This is my riffle.
Another great example is “Chunk” from the Goonies (1985). He was considered so fat that it was comic relief. Now you can walk through any Middle School in the United States and find dozens, if not hundreds, of kids that are MUCH larger!
Saw a picture of that actor and he’s pretty lean these days
Larger or fatter?
Larger.
Watch out, I had to battle a group of 6 foot tall toddlers the other day just to get on a swing set. Ankle biters are becoming 2nd floor balcony biters. It’s insanity!
“Hollywood fat” has always been a thing, though.
And TV ugly
Yeah Hollywood ugly is a meme. Oh man she’s so ugly… But she’s like solidly at least an 8, just not wearing makeup and in unflattering clothes and lighting l
I’m learning alot about Hollywood weirdness this month. So many actors have giant heads and tiny bodies. That way emotion shows better on camera.
Ugh, glasses. Nobody would fuck her!
Oh yes the ugly friend.
They are always wearing makeup, even for “no makeup” looks.
I’m the flip side, Go back and watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Once you’re done cringing at the racism, think about the fact that Harrison Ford went on an intense weightlifting program for that movie, and was considered the most shredded leading man in Hollywood at the time. Actors using steroids has become so common that it has also skewed our perception of a normal fit guy’s body.
Damn, now that I didn’t know!
Yeah thats totally true. Just look at photos of Bruce Lee for example. A fighting machine but not nearly as big as any one of the gym bros nowadays that train for volume.
IMO Harrison Ford looks pretty damn fit in that picture and I wouldn’t bat an eye if he were in a super hero movie today. Like that’s not a Thor body but there are many characters where that body would fit in just fine. I agree that movie bodies are not very attainable for most people with busy lives, but on the other hand, if you’re playing a super hero you’re not playing an average person. It would probably be weird to see an average body shape doing the impossible stunts you see in action movies.
Yea but also there’s no reason for Superman or Thor to be tall and muscular. They’re not strong because of their body.
Even with the lore explanations, I think it just helps maintain suspension of disbelief when you visually see someone muscular doing impossible feats of strength rather than someone physically unfit. But to your point, I would like to see more super heroes with strongman barrel physics instead of the aesthetic prioritizing body builder physique.
Yeah.
Nolan had right idea with Bane. Tom Hardy looked like he could fight wolves.
I think Spiderman is a decent example of not being comically ripped but I always believe he’s as strong as he’s depicted due to his powers.
Spiderman is still super fit. He’s lean muscle and not bulky body builder fit, but he still has muscle. Even in the comics his muscles are very well defined.
Well, I don’t know about Thor (but he is a god short of and from an advanced culture ), but Superman received perfect nutrition from our Sun.
There is that alt timeline story of Superman where he didn’t see the Sun and was captured when he landed as a baby.
He grew up to be skinny and had severe malnutrition, was still tall and became strong as soon as he saw the sun the first time.
Well, lore-wise earths sun literally makes Superman muscular
Back when they made “300” it was almost satire how shredded these guys looked. It was obvious it wasn’t realistic and wasn’t meant to be. Nowadays we get shows like Reacher with an absolutely humongous lead that’s supposed to wander around doing jack shit all day… right. His mother shat him out this way.
And female “tough” leads are often tiny and no muscle in sight yet they still kick ass and routinely dispose off bad guys twice their size. Why do the guys even need to be this big when physics don’t matter?
I hate this so much. Hollywood is so fucking fake.
But at this point in the film, hadn’t he lost like 15+ pounds and also shouldn’t soldiers be held to a slimmer standard than others? And yeah the movie was made a long time ago. Most people are actually fat now.
Apparently nobody’s clothes fit after basic because you either lose weight or gain muscle.
He did gain 70lbs for the role so technically he was fat, just not as fat as some people are today.
Yeah but my point was I remember thinking he got skinnier throughout the film, as though he was supposed to getting “whipped into shape”
throughout the film
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it but I’m pretty sure this guy redecorated the bathroom in bootcamp.
Oh cool! Like new wallpaper and tiles or just redid the backsplash? Either way, that’s mighty kind of him. That guy’s got a real good head on his shoulders.
