gabe: who do you think should win the coveted Best WTF? Moment at the MTV Movie Awards? lindsay: Well for one thing, it should be something that is actually WTF. Like, Amy Poehler peeing in the sink in Baby Mama?... MTV Movie Awards?'">CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: WHAT SHOULD WIN "MOST WTF MOMENT" AT THE MTV MOVIE AWARDS?»
Posted on May 29, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Andy Samberg | Angelina Jolie | Baby Mama | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Jason Segel | MTV Movie Awards | Slumdog Millionaire | Tropic Thunder | Wanted
It was a big deal for a while last summer when Tropic Thunder released previews containing the scene where Robert Downey, Jr. urges Ben Stiller to "Never go full retard." I watched the DVD last night and was curious as... CONTINUE READING TROPIC THUNDER SOLVES ITS R-WORD PROBLEM WITH A DVD EXTRA»
Posted on December 19, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
Paramount is having a little fun with the annual season of For Your Consideration ads leading up to the big movie award nominations, mounting a new "campaign" for the Tropic Thunder character Kirk Lazarus, played by Robert Downey, Jr. And... CONTINUE READING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IN BLACKFACE»
Posted on December 9, 2008 in
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Tags: Girl Talk | Kirk Lazarus | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
According to a great blog I read by a chick who happens to have just returned from France, there are posters for this movie, Agathe Clery, all over Paris right now. I won't give away the gag, but, okay, it's... CONTINUE READING IT'S A FRENCH SCREWBALL COMEDY ABOUT RACISM!»
Posted on December 3, 2008 in
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Tags: Agathe Clery | Lollapalooza | Racism | Tropic Thunder
Hey, look, some nice person has bootlegged the fake trailer for Satan's Alley, one of the movies Tropic Thunder character Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.) won one of his Oscar-bait Oscars for, which is in the movie Tropic Thunder. I... CONTINUE READING THE SATAN'S ALLEY TRAILER FROM TROPIC THUNDER»
Posted on August 21, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Robert Downey Jr. | Satan's Alley | Tobey Maguire | Tropic Thunder
The word on the street is that that comedy about the making of a movie in the jungle that's the #1 movie in America this week is good. In fact, if there was a Rotten Tomatoes for my friends, the... CONTINUE READING HEY, IT'S YOU-KNOW-WHO'S CAMEO IN YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON YOU-KNOW-WHAT-TUBE»
Posted on August 20, 2008 in
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Tags: Aimee Mann | Coachella | Tom Cruise | Tropic Thunder
With all the media attention focused on Tropic Thunder's movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie send-up of Oscar-baiting actors portraying the mentally handicapped, Simple Jack, the fact of the matter is actual actors are doing this in the real world right now and it's miserable.... CONTINUE READING PLEASE STOP PICKETING TROPIC THUNDER AND START PICKETING CLAIRE DANES'S HOUSE»
Posted on August 15, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Claire Danes | Coachella | Simple Jack | Temple Grandin | Tropic Thunder
Sure, Robert Downey Jr. in black-face is controversial, but let's not forget Steve Martin in Mexican-face. Before there was Tropic Thunder, there was The Three Amigos: a comparison. ... CONTINUE READING HOLLYWOOD MORE OUT OF IDEAS THAN WE THOUGHT»
Posted on August 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Chevy Chase | Coachella | Jack Black | Martin Short | Robert Downey Jr. | The Three Amigos | Tropic Thunder
lindsay: So Tropic Thunder Will Totally Revive Tom Cruise's Career And He Will Finally Win An Oscar gabe: you're retarded gabe: he's not going to win an oscar gabe: you need to get serious lindsay: people are saying that gabe:... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: TOM CRUISE»
Posted on August 8, 2008 in
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Tags: Oscars | Tom Cruise | Tropic Thunder
After disability advocate groups raised issues with Tropic Thunder's repeated use of the word "retard" and other offensive terms to describe a role played by Ben Stiller's character in the movie, DreamWorks has agreed to meet with them. It's almost... CONTINUE READING TROPIC THUNDER'S SIMPLE JACK WEBSITE WENT BYE-BYE»
