some of my favorite things

Satan’s Alley: omfg it makes me cry tears of mirth. Love Toby’s payback to Downey for Wonderboys. So well acted - perfectly over the top and the tunes! With this at the beginning you have a lot of built in forgiveness for whatever comes next.

gorgeous cinematography: beautifully shot - the scene where they go in to land in the clearing where Cockburn looses his head - stunning! Aesthetics count!

Downey: enough has been written about his work here that I probably don’t need to elaborate much. His interactions with the other characters are a huge part of what I love. I love his action stuff too he’s amazing at it. The lead farmer scene, triple layers of characterization.

All those quotable quotes: My husband and I are still going around tossing these off to each other. “stop tailgating me ya pasty tea bag!” “I’ll cradle the balls (…) swallow the gravy” “I’m a lead farmer motherfucker!” “oo the crikey-fuck is ‘alf squat?” “playa!” the list goes on…

Brandon T Jackson’s awesome girl scream: when Speedman kicks the head.

Jay Baruchel: Loved the character and what he did with it. Loved the moment where Portnoy’s telling them about his obscure low budget skinamax thing and he goes “remember it?” and Sandusky nods like of course he does.

profanity: I kinda like swearing. It seemed like a natural amount of swearing to me.

End credits: not so much Cruise’s dancing, though it actually grew on me over the several times I saw TT, but the general energy of it. Very up beat the music and the great still shots rendered over reminded you of some of the great moments in the film and again the quotes. Leaves me in a very positive frame of mind toward the movie. Very well done.

I don’t understand how people can say that the movie was vulgar and crude and that Stiller was mocking mentally disabled people, or christians or african americans. He was trying to show a very strong statement about people’s ignorance. So, I guess everyone making a huge deal about this movie being “controversial” really helped prove Stiller’s point.

This is the kind of movie that makes the statement “characters make the story/movie”, true. The comedic timing was perfect and the all the characters in the movie complimented each other very well, but I guess “Tropic Thunder” is one of those movies that you either love or you hate. I LOVED it.

This film had me at hello. Downey JR should get an oscar but he won’t because, of course, he went full black. And if you find that offensive, you’re probably white and without a clue.

Tropic Thunder was brilliant, save the few moments when it stumbled back into action flick territory. Buying the DVD and letting the kids watch it.

all of the people that are offended by the ”vulgarity”, rudeness, racism etc- that is exactly the point of the movie. They are not making fun about the issues per se, but the exploitation of the therms. I know it might be a lot to grasp for some, but they actually make fun of the cliche of hollywood, war, racism, violence
and more, as a form of protest. it is an acid humor, indeed.
In a mass media culture where we’ve pretty much ‘’seen it all” you have tons of movies that let you indulge in crude sex, violence and excess. They say they are master pieces just because they are extremely graphic and give people exactly what they want to see to calm their morbid desires. heck, just turn on the tv and watch the news to see a lot of things that are way worse.

to not feel offended by this amazingly funny movie you don’t only have to be open minded, but to be coherent with today’s reality.

But yeah, some of the stuff might be offensive but a lot of Hollywood movies might not agree with everyone especially people who aren’t open minded.