That’s about the time the tone of the movie changes significantly
Ok granted maybe it was only a 25 minute period I’m talking about but there was a progression iirc. “Redecorating the bathroom” is the crudest least empathetic way I can imagine putting it
“Redecorating the bathroom” is the crudest least empathetic way I can imagine putting it
Thanks. I pulled out all the stops for that one.
Love it m8. Keep it up.
This was my thought exactly. The military has actual weight standards. So he could be fat compared to all his fellow soldiers, but not fat by normal standards.
Don’t know about slimmer but soldiers should definitely be carrying less fat reserves and moving with more muscle mass. Calories supplied in the field, and if the logistics for that break down then you’re not going to live long enough to starve.
Yup. The dude was fat for military standards then and he’d be fat for military standards today.
Ol fat ass donut hoarding dude
It’s very fucked up what people perceived has healthy now.
I’ve been in fairly decent shape my whole life but the amount of people, especially women, that tell me I’m too skinny and that I need to gain weight. Even when I’m actually closer to being overweight than underweight. Or how many times I seen someone point to someone on steroids or fat and say that they are healthy.
It’s got to the point where kids need to be educated. I wouldn’t even be against weighing them. If they obese then it’s also child abuse and the parents fault.
People think now if you can see/feel ribs or have any muscle tone (while not being a body builder) it means you’re underweight. That’s how humans are meant to be built! Go look at hunter gathers tribes or any active person pre the 90’s.
Shit even dogs are fat nowadays.
Americans are particularly talented (but not alone) in this doublethink
how about we as a society just collectively stop making comments about people’s weight at all
How about we don’t, because being fat is unhealthy and also costs a lot of money to public healthcare and infrastructure.
Making it your business to call out people who are unhealthily overweight is counter productive. People know they’re heavy, people know it takes a toll on their health. Lambasting them will only exacerbate their depression and make their relationship with food far more destructive. Don’t be a dickhead.
Exactly. We’ve got to treat the root cause of what’s going on, and that’s often an extremely complex challenge that varies from person to person.
Generally, I’d say that’s true. But given multiple people have told I’m underweight when I was borderline obese (and I don’t do any weight lifting or do manual labor as a job) does make me question how many people know they’re overweight. Obese people generally know they’re overweight.
The solution isn’t calling out individuals about their weight though or collectively shaming people for being overweight. If you want people do have better diets and exercise more, changing the environment to be more conducive for that will do much more. But making sure healthyweight and overweight people aren’t pressured into eating more by people who insist they are underweight is probably a good thing.
how about if you actually crack a science textbook you’ll learn that body fat matters a lot less than whether or not someone is physically active and that losing weight isn’t as simple as just dieting and exercise and that giving an entire generation of people eating disorders put more strain on the healthcare system than obesity ever did
The European study found that metabolic health is still the most important risk factor for heart disease.
So far matters less than fitness, like the person you are replying to stated?
Fuck you can’t read huh. Metabolic health is inversely proportional to fat.
Metabolic health is inversely proportional to fat. Probably more like flipped the following over the horizontal: \__ ノ
Also, relevance? That has nothing to do with the claim the person you claimed was wrong said nor anything I said. But sure. I’m the one who can’t read.
Looks like you need a science book.
If exercise and dieting didn’t work you’d be breaking the first law of thermodynamics.
It would be an absolute guarantee Nobel prize and you’d change the world.
Breaking out thermodynamics as an excuse to be a prick online doesn’t make you seem cool.
Diet more so them dieting. What you eat is very important.
Or how many times I seen someone point to someone on steroids … and say that they are healthy.
Gym bros be like
Gym bros normally know who’s on steroids.
I find it’s normally girls that are like “just look at a chicken and walk past a gym once a week and you can have arms the size of your head”
thats exactly what girls keep saying to me too!!!
boooyyy half the people on steroids take them for medical reasons lol
Yeah that’s clearly not what we’re talking about here. Cortisol cream for eczema is a steroid, but nobody using it would say they’re on roids.
We’re obviously talking about people who juice for muscle mass.
Yeah, no one is mistaking my low dose prednisone for fucking gear.
Although sometimes I do wish it provided similar benefits, lol. I get the downsides and none of the fun.