Posted on August 5, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Simple Jack | Tropic Thunder
After last week's double hit of actually-pretty-good pretend websites for Simple Jack and Tugg Speedman, Tropic Thunder continues to roll out (Get it? "Roll" out?) more viral marketing stuff with a new "official website" for one of the movie's characters.... CONTINUE READING ALRIGHT, TROPIC THUNDER CAN KEEP PUTTING OUT FAKE WEBSITES»
Posted on July 24, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Steve Coogan | Tropic Thunder
The latest in Tropic Thunder's marketing effort to re-create the internet as it would be if the fake movie-within-the-movie actually existed are three new fake websites: Simple Jack and Scorcher, the fake websites of the fake movies Ben Stiller's character... CONTINUE READING IT'S TROPIC THUNDER'S MARKETING WORLD NOW, WE JUST LIVE IN IT»
Posted on July 15, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
There probably are still many people out there in America and the world who, if you mentioned Tropic Thunder, the new movie coming out August 22, would say "What's Tropic Thunder?" But everyone else is probably, like me, getting a... CONTINUE READING DEAR TROPIC THUNDER MARKETING TEAM: YOU ARE OVERHYPING YOUR MOVIE»
Posted on July 14, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Fool's Gold | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Steve Coogan | Tropic Thunder
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... CONTINUE READING RAIN OF MADNESS: A PROMOTIONAL MOCKUMENTARY FOR TROPIC THUNDER AND A JOKE THE KIDS WON'T GET»
Posted on July 9, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Apocalypse Now | Ben Stiller | Rain Of Madness | Robert Downey Jr. | Steve Coogan | Tropic Thunder
On Friday, AdAge published a story about the licensing of another imaginary energy drink, Booty Sweat, as a tie-in for this summer's Ben Stiller movie Tropic Thunder. The article included a report that two versions of the drink were going... CONTINUE READING UPDATE: "BOOTY SWEAT" NOT THE MOST RACIST ENERGY DRINK»
Posted on June 30, 2008 in
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Tags: Booty Sweat | Brawndo | Racism | Tropic Thunder
As a marketing stunt for the Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder, Paramount has licensed a fake energy drink that appears in the movie, Booty Sweat, to go into actual production. Reports AdAge: Riffing on Hollywood's often ham-handed product-placement deals, Booty... CONTINUE READING BLOWING THE LID OFF OF THE "BOOTY SWEAT" CONSPIRACY»
Posted on June 27, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Booty Sweat | Brawndo | Idiocracy | Racism | Tropic Thunder
The press releases have been going out almost daily for over a month now: the next recipient of an MTV Movie Award could be YOU! Just send in your spoof of one of the pre-selected movies and you could (could)... CONTINUE READING MTV MOVIE AWARDS TO AMATEUR SPOOF FILMMAKERS: YOU SUCK»
Posted on June 2, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Ipecac | Juno | MTV Movie Awards | Spoofs | Tropic Thunder
So, this video with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. played during the MTV Movie Awards last night, which I did not watch because Lindsay and I had a coin toss over who would have to suffer through... CONTINUE READING THIS TROPIC THUNDER VIRAL VIDEO IS AN ASSHOLE»
Posted on June 2, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | MTV Movie Awards | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder | War In Iraq
lindsay: there's a new Tropic Thunder super-restricted red band trailer and it's so worth entering your birthday to watch! lindsay: do you have anyone who you just look at them and laugh lindsay: like ben stiller gabe: there is you... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: TROPIC THUNDER: GOOD MOVIE OR BEST MOVIE EVER?»
Posted on May 16, 2008 in
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Tags: Ben Stiller | Jack Black | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder
You know back when there were video stores, and a big blockbuster was about to come out in theaters, and you would see these direct-to-videos a few weeks before that were clearly produced to trick you into thinking you could... CONTINUE READING COLLEGE IS THE HYDROX OF APATOW COMEDIES»
Posted on April 24, 2008 in
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Tags: College | Judd Apatow | Superbad | The Pineapple Express | Tropic Thunder
