come ancticpate the clusterfuck that is TROPIC THUNDER

this could be funny.

but i have my doubts.

* Ben Stiller as Tug Speedman,[citation needed] an action movie star.[1]
* Jack Black as Jeff "Fats" Portnoy,[citation needed] a comedian turned drug addict well known for playing multiple parts in films.[1]
* Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, an Academy Award winning method actor who dyes his skin black to play Sgt. Osiris.[1]
* Brandon T. Jackson as Alpa Chino, a hip hop artist turned actor.[citation needed]
* Jay Baruchel as Kevin Sandusky, a young, unknown up-and-coming actor.[citation needed]
* Danny McBride as Cody, the special effects coordinator of the film.[citation needed]
* Steve Coogan as Damian,[citation needed] the director of the film.[1]
* Bill Hader as Rob Slolom[citation needed]
* Nick Nolte as the film's writer.[1]

I am genuinely anticipating this! It will be funny.

Really not enough info in that trailer. The lack of jokes makes me think that they really don't have enough to go around.

As far as the Downey, Jr.-in-blackface thing, why even do that? There aren't enough dumbassed white actors doing blackface to make a point out of satirizing it.

(I actually haven't seen enough new movies to put money on that last statement, but I would have heard about something like that, right?)

i think the lack of jokes in the "teaser" trailer was probably more of a deliberate deadpan move

very timely

yeah like all those will ferrel/ben stiller movies

probably more of a deliberate deadpan move

Yeah, I get that, but it's also a bit of a cop-out.

So who's starting the Tropic Thunder thread tomorrow? We've got to keep this up or we'll never meet our quota.

Robert Downey Jr. is black: the Tropic Thunder thread
lmao this black guy is Robert Downey Jr
Robert Downey Jr Blackface Three Amigos II OMGLOLWTF

hey guys, let's get all het with righteous indignation about some weird blackface RDJ does/doesn't do and parlay that ire into a 2000 post thread on race in film

Well, the one thing he didn't do is make me laugh in the trailer is all I'm saying.

Ben Stiller also directed it.
is he trying to be Gondry/Kaufman?
this will probably be mediocre

hey guys, let's get all het with righteous indignation about some weird blackface RDJ does/doesn't do and parlay that ire into a 2000 post thread on race in film

-- remy bean, Monday, March 10, 2008 1:24 AM

has anybody actually got butthurt yet?

doesn't seem like it.

who left the fridge open?

ok after this canada bus shit are they gonna take out ben stiller licking blood from decapitated dudes head

can't wait for this shit

naw its gonna be hilaire (c) mark slutsky i just dont want some studio assholes making it less hilaire cuz theyre all sensitive about dudes eating a decapitated head

ya i dont think they'd have time to cut that even if they decided they were going to, which i dont think they would

i'm sure a clean cut could be made pretty quickly

stuff is usually being edited up until like a week before it hits the theaters so that would be no problems but lolz ethan I see what you did there

i'm sure a clean cut could be made pretty quickly

-- and what, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

that's the whole problem

stuff is usually being edited up until like a week before it hits the theaters so that would be no problems but lolz ethan I see what you did there

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

not usually. 1000s of prints need to be made.

"prints"

are you showing this at the drive-thru, old-man s1ocki?

most theatres r digital now

they burn it to a dvd or something, then Wall-E hand delivers it

this guy

the last movie I saw def had cigarette burns

i believe the vast majority of u.s theaters are still showing prints

i thought george lucas helped everyone transition when first shitty star wars came

i guess all those film canisters i used to take up to the projectionist's booth when i worked at a movie theater were imaginary!

Apparently they say Downey Jr. is ripping on Russell Crowe here. If he is, I'm so there.

After pressure from some special needs groups, they've removed all the stuff about Ben Stiller's character's award-winning performance as a mentally retarded man that they were highlighting in the trailers (and they took down the fake site for the fake movie, which was pretty funny) - and apparently they're considering removing it from the film.

ughh what

awful

Yeah if Hanks can get away with why not Stiller? IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!

all the stuff about Ben Stiller's character's award-winning performance as a mentally retarded man that they were highlighting in the trailers

Was that the bit w/ the parka and the baby seals / pandas?

