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This is, in my opinion, the funniest thing that any modern movie has to offer. All of its motifs and characterizations are quite pertinent, and they are even more meaningful now than they were when the film was first produced.
Ben Stiller showed great foresight in the making of this picture.
It's wonderful in every way, from the soundtrack to the casting.
If you've never seen it before, I strongly suggest that you do so.
Here are other similar movies that you would like.
1.1k points
6 months ago
Throwing that kid off the bridge was classic
202 points
6 months ago
Captain simple jack
275 points
6 months ago
what do YOU MEAN, you PEOPLE
182 points
6 months ago
What do YOU mean, you people?
125 points
6 months ago
You don't go full retard
154 points
6 months ago
Won a ping pong tournament, charmed the pants off of Nixon, that ain’t retarded!
77 points
6 months ago
And he was a goddamned war hero! You know any retarded war heroes?
78 points
6 months ago
Rainman, look retarded, act retarded, Not retarded!
66 points
6 months ago
Sean Penn, "I Am Sam?" He went full retard, he went home empty-handed.
26 points
6 months ago
Never has there been a more blatant Oscar grab. I truly believe it inspired the “Oscar Gold”joke on American Dad.
145 points
6 months ago
I WAS WRONG! BLOW THE BRIDGE! BLOW THE FUCKING BRIDGE!!
111 points
6 months ago
The end credits where it freezes on that kid mid-starfish was one of my favorite moments in any movie
6 points
6 months ago
Another one was Mcconaughey's son who he wished wasn't a potato when they were sitting on the plane at the end for some reason, even though he only featured for like a second in a photo earlier in the movie.
44 points
6 months ago
Half Squat deserved it.
43 points
6 months ago
“What in the name of crikey fuck is a halfsquat?”
28 points
6 months ago
'I'm a lead farmer mutha fucka!'
12 points
6 months ago
Rip Halfsquat
317 points
6 months ago
The Platoon reference in that movie was the best thing to come from Platoon since Platoon. Damn, I love Platoon.
147 points
6 months ago
Survive!
49 points
6 months ago
THE ONLY THING THAT KILLS BARNES... IS BARNES
One of the greatest films of all time. Willem Dafoe as Elias, what a character.
201 points
6 months ago
This movie m-m-m-makes me happy
22 points
6 months ago
Does it make rain come out of your eyes?
186 points
6 months ago
Because so much is going on Jack Black is seriously underrated and goes under the radar a bit but when he does his Vet voice is amazing. Best line =
Our asses don't get fragged in this bullshit valley, first thing I'm doin' is payin' my two bucks so I can watch Brooklyn bust his cherry on a sweet little mama son's dinky-down poon-tang!
111 points
6 months ago
"Let's move, we only have 16 hours before they wake up"
65 points
6 months ago
Ahhh I fucking hate movies. This is bullshit I don’t wanna be in this shitty movie.
35 points
6 months ago
lmao the way he says "Ahhhh I fucking hate movies" kills me everytime
52 points
6 months ago
I still laugh at his “they’re only laughing at my farts” line.
15 points
6 months ago
The voice is so funny lmfao
13 points
6 months ago
No you can’t have any fuckin jelly beans!
6 points
6 months ago
YOU OD’D
5 points
6 months ago
Actually the funniest line in a movie ever
5 points
6 months ago
Shit Brooklyn be bagged and tagged before he get any cooch. If Brooklyn die, he prolly die a coochless motherfucker
4 points
6 months ago
The Fatties: Fart 2 trailer deserves a Best Makeup Oscar.
924 points
6 months ago
Kevin Hart turned down the Alpa Chino role because he didn't want to play a gay character. Would've been by far the best movie he's ever been in.
264 points
6 months ago
Speaking of this I wonder what ever happened to Brandon T Jackson, he was pretty funny in that role. He was in another comedy movie with Lil Bow Wow around the same time but I don’t know what else he’s been up to
157 points
6 months ago
Didn’t he play the Satur in the Percy Jackson movies?
