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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 09-28-2001 03:27 AM
How can I sum this one up? I can do it in five words: Five reels of pure hell!Never have I EVER seen such a horrible film. This goes way beyond bad, and I'm talking about "bad bad", not "good bad". Ed Wood made "good bad" movies. Freddy Got Fingered would be classified as a "bad bad" movie, but Zoolander is even worse than Freddy Got Fingered! What was Ben Stiller thinking??? I'm not even going to waste the effort to get into specific examples from the film or even a basic plot. This is definitely the worst film of 2001 and arguably the worst film ever. Save yourselves and don't watch this one!
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Don Anderson
Master Film Handler
Posts: 312
From: West Bend, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 09-28-2001 11:11 AM
I liked it. Ya, and before ya start ripping on me...listen up. Anyone, and I mean anyone that has ever had the chance to photograph models will truly love this film. Obviously, you have never done this, but I have many times. I cracked up with all the crazy poses, the walk. makeup stuff, etc. There have been many times that I have had to stop myself from laughing when photographing models. Stiller has captured this on film. Yes, you may think that the movie was dumb, but being in the industry I see it differently. I found it funny, dry humor with lots of goofy one liners. Maybe you should sit through it again, perhaps high!!! No, I wasn't in that state of mind when viewing it last night.
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Evans A Criswell
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Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 10-01-2001 09:26 AM
Attendance: Carmike Century Cinema 8, Decatur, AL Auditorium 8 2001/09/30 19:15 Scope (Super35)OK. This movie was really dumb, and not very funny at all. There were only 3 or 4 times during this entire movie that I heard any kind of small laughter from the audience. I definitely give this one a thumbs down. On the subject of comparing the movie to Freddy Got Fingered: Freddy Got Fingered was several orders of magnitude funnier than this. I definitely will not be buying all 7 of the DVDs of Zoolander when they come out. I doubt I'll buy one of them. By the way, the trick of reaching in your pants and pulling your briefs out without pulling down the pants is topologically impossible, unless the guy planned ahead and had an extra pair of briefs stuck down the front of his pants, or maybe he was skilled at moving objects in the fourth dimension.  The movie was as dumb as the models in the movie were. No, I take that back. It was dumber than the models in the movie were.
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Peter Berrett
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 602
From: Victoria, Australia
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-27-2002 05:58 AM
Attendance: Coburg Drive in Sat January 26 Screen 1 (supplementary feature to Ocean's Eleven). Skilltester toys won: See Ocean's Eleven review.I hung around after seeing Ocean's Eleven as at Coburg you get great value - 2 films for the price of one admission. This film reminds me a lot of Dumb and Dumber. The style of humor is pretty much the same in that it relies on "dumbness" to provide the laughs. Fortunately there's not much toilet humopr in this film. Its not my cup of tea but some of the gags did work and the film did try to satirise what is obviously a fairly vacuous industry. Curiously I watched Pret-a- Porter again just last week and that helped put this film in some context. I found the concept of male models being ideal hitmen quite inventive. Its a pretty dumb film but it did keep me entertained. Its worth a look but not much more. Verdict: 6 stars out of 10. cheers Peter
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