No, it's the bit in the trailer that shows scenes from a fake film called "Simple Jack," where Stiller's sort of 'retarded up' and speaking in a "duh" voice. The idea was obviously to parody the Academy's tendency to reward actors in those types of roles, but I think Stiller and Co. were *really* enjoying making the point!

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/images/simplejack.jpg

From NY Mag:

Disability-issues blogger Patricia Bauer reported this weekend that DreamWorks has agreed to meet with advocates about their concerns over Tropic Thunder and its subplot in which actor Tug Speedman (Ben Stiller) makes a blatant Oscar move in the form of Simple Jack, a movie in which he plays a bucktoothed dolt. We tend to read the subplot as a fairly funny take on I Am Sam, Radio, and other head-slapping movies in which actors ham-handedly portray the developmentally disabled. Then again, we don't have disabled kids, so we're not quite as sensitive to the tagline on Simple Jack's "poster," "Once upon a time … there was a retard." (We do wish they'd used a fake tagline that was actually funny, though.)

Will DreamWorks do anything in response to these meetings, or will the studio — as one commenter darkly speculates on Bauer's blog — "pretend to listen … to get an idea of the arguments that they will have to get their PR department to respond to"?

Surprisingly, DreamWorks already seems to be acting, since as of this morning, the once-elaborate spoof promotional Website for Simple Jack has totally disappeared.

Simple Jack saying "you make my pee-pee maker tingle" was the funniest part of that trailer.

"prints"

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, August 7, 2008 6:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

are you showing this at the drive-thru, old-man s1ocki?

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, August 7, 2008 6:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

are you kidding me? 99.99% of movie theatres still use "prints"

dont believe everything george lucas tells you.

a classic wtf picture of tom cruise:

http://www.movieweb.com/news/10/24510.php

Simple Jack saying "you make my pee-pee maker tingle" was the funniest part of that trailer.

What about the simple pleasures of a baby stabbing Ben Stiller multiple times in the back, then getting thrown like a Nerf boomerang?

FWIW, I just saw the redband trailer w/ the Simple Jack stuff in it -- if they're pulling it, they're taking their sweet time getting to the hinterlands w/ those orders.

points to anyone who can get a review published with the phrase "Don't let Robert Downey Jr.'s brown skin throw you off"

hahahahahaha

Discuss.

Sadly, that made me want to pay to see Tropic Thunder about 500 times.

I worked with the Farrelly brothers on a film on this topic. I know about edgy comedy. I'm also told that movies are equal-opportunity offenders.

is this dude braggin' about having something to do with Warren in Something About Mary!?

"I was on the set to make sure that Matt Dillon noticeably winced when speaking the word 'retard' onscreen, and was quickly corrected by another character."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ringer_(2005_film)

in which actual special olympians portray themselves

By all accounts, it is an unchecked assault on the humanity of people actors with intellectual disabilities

I was gonna say, "No, it's WORSE," but Tom beat me to it.

This guy is missing the point in the most painful way possible.

yeah seriously, even if i didnt know what tropic thunder was about, it would immediately read to me like a comment on film

xp

well I've seen the movie and this dude hasn't, so I feel qualified to say that the movie definitely takes aim - in a pretty obvious way - at the Academy and at self-important actors, not the handicapped. if you come out of the movie missing that point you're looking to be offended.

it's the same reason they did the Downey blackface shtick - not as a way to lampoon black people, but to poke fun at obsessive method actors.