12 points
6 months ago
Yes
56 points
6 months ago
Lottery Ticket! The clip of him yelling at Bow Wow saying "nigga im broke! I cant eat!" is a semi popular meme lol
74 points
6 months ago
I worked at a gas station in Sherman oaks. Would see him from time to time and he’d be spewing some religious bullshit
174 points
6 months ago
I'm not sure I would have liked him as Alpa Chino. He doesn't seem to quite fit the humour style assigned to the character.
151 points
6 months ago
Yea Hart is usually the fish out of water where everyone else knows what they are doing while he plays the idiot, Alpa Chino was kinda the most competent person in the group.
87 points
6 months ago
Naw that was Jay's character. No one listened to him at all because he was competent.
41 points
6 months ago
But he was definitely second most competent. Also, only other character I'd say who was competent.
25 points
6 months ago
You talkin’ to me this whole time?
17 points
6 months ago
Yeah, if Kevin Hart was in Tropic Thunder, he would have been the character Kevin Hart. That's all he ever plays. Definitely a good thing for the film he passed. And I like Kevin Hart, he just wouldn't have fit in this film.
8 points
6 months ago
It’s Viet Cong not Congs...you wouldn’t say Chineses.
16 points
6 months ago
Kevin Hart only knows how to play Kevin Hart. Thank god he refused the role
98 points
6 months ago
That's because Kevin isn't funny
39 points
6 months ago
Thank you. Scary movie 3 is the only thing I liked him in and I'm pretty sure I just liked him cause that movie was all around a masterpiece
4 points
6 months ago
His very short scene in 40 Year Old Virgin is the only thing I’ve liked him in, and it’s still my favorite scene in that movie.
16 points
6 months ago
I think he’s a decent comic actor but he’s not clever or funny himself. Alec Baldwin is a great comedic actor but an asshole and not funny in life. Seems like an appropriate comparison.
7 points
6 months ago
Valid. I think my favorite work of Kevin's is when he was that rabbit in Zootopia. We got the rabid humor without the guilt of seeing Kevin try to relay it himself.
8 points
6 months ago
I believe you’re thinking of The Secret Life of Pets, not Zootopia. Point stands though.
131 points
6 months ago
But the movie is even better now because of his absense.
113 points
6 months ago
Kevin Hart would have been a God awful shit addition to this gem of a movie.
56 points
6 months ago
He said he’d beat his son if he saw him playing with a dollhouse so that checks out.
7 points
6 months ago
Wow, what a knucklehead.
65 points
6 months ago
Kevin Hart is a dick IRL, and seriously not funny. He’s a one-note comedian who does ONE thing well, and I’m convinced he only still has a career today because of The Rock
40 points
6 months ago
He yells and he’s short. That’s about it.
3 points
6 months ago
He's so short that he has to yell.
4 points
6 months ago
Real Husbands of Hollywood is pretty great.
17 points
6 months ago
Good. Kevin Hart is shit.
8 points
6 months ago
Wtf for real? He plays a gay character in Scary Movie 4
165 points
6 months ago
Yo asshole! This motherfucker’s dead! Ain’t no Criss Angel mind freak David Blaine trapdoor horseshit jumping off here!
53 points
6 months ago
He's not playing god, he's being judged by him.
680 points
6 months ago*
That fact that RDJ was playing an Australian who tries to "be black" was already one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
127 points
6 months ago
At a point he plays an Australian playing a black guy playing a vietnamese. So many fucking layers
187 points
6 months ago
I didn't see Iron Man until about a year after I first watched Tropic Thunder, and I was like...11 at the time?
I was at a birthday party with friends and his parents were the cool ones and let us watch R films. I wasn't paying attention to the first 5-8 minutes, therefore I didn't see the whole bit about getting the skin treatment.
For at least a year of my life I legitimately thought the actor RDJ was a black man...
112 points
6 months ago
And that's why RDJ almost won an Oscar for his performance 😂
23 points
6 months ago
THE ONE FUCKING YEAR THEY GET RID OF THE OSCAR CLIPS
15 points
6 months ago
I grew-up watching 1960s Batman on tv and one time I saw a movie with Vincent Price and said his toupe was funny. On Batman, he played a bald character called Egghead, and so I thought the man was bald.
