   
   B. Was a sequel to an awful, completely unfunny, so-called "comedy"   
      (even worse, it's an American "comedy").   
      
   :-p   
      
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