Tropic thunder
 

Never even for a second been a stiller fan. Why in the world I even brought this video home is still beyond me. It was made for people who are

A. Either tripping some crappy acid and are easily amused or

B. Have the IQ of a piece of paper.

Tom cruise sucks ( never expected much from him )
Stiller, I have seen better acting at my kids grade school pageants.

The umpteen other "stars" in this movie made it to make money. Definitely not to entertain.

Never before have I walked in the rental store and demanded my money back. That was until I watched this steaming hunk of crap of a movie.

Grumpy

Makes me want to go out and rent it

This is a interesting deduction on your part, as a reasonable IQ is required to get the rather hilarious satire in the film :P

It is a shame you did not find the funny that so many others have.

Hey, I was just walking by and heard you all talking about a movie or something..........

I must have an IQ of a piece of paper.

:D

I'm pretty (read very) broadminded and do possess a sense of humour but when I found my kids watching this, I spat the dummy. How anyone can say this is funny is beyond my comprehension. :thumbsdn::thumbsdn:

They can say it is funny because they have watched a lot of the movies Tropic Thunder spoofs.

In any case, Tropic Thunder is not perfect of course, but above average and quite welcome in the face of comedies such as "Zohan" and action movies such as "Wanted".

I was looking forward to seeing this until you told me tom cruise was in it. What a P.O.S. Thanks for the heads up grumpy.

:lurk:

It would be a shame to miss this. BTW Grumpy spilled the beans on what would've been a VERY funny surprise. Too bad, this flick has a lot of laughs.

My son like that movie. I think it sucks. They try to be funny and I don't find it hilarious. Go back to Drama School.

+1 my son rented it, I turned it off. It wasn't worth the phosphor on my CRT's

Stiller had a very short lived series on Fox before his movie career started, it was funny as all hell. The "U2, the early years" and "Cape Munster" bits were great.

Sorry, I was unaware this was a surprise.

I thought it was a hoot! Skewers every war movie cliche you can think of, and plenty of Hollywood stereotypes. I'm not a Tom Cruise fan by any stretch, but he is hilarious here.

It's not Macbeth, but it is fun.

i'm no fan of tom cruise, but he's done some superb work over the years, no matter how you feel about him as a person i.e. Magnolia, and Michael Mann's Collateral come to mind. i thought he was superbly disgusting in Tropic Thunder-and like others here, i too have the i.q. of a piece of paper, cause i laughed me friggin head off from beginning to end. as the film went on, and you began to recognize all the 'hero' films of the last 15-20 years that were getting mercilessly skewered, it just became more and more fun. would i see it again? nah....but for what it was, it was terrific. and Robert Downey? c'mon, that shit was hilarious: "you went full retard? man, thass yo problem man, you went full retard. no one goes full retard!!"

On the other hand... sometimes a big steamng pile of crap has huge neon signs over it with big neon arrows pointing to the pile and yes i watched this on cable. It is what it looks like....

I watched this with a group of 6 other people.... not one of us found one bit of it funny.... what a waste of my time.

I am so amazed at the such differing views of this movie. I thought Tom C. was awesome as that character. All of the movies this spoofed, most of which I have watched, made it that much more fun.

I really loved 8 1/2 also.

Mark

It was OK compared to the other crap available. My paper IQ isn't making me rich via talking people out of their green pieces of paper under the guise of passion for audio, but it was entertaining. A not too bad movie overall (if you like satire as I do) especially if you saw the satired movies.

I really liked it, especially Robert Downey Jr. playing a black guy. At the end he turns into Peter O'Toole of Lawrence of Arabia. Tom Cruise is also pretty good.
I would recommend it - it's a riot.

We were down in Decorah Iowa a few months back visiting my daughter at college. Someone decided at one point that we should go to the local movie house so off we went. Not much of interest was showing so we figured that Tropic Thunder was as good as anything.

I would have left have left half way through the movie given the choice but we didn't have much else to do before dinner so we stuck it out.

Although there were some funny scenes, Tropic Thunder was pretty painful to sit through. I walked out of the movie theater feeling dumber that I was when I first sat down.

RC

What he said.:thmbsp: I'll add that I generally dislike most Ben Stiller films, but Robert Downey Jr.'s role was hilarious, and Tom Cruise was very funny too. Was he supposed to be one of the Weinstein Brothers??

I thought Robert Downey Jr. stole the show. I too am not a Ben Stiller fan, and found him to be the weakest link. However, this movie still made me laugh.:D

Yes, I believe Cruises' role was patterned off the Weinstein bros.

+1

Boring......

That's just it. They were dudes playin' the dudes DISGUISED as OTHER dudes! That's the whole point and why I found it funny. They're actors playing actors playing it over the top.

Of course, I went into it, tapping into my toilet-paper level IQ...:D

I'm starting to think Ben Stiller is a very good comedic writer and not a very good comedic actor. He was the weak point of this film, but the dialogue was hilarious. Stiller was decent in Meet the Parents, but he's always overshadowed by better performers.

Yeah... I agree. His acting reminded me of his part in Mystery Men.

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Full Retard... :D

The Simple Jack thing was a send up of Forrest Gump. The whole movie was poking fun at almost everything. There was something offensive for everyone. I wouldn't let my kids see it. The humor is too raw and graphic. But I can appreciate it as an adult.

I was in the US Navy, so very little offends me. Hard to disgust a Sailor.

Former Squid here too. At this point nothing offends me!

^ Well... maybe sometimes Jarheads do... but they're Jarheads.... 'Nuff Said! :D

Well I last night I finally got around to watching this, (on Grumpy's recommendation) I haven't laughed so hard at a move for a very long time, but I understand it probably not for everyone (people without a sense of humor may struggle with it)


My wife works with people with intellectual disabilities, and she found Topic Thunder and the Simple Jack bit very funny also. The whole bit was not using the word retard to poke fun at people with ID's, but actually was satirizing the Hollywood portrayal of those with ID's. "You cant go the full retard, because the audience wont connect with you"

To exclude any portion of society from humor is discrimination

Is that an insult?? :tongue::D

Hard to tell, I have the IQ of a sheet of paper

pulp fiction

Well you have to consider that I'm ALMOST 63 and that's my only excuse for what follows.
I confused Tropic Thunder with another POS film that my kids were watching with a group of their mates. Don't get me wrong...I still think it is a crap film, aside from the fact that Tom Cruise is in it, but not in the same category as....wait for it .... "Harold and Kumar.. Escape from Guantanamo Bay" :thumbsdn::thumbsdn:

Grumpy, why don't you rent this one out and give us your impressions?
On 2nd thought, better not.

I'm embarrassed now. Goodnight.

I like harold and kumar and find them to be pretty funny.

Personally I'm not a fan of any actor in this movie with the exception of Robert Downey jr who I am hot and cold over.

Kinda reminds me of the 'Ace Ventura' type of movies or the 'Jerry Lewis's' of the world that are so bad I'm embarrassed to watch them. I get embarrassed for the actors playing that crazy shit. . .

I rented the movie mostly because it was on BD and in HD. . . As much as I hate these guys I did laugh out loud between throwing up in my mouth and passing gas. . .

. . . I will say that it was the funniest movie of its genre that I have seen but still. . . just saying. . .

I saw it in a theatre with a buddy of mine.We havent laughed that hard in a long time.I think we laughed the hardest at the "previews" at the beginning.Very wicked satire.IQ of fresh lint here.
Jimmy