Always-honest
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You can only live like that for a while. It's no fun (to most people).
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Male Stars Are Too Buff Now
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You can only live like that for a while. It's no fun (to most people).
CrocMother
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Is taking hormones and steroids really taking care of your body?
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Well, drugs, clearly.
This article/thread is making me consider looking into the meds side of things, for sure.
Kite
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More people are flexing their purchasing power nowadays, people want both male and female eye-candy. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be a bad thing.. am I supposed to be insecure and depressed that I don't look like these guys who dedicate half the day to working out and eating right? It motives me to work out and once in a while put down the free donuts and kolaches at work.
Anyhow there are plenty of A list actors who merely look in-shape and not jacked superheroes, sounds like a non-issue to me.
Anyhow there are plenty of A list actors who merely look in-shape and not jacked superheroes, sounds like a non-issue to me.
That sounds pretty damn insane. I'm not going to lie I get a little jealous when I see some of the actors and how fit they are in cape films and how unfit I am. Reading up how they achieve that shit and sometimes the hell they go through though snaps me out of it.
Sibersk Esto
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Between Heavyweights, Dodgeball, and Tropic Thunder, Stiller has a habit of being in comedy roles that also require him to be in good shape.
Obliterator
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I still remember being in the theatre and during the Hemsworth shirtless scene hearing women audibly gasp no joke when the top came off.
At that point I knew Marvel knew exactly what they were doing
At that point I knew Marvel knew exactly what they were doing
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Always-honest
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I do have some admiration for that, sure. But only for superhero movies.
And even in that case.. don't overdo it.
Summer Haze
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Efron looks great in Baywatch imo. Could do with some more shoulder work though.
MiniBossBattle
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I actually blame Ben Stiller and Paul Rudd.
I remember saying off hand that I only have to be Paul Rudd fit to my wife. Then Ant man came out.
I remember saying off hand that I only have to be Paul Rudd fit to my wife. Then Ant man came out.
BlazinSkatinAxel
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Sex sells. Women are more interested biologically in a man that works out.
agreed
Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order
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Nah, It's crazy to think how lazy movie stars used to be with their physique. I think i look better than nearly any supposed "action star" from the 50s-70s just by casually working out every day, but Arnold changed the game and gave us higher ideals to strive for and we're all better off for it.
This was "fit and sexy" before? Hard to imagine...
This was "fit and sexy" before? Hard to imagine...
CrocMother
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I mean trying to look like that without modern work-out equipment, supplements, dieting options, etc. is probably just as difficult as what these actors are doing with all the $$$ and technology today.
BlazinSkatinAxel
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When you are not being slammed 300 days out of the year, you have more time to workout.
Was?
How exactly are we better off now?
Those are spitting images of my legs. Like if you had shown my just the legs I would have said: "Hey were did you get that picture of my legs?!"
lol people that say this shit must just not work out
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Always thought this was a good point for Zac
I think the article is paternalistic
comparing getting ripped and cut to body problems perpetuated by the female modeling industry? really?
is starving yourself to the levels necessary to maintain a victoria's secret model's waist really comparable to eating cleaner and bulking to put on muscle? additionally, why are we comparing real-life models to fictional characters like Thor or Captain America? are they really so similar?
this article reads like someone with an outsider's perspective on what putting on muscle entails. the lifestyle changes that the average guy needs to make to look more like a movie star are, for the most part, good changes. eat less shit food; get sleep; stick to a regimen; and etc.
if somebody is going to get on gear...let's not pretend like this movie star trend is something new in that regard or influence...we've had professional athletes and bodybuilders essentially having the same impact on men for decades already.
comparing getting ripped and cut to body problems perpetuated by the female modeling industry? really?
is starving yourself to the levels necessary to maintain a victoria's secret model's waist really comparable to eating cleaner and bulking to put on muscle? additionally, why are we comparing real-life models to fictional characters like Thor or Captain America? are they really so similar?
this article reads like someone with an outsider's perspective on what putting on muscle entails. the lifestyle changes that the average guy needs to make to look more like a movie star are, for the most part, good changes. eat less shit food; get sleep; stick to a regimen; and etc.
if somebody is going to get on gear...let's not pretend like this movie star trend is something new in that regard or influence...we've had professional athletes and bodybuilders essentially having the same impact on men for decades already.
that looks better than 90% of the buff movie stars/celebs. it helps that he doesn't look like a fucking narcissist.
