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The Vice magazine thread has reminded me of Zoolander. There are no threads about this movie! It is so great though, better than most of the movies we have threads for. Frankie say relax. The scene where they have a "gasoline fight" is possibly the funniest thing ever. David Bowie!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It´s funny because it´s Diesel!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Cypress Hill joke. I actually laughed out loud, and I don't do that.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually the best part of the movie is when Billy Zane shows up for no reason, just to like get Derek's back, wtf? It's like, it's time for a fight! Oh, look, Billy Zane for no reason, who says pretty much nothing and just stands there, being Billy Zane. I think it was at that exact moment in time I realized that Ben Stiller was actually some kind of genius and not the obnoxious monsterbeasthumorcabra that I previously thought he was. I mean, I wouldn't have even thought of Billy Zane!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

funniest movie I've seen in the last year (saw it on satellite)

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Angela Cotter to thread!

The fact that David Bowie gets his own title is still a thing of great wonder to me. The movie is one of those things that doesn't always work, but at least it's trying something in every scene. The deleted scenes in the DVD are great, including the one where Derek goes through smaller and smaller guest areas until he gets to the one that can only fit two people.

"Yeah, maybe you should listen to your friend, Billy Zane".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I honestly did leak a little bit of piss during the gasoline fight. And this movie is my favorite thing Owen Wilson has or ever will have done. Plus MILLA!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to see this again, but yeah, my favorite part that I always quote is: "Why you messin' with me, ese? Don't you know I'm loco?"

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ive seen this at the library but havent taken it out yet.
Wait Mila is in this???
…runs to library..

― kephm, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.uipduna.hu/filmek/kep/zoolander1.jpg
"Yes, joo will rent zis film tonight."

― Milla Jovovich (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Brilliant.

But Flirting With Disaster is still the funniest thing Ben Stiller's been in. "You're not B&B people!!!!!"

― Skottie, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought I hated Ben Stiller, and this movie proved me wrong. Not just because of the Bowie scene, although that was pretty brilliant. Andrew is OTM about the deleted scenes -- I can see why that one was cut, because it takes awhile for the joke to play out and there's no real pay off per se ... but it's funny.

"Maybe you should listen to your friend Billy Zane" should've been the catchphrase of the year. I'd buy that T-shirt.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The David Bowie titling is a stroke of genius as well. "I'll handle this!" (cue freeze frame and zooming title "DAVID BOWIE")

I previously thought that best random celebrity scene was the one in Being John Malkovich where they're interviewing Catherine Keener at a movie premeire about Craig/Malkovich's puppetry and then suddenly the digicam pans right and there's Brad Pitt, looking extraordinarily freaked out, like they didn't actually tell him what was going on prior to filming the scene. But the David Bowie/Billy Zane fight scene fucking trumps all. "Maybe you should listen to your friend Billy Zane" like actually justifies the entire existance of Billy Zane.

What is also great about this movie is that, despite the fact that I find Owen Wilson attractive, there is no way in hell either of these men would ever become male models.

Also the name Hansel!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait! I'm wrong about this justification of Billy Zane cos I forgot he was in Memphis Belle which is pretty good though no Zoolander.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, in that BJM footage, Brad Pitt didn't know what was going on - Spike Jonz, Keener, and Malkovich crashed something like the Oscars and did some guerrilla filming on the red carpet.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, in a way -- and this could be the NyQuil talking -- casting Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as the world's biggest male models (bigger than any male models I can think of in the real world) is the most brilliant thing in the movie. It's not over the top ridiculous like if they'd cast Martin Landau and Geoffrey Rush, but it's definitely ... off.

Best thing about "maybe you should listen to your friend Billy Zane" - the implication that Billy Zane is somehow the anti-Madonna, i.e. instead of being the kind of celebrity who only needs one name (Madonna, Britney, Christina, Cher, Jesus), he ALWAYS has TWO names. Like people only ever call him Billy Zane. No one ever calls him Billy. Ever. Only Billy Zane.

That's genius.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I also think that Bowfinger is very funny and underdiscussed on ILX, but perhaps that is for another thread.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www2.filmweb.no/multimedia/archive/00012/Ben_Stiller_i_Zoolan_12476a.jpg

He looks so sad back there.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Also the hypnosis scene is actually one of the freakiest things I've ever seen on the silver screen.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

He's sad because his friend didn't listen to him.

Bowfinger was also better than I expected it to be, although not as good as Zoolander -- I rented them both at about the same time, though. It made me wish Eddie Murphy still made movies for grown-ups.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mugatu's speech towards the end is great too, the phrase "I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!!!" has entered my every day vocabulary. "They're all the same face! Don't you people realize this?! I feel like I"m taking CRAZY PILLS!"