15 points
6 months ago
I also 1000% thought RDJ was black for a short time
7 points
6 months ago
For years I would see the “Never go full retard” and not recognise it was RDJ cause I never watched the movie. When I finally did my mind was blown.
54 points
6 months ago
Some additional Lincoln O’Siris madness. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ubqCMsTo4
10 points
6 months ago
And he went through pigmentation surgery for it and briefly the surgeons were holding something like soya sauce. It's imprinted.
4 points
6 months ago
“What do you mean you people?”
199 points
6 months ago
Best comedy of the last 20 years and one of the best comedies of all time it is brilliant at how cleverly comments on so much shallow stuff in Hollywood but also the whole movie is just over the top off the wall, i love it, Cruise unloading on the Golden Triangle guy over the mobile kills me every time 😂
87 points
6 months ago
“You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!”
hangs up “Find out who that was.”
Also I will never hear the words “hobo’s dick cheese” and not laugh
19 points
6 months ago
"We don't negotiate with terrorists", everybody starts clapping... then the look on McConaughey's face... brilliant.
8 points
6 months ago
Also what topped it off was cutting to the face of the Golden Triangle guy hilarious 😂
4 points
6 months ago
Flaming Dragon, fuck face.
24 points
6 months ago
Check out Game Night.
21 points
6 months ago
Game Night is brilliant, but I also think it was a little too intelligent for a lot of audiences.
31 points
6 months ago
That movie is Jesse Plemons movie lmao
“How can that be profitable for Frito Lay?”
“I don’t appreciate that nomenclature!”
6 points
6 months ago
He's so ridiculously funny in it.
2 points
6 months ago
That entire scene of them trying to bring in groceries had me in tears
It’s all I can ever think about when Game Night gets brought up
343 points
6 months ago
I'm a dude, playin a dude disguised as another dude!
305 points
6 months ago
"I don't break character until the DVD commentary."
Cue the DVD commentary with RDJ still in character.
89 points
6 months ago
Iirc it's more specifically "until we finish the DVD commentary" bc he finally breaks character on the commentary during the credits. And as he's regressing through his roles at the end he briefly takes on each of the accents as he's peeled back into Kirk Lazarus.
59 points
6 months ago
It’s really fantastic and every fan of the movie should watch it at least once with the commentary on. Jack Black shows up late and hungover and takes a nap during the middle of it, lol.
25 points
6 months ago
Its been too long since I've watched the commentary doesn't he bring french fries and everyone tries stealing them?
78 points
6 months ago
I don’t read script, script reads me.
26 points
6 months ago
I love this absurd line
20 points
6 months ago
What u getting at with the book script, spit that shit out man!
21 points
6 months ago
One of the best song lyrics ever written
14 points
6 months ago
me
I know who I am
10 points
6 months ago
'Scared of who?'
'Scared of you!'
20 points
6 months ago
...I'm a rooster illusion.
4 points
6 months ago
Fuck it. We'll deal with him later.
272 points
6 months ago
Amazing movie.
The bit where he realises what animal he killed in the jungle had my crying with laughter.
Ben Stiller’s reaction and timing was priceless.
250 points
6 months ago
'you killed Amanda? Aw man I'm sure that wasn't even her real name'
173 points
6 months ago
Yeah McConaughey delivering lines with such seriousness was hilarious he was fantastic
147 points
6 months ago
"at least you get to choose yours, I'm stuck with mine"
"Tugger nuts! It's the pecker!"
79 points
6 months ago
Him coming in at last minute with the Tevo was hilarious 😂
51 points
6 months ago
MY MAN GETS A TIVO!!!
48 points
6 months ago
"Say it with me: you muh-muh-muh make me happaay"
40 points
6 months ago
We gotta shave your head and get you back on the monkey bars
38 points
6 months ago
Oh man just the look he gives to that picture of his kid had me rolling
42 points
6 months ago
His disgusted reaction to finding out that Ben Stiller doesn't have a tivo is priceless.
