Rain Of Madness: A Promotional Mockumentary For Tropic Thunder And A Joke The Kids Won't Get

There's a new montage of film clips promoting the movie Tropic Thunder out today: a "trailer" for a movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie called Rain Of Madness, the documentary about the making of "the most expensive war movie of all time." It's a little confusing even if you aren't fourteen and you know Tropic Thunder is a parody of Apocalypse Now, the contentious making of which was revealed in a 1991 documentary called Hearts Of Darkness. But it's funny that they made this based on movie references most of their audience will presumably not get:

Wonder how long it will take for someone to update the Apocalypse Now wikipedia page.

Posted by Lindsay at 9:40 AM in Movie Marketing, Trailer
Tags: Apocalypse Now | Ben Stiller | Rain Of Madness | Robert Downey Jr. | Steve Coogan | Tropic Thunder

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Hilarious...but is anyone else worried that all these viral vids and hype are building up to a disappointingly less than stellar film?

Posted by: Constance at 07/09/08 1:16 PM | Reply
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Oh... Jack Black makes a fart joke... Great.

Posted by: mmmikey at 07/09/08 8:20 PM | Reply
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Is it bad that I got most of the jokes in the `madness clips?

Posted by: lucky at 07/31/08 2:14 AM | Reply
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