What about the movie The Other Sister, somehow I ended up seeing part of that "heartwarming" story but Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi sure didn't get any oscars to my knowledge

i had an english teacher in who thought 'a modest proposal' was making fun of the irish

I think the dude doesn't get that the Downey/Stiller conversation is supposed to make both of the characters look stupid, along with the industry

I was more offended by the "action star" parts of the trailer where Stiller has the cg pandas strapped to his chest

The Other Sister wasn't nominated for an Oscar but it was nominated for a Razzie.

dont believe everything george lucas tells you.

lolz yeah I was basing my comment on what a film editor friend tells me - problem is she's the senior film editor at ILM

I have yet to be convinced by his other roles that Giovanni Ribisi was actually acting in said film and not just portraying himself

My wife once challenged me to name a part Juliette Lewis had played where the character didn't have some form of mental deficiency. I think the closest I got was Strangedays.

What, does "adolescence" count as a deficiency now?

hahahaha "now"

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20080810/121842511100.html

Advocates for disabled to protest "Tropic Thunder"
Sunday August 10 8:25 PM ET

Groups that advocate for the disabled called on Sunday for a national boycott of the Ben Stiller comedy "Tropic Thunder," citing what they say is its negative portrayal of people with intellectual disabilities.

"We are asking people not to go to the movie and hope to bring a consciousness to people about using derogatory words about this population," said Peter Wheeler, spokesman for Special Olympics, one of 22 disability groups nationwide protesting the satire.

The film, directed by Stiller, will be released on Wednesday by Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures and its DreamWorks unit.

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The groups plan to picket the movie's premiere on Monday evening in Los Angeles's Westwood community.

"That will be the start of a nationwide protest," said Wheeler. "We will continue to be vocal about the destructive effect of this film."

He said the groups are particularly offended by the film's repeated use of the word "retard" regarding a character, Simple Jack, played by Stiller in a subplot about an actor.

Representatives of the Special Olympics, the Arc of the United States, the National Down Syndrome Congress, the American Association of People with Disabilities and other groups met with studio executives last week to discuss the film, but DreamWorks did not make any changes.

Peter Berns, executive director the Arc, said in a memo the groups presented various ideas to the studio, from requesting an apology to fixing the film before its release, to producing a national educational campaign.

Chip Sullivan, a spokesman for DreamWorks said: "We have had productive discussions with representatives of disability advocacy organizations and look forward to working with them closely in the future. However no changes or cuts to the film will be made...

"'Tropic Thunder' is an R-rated comedy that satirizes Hollywood and its excesses, and makes its point by featuring inappropriate and over-the top characters in ridiculous situations. The film is in no way meant to disparage or harm the image of individuals with disabilities," he said.

The film also features Robert Downey Jr. as a white actor who changes his skin color to play a black soldier.

Sullivan said that prior to the meetings, DreamWorks had taken down an online promotion, removing references to Simple Jack it felt could appear offensive when taken out of context.

The film was shown in more than 250 promotional screenings around the country since April.

did they protest Radio?

Commentary: Critics of 'Tropic Thunder' are missing the point
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/12/miller.film.tropic/art.miller.jpg
Editor's Note: Neil Miller, executive editor of the film Web site FilmSchoolRejects.com, is an online film critic based in Columbus, Ohio.

Commentary: Why 'Tropic Thunder' shouldn't be seen
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/12/shriver.thunder/art.tim.shriver.jpg
Editor's Note: Timothy Shriver, the chairman of Special Olympics for the past 11 years, co-produced the 1997 DreamWorks Studios movie "Amistad." His mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of Sen. Ted Kennedy, founded Special Olympics and his father, Sargent Shriver, served as president. Tim's sister Maria, the wife of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a Special Olympics board member.

While I am disappointed that we were not consulted in the same manner as other minority groups depicted in the film and that there are 17 mentions of the "R-word" with one mention of the "N-word," I am grateful to Ms. Snider for listening to the coalition and for taking steps to eliminate some of the film's most offensive marketing elements.

Of course, wouldn't see Al Sharpton protesting a cinematic portrayal of a bigot using the N word…

Now, however, is the time to raise our voices against "Tropic Thunder" and the harm it is sure to visit on people with intellectual disabilities.

douche!!!!!