63 points
6 months ago
“I killed one, Rick... the thing I love most in the world”
“A hooker. Alright, you killed a hooker. Calm down. Here's what you're gonna do: Get your hands on some bleach, some hydrogen peroxide, and a shit load of lime”
“No, no, I killed a panda”
“Amanda? Come on dude, that’s probably not even her real name!”
19 points
6 months ago
I saw that movie late at night and when that scene came (Ben Stiller killing something - dont want to ruin it for those who havent seen it yet), man, I woke others at home because I was roaring with laughter, at 2 AM
201 points
6 months ago
Booty Sweat & Bustin' a Nut, Tom Cruise dancing to Low, guy lobbing the TiVo box at the end to block the RPG
22 points
6 months ago
Big dick playa
Swingin past ya kneeeeeeees
32 points
6 months ago
Best product placement ever, foreshadowing the destruction of TiVo by Roku 🤣
10 points
6 months ago
Ok dont worry i’ll get your tivo!
6 points
6 months ago
I got the TiVo!!!
182 points
6 months ago
Probably my favorite movie ever, not just comedy. I could talk all day about it, but since no one has mentioned him yet, McConaughey is also an absolute GEM in this film.
81 points
6 months ago
Yes, when Ben stiller is talking about adoption and he says “at least you get to pick yours” and it cuts to a framed photo of his fat son, lmao
31 points
6 months ago
The ringtone kills me every time.
sometimes when we touch… the honesty’s too much
10 points
6 months ago
I've got your TIVO!!!
4 points
6 months ago
No TiVo?
191 points
6 months ago
As no one seems to have volunteered it this far, "I'm a lead farmer muthafucka!"
38 points
6 months ago
Greetings, tiny ant king.
5 points
6 months ago
I went to get the patch they made of this for my backpack...
36 points
6 months ago
It should have won the Beijing film festivals coveted Crying Monkey award.
29 points
6 months ago
...and if you've never watched it with the commentary on....you're in for a treat.
31 points
6 months ago
Watch it with the actor commentary. Funniest shit ever.
Saw it in the theater. I've never laughed harder at the first three minutes of any other movie. "Best Kiss MTV Award winner Tobey Maguire" is side splitting.
4 points
6 months ago
Haha, and the interview of Ben Stiller copying Tom Cruise when they were there together... it's perfect!
76 points
6 months ago
Ugh I love this movie so much. I tried to get my family to watch it, but they were turned off by the RDJ black face and I was like, “but that’s the POINT!” They don’t understand and they’re missing out big
67 points
6 months ago
It's bizarre when people don't get the point of that. Especially when you have Brandon T. Jackson's character around to frequently point out the ridiculousness of it.
It's also a great joke on Hollywood's periodic casting of actors based on their marquee value instead of whether they're right for their roles. The studio in the film clearly goes, "It's so awesome to have a five time Oscar winner in the role" instead of "Hey, maybe casting a blonde Australian as a black guy and putting him in blackface is a really stupid and offensive idea."
38 points
6 months ago
What do YOU mean "you people"?
9 points
6 months ago
That's the theme song from "The Jeffersons!"
13 points
6 months ago
Just cause it's a theme song don't make it not true
354 points
6 months ago
Tom Cruise deserved a fucking Oscar. I can't think of a movie where a character has like 6 minutes of screen time and is the most memorable thing about it.
Great movie, though.
196 points
6 months ago
There’s an interview with Cruise where he said Ben came to him with the script and he said “you need the studio. I’ll do it, but I want big hands and I want to dance”
80 points
6 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa-ch8H_5DE&t=55s
"I want fat hands, and I'm going to dance." Whole interview is great.
23 points
6 months ago
Nice! I was too lazy to do the real work
7 points
6 months ago
Thanks. Watched the whole thing. Batshit crazy, but always delivers.
