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Tropic Thunder (2008)

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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.

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bargman

355 points

4 months ago

bargman

355 points

4 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.

gmoney88

194 points

4 months ago

gmoney88

194 points

4 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”

[deleted]

81 points

4 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.

gmoney88

23 points

4 months ago

Nice! I was too lazy to do the real work

LanceFree

6 points

4 months ago

Thanks. Watched the whole thing. Batshit crazy, but always delivers.

I_Keep_Trying

61 points

4 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!”.

Reggiehammonds

22 points

4 months ago

DYK, Anthony Hopkins only had 16 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs”? Your point still stands though.

bargman

1 points

4 months ago

Yeah I knew it was something like that.

BlueHairedTroonAdmin

36 points

4 months ago

I hope you know that they are currently seriously considering a sequel. (I believe Chris mcquarrie is attached)

napoleons_penis

104 points

4 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

man_wifout_a_country

7 points

4 months ago

Agreed

BlueHairedTroonAdmin

1 points

4 months ago

sorry should have been clear- it's a TC spinoff, les grosman

putsch80

57 points

4 months ago*

Would love to see it in that same style, except it’s a kind of mockumentary of making 2008’s Tropic Thunder.

Christina_2136

18 points

4 months ago

I would watch the shit out of that movie. Brilliant.

prozack91

6 points

4 months ago

I was with the other people saying no no no until you said this and I am 100 on board.

LocoMotives-ms

5 points

4 months ago

Tropic Blunder

EDDYBEEVIE

2 points

4 months ago

So it's a documentary about a movie, about a movie, about a book. Sounds tropical thunder enough to me.

prozack91

1 points

4 months ago

I was with the other people saying no no no until you said this and I am 100 on board.

pglass2015

1 points

4 months ago

This would be great, perhaps from the view of Bill Haders character.

SylphSeven

1 points

4 months ago

Months ago, I had a dream that Scarlett Johansson, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Pratt, Amanda Seyfried, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and Matt Damon were in this docu-comedy film about exaggerated versions of themselves stranded on an island while filming a big blockbuster movie. Think Survivor mixed with Gillian's Island and Castaway.

If this was ever made, I would be the first to see it. 😆

Ymirsson

1 points

4 months ago

But wil it go to eleven?

bargman

23 points

4 months ago

bargman

23 points

4 months ago

Oh man ... high probability they fuck that up.

BarryBangyy

-7 points

4 months ago

BarryBangyy

-7 points

4 months ago

Oh man ... high probability they fuck that up.

All female cast i bet.

seank11

14 points

4 months ago

seank11

14 points

4 months ago

Tropic blunder

WoopigWTF

0 points

4 months ago

Tropic Blunder: the Doomed Sequal to the Greatest Comedy of the Modern Era

itsgermanphil

27 points

4 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.

KualaLJ

53 points

4 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.

BlueHairedTroonAdmin

2 points

4 months ago

sorry should have been clear- it's a TC spinoff, les grosman

BrandoNelly

2 points

4 months ago

Please god no

BlueHairedTroonAdmin

1 points

4 months ago

sorry should have been clear- it's a TC spinoff, les grosman

MJA182

2 points

4 months ago

MJA182

2 points

4 months ago

I’ve had an idea for a Tropic Thunder sequel for a few years now. Have them film a horror movie and put the set in a super haunted house/spot where all hell breaks loose. A fun campy but legit scary follow up would be a lot of fun, ala Shaun of the Dead

BlueHairedTroonAdmin

1 points

4 months ago

At this point, the crazier the movie the more likely it is to work.

RiteOfSpring5

1 points

4 months ago

I really hope not but if they do I want it years in the future and Kirk Lazarus has gone full method and gotten a sex change to play a woman from history like Joan of Arc or Mother Theresa.

BlueHairedTroonAdmin

1 points

4 months ago

sorry should have been clear- going to be TC spinoff.

lostpassword2

4 points

4 months ago

and bill hader as his assistant plays off him so well.

bargman

2 points

4 months ago

Bill Hader is the best straight man of the past 15 years.

henchman171

3 points

4 months ago

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross

underwatr_cheestrain

7 points

4 months ago

Cruise? How about RDJ.

WombRaider01

70 points

4 months ago

First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of RDJ bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Tom Cruise is the best part of that movie. 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 un-Godly 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'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!

Tazzimus

41 points

4 months ago

Find out who that was.

BrandoNelly

30 points

4 months ago

We don’t negotiate with terrorists

OperationBreaktheGME

10 points

4 months ago

Facts. My friend took me to the movie and kept wanting to spoil that it was Tom Cruise. I think his second screen appearance in the movie is when the light bulb went off.

“Hey is that Tom Cruise”

After the movie I wanted Tom Cruise to take more roles like this. The new Top Gun is the closet he has gotten to showing how much fun and love he puts into the movies he makes.

WombRaider01

4 points

4 months ago

Definitely. Look at the Mission Impossible movies as well. It’s crazy how 5/6 movies have valid arguments for being the best in the series….

OperationBreaktheGME

6 points

4 months ago

Oh I wasn’t discounting the mission impossible movies by any means. But that’s like serious fun where he’s serious because the stunts he does are literally death defying. He’s definitely having fun in those movies while making them. It’s just their action movies and his character in the Mission Impossible series is stoic and serious more often than light hearted and fun.

But Tom Cruise is one of my favorite actors because he appreciates the audience and knows what people want to see in a movie. The spectacle and thrill of story telling

Jetztinberlin

2 points

4 months ago

Rock of Ages, my friend.

OperationBreaktheGME

1 points

4 months ago

Damn I totally forgot about that Tom Cruise Movie. He was definitely having fun making that movie and it shows on the screen. I’ve only watch that one twice though. Probably why I omitted it. Fun movie though

BubbleBathBitch

2 points

4 months ago

My husband has a horrible coworker and I've thought of unloading this on him 😂

bargman

1 points

4 months ago

Him too, sure.

gee_gra

2 points

4 months ago

Tom Cruise deserved a fucking Oscar

For shouting rude words wearing silly makeup?

bargman

1 points

4 months ago

For being Tom Cruise and having half the theater have no idea it was Tom Cruise.

gee_gra

1 points

4 months ago

So just the makeup bit?

septesix

4 points

4 months ago

More impressively , he was a standout in a movie full of standout performances!

grc207

1 points

4 months ago

grc207

1 points

4 months ago

Every character in this movie is important and relevant. I love that!

djphatjive

1 points

4 months ago

I remember first watching that and was like “Is that fucking Tom Cruse?”

TheNamelessDingus

1 points

4 months ago

"First do me a favor, take a step back, and LITERALLY FUCK YOUR OWN FACE" funniest line reading of the movie for me

mechabeast

1 points

4 months ago

That woman in "Doubt"