Tropic Thunder

Rate the movie

  • 10

  • 9

  • 8

  • 7

  • 6

  • 5

  • 4

  • 3

  • 2

  • 1

  • 10

  • 9

  • 8

  • 7

  • 6

  • 5

  • 4

  • 3

  • 2

  • 1

Results are only viewable after voting.
Status
Not open for further replies.
Cool pics... I'm gonna post them on other sites... should I give credit to any websites or other source for them?
 
I'm pissed off, I made a bet with my my friend who has heard or saw nothing about Tropic Thunder to guess who the black actor was. I lost 20 euro, he guessed it was Downey:cmad:
 
Haven´t seen this posted.

Empire said:
Exclusive: Stiller Talks Tropic Thunder
Reporting from the ShoWest frontline

Last night Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr unveiled the new trailer and two scenes from their upcoming comedy Tropic Thunder – a film Empire is already saving space for on the Best Comedy of the Year podium – at Koi in the Planet Hollywood hotel. We then talked with Stiller about the movie, but more on that in a minute. First, the footage.

The trailer opens like Apocalypse Now, very dramatic and serious, but stops when we cut to Downey Jr holding Stiller's handless arm stumps. It then quickly degenerates into a scene where a bunch of whiny actors (Stiller, Downey Jr, Jack Black, Jay Baruchel and more) are complaining about their work conditions. Their director (Steve Coogan) gets fed up with them and considers dumping them in a war zone, which leads to the cast believing they’re still shooting a film when they are in fact in the midst of a war. It’s a lot funnier than we’re describing it.

They then showed a couple of scenes. The first sees our key players dumped into the jungle for real for the first time. Steve Coogan runs around like Werner Herzog, slapping Jack Black in the face, trying to generate some real emotion and anger. He explains about the hidden cameras, and then…well, it would be too much of a spoiler, but it’ll get a big laugh when you see it.

Second scene takes place after Stiller’s character has been captured and his co-stars are plotting to get him back – only they’ve no idea what they’re doing. Jack Black’s strapped to a tree, begging for heroin, and the others are questioning each other’s sexuality. Both scenes are very fast-paced and funny, although categorically not, as Stiller joked afterward, “A bit like Atonement, right?” Our comic appetite is certainly whetted for seeing the rest of this.

The next day we met up with Stiller, who directs as well as starring, at The Four Seasons for a chat about the film. The first question we had to ask was obviously whether he was in any way worried about what reaction would be to the images of Downey Jr made up as a black man (he plays an actor so into his method that he changes his race rather than re-write the part).

“I don’t mean to be flippant, but not at all,” he says. “When people see the movie – in the context of the film, he’s playing a method actor who’s gone to great lengths to play an African American. The movie is skewering actors and how they take themselves so seriously. Audiences that have seen it so far have totally embraced the character. ”

The idea for the movie is actually one Stiller has had for over two decades. “The idea came 20 years ago when I was doing Empire of the Sun,” he tells us. “I had a small part in that and at that time all my actor friends, myself included, were going on auditions for war movies like Platoon and Hamburger Hill. I met with Oliver Stone myself – I never read, just had a meeting. He said ‘You’re cute” and I knew it was over. Every actor that got a role was coming back saying ‘Man, it was like boot camp; it changed my life.’ I don’t know if it was bitterness because I didn’t get cast, but there seemed a certain amount of irony in them feeling they were having this experience of war when they really weren’t. I thought that could be funny to have the actors caught up in a real situation.”

So what took so long?

“Well, I started working on the script about 10 years ago, had drafts of it over the last 10 years, but it was only about two and a half years ago that we felt we had a draft that was really good. We did a read-through and after that… we still didn’t do anything for a while. We re-wrote some more… you know, it’s been a long process, but it’s been great to have that time to work on something.”
Click to expand...
 
hahaha, that sounds awesome. Whens the trailer coming?

Kanon said:
Screening Review in AICN

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35989

sounds ****ing awesome
Click to expand...

The fake previews lead into the film, and they are fantastic. Each trailer introduced the three main actors, with specific satires of certain genres. Ben Stiller's character plays and action star who has now made at least five sequels to one movie, Jack Black's trailer is the most brilliant satire; a movie about a fat family with all the characters played by Black in heavy prosthetics. The film was called "The Fatties" and the shot at Eddie Murphy's career made everyone in the theatre laugh hysterically. Robert Downey Jr. is the most serious of the actors, his trailer was for a movie called "Satan's Alley", where Downey plays a priest who falls in love with another priest. A great cameo here by Tobey Maguire (the trailer references him as MTV's best kiss award winner). The only other one was a fake commercial, and all i will say about that is "Booty Sweat".
Click to expand...

The Fatties?? :lmao:
 
I think somebody said the Trailer was suppose to come out next week some time.
 
Each time this thread gets bumped the movie sounds better. :woot:
 
Hunter Rider said:
Each time this thread gets bumped the movie sounds better. :woot:
Click to expand...

I agree, Everytime I read something it sounds even better. I had no clue Jack Black's character was a "gross out comic" who has to kick his drug addiction while on set, you know he's going to be going nuts. Little things are even funny like RDJ's character's name Kirk Lazarus, he's a 4 time oscar winner and "the greatest actor of the generation".:woot: Can't wait.
 
They are getting ready to talk with Downey Jr. about the movie on NBC.
 
Enjoyed reading the review, hope this film is indeed one of the greatest comedy flicks of the year! :)
 
Kanon said:
Screening Review in AICN

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35989

sounds ****ing awesome
Click to expand...

But making up for that is Tom Cruise dancing to awful rap music while trying to convince Stiller's agent, played by none other than Matt McConaughey, to let Stiller die in the jungle.
Click to expand...

:eek:!
I can't wait for this. Jack Black's heroin withdrawals in the jungle sound amazing too.
 
They just showed some of the trailer on CBS saying they will have it exclusively tomorrow. Alot of random shots from the trailer, at one point you, see I'm pretty sure Downey, holding a giant handful of awards. Looks great.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

C
The Tropic Thunder (2008)
Replies
7
Views
2K
Cinemaman
C
the_ultimate_evil
  • Locked
Tropic Thunder
Replies
2
Views
2K
the_ultimate_evil
the_ultimate_evil
A
Iron Man Downey Jr talks Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, etc...
2 3
Replies
50
Views
10K
Hiruu
Hiruu
A
Robert Downey Jr talks Incredible Hulk
2
Replies
28
Views
5K
BLAQUE-SPIDERMAN
BLAQUE-SPIDERMAN
Dark Donnie
SAG Award Nominations
Replies
21
Views
3K
Sawyer
Sawyer

Staff online

Members online

Total: 9,378 (members: 26, guests: 9,352)

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
202,481
Messages
22,117,130
Members
45,907
Latest member
zorKiraa

Share this page

Back
Top
monitoring_string = "afb8e5d7348ab9e99f73cba908f10802"