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film: Tropic Thunder

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lacey k said:
*sigh* wat is the deal wit that shit. Its like how they had Italians play native americans in the 50s.


Are you talking about Enno Morricone films lacey? Films like The Good, The Bad, The Ugly? If so they cast Italians because they're Italian movies overdubbed with English. They were filmed in Italy and it'd be too expensive to fly everyone out there. Plus, Morricone didn't know English or Spanish. The portrayals were often offensive but them not being given to the 'correct' race isn't from racist intentions.
 
Oh wow I did not realize that he was supposed to be in disguise, my bad peeps. all ive heard is the radio commercials and the first post in this thread so ....*runs outta thread*
 
This looks like the funny, semi-stupid humor that my bf would love. Not to mention its like war/gun related...
When it comes out on DVD I'm totally going to ship it to him.
 
^ Like "Southland Tales," "Jarhead," "Full Metal Jacket," "M*A*S*H," "Catch-22," et al., this isn't likely to appeal to the shoot-em-up, warhawk mentality.

This isn't "The Marine." 8)

This seems to be the type of film that is aimed at viewers who actually think that, like, ya know, maybe war isn't such a glorious and noble cause. :|
 
lacey k said:
Why the fuck they got him in black face? Really?

So they want a black man as one of the characters Are you tellin me, that there aint ONE black man that could play that part? You couldnt find ONE out of all the actors out there, that could possibly, in any way fill that role?

That shits fucked up. the movie looks funny, but i dont understand why they would do that. is it sum kind of novelty for ppl, oh ha ha, blackface is "politically in correct" so lets make it all ironic and shit? I aint sayin thats wat they doin, im asking cuz i honestly dont understand the need for that.

*sigh* wat is the deal wit that shit. Its like how they had Italians play native americans in the 50s, n white actors playin chinese, black, etc roles in the early 1900s. its disrespectful to think that there is a role for someone that they want to be a certain race and they want to portray that but they cant even allow a person who actually IS of that race to show that character? WTF kind of shit is that, how fuckin insulting can you possibly be to say that a person of that race aint even fit to properly represent that race the way that the directors want it and they only trust a white actor to "do it right" or sum shit? I dont get it yo.....SMH...

Lacy K is complaining about white people imitating black culture. How rich.
 
i'm also an advocate for Robert Downey Jr.
i don't particularly like Stiller or Black on most occasions.
Downey stole the show. the only reason i liked the movie truly.
Tom Cruise was pretty annoying too.
 
I thought this was pretty fucking funny. Definitely better than Pineapple Express.
 
^
yeah me too
....
found it real funny that is.

but i haven't seen pineapple express.



no more personal comments, please.
 
This has gotta be the first time I've enjoyed Tom Cruise in a movie, ever. I think it's because he was playing an obnoxious jerk and being an obnoxious jerk in real life this wasn't really much of a strecth for him.

junctionalfunkie said:
Everything Robert Downey Jr. touches turns to pure gold.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
 
I forgot Tom Cruise was even in the film until the very end. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed him in a role.
 
I thought this movie sucked.
I like all the actors for the most part (except Stiller and Cruise). I guess that fact that I hate Hollywood with such a passion keeps me from finding humor in the parody...or maybe I can't appreciate trying to find humor in a parody of something completely insane, corrupt, idiotic, unoriginal and self-consuming.
 
SmokingMan said:
or maybe I can't appreciate trying to find humor in a parody of something completely insane, corrupt, idiotic, unoriginal and self-consuming.
What? I find parodys of such things the most hilarious
 
SmokingMan said:
I thought this movie sucked.
I like all the actors for the most part (except Stiller and Cruise). I guess that fact that I hate Hollywood with such a passion keeps me from finding humor in the parody...or maybe I can't appreciate trying to find humor in a parody of something completely insane, corrupt, idiotic, unoriginal and self-consuming.

Would you rather watch parodies of things you find completely sane, morally sound, reasonable, original and self-propagating?
 
this movie was brilliant and another instant stiller classic. he misses more than their his fair share but every so often he hits a home run. this one is a slightly exagerrated tale of how star filled movie sets are really like I am sure w/ a humorous twist.

Right when you think it couldn't get anymore ridiculous

"I goooooooooooooooooot the TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVO"

5 stars
 
I about cried the whole way through. Fucking priceless.

BTW, anyone else see the obvious parallels between the intended film and We Were Soldiers? The way Ben Stiller and co. ran around shooting their guns like they were badasses, the way over the top war gore, the awful dialouge, etc. Just a thought...
 
Finder said:
I forgot Tom Cruise was even in the film until the very end. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed him in a role.

I thought Tom was the funniest character in the movie. Although his character was similar to the character he played in Magnolia.
 
EA-1475 said:
I thought Tom was the funniest character in the movie.

Definitely. He totally stole the show. I laughed my ass off at him and pretty much everything else too.

It was a totally successful comedy. The plot sort of drags in places, and sometimes the humor falls short of what they were going for, but all those things are forgivable because 90% of the movie is fucking comedic gold. I think one of the other things that hurt the movie is that some of the characters had accents so thick (Robert Downey Jr. and Nick Nolte in particular) that it was hard to understand them sometimes, which threw the timing off and made you miss some of the jokes, so that once you puzzled out what they had said, the dialog had already moved past it and it was sort of too late to be funny anymore. At least that was my experience. Maybe others didn't have that problem.

Jack Black's character was a totally unexpected but delightfully fresh surprise. That issue is something that most people don't joke about, but that made it all the more hilarious. I could definitely relate.

Two thumbs up. :D
 
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