• Teague
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Topic: Tropic Thunder

We figured it out.

Nobody asked. But we did.

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  • Registered: 2010-08-30
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Re: Tropic Thunder

Heyyyy, this isn't Tron Legacy! SHENANIGANS!!!!

I said it elsewhere, but Tropic Thunder plays like Judd Apatow films for me, even the ones he just produces: Funny once, especially in a crowded theater of people laughing hysterically. But then I watch it again at home by myself....and it's just, flat, awkward and kind of boring. Regardless, RDJ is consistently amazing in this film. He was so good, The Academy HAD TO nominate him for an Oscar, and it's a comedy! They almost never do that these days! smile

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  • From: Farmington, CT
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Re: Tropic Thunder

I always found the controversy over the "full retard" line akin to the people who got angry at Randy Newman because they thought he actually hated short people.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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4 Reply by MasterZap (edited by MasterZap 2011-12-07 06:57:13)

  • Registered: 2009-11-23
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  • From: Buffalo, NY
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Re: Tropic Thunder

In the 80's, iirc, there was a local uproar from the mental health community over a radio station ad that said about listening to the station, "Nuts if you do, Nuts if you don't". Some groups are very thin skinned.

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  • From: Norway
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Re: Tropic Thunder

I love this movie. If only for the line "What do you mean you people?" I'm with Teague with the bit with the severed head and it's consistency with the rest of the film, but overall, I love it.

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  • From: Kent, England
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Re: Tropic Thunder

Haven't listened to all of the commentary yet, but I'm very much on the same page as Teague. There are moments in this that are really good, but as a whole it doesn't work.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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  • Registered: 2013-08-05
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Re: Tropic Thunder

this commentary isn't on itunes can you fix that?

I'm Batman

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