Mockery in any form, or for any purpose or directed at anyone, especially those least able to defend themselves, is neither funny nor acceptable.

uh

I am pro-mockery of people who do not understand comedy

tim shriver is a retard.

These people are the most dense, humorless morons ever. Tropic Thunder is -on their side-, taking Hollywood blowhards to task for manipulating and using the disabled for their own profit. But once again it's PC GONE CRAaZzY.

YOU TELL EM STANTON! DONT TAKE NO FUCKING GUFF HOMEY!

Damn straight remy bean.

These people are the most dense, humorless morons ever. Tropic Thunder is -on their side-, taking Hollywood blowhards to task for manipulating and using the disabled for their own profit. But once again it's PC GONE CRAaZzY.

Cut them some slack, they're retarded. They don't understand the nuances of these things.

"retarded"

this movie was idiotic and unfunny for the most of it

The Rain Of Madness trailer (the Hearts Of Darkness stand-in doc) looks better than TT itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akx_6Ds2DWI

Simple Jack saying "you make my pee-pee maker tingle" was the funniest part of that trailer.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

This was in the trailer but not in the actual movie :(

This was better than Pineapple Express.

Advocates for disabled to protest "Tropic Thunder"

Oh man there better be a WE WANT HEN FAP sign being waved.

The Economist gave this a really good review - it seemed so out of place that I totally want to see this now.

Local NBC affiliated showed an actual in-person protest yesterday at one of the local suburban theater megaplexes. There were, like, five people total. The best part was the "The R-Word is Hate Speech" signs.

Coverage on their website offer roffles with the closing line:

BROOKLYN--There is a storm brewing over the newly released movie Tropic Thunder

The movie starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black is a comedy action adventure.

It spoofs war and many different groups in society.

Advocates for the mentally disabled were protesting in Brooklyn.

18 times the movie makes fun of the mentally challenged and this group says Tropic Thunder gets a cold reception from them.

Cindy Norwood from The Arc of Greater Cleveland says, " when they think that that is acceptable to call somebody the r word in a deragotory way that just keeps it going in a negative fashion."

The "R" word she is referring to is "retard" or "retarded".

And she says that word should be banned from society.

She says, "its hurtful to folks who are mentally challenged".

Her daughter Jessica agrees.

She has downs syndrome and has experienced prejudice before.

Jessica says, "it really hurts peoples feelings."

The group protested and handed out fliers Wednesday night, the same night the movie opened nationwide.

Tropic Thunder is getting good reviews.

Also, the on-scene reporter called it "Tropical Thunderstorm" on the air lol.

LOOL

How do these people feel about musician Jay Reatard? (Not his family name...)

I'm definitely siding with Stiller on this one, but just to play devil's advocate, you guys are getting a little Penn-&-Teller's-Bullshit-righteous-indignation about a bunch of moms who raise children with disibilities getting bummed out when they hear that a hollywood studio is providing a nation of 13-year-old classmates with a new arsenal of retard jokes.

13-year-olds shouldn't be watching r-rated movies

^ just one man's opinion

my showing certainly had it's share of unaccompanied minors :/

ha -- fuck the 13-year-olds, THREE-YEAR-OLDS (and their dumbshit parents) shouldn't be watching R-rated movies.

The Onion liked this.

Fair enough that the parents and whoever else don't want retard to be the new douchebag. Fair enough for them to speak up, get publicity, and work a boycott.

Yeah, I'm def. cool with them getting a boycott and publicity. Pressuring the movie to CHANGE the content is where it gets icky though.

Yea, like someone said upthread this merely provides a bunch of media exposure for their "issues". I'm sure the fatcats running pro-tard organizations will be happy to use this "success" at their next fundraiser. Of course, in terms of meaningful help to tards this accomplishes nothing.

I don't know. I saw some retarded folks at Chipotle yesterday, truly defenseless people who can't change or improve from mockery, and I thought about how their already hard lives are about to get harder.

