No, it’s actually a sweet, enjoyable movie.
My knowledge of the Walter Mitty character was limited to “Average/Boring Guy who daydreams about doing awesome and improbable things a lot” so I was surprised when the daydreams stopped so early in the film.
I get the impression there’s a Director’s Cut coming to Blu-Ray which has a lot of “Deleted scenes”, ie more of his daydreams.
I loved the visuals, though - they were excellent.
Just watching reruns of *Boston Legal * 2nd series (2005?) in which a character talks of his fantasies of power through killing as him being like Walter Mitty .
The more I think about it, the more I like the lesser-of-two-evils answer: if he called it, I dunno, Dave Abromowitz, and pitched America the story of an ineffectual nobody who daydreams of being a fearless adventurer, people will maybe say Oh, like Walter Mitty? How unoriginal.
Heck, he could even hasten to add that the lifelong do-nothing eventually winds up living out the sort of scenario our meek protagonist has only ever idly imagined, and some folks would still break out the Oh-Just-Like-Walter-Mitty-How-Unoriginal jab.
But if Stiller leads off with that --man, the complaints go in a whole different direction: he went off in a whole different direction, they say . . . while emphasizing just how much adventure is in the movie. Beats the alternative, IMHO.
Trick question: Verhoeven isn’t smart enough to do parody; he just knows “big things go boom”. He’s the Dutch Michael Bay.
Does anything go “pocketa - pocketa - pocketa”?
Given that he directed RoboCop, your assertion is pure nonsense.
Purchased which name? Blade Runner is a movie loosely based on “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K Dick.
Not any more.