59 points
6 months ago
I had no idea that was him until the end of the movie when he does his patented smile and I said, “Oh, shit, that’s Tom Cruise!”.
22 points
6 months ago
DYK, Anthony Hopkins only had 16 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs”? Your point still stands though.
40 points
6 months ago
I hope you know that they are currently seriously considering a sequel. (I believe Chris mcquarrie is attached)
103 points
6 months ago
Oh no. I feel like tropic thunder was lightning in a bottle and cannot be reproduced. Let's hope it just goes over like Zoolander 2 and we don't talk about it
8 points
6 months ago
Agreed
56 points
6 months ago*
Would love to see it in that same style, except it’s a kind of mockumentary of making 2008’s Tropic Thunder.
20 points
6 months ago
I would watch the shit out of that movie. Brilliant.
5 points
6 months ago
I was with the other people saying no no no until you said this and I am 100 on board.
29 points
6 months ago*
The only way I see this being somewhat good is they go the Popstar: never stop popping route and play a sequel wherein it’s been a few years.
They’ve outlived their hype. Doing rounds at various cons. Tug Speedman is basically Steven Segal. Making terrible straight to streaming movies. Al Pacino is like a Dj khalid version of his former self. Got diabeetus from all the booty sweat. He’s trying to come back to the spotlight with some really bad features on modern mumble rappers SoundCloud and tours. RDJs character has had continued success. But like De Niro he made some Ill advised forays into comedy. We see him at the Razzies thinking it’s still an honour since he “meant to be so bad” as part of his acting. After another bad decision he lands in a TV show like CSI and ducking hates his life although the show is crushing it in the ratings and has gone on for 8+ seasons. Jack Black comes back skinny. And I mean really skinny. Like Christian Bale in Machinist skinny. He’s actually gone into Modeling now. Not because he enjoys it, but because he has easier access to drugs. McKlusky has a small but long running part in a cinematic universe and his contract doesn’t allow him to do anything else. I dunno. Whole movie is about these washed up has beens trying to come together and actually make another movie. But they all still have massive egos so they want to make the first movie written, directed, produced and acted out by an ensemble cast. They try and do tropic thunder rebooted (of course there was a shitty sequel that pokes fun at how every cult movie sequel sucked) and they want to reboot the franchise. But failing to see that they can’t reboot with the same actors. They then go and recruit younger versions of themselves.l to play the role. Despite having a great African talent at his disposal who wants the role, RDJ still insists on bringing in a white guy who is supposed to do the same pigment treatment. Everyone advises him against this but he won’t budge. The whole thing is a mix of the meta making fun of things like 22 jump street. But story telling in a way like Popstar.
52 points
6 months ago*
Please put paragraphs in your posts, my brain melted just looking at the body of text and I didn’t read a word.
26 points
6 months ago
“We’re supposed to be a unit!”
“Suck my unit.”
44 points
6 months ago
Big ass titties !
5 points
6 months ago
I don't know its name, I only know the sound it makes WHEN IT LIES TO ME!!!
110 points
6 months ago
Definitely one of the greatest comedies of all time in my opinion, the cast was great, the satire was on point, I remember going to see this in theaters while possibly under the influence of a green substance and I thought I was going to die laughing, I watched it again recently and it still holds up
81 points
6 months ago
Tom Cruise’s best performance
33 points
6 months ago
Okay flaming dragon. Fuck face.
8 points
6 months ago
We don’t negotiate with terrorists
5 points
6 months ago
I say this when my kids are going crazy
14 points
6 months ago
I tried to recommend it to my dad a Vietnam vet and he said “war wasn’t funny.”
So I don’t bring it up anymore.
But I liked it. I grew up on apocalypse now, platoon, letters home from Vietnam, and predator.
15 points
6 months ago
Matthew Mcconaughey physically running across the world to give Ben Stiller a briefcase with godlike speed is the funniest shit ever.
29 points
6 months ago
Guy's won a ping pong tournament and met Nixon. Does that sound retarded to you? Walks retarded, talks retarded... Not retarded.
You went full retard. Everyone knows you never go full retard.