...because they were about to bite into a Chipotle

weird that the retard thing is getting flack whereas haven't seen anyone make a peep about downey jr doing blackface.

They were having an unselfconsciously good time.

weird that the retard thing is getting flack whereas haven't seen anyone make a peep about downey jr doing blackface.

I submit that this is because black people aren't retarded.

(thank you, plz tip your servers etc)

Jon Williams: Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion.
Mary: And what's that?
Jon Williams: I work with retards.
Mary: Isn't that a little politically incorrect?
Jon Williams: Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with.

other words we should ban

when someone can't see something right in front of them: "are you blind?"

when someone listens to vampire weekend: "are you deaf?"

these words are hurtful to the deaf and the blind

well maybe not to the deaf, they can't hear them

hahaha dan

And she says that word should be banned from society.

lolwtf @ this

what if you signed "are you deaf?" to someone listening to vampire weekend, would that be wrong? this is all so confusing.

Cut her a little slack, guys! That said, she does represent Arc, which stands for "the Association for Retarded Citizens" (no joek).

so by her logic, she would now represent "the association for citizens"

this sounds like some communist plot to make us all retarded

it's political correctness gone mad

perhaps people in new england have less sensitivity to this issue

http://img.snlarc.jt.org/arc/epskit/2001-11-10-3.jpg

this was really unexpectedly hilarious.

really worth seeing in a theatre (looks pretty fucking beautiful), and amid a crowd.

had an awesome time watching it tonight, yes!

the TV ad w/ the mantis attacking BS's eye suggests I shouldn't see this.

Dr. Momus?

co-worker sent an email around asking people to boycott this movie

guys, i'm going to the theatre tonight...should i see this, the dark knight or pineapple express?

Out of those three, I'd pick The Dark Knight.

then see this
then pineapple express

Ok, thanks!

fake trailer at the beginning for "Satan's Alley" starring Kirk Lazarus=A+

Fake trailers were the best part, I thought -- very reminiscent of the Ben Stiller Show, as far as the satire is in getting the editing, look, etc. just right. Liked Pineapple Express more.

On Friday night I walked past the AMC 21, busy multiplex in Chicago, and there were about 50 protesters outside. Went with a friend today who pre-Fandango-ed the tickets, or else I would've bought a ticket to another movie to get in.

OK, my friend called and wants to see The Dark Knight tomorrow. I'm still going to see something tonight. Pineapple Express vs. Tropic Thunder vs. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired vs. Encounters at the End of the World

wait, Encounters probably sucks. Scratch that.

btw, ten minutes to decide because they all start at the same time.

I AM CONTRIBUTING TO THE TROPIC THUNDER THREADD

See Tropic Thunder. It's the only one with Robert Downey Jr in it.

Fantastic! I might elaborate when I'm AWAKE.

also wtf @ justin theroux!!!! awesome!

also it wasn't really 'FANTASTIC!' but it was good!

otm

summer lols

Step Brothers > Forgetting Sarah Marshall > Tropic Thunder > Pineapple Express > Baby Mama

(didn't see harold and kumar or drillbit taylor)

Marshall > Thunder > Express >>> Brothers

OK, my friend called and wants to see The Dark Knight tomorrow. I'm still going to see something tonight. Pineapple Express vs. Tropic Thunder vs. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired vs. Encounters at the End of the World

-- Tape Store, Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

wait, Encounters probably sucks. Scratch that.

-- Tape Store, Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

encounters is fantastic, now back to your regularly scheduled downey in blackface

thought this was extremely uneven but there was a lot of funny shit in it.

i really fuckin loved this

shaun/dead:zombies
hot fuzz:cop action
thunder:war movies

mocks and indulges in equal measure. probably can't do a war movie spoof after this. will be buying this on dvd.

And now Maria Shriver asks you, the public: "Let's makes the "R-word" as unacceptable as the "N-word."

Republican? ^_^

I am inclined to agree with her. I am slightly shocked by how acceptable it seems to be over here. Although in use in the UK, it doesn't seem to be nearly as prevalent.

