Comments on: GUEST STRIP – RYAN ESTRADA

By: Blad

Blad — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:29:20 +0000

And oh, very good comic.

By: Blad

Blad — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:27:07 +0000

My votes. Robin Williams by far. Jim Carey. Will Farrell is getting there; I’m sure he’ll have a dramatic role soon.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:34:11 +0000

Adam. Sandler. Except his animated movie was “edgy”

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:43:16 +0000

Myers has always been a hack, though. Albeit one that is very successful at inserting catchphrases into the cultural lexicon.

A lot of that has to do with repetition. He’s been mining the same character templates since he first appeared on Saturday Night Live.

Austin Powers was innovative. But, of course, he drove it into the ground.

Then, with The Love Guru… Ugh. I don’t even want to talk about The Love Guru.

By: ryan estrada

ryan estrada — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:47:39 +0000

Most do deviate from the path, do more with one step than the other, or have an unsuccessful step (8 Crazy Nights couldn’t really be considered hugely popular) but it’s interesting to see what happens to their career because of it. For example, Chris Farley and Mike Myers were both following this thing to the tee, up until Chris died during preproduction for Shrek. Mike Myers replaced him, and continued the downward spiral. Now Farley is still looked upon fondly, and Mike Myers is considered a hack. (though since he never really mastered the attention-grabbing dramatic role, it was even worse)

By: thabc

thabc — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:51:39 +0000

This looks funny. What do the middle frames say?

By: Belldandelion

Belldandelion — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:44:54 +0000

In regards to the arc: Robin Williams, Steve Martin and Bill Murrey

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:54:10 +0000

Stiller played heroin addict Jerry Stahl in Permanent Midnight. It’s a pretty messed up movie. Stahl was a sitcom writer and worked on shows like ALF. The film’s depiction of Stahl tripping out in front of the ALF puppet is particularly disturbing.

This was in 1998 and around the time that indie filmmakers appeared to be out to top one another with the most disturbing junkie moment (Trainspotting, Requiem of a Dream)

By: Polystyrene

Polystyrene — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:10:06 +0000

Ben Still never did an edgy movie. He moved straight from TV shows that some people found funny to riding his father’s coattails and general pleasantness to There’s Something about Mary and then proceeded to poor comedyville early. But that’s my opinion of Ben Stiller, since I have hated him since he started making movies and There’s Something about Mary is the only movie I could tolerate him in…well that and Keeping the Faith…

But that arc applies to Eddie Murphy. I seriously cannot see Ryan writing that for any other comedian more specifically unless you want to count Jim Carrey in there but then you would need to rearrange some of those films like the tear jerker would be the majestic and much earlier in his career.

By: applyliberally

applyliberally — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:35:22 +0000

Doshi, you’re thinking of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, both of whom were outstanding and I can’t remember with of them doing a serious dramatic role in the middle. Also, I would like to think Owen Wilson’s career has amounted to more than this formula, thanks mostly to his writing ability, but he is also quite awesome in Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums… Though, I would say that I don’t really like Wilson unless he’s collaborating with Wes Anderson.

Which movie did Vince Vaughn have a dramatic role in? I’m interested to see what must be a piece of filth.