It’s very fucked up what people perceived has healthy now.
The Overton Window is always shifting, and not always in the correct direction.
Are you skinny fat by chance? I have a friend who’s exactly like this. Bro looks super skinny to some but fat-ish to others.
No I think I’m just tall and long with big shoulders.
Clothes seem baggy around my tummy even with slim fit and my arms are actually legitimately quite skinny.
When I take my clothes off I used to get compliments on my chest and shoulders also butt and legs. Weirdly sometimes also arms which I didn’t really understand.
Skinny fat means being lean but having near tummies, legs and arms. It’s common with south asians like in indian subcontinent. It’s mainly caused by unhealthy diets us desi’s have.
Wdym by unhealthy diets? My family being desi had quite healthy stuff, so I rlly can’t relate. Like do u mean oily gravies n stuff like they have in dhabas? Or generally low protein diets?
Yes. A lot of desis eat rice, daal, etc and don’t eat much meat. All the oil in gravies and curries is also a thing. And most importantly, they don’t workout. So they aren’t fat nor healthy. Your family is an exception not an example.
It is now year-round bulking season, and I’m loving every minute of it, jerry.
Biggest difference between your conventional fat dude and a sumo wrestler is the nature of their fat deposits. Regular fat dudes, no exercise, have what is called “visceral fat”, where the fat is beneath the skin, and exists in between the organs. Sumo wrestlers have subcutaneous fat deposits, just right beneath the skin, as a sort of layer between the organs and the skin. It truly matters less whether or not you’re fat, and more whether or not you’re active, and have a good dietary composition regardless of potential caloric excess.
The only major limitation on this that I might qualify is that overweight people will probably have to put more effort into flexibility and strength exercises, especially in their lower body, their ankles, their knees, for the same reason that extremely tall people tend to have similar injuries. There’s also the problem that it tends to be harder to cut back later in life, and so you can kind of see a huge onset of lots of visceral fat if you keep up the same lifestyle choices while cutting back on the activity, or even keeping the same level of activity as your metabolism slows down, so that’s something to also consider.
People also have made points about how the excess of simply carbohydrates, like high fructose corn syrup, and palm oil as a preservative in highly process american foods, and food deserts, are contributing factors to why americans tend to be super fat. This is true. The other side of this coin also tends to be that american civic infrastructure doesn’t tend to keep you as active as perhaps other countries might, so there are less opportunities to burn calories without making a kind of committed lifestyle choice centered around that.
In any case, I do find it really, sad, and funny also, that people tend to treat obesity as a kind of personal moral failing, rather than treating it like any other kind of public health problem, or epidemic. Reminds me of how they treated HIV.
And mental health, and addiction, and anything else that lets people write another person off as “bad” and not worthy of their compassion.
Yeah. Strikes me as the laziest possible explanation for a thing, and it always seems to ironically come from people who are convinced that they’re better than others because they’re working harder or trying more.
Shit, have you seen all those fatass larping gravy seals out there at right wing larps? Some of them are so fat on their rascals it’s amazing they can even hold a gun and have enough strength to squeeze out a runny turd, let alone a trigger!
Sgt. Hartman would have a field day.
They claim “well-regulated” means “properly functioning” and not “subject to regularions”, but how functional is a militia of morbidly obese men with no combat training, no psychological assessments and no demonstrated ability to use or safely handle a weapon, who probably enthusiastically voted for the government that needs overthrowing?
They’re children claiming they need a PlayStation 5 “for homework”.
They need a lifted pickup truck because a regular one would bottom out and scrape the ground.
The ones on scooters are weak.
But you’d be amazed how strong the ones who can walk are. Can you carry 250 pounds up a flight of stairs without significant effort? Because there are 400-pound people who walk up staircases every day without trouble. The fact that they can walk, get up after lying down, etc requires that they be immensely strong.
All this is to say, don’t get yourself into a position where one may take a swing at you. They may be out of shape, slow, etc, but if they land a hit there’s a lot of muscle and mass behind it that shouldn’t be underestimated just because they’re unhealthy.
Kinda wish gunny didn’t break him and turn him into the kingpin.