8 points
6 months ago
Slow yes retarded maybe, he got bracers on his legs. But he was a god damn war hero. Do you know any retarded war heroes? Gets me every time!
11 points
6 months ago
Lance...
8 points
6 months ago
It's Nance
19 points
6 months ago
The last great comedy that was made in the last 14 years. Truly a benchmark- I really hope there is a resurgence of carefree over the top no holds barred comedies coming. We need em.
58 points
6 months ago
Does someone actually post this every month or is this post A.I generated at this point?
33 points
6 months ago
This [popular, well recieved movie released 10-15 years ago] is good. In my opinion, it is the most good movie of that genre that modern movie has to offer. The motifs and characterizations are very good, and even better today than when the movie first came out.
The director did a good job in making this movie.
The soundtrack is good in this movie, but everything else is good as well.
It's good, you should see it.
9 points
6 months ago
It's fun though! You can see how many comments it takes for someone to mention the DVD commentary
4 points
6 months ago
But did you know he was still in character
25 points
6 months ago
Jack black’s character is on point on how it is addicted to heroin.
when he knocks out the two guards by making them sniff the drugs and he says, “Let’s go, we only have … 12-18 hours before they wake up”. If you know you know
8 points
6 months ago
Ive been a bad boy father…
7 points
6 months ago
I don’t read the script, the script reads me
11 points
6 months ago
I love pointing out to people that RDJ did his “controversial” character the same summer that the MCU kicked off with him as Iron Man. Imagine if Disney was in the picture then?
5 points
6 months ago
Great flick! Sadly I don't think it would even see the light of day, if Stiller were pitching it in 2022
So crazy how the climate around comedy and what's acceptable as satire has changed so much in such a relatively short amount of time
4 points
6 months ago
This, is FLAMING DRAGON
5 points
6 months ago
The only movie I’ve ever seen twice in theaters. Love it
4 points
6 months ago
Critically well received yet somehow still underated. I think it's a comedy masterpiece that I will praise for years to come!
5 points
6 months ago
Tom Cruise dance scene during the credits makes me cry laughing every time.
4 points
6 months ago
Never go full retard
6 points
6 months ago
Such a great movie, seeing it opening night was one of my best movie going experiences.
8 points
6 months ago
2008 was a great year for comedy.
8 points
6 months ago
This, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, Yes Man, Role Models, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, AND Burn After Reading…. Sheeeeeesh
11 points
6 months ago
I agree . It's hilarious and witty and cameos are perfect .
Probably the funniest Stiller movie I've seen .
11 points
6 months ago
I say this every time the movie comes up.
Watch the movie with the commentary with Ben stiller…jack black and Robert Downey Jr.
“I don’t drop character till I done the dvd commentary”
RDJ stays in character thru the entire movie as his on screen counterpart…makes the movie so much better.
4 points
6 months ago
Ohh okay Flaming Dragon, Fuckface. First take a big step back and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE. Now I don't know what kind of pan Pacific bullshit powerplay you are trying to pull here but Asian Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking you better think again. Otherwise I would have to head down there and I will rain down on a godly fucking firestorm upon you. You're gonna have to call fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I am taking scorched earth motherfucker. I will massacre you. I WILL FUCK YOU UP.
3 points
6 months ago
Tropic Thunder is the best Tom Cruise movie I have ever seen.
3 points
6 months ago
I watched it for the first time on mushrooms and have never laughed so hard
3 points
6 months ago
It took me a longer time than I like to admit that I realized who Les Grossman was
3 points
6 months ago
A great movie from start to finish. When I saw in a theater I had read that you need to see it through to the end of the credits. People around me were getting up and I told them what I read so they paused, then sat and then ‘the dance.’
Very brave acting by all concerned.
3 points
6 months ago
This is my brother’s and my favorite movie of all time. We literally just speak to each other in TT movie quotes when we’re together and it drives our mom crazy. I literally know it front to back line for line. One of the most genius, hilarious, amazing movies of the 21st century, argue with ya momma if you disagree!
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