I don't get it. All those mentally-handicapped people get to call themselves "retards". How come I can't use that word?

But 'spaz' is like the same-ish in the UK, Ed? Do I dig this crazy beat, daddy-o?

Spaz > Fag in UK.

I was also told as a child that saying "bloody" in England was like saying "fucking" as an adjective.

I don't like spaz either, but yes it is more common. I've done too much work with children and adults with learning disabilities to be comfortable with any of these terms.

Howzabout "sped"?

wtf guys

I just started training to be a projectionist last week, so I've seen most of this movie 4 times now. I loved it. I'll miss it. It plays on so many stereotypes in a very witty way. Pretending to be black, pretending to be straight, pretending to be "retarded", pretending to be so tough you don't have hands... It's all about thinking yourself to be something you are or aren't. I love that the characters are foolhardy idiots who think they're in pictures but really they're as brave and as tough as anybody. I think it was really funny and well-done.

I think the citizens of Vietnam have more of a case against this movie than the mentally disabled.

I agree. But doesn't it make fun of "us" (Americans) more than anyone?

http://www.rainofmadness.com/?p=40/

Frauline and Gentlemen,

For too long now, false rumors and innuendo have surrounded this most mysteriousest of films, Tropic Thunder. So today I put and end to the speculation. For the first time in documentary history (not because I can’t find a theater to play it, I totally could, but people that run theaters prefer to live in a comfortable, sanitized bubble of lies), I am publishing my findings, free of charge, on the world wide internet. It is high time the public see the horror that I have seen.

What I have created and given you for free, is a masterpiece that is sure to win not just numerous awards, but also your hearts and minds. The awards will of course mean nothing, and if I become a world renowned celebrity filmmaker, so be it. It is the price I am willing to pay for delivering truth to power.

I would like to thank all the people out there who have sent me countless encouraging emails while I made this film, Dan and Carl. Your words meant so much. And to the rest of you, thank you for taking this journey with me. Please, sit back, buckle your seat harness, and prepare to step through the looking glass. Oh, and be sure to bring an umbrella… because you will no doubt get caught, like I did, not just in the Thunder….but also, its ‘Rain of Madness.’

Jan Jurgen
Berlin
2008

I saw this yesterday and really liked it. I laughed way more than I thought I would. Would see again and maybe buy on DVD. First I have to see Pineappe Express again before it goes out of the theatres.

I thought Pineapple Express was miles better than this.

You mean because it was funny?

Funnier, yes.

this mostly sucked

This movie was pretty funny. I enjoyed it.

Big summer for Danny McBride!

is the foot fist way or whatever it's called out on dvd soon?

i think it already is?

no, next week (23rd)

I liked the film. Even the kid baddie wasnt that annoying.

Rain of Madness was u_u though.

although Coogan was pretty funny in it.

I thought this film was awesome.

WoW this film was bad. Only mildly amusing moments were the Spoof trailers at the start and the "I'm cold. I can't feel my legs/They're in a mud puddle, mate." bit at the end. Turns out there is no exception to the "all Ben Stiller films are shit" rule.

this was fun, but no more than that. i wouldn't watch it again, and it was pretty lazy/patchy the whole way through.

Turns out there is no exception to the "all Ben Stiller films are shit" rule.

whoa what about royal tenenbaums? thats a good film

Ben Stiller appears in it but it is not a Ben Stiller film.

And it would have been better if he hadn't been.

if Ben Stiller wrote and directed it, it does have some small claim to being "a Ben Stiller film"

i think upt0eleven was talking about tenebaums, not tropic thunder

Turns out there is no exception to the "all Ben Stiller films are shit" rule.

whoa what about royal tenenbaums? thats a good film

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Friday, October 10, 2008 5:00 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Zoolander was one of the best comedies of all time. This movie was crap.

Totally worth seeing for Downey Jr, Cruise, the kid from Undeclared and the actual black actor.

Stiller and Jack Black can suck it, though.

weird I just watched this again tonight and it was great!!

