Tropic Thunder
2008 Directed by Ben Stiller
Synopsis
The movie they think they're making... isn't a movie anymore.
Vietnam veteran "Four Leaf" Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film. Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive to get filming back on track, or risk its cancellation. On Tayback's advice, Cockburn drops the actors into the middle of the jungle to film the remaining scenes. Unbeknownst to the actors and production, the group have been dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of heroin-producing gangs.
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Well la-di-fuckin da. What a cracker jack!!
It is disrespectful. It mocks itself and so many other films endlessly at every twist and turn.
But who cares when it is so much rip roaring fun.
We got Iron Man playing the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
Tom Cruise playing a bald, hot-headed, booty shaking man throwing a shit load of profanity at people.
Jack Black making fart jokes and craving for his dope.
Steve Coogan playing a character called Cockburn.
Ben Stiller trying to cry.
Is this not enough awesomeness to love a movie?
Oh Tropic Thunder, you ma ma ma ma made me go fucking ha ha ha that I had rain from my eyes from laughing.
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I'll let Les Grossman sum it up: If you don't like this movie, you can take a big step back and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE.
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"I'm a lead farmer, motherf**ka!" - Kirk Lazarus
My two favourite comedy performances by non-comedy actors bookend this film. It starts with a bleach-blond Robert Downey Jr. in a hysterical fake trailer for gay monk erotica Satan's Alley and end with a fat Tom Cruise with glasses, sweat patches and bling dancing to Ludacris' Get Back over the credits.
Can you see why I completely adore this film?
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When a film opens with some of the best spoof movie trailers in existence, you know it's going to be good. Then Tom Cruise turns up as a movie producer who rivals Malcolm Tucker in the creative swearing department. Actually, that'd be a great spin-off movie:
"One's a foul-mouthed American movie producer. The other's an equally foul-mouthed Scottish political adviser. Together, they fight crime."I am a goddamn genius.
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Best comic performance ever by Robert Downey Jr. That alone makes this film worth the watch!
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"Okay Flaming Dragon, fuckface. First, take a big step back... and literally fuck your own face! I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia, Jack, is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again! Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an ungodly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I am talking scorched-earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I will fuck you up! [hangs up]
[to assistant] Can you find out who that was?"That quote alone is why this is one of my all-time favorite comedy movies. Thank you Tom Cruise.
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'Now I want you to take a step back... and literally fuck your own face'...good advice to take if you don't love this film!!!
It's ballsy, ridiculously funny & sometimes borders on the insane. Far too much fun can be had from watching this and makes recommending it easy.
It starts off with the funniest fake -trailers I've ever seen and then evolves into a wacky, outstanding & engrossing comedy that's going to be very hard to beat.
Casting was superb with each actor giving a stellar performance however RDJ steals the show for me with his one liners and incredible facial expressions.
Ultimate laugh out loud movie that definitely hits the mark
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I bet the commentary track on this is incredible.... Chose to watch with subtitles due mostly to RDJ's under-his-breath approach of deliverying lines. The concentration of throwaway jokes without the proper pacing to accentuate them is at a Zucker bros. level here. The faux-trailers, still brilliant, all the cracks at Hollywood (Cruise's Les Grossman) so much fun. If anything it is maybe too clever, too committed to the jokes that work better in a script then crammed ratatat in cinematic form. I laughed a lot but most of the time it was this protracted smile, waiting for a moment to breathe and process the jokes as they kept coming.
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I'm no Tom Cruise fan, but he is absolutely hilarious in this. Good job.
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Well la-di-fuckin da. What a cracker jack!!
It is disrespectful. It mocks itself and so many other films endlessly at every twist and turn.
But who cares when it is so much rip roaring fun.
We got Iron Man playing the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
Tom Cruise playing a bald, hot-headed, booty shaking man throwing a shit load of profanity at people.
Jack Black making fart jokes and craving for his dope.
Steve Coogan playing a character called Cockburn.
Ben Stiller trying to cry.
Is this not enough awesomeness to love a movie?
Oh Tropic Thunder, you ma ma ma ma made me go fucking ha ha ha that I had rain from my eyes from laughing.
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The 15 year old HotDonkeyBear would've loved this movie. There's fart jokes, explosions and filthy words at every turn. As it stands, the 30 year old HotDonkeyBear thought Tropic Thunder was passable at least.
I laughed a grand total of 4 times. Despite the gargantuan A List cast, I wasn't exactly blown away by the performances or the writing in particular. It's weird how the best performances come from Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise as the agent and producer respectively. Frankly I could have sat through 2 hours of those two characters instead.
Definitely not a laugh a minute. Kind of OK throughout.
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A very funny parody of war films.
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Hilarious, stupid and silly.
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Eléggé agyzsibbasztó film...
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Flawed but when it hits the right notes it really sings. Worth watching just for the phenomenal Downey Junior intentionally layering about 3 different performances on top of each other.