Showing All "Tropic Thunder" Posts
May 29th, 2009 17 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Dec 19th, 2008 9 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Dec 9th, 2008 Comment
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…   Read Story »
Dec 3rd, 2008 7 Comments
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,…   Read Story »
Aug 21st, 2008 8 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Aug 20th, 2008 3 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Aug 15th, 2008 13 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Aug 15th, 2008 1 Comment
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.   Read Story »
Aug 8th, 2008 Comment
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:…   Read Story »
Aug 5th, 2008 7 Comments
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,…   Read Story »


