McBride wasn't very funny unfortch :-\

Downey Jr. was the only good thing in the movie.

http://vimeo.com/2320560

This might be valuable if you are at work, alone, and need a li'l pick me up.

Pretty good, but would have been much better if BS knew when to cock it down a notch.

this did look beautiful...John Toll was the cinematographer!

only line that really made me LOL was after RDJ left the helicopter to save Stiller and yells "cover me!" and then that one nerdy guy akwardly says "uh, how are we supposed to cover him?"

cruise was kinda mesmerizing in his grotesqueness.

i really liked this one, i thought the combo Cruise & Hader was hilarious.

Totally worth seeing for Downey Jr, Cruise, the kid from Undeclared and the actual black actor.

Stiller and Jack Black can suck it, though.

― sad man in him room (milo z)

hey, i pretty much agree with this. McConaughey was alright too.

if BS knew when to cock it down a notch.

I saw the author of this phrase at ATP today, and said "Rodney, your shoelace is undone." "I KNOW!!" he replied. True story.

jack black shitted up every scene he was in, but this film was lol. especially RDJ.

this movie is so great

stiller was hilarious in this... "the dudes are emerging"

This played way better on DVD than in the theater, I thought.

ya i loved it the 2nd time around

i liked it in the theatre but it was a GREAT home view

Downey Jr. was the only good thing in the movie.

agreed. also the end credits cruise dance

rescreened last nite - lold hard at the dudes are merging

i saw it for the second time w/my dad and stepmom over thxgiving, couldn't enjoy it because i was super conscious of all the profanity and dumbness. they made it about halfway through.

rescreened last nite - lold hard at the dudes are merging

― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is it merging or emerging?? both are hilare

OKAY. my friend's dad claims that a lot of Jack Black's lines, esp the ones where he is jonesing for heroin and shit are DIRECTLY taken out of "The Good Thief" that Nick Nolte movie from a few years ago...like some sort of weird tribute or something

o_O

hahaha really... i saw that movie

Downy Jr. is the only reason to see this. Everything from Jack Black after the Farties or whatever spoof comedy movie trailer was unfunny and predictable. Everything from Ben Stiller that had to do with Simple Jack was unfunny and I got really upset when it became a major part of the plot at the end. Three Amigos kicks this movies ass into the next solar system.

what a totally weird movie!
i don't even know if it is a movie; it's some other thing
i think i loved it

Ugh this was shit. There was one single solitary joke that worked, and that was Coogan with the landmine and that's because it was unexpected and not done to death for another hour afterwards.

didn't like it. was occasionally funny for about 40 minutes, then bottomed out and never recovered. have no idea why they included all that "real movie" crap about simple jack being captured by the drug farmers, rescue op, fucking bullshit etc.

even downy jr. wasn't that great. good premise, he did a good job, but they didn't push it half far enough.

cruise dance was ace tho

step brothers was weirder and possibly funnier

This was better than Pineapple Express.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:45 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whiney otm

rdj was hilarious pretty much every second he was onscreen

i thought this kinda suffered from being almost funny. i only got like 20 minutes in bcz i was really hungover and there was some prolonged gag with over-the-top viscera and i just kind of went "eurrrrrrrrrrrrp" and had to turn it off /:

Yeah this was one of the least funny comedies I have seen in a long time. It was a like a group of SNL skits being shat out and then swirling around in a toilet bowl for 2 hours.

Huh. I haven't seen it since I saw it in the theater but I remember thinking it was pretty damn funny.

i was disappointed when i saw it in the theater but it played a lot better on dvd for me

rdj was hilarious pretty much every second he was onscreen

totally

this movie is consistently hysterical imo (aside from them laying on the Cruise stuff way too thick)

20 minutes in is definitely plenty of time to decide the entire 100 minute movie is almost funny.