Red Liquorice
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This still looks fit and sexy. I'm sure if asked a larger percentage of people would rather have and/or look like this than a giant muscle freak with all the unrealistic work that goes along with it.Nah, It's crazy to think how lazy movie stars used to be with their physique. I think i look better than nearly any supposed "action star" from the 50s-70s just by casually working out every day, but Arnold changed the game and gave us higher ideals to strive for and we're all better off for it.
This was "fit and sexy" before? Hard to imagine...
Unobtainable (goals and people) sells better than obtainable, this is how fashion works.
xaosslug
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this sounds more like some sort of "men's rights" mess peeps are trying to make happen than an actual issue. I mean you more often than not see an out of shape guy starring opposite some victoria's secret model than an out of shape women opposite some men's fitness dude. Let's get it together, please.
Gentleman Jack
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itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45Kml1lZnQ
Matt Damon talks about doing this for I think Talented Mr. Ripley.
Don't forget make up enhances everything. A little shadow here, some contrast there.
The finish line just keeps moving farther and farther.
Matt Damon talks about doing this for I think Talented Mr. Ripley.
Don't forget make up enhances everything. A little shadow here, some contrast there.
The finish line just keeps moving farther and farther.
DevilDog
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I'm just lazy.
TheCochese
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And here I am trying to get to the point where I'd feel comfortable taking my shirt off at the beach...
he looks like a douche.
FallingEdge
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Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order
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Makes me think of what the first shots of Iron Fist came out, and everyone was shitting on Finn Jones for not being up to standards.
Like, seriously? Dude looks better than 98% of men on the planet. You're complaining he's not at 99%? I don't get it.
It's his job to look good. Why should he not be held to a higher standard when people 8+ hour office jobs can do better on their free time.
CrocMother
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The Rock has been pushing unrealistic body standards for a long time now
MagnaderAlpha
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Aha, but they were the "exception", not the STANDARD.
I'm a big horror buff, and you see the this difference in that genre as well. where now the "teens" are all unbelievably ripped, as opposed to the more "normal bodied" teens of 70s and 80s horror. The only time you had exceptions back then is when a character WAS not hiding the fact they were either a model or athlete. Everybody else was "fit" in the way that they still had a layer of fat on their body and looked more natural because of that.
I think the whole facination with ultra-buff, ultra-cut bodies happened during that time in the late-90s/early 00s era, post-Baywatch and during the time MTV was culling "normies" from Real World and only putting sexy young people in their reality shows (remember Real World started out with normal looking people? LOL, "normal looking people" don't matter in reality, I guess.).
Epsilon-delta
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Gentleman Jack
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He does look good.
markofhavoc
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It sounds like some men are having body issues with unrealistic expectations on screen. Man, why don't women ever have to deal with these issues =(
Morrigan Stark
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That too.
This name kept coming up in this thread and I had no idea who this guy was. So I google, dude doesn't look familiar. Then I skim through his Wikipedia page, and see a vaguely familiar face in a pic from 10 years ago... "OK wait I've seen this guy before, but in what..."
Turns out ...He wa young Simon Tam in Firefly? Hahahaha fuck. Yeah no way I would have recognized him today.
Zac efron just pushes it too much.
That's not just a trained dude, that's someone who's part of a bodybuilder contest and spend the last few hours dehydrating himself
Yeah. Those are disgusting and not even attractive. :\The Rock:
from WWF (left) to Hollywood (right)
'roids are hall of a drug
Yeah this is super fucked up. Even if they're paid millions, this is just gross.
Agreed! This is wayyyy sexier than all those roided up dudes.This is what a real human strong guy looks like:
He's in great shape, and it actually looks like he achieved it by actually working his entire life. That didn't come out of a bottle, it didn't come from a weird hardcore Hollywood workout routine, and he'd beat the snot out of someone like Chris Pratt if it came down to it.
None of that modern vain nonsense. Just a healthy guy. And a badass. Guys going on real adventures and doing shit aren't hanging out in gyms 24/7. They're too busy being cool.
Are you a woman? Who are you to tell me what I'm attracted to?
"Better off"? No. This dude looks better than almost any of the super-ripped action stars of today. For one thing, he looks human...Nah, It's crazy to think how lazy movie stars used to be with their physique. I think i look better than nearly any supposed "action star" from the 50s-70s just by casually working out every day, but Arnold changed the game and gave us higher ideals to strive for and we're all better off for it.
This was "fit and sexy" before? Hard to imagine...
Read the Dan Stevens thing above. Dehydrating oneself for one shirtless scene is quit similar to that.
It wouldn't be much of an issue if it were just about dudes losing a bit of beer gut and getting in shape. The workout plans and dehydrating shit for the camera is on a whole new level, quite similar to what actresses go through. It's not okay.
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