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I’m Black and I saw Tropic Thunder (TT) at a screening on July 9. The movie as a whole is a funny satire of the Hollywood culture and the movie making process. (A bit like “Lost in La Mancha ...
Go watch ‘Tropic Thunder’ and please do not feel guilty when you find anything funny in the scenes because that is the objective of this movie. To make the moviegoers laugh, laugh at yourself ...
Where “Tropic Thunder” is most effective is in its skewering of the pretense and spoiled-rottenness of movie stars. Downey’s Australian character, for instance, in order to get into ...
The 58-year-old movie star pointed to Robert Downey Jr.'s now-controversial role in the movie. In "Tropic Thunder," Downey Jr. undergoes "pigmentation alteration" surgery in order to play a Black ...
Ben Stiller Makes ‘No Apologies’ for ‘Tropic Thunder’ 15 Years Later: ‘It’s Always Been a Controversial Movie’ “Proud of it and the work everyone did on it,” the actor said of ...
It could be from a post in 2018 when another Twitter user joked about boycotting Tropic Thunder due to the cancel culture we live in. Stiller responded then with his apologies for the movie and ...
Incidentally, “Tropic Thunder,” which also starred Tom Cruise, Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Brandon T. Jackson, Nick Nolte and Danny McBride, still went on to earn Downey a supporting actor Oscar ...