Tropic Thunder

2008 "Get Some."
7.1| 1h47m| R| en
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A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

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StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
MichaelMRamey I enjoyed this film, but some of the jokes are a hit and miss. I like the concept and the cast is great, but there just seemed to be something missing from it. It's good we got it when we did though because a film like this would never be made in the politically correct world we live in now. Robert Downey Jr steals every scene he is in and has some the weirdest but most quotable lines in the film.
Ian For the first time I can recall, Tom Cruise attempted to visually get into a character rather than be the Top Gun pretty boy, as it took me a while to be certain it was him as a balding and stocky chap. This movie kicks off with the filming of a big budget war movie. They are over budget and there is strife on the set. So the director and producer decide to take a new approach a toss the actors into a real world war scenario with hidden guerrilla cameras around the area to get an authentic feel. Turns out the actors encounter actual drug maker vigilantes. Will they break character or figure out the other guys with guns aren't actors? Will the movie actually get produced? This is a slapstick satire on many famous war films over the decades yet it only brought me light smirks rather than hefty chortles. Choppy pacing and average gags didn't help it. Overall, it was a fairly unique slapstick movie with effort put forth with the core story yet many characters were annoying or too strange aside from Jack Black who had some crazy and funny scenes.
RockChild I think that's the perfect way to define this movie. Superb cast Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr.,Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise... with special mention to him. It's amazing that anybody with his status decided to play that role and the best part is that he plays the character, perfect... I can't stop laughing every time he is on the screen. A bunch of actors lost in the middle of the jungle with fake guns and believing they are filming a movie doesn't sound so exciting but believe me, this film won't disappoint you...
Irishchatter Yeah you see these big stars such as Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr being the faces of this movie, however it doesn't matter about who starred in a parody movie, it just completely sucked. You are meant to have humour to watch this, a parody classic such as Spaceballs did it right. It took the p*ss out of movies right and they made it proper entertaining but definitely like this one, it goes below that. Its not funny, its rather upsetting to see they are going through a war and it didn't deserve to be nominated an Oscar. For Christ sakes, I would think the Oscars would've more sense in picking better movies than this. I can't understand why IMDb gave this movie a 7.0 rating, I honestly would give this a 4.0 rating because of the mucked up story line, the casting and the lack of entertainment. One of the worst films I have ever seen......