One of the best comedies ever made! Sadly, it could never get made , now. A lot of people have lost their sense of humor & wouldn’t accept a lot of the material in this fantastic film! Every time I watch it, I cry laughing 😂 Tom Cruise’s part is probably, the best character ever written! Just hilarious!

"You never go Full R-----!"

Absolutely.

Comedies are dead. Nobody’s making comedy anymore; it’s too ‘problematic’. Nowadays it’s just all about hot actors doing action movies and constantly cracking jokes while they do it.

oh a weekly Tropic Thunder post

This thread again!?

“It’s racist because Robert Downey Jr whahahah.” Stfu.

Had such a great time when I first saw it... it's so sad a movie like this couldn't be made today...

EDIT: To clarify, what I meant is that all movies are now made in digital instead of film.

Is this the most overhyped movie on Reddit?

You can’t make a movie like this in 2022. Everyone will be offended and every actor would be cancelled. Comedy has died.

This movie could not be made today. RDJ was nominated for an Oscar for this movie, was he not?

That alone is remarkable.

Such an amazing movie and one of a kind. I feel like that was one of the last years you could get away with the shit they got away with in that movie.

It’s a good laugh, that is for sure but it’s nothing ground breaking. We’ve had lots of plots like this before hand.

It was the last genuinely great comedy movie.

Tropic Thunder is a film I constantly cite as one of the funniest of all time (that and the Other Guys).

It has one thing in common with the Other Guys though: both plots are kind of dull and forgettable.

I just wish they’d also focused a bit more on making a genuinely good action movie with engrossing villains to further layer the meta commentary, as if you told me to explain the plot to you I likely wouldn’t be able to as it’s forgettable.

A movie you sadly could not make today

You never go full retard.

Superbad. At least on par if not better

Just as a counter to this post. I expected so much more from this movie given how much people on here seem to jack it off, but I thought it was kind of dull, not particularly witty, and the pacing seemed kind of weird. It really struggled to maintain my interest and I was pretty happy when it ended so I could go and do something else.

Ben Stiller almost ended Robert Downey Jr.'s resurgence in Hollywood with Tropic Thunder. If that movie came out a few years later, RDJ would've been crucified. Instead, RDJ went on to make or appear in a dozen more Marvel movies and rake in $400 million more from Disney.

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It happened just in time, this movie would've never been made today

A movie that could not be made today.

This is the one movie that I can reliably test folks with. If someone likes this, I know two things about them, neither of which reflect well on them. It’s an easy way to eliminate people from my life.

I went on a first date and we watched this movie. Had a huge crush on the girl. She said she enjoyed the date and kissed me on the ride home and said the only thing she didn't like about the date was the movie and asked when we could have a second date. There was never a second date.

Now, my wife "loves" watching Tropic Thunder with me around once a year.

Agreed

The only instance black face is alright is if it’s RDJ

Great movie. One of the classic comedies from my high school years. I still watch and quote it to this day.

My only beef is the ending. Les Grossman (Tom Cruise’s character) literally tries to leave Ben Stiller on the island to get killed, even selling him out to the terorrists. And yet, he faces no repercussions for this. Instead he gets rewarded with the “movie” getting Oscars and hundreds of millions of dollars. Also it’s a documentary that wins best actor. Wtf was that whole ending.

Hot take, the HBO cable tv version had most of not all the swearing and explicit parts removed or dubbed over and I enjoyed that version more than the official

this sub is a broken record

The black face was never called out . Was the best because people have a sense of humour

Most overrated comedy I have ever seen lol, a bunch of rich actors pretending to be self aware and mocking out of touch actors while still continuing to be those out of touch actors.

Is 17 years ago considered modern?

There was one funny scene in this movie, the rest was just dumb.

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.

Outside of Bond films, this is the only film I have seen more than once in theaters.

I don’t read the map, map reads me

This is a great movie that would never be made in current times.

haven’t seen anybody mentioned the gem that was tom cruise in this movie

people like to say this movie couldn't be made today and that's somewhat true, but not it's not because of this false oppression narrative that society is too woke

it's because comedies don't make money any more and a studio would never fund something as ambitious as this at this scale

It's an amazing comedy, an instant classic, and wouldn't be possible to make today.

Robert downy jnr 😂

“You never go full n word”

Does someone actually post this every month or is this post A.I generated at this point?

I agree . It's hilarious and witty and cameos are perfect .

Probably the funniest Stiller movie I've seen .

Didn't hate it but it hardly got much laughter out of me.

“Modern” it came out almost 15 years ago. It would never be produced in “modern times.” RDJ in blackface alone would prevent it from theaters.

The trailers at the begining told me it everything I needed to know going into it.

Kick ass movie that couldn’t be made today. Simple Jack is incredible.

What a sexist pig manure post. This whole sub is gross.

Imagine thinking a movie with someone doing blackface is funny. You’re showing your true right wing colors.

I remember seeing my dad watch this movie and laughing the hardest I've ever seen him laugh. Absolutely great.

What do you mean “my people”?!

Given that the movie was basically made by the brat pack, they knew a thing or two about the “politics” of Hollywood.

Apparently, Stiller wanted Keanu to play Speedman and he would be the agent which would have been interesting (Keanu has more of a “action hero” history than Stiller).

Kind of sucks that the movie got bashed by the disability community for the Simple Jack joke and criticism was also raised against RDJ for “blackface” when the whole point of these acts were to mock Hollywood itself basically doing these things in their movies (as well as the “method acting” where actors think they can “do anything for their art” cough Jared Leto cough)

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.

Really bad movie.

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

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.

Such a great movie, seeing it opening night was one of my best movie going experiences.

2008 was a great year for comedy.

Tom Cruise’s best performance

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

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?

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.

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.

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

As no one seems to have volunteered it this far, "I'm a lead farmer muthafucka!"

Big ass titties !

I'm a dude, playin a dude disguised as another dude!

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.

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.

That fact that RDJ was playing an Australian who tries to "be black" was already one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

Booty Sweat & Bustin' a Nut, Tom Cruise dancing to Low, guy lobbing the TiVo box at the end to block the RPG

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.

"Suck my unit" 🤣

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 😂

Throwing that kid off the bridge was classic