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

my Zoolander wedding pic

― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha!

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Best wedding photo EVER.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

also: derelicte.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i watched this movie like 29 times in a row when i fell passed out in a living room at this party and the people were stealing cable. so there was like a zoolander payper view channel on where they just keep looping the movie and i dint know how to change the channel. so from like 4am -2pm when i finally left i kept seein it. its kind of slow at parts and the scene where ben stiller is a merman is totoally unecessary.

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, yeah, watch it 30 times in a row and it becomes much easier to pick apart flaws.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i only have 2 complaints!

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to see this again. (Hey, Nick, maybe tonight?)
I need more humor in my life.
I can't read the name Owen Wilson without thinking of his character in Meet the Parents. He was the best thing about that movie.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Part of what makes the merman scene so great is because it is so ridiculous and unnecessary!

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus any chance anyone ever gets to use the word "merman" in conversation is obviously classic.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Booyah - we're watching Zoolander tonite.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

how does that line go? 'moisture is the essence of water?'

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Our new roommate has it on dvd, so Zoolander is at our fingertips. No one has brought up the gratuitous Winona and Hilton sister cameos.

Jitterbug!

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they got Billy Zane because Richard Grieco was unavailable.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Moisture is the essence of water!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I can Derelicte my own balls!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

We had a Zoolander-style Beat It danceoff at my last birthday party (which I lost pitifully, incidentally). The really sad thing was that I deliberately stuffed an extra pair of pants into my jeans for the event. At least four people in the room got the joke.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I seriously challenge all of you to breakdance-fighting. I am not kidding.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, if we just get David Bowie to come to Lit next time Gareth's about we're set!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You forgot about Billy Zane! No breakdance-fight is complete without him.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

does anyone else think Ben Stiller is the least funny thing about this movie?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Zane is the most important part about it, next to David Bowie.

Haha slutsky I think this entire thread basically answers your question, he's definitely the least funny thing about the film. The problem though is that he wrote it so it's like making him metafunny.

I'm off to go buy this movie right now.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I love this film except for two thing: Milla Jovanovich is simply not funny and the film should end with Zoolander kissing the journalist. The Where Are They Now coda is ass.

This might have been my favorite movie of that year. I only saw 5 though. And the only one of recent years I've seen more than once.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

some fave moments:

1) Billy Zane staring at Zoolander's finger
2) The non-verbal stand-off between Mugatu and assistant re: foamy latte
3) Mugatu: "But now the forbidden fruit must be tasted!"
4) Hansel: "I don't like Sting's music, but I really respect him."
5) Zoolander "shovelling shit" during the film on Hansel.
6) "I'm sorry I was wack." "No, dude, I was wack."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the funniest part of the movie I can remember was in that Hansel promotional video where he says something like, "ever since I was kid I wondered about the world, like what the bark on the trees is made of"

or something, it was funnier than that

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

and water... is the essence of wetness

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man, I so have to get this movie out again now - I too was a Ben Stiller hata til I saw it, and now I want to see it again. Theres a to-do for tonight then!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"God, no one likes to see that...ugly protesters annoying beautiful people."

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

There needs to be a Fancy A Movie Marathon. Except everyone has to movie to Indiana first. And it can't be at my place, I have a small living room.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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Man alive. Best TV show ever.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

An alien name Paragon takes over the body of a chef (played by Vincent Schiavelli) and attempts to kill "all monkey tramps."

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The networks are idiots for not picking up what sounds like the most fantastic show ever made and instead airing stupid crap like Two and a Half Men.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, I never realized until like last week that THE LITTLE KINGZ are in Zoolander!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa. That tv show sounds amazing. Holy shit. They should make that into a movie. Like, now.

I'd probably like Owen Wilson even more than I already do if I didn't have to hear imitations of him four times a week by someone. Ahem. WILDCAT.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I call that my Kung Pow Chicken

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO LATTE!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I was out at Spaceland in Silverlake the other night and this guy was dressed *exactly* like Zoolander! He was totally rocking blue-steel too! I'm not sure if he was conscious of all this.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

tombot the minus man is actually really, really good! WAAAAYYYYY better than the big bounce anyway

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, very underrated little indie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i spy is actually funnier than you might think, too! actually i liked it more than zoolander

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only person in the world who doesn't like this film?! Well, I thought it was average, but now everyone loves it so much I'm forced to retreat into hatred for it. You're all insane.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

no, i'm with you there bud

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sting is another big one. Do I listen to his music? No, but I respect that he's doing it.

Re: Heat Vision and Jack. I saw the pilot and it wasn't that good. I mean, obviously, it was really kooky. It seemed like a good 3 minute sketch, but I can't imagine even writing an entire season of it.