First he had to be hollowed out and worn like an “Eggar suit” by a giant bug.
Edgar Suit. The guy’s name was Edgar, the bug wore his skin like a suit. Edgar Suit.
And become a serial killer with a vivid dream world including possibly some sort of demon. Took me a long time to figure out it was all the same actor. Well, however long is between fmj to kingpin role.
Vincent D’Onofrio is brilliant.
Along with being one of New York’s finest detectives on the Major Case Squad. This is his story. DUN-DUN
But it is pronounced “eggar suit”.
SHUGA
WATAH
Edit: aliens are Bostonian, confirmed
I remember it differently.
You remember it correctly
Huh, never connected that he was the same actor…
Kingpin the bowling one?
Nope. Kingpin from the Marvel TV show Daredevil.
Ah cool. Thanks.
My God this man is a chameleon. My family freaked out when they realized he was in jurassic world. Dude should have been a spy.
He’s one of the most instantly recognizable faces in Hollywood…
Lol I could not recognize him on the street. Looks normal but man does he nail it.
Hell I like you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister
You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck
Never seen this movie but really love Vincent D’Onofrio. Just downloaded it to ckeck it later
well you’re in luck, it’s one of the best movies of all time.
btw, when the guy says “Easy, you just don’t lead them so much.”, leading means to aim your gun where they’re running to, to account for the time it takes the bullet to travel…
referring to the fact that women and children don’t run as fast as men…that line always confused me…
also, all the shots with the news reporters are exact recreations of real news footage… word for word…
In Bridget Jones Diary, Renee Zellweger has fat jokes made about her the entire film (because to Richard Curtis, cruelty to fat people is comedy) but she’s not even remotely fat.
Were those jokes not in the book? I haven’t read it.
Remember when everybody got gaslit into thinking Gunny was great at his job
Remember when everyone got gaslit into believing (name any movie plot)
Come on get over yourself.
He was an actual marine, so he seemed like a good fit for the role.
I know nothing about his actual military career, but he was great at his job of acting in the role of Drill Sergeant.
If I recall correctly, he got the job by scaring the shit out of Kubrick.
Nah, more like abusing his contact with him. If my memory doesn’t fail, he was hired as an instructor for the actors but he thought he could do it better, so he started sending audition tapes to Kubrick. Kubrick eventually got tired and watched the tapes and he loved it, so the guy got hired.
Or maybe I’m just misremembering 🤷🏻♀️
Hired to coach actors to act like drill instructors because he was a drill instructor. Turns out it was more effective to just have the former drill instructor act like a drill instructor. Turns out the drill instructor did do it better than the actors, and ended up being one of the most accurate portrayals ever put to film.
Except it’s not accurate. He played it as the worst example of an ineffective, sadistic drill sergeant. He has said that over half of that stuff wouldn’t fly even back when he was in boot. To make it realistic that Pyle would snap he had to be a truly horrible drill sergeant, so that’s how he played the role.
Having been through boot camp I can tell you there is a big over lap between what officially wouldn’t fly and what unofficially does happen. He became a spokesperson for The Corps, even getting promoted after leaving service, of course he wouldn’t sully the reputation of the Marine Corps on record.
That’s a pretty good reason to hire someone who’s supposed to be scary.
He rattled off a nonstop stream of profanity and insults for like 10 min straight as a way of training / demo-ing to the actor. Kubrick thought he did a far better job and left him in the role. Much of his dialog was ad-libed.
The original DI ended up as the crazy guy shooting civilians from the helicopter. “You guys oughta do a story about me!”
YOU ARE A DISGUSTING FAT BODY PRIVATE PYLE!
SIR, YES SIR!
“Private Pyle, whatever you do, don’t fall down! That would break my fucking heart!”
WERE YOU BORN A FAT SLIMY SCUMBAG YOU PIECE OF SHIT PRIVATE PYLE? OR DID YOU HAVE TO WORK ON IT?
Unironically inspiring
Apparently his ass looked like 150lbs of chewed bubblegum
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Dude what about Chunk?
That kid was fat for his time.
Nowadays that’s practically median.
Even 10 years later, Heavyweights was literally about really fat kids. They aren’t really fat nowadays.