This is a right-company kind of flick, maybe? I roffled @ it.

rdj was hilarious pretty much every second he was onscreen

But he wasn't onscreen every second.

i like when he talks about being a saucier in "san antone"

whoo! yeah! mm mm goodness gracious

also shut up alf

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That frog is funnier than the non-RDJ moments in this thing.

RDJ isgood in this, but fairly one-note.

mcconaghey is probably consistently funnier than anyone else in this fairly shitty comedy

I need to watch this again. I'm surprised at how many ppl think it was shitty. I mean, it wasn't my favorite movie but I laughed a lot and what more do you want from this kind of thing. Also, I pretty much love RDJ in everything so yeah I thought he was v good.

I loved the RDJ stuff and found the movie overall to be pretty damn likeable but Jack Black just fucking sucks in it, and this is coming from somebody with an unusually high JB tolerance.

coming from someone with an unusually low JB tolerance, he wasn't as bad in this as i'd feared, tbh

When Pineapple Express started and Moondog came on, I thought this was going to be a different kind of picture. It was, but not different how I thought. I thought the comedy would turn increasingly inward.

So both movies parodied action movies, huh? That's what you guys are talking about, I presume?

Tom Cruise is so bad that I'm shocked he didn't get an Oscar nod too.

Hm. Yeah, that's pretty insightful. It's like an optical illusion: is it a rabbit or a duck?

This movie is a delight--everyone is wonderful

Would have tea with everyone involved.

i am watching this right now and enjoying it

When Pineapple Express started and Moondog came on, I thought this was going to be a different kind of picture. It was, but not different how I thought. I thought the comedy would turn increasingly inward.

― bamcquern, Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:25 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So both movies parodied action movies, huh? That's what you guys are talking about, I presume?

― bamcquern, Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:27 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Pineapple Express was brought up several times in this thread only because it was the other big comedy opening in August '08, I don't think there's any other basis of comparison. PE isn't really a parody, at least not nearly in as strict a sense as TT.

i definitely liked this better than pineapple express.

xpost Pineapple Express definitely spoofs action movies.

A lot.

You know what, I revise what I said. I think they did go inward, and they entered a fantasy action world.

this head movie makes my eyes rain!

You mean Pineapple Express made you cry? Or you're quoting something.

I'm convinced that ppl who didn't like Ben Stiller in this didn't see the same movie I did.

They watched Along Came Polly.

bamcquern he is quoting one of the best lines of Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder was way more funny than Pineapple Express imo

Pineapple Express was sort of poignant and beautiful in parts. The audience was collectively moved. Seeing it was a good argument for going to the theater instead of watching something at home. Some real Jerome Charyn/Joseph Campbell type shit.

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When that came out on video my dad rented it for us and I laughed really hard all the way through, so much that they thought I was fake laughing to annoy them, but they couldn't really call me on it because we were watching a comedy. I knew it wasn't the funniest movie ever, but I laughed like it was. I laughed through 90 percent, probably.

i think there are parts of HS: PD that are funnier than 1000X tropic thunders

"war... it's fantastic"

Yeah, that's probably true. And one of my earlier memories of pop nostalgia was being thirteen and remembering the time that the Val Kilmer spy parody movie Top Secret! came on the TV at my stepgrandparents' house, where we flew balsa planes on the hills by the golf course.

xpost obv.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-49zWvRyVQs&feature=related

Think this part cracked me up.

lol this is on FX and they censored "full retard" to..... "full special"

YOU NEVER GO FULL SPECIAL

hahaha wow i was channel flipping past it here and there and really wish i had caught that

i have to admit that even tho it might ruin the magic of the whole thing, i deep down want to see a sequel/spin off starring robert downey's character

also i thought this past week's 30 rock ripped jack black's martin lawrence parody off just a bit

30 Rock parodied IRL Martin Lawrence in its first 10 minutes ever

yeah it was firmly in the lineage of 'honky grandma be trippin' and that cop movie one

also i thought this past week's 30 rock ripped jack black's martin lawrence parody off just a bit

uhhh isn't playing a family in fat suits an eddie murphy thing?

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