Zoolander= Best movie ever
Owen Wilson= person who should be my best friend now

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Luke Wilson is much better. (Actually, I don't want that argument again - but it's true!)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw zoolander for the first time the other night and i kept looking at stiller in it & thinking "hmmm, i bet thats what adam nordic is like in real life..."

am i right?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm just imagining Derek Zoolander trying to make friends with the czech pagan blastcore crowd.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 23 September 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok this is totally indulgent and the link will only work till like midnight est but this is the track that Fred Durst released as a thank you to Ben Stiller for putting him in Zoolander and being Fred's "favorite muthafuckah."

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 23 September 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

as a thank you to Ben Stiller for putting him in Zoolander

Is there an edited DVD release out there?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

sadly Fred took down all those photos of him and Ben hangin' out and pointing to each other that were on his site.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 23 September 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude Ned it's like 2 seconds, if that, of Fred Durst pointing at Zoolander. It's a misnomer to say he's "in the movie" though the joke that involves him, Lil Kim and Gary Shandling is hot.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 23 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kinda pissed I can never find a screen cap of Garry Shandling's two thumbs up pose on google pic.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 23 September 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, okay, I'm fine with that. I'll ask for the DVD for Xmas or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

saw this for the first time last night. one of my friends insisted on replaying the chapter with the "A SCHOOL FOR ANTS?" bit, and it made me cry tears (perhaps i might mention that i was on mild druqs).

― w. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Although an exceptional film, it has been totally eclipsed by the genius of Anchorman.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 29 January 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

i should see anchorman. it had a real short release here. plus it happened to also coincide with my university finals.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 29 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

You should make it happen right now! This is a truly sensational film, which had me making sqwauking noises in the cinema and I'M A VERY SERIOUS PERSON.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

We just watched this. We'd never seen it before! It is so funny, and so....weird! Best bits = the scene where zoolander's flatmates are splashing each other w/the mops at the service station, and then they start splashing each other w/the petrol pumps(!) Hansel's little bit at the model awards, especially the bit abt sting, and the walk-off. I think we both laughed pretty much all the way through it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Haha yeah, "Who do I admire...? Well, Sting for one. I don't listen to his music, but the fact that he makes it, I admire that."

― Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, the bit where he picks the copy of time magazine w/him on the cover out of the trash, and the headline says "a model idiot", and he reads it as "a model, idiot".

At times it felt like "starsky and hutch" was a kind of remake of this film...

also, "derelicte", ha, shades of "hard times chic"!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Evidentally the bizarre mermaid thing is a reference to an old Aveda ad, so says my friend who used to work at an Aveda salon and had to watch the ad tape all day.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

what a great movie.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Best digested in 20-minute segments. No Cable Guy, but my fave line remains Jon Voight's "You're deader to me than your dead mother."

(Celebrity cameos, even in a proudly dumb comedy, really reach diminishing returns by the tenth one.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

In the course of finding a picture of Mugatu for comic purposes, I came across the christiananswers.net review of Zoolander. It says the trying-to-take-underpants-off contest is "one long scene of implied masturbation". It was??

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

how did they find out what i do while watching zoolander!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Guys have you seen the deleted Winona Ryder scenes?

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

No! Is there implied masturbation?

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think conservative Christians imagine the world to be even more dirty than it really is.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

I think you're right (however, I am wanking as I write this)

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

you'd think the orgy sequence would be enough to prove the film's immoral nature.

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

"I guess what Judd Apatow is to me, is what Terrence Malick is to David Gordon Green. They're just good friends. And David said to me the other day, 'Guess what Terrence Malick's favourite movie of the last 10 years is?'"
What?
"Zoolander! He knows every word, watches it every week. Which just goes to show, you never can predict these things."
- Seth Rogen, The Guardian, 14th September 2007

― Chris L, Saturday, 24 November 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Terrence Malick 442

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamorama

― Bodrick III, Saturday, 28 June 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

Just watched this for the first time. Funny that the first I heard about the movie then was Ebert's post-9/11 one-star review.

― Meg White America (Eazy), Sunday, 22 December 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago)

such a great film

― the late great, Sunday, 22 December 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

I think people forget that Zoolander was a man in mourning. The only survivor of a freak accident that resulted in the death of his three best friends. Maybe remember that next time you want to scream “What is this a center for ants?” at something you think is abnormally small.
— black ace ventura (@camiringordynn) October 28, 2019

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 04:39 (six years ago)

Zoolander is in my all time top 10 fwiw

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 04:39 (six years ago)

Perfect movie

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 04:39 (six years ago)

I just remembered the other day that sequels were announced to the beloved comedies Zoolander, Anchorman, and Bad Santa, but I guess they never got made? I mean, people would surely be talking about how great + hilarious those sequels were, otherwise, right?

― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:16 (six years ago)

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