My wife watches TROPIC THUNDER for the FIRST time || Movie Reaction 

Holden's wheezing laugh 😂

Her face when Tugg launches lil' Half Squat into the ditch... Even better!

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And that's the beautiful genius of this movie: RDJ is doing blackface to point out the obliviousness of actors that get so much into the role that don't see what is wrong in doing it, in this case, Kirk Lazarus. The movie never says that Kirk is right for doing it and Alpa Chino point out how wrong Kirk Is.

@@danielruiz8259 It isn't really blackface as he isn't painted ''clownlike'' as actual blackface were.

@@Masterfighterx That's a silly hair to split. It's still blackface. You're thinking of minstrel shows, specifically.

The difference is who he is making fun of.

Yeah I think people who think everything gets canceled essentially take it too far and are ridiculous. Media like Tropic Thunder and especially shows like The Boondocks are never going to be canceled

Was coming to say this 😂 the commentary in character was hilarious 🤣🤣

I know a million people are gonna say it but the line that Robert Downey JR said "I dont drop character until I do the dvd commentary" is literal. lmao it's funny because in real life Robert Downey JR didn't break character until the end of the real dvd commentary haha I love this movie. First time I saw it I couldn't stop laughing.

This is this movie's version of "he actually broke his toe, when kicking the helmet"😅

Ummm... he drops character IN the movie 🤷

@@hulkslayer626 The character of Kirk Lazarus...

He really is guy who takes his job seriously in this movie

Come on, man! Amanda?!? That's probably not even her real name!

Ride or die right there!

That's because it's probably really a thing in Hollywood, so he is spoofing it. Which is why it is soooo funny

😂 Funny

I don’t know how people don’t pick that up…

@@joshhunt4146I think that people see or hear something & critical thought & logic just fly out the window & the knee-jerk reaction flies into their head. Once that opinion is formed, it becomes very difficult to remove it, even with logic.

@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 i have never known anyone to be critical of it tho… Iv only known of people to not understand the satire and celebrate the fact that RDJ used black face… almost like a green light to be racist

''Let go and just laugh'' a term too many today don't understand, or just don't want to understand and make everything more difficult..

Yeah and in the modern day nobody is offended by this film so it gets annoying when somebody implies that this film will get canceled

Aghast*

@@the_ZAMURAI thanks. Edit: no wait, agasp is litteraly a Word. It is what i meant: In a state of gasping

​@@radbarij He'll get a pass regardless because he did that great of a job!

The big thing IMO is that RDJ isn’t playing a black character - he’s playing a white character whose the one doing the race transplant. So just like we don’t consider people who play murderers or other criminals to be actual bad people even though they’re portraying bad things because those things are part of the story (and in most cases as presented as bad things to do) in this instance RDJ is not blamed for portraying the actions that his character takes as part of the story and which are presented as a very questionable decision.

Thank you it's a statement on method acting which started with the mentally disabled like Forrest Gump and I am Sam back in 2008 the question was what's the next step.

mmhmm. And obviously Robert is not playing it for any sort of racism aspect. If he was.. yeah, would be called out a lot more. That being said.. like Holden was saying, wouldn't be surprised if after he dies, or a long time down the road if things get even more touchy and just soft, if his performance here gets called out.. even if it should just be taken as comedy and not anything harmful

Right. RDJ was not a fool, or a buffoon! But he is showing actually how ridiculous it is. People with brains get it. I'm black and idk a black person that is bothered by this.

Exactly. They say that every decade or so and then someone comes along and makes another movie that people didn't think could be done.

As Quentin Tarantino once said when someone said to him 'they' won't let him do the Movies he did back in the day, today. "Who the fuck are they?"

The Tom Cruise spinoff of this movie was in development.But Tom Cruise had a ton of other films in development that he chose to do.

@thedragonlee76 Wow, never knew that. That's a shame, it would have been absolutely hilarious.

I would argue his best role is Edge of Tomorrow - still waiting for a sequel there too

But seriously. A nutless monkey could do your job 😅😅😅😅

​@@Jackalos1There's a script. No word on if and/or when it's gonna be shot.

😂 funny

Kid deserved it 😂

well, he almost did. Lost to Heath Ledger's Joker

@@HABO2210 Funnily enough, RDJ will likely be a strong contender this year for a Nolan film (OPPENHEIMER).

actually tom cruise thinking about sequel :D

Bro same I just thought about it the other day

@@xmatobujnakx that would be sick!

Yup! Can't just shove aside that movie. One of Tom Cruise's greatest performances. I really hope they do end up watching it.

It’s magnificent

@@Szydel1991 The physical copy is a must-own. Especially the uncut version.

@@Joe-hh8gd oh I’ve bought this movie on dvd, Blu-ray an 4k now! The extended edition adds just that little extra if you love the film!

@@Szydel1991 The stabbed panda was one addition I liked. I laughed, though I guess not everyone would.

That's correct

he said he wanted him to have big sausage hands and dance. lol

Apparently he did it to poke fun of Harvey Weinstein in particular

@@Putrefax Makes sense, I can see that.

Way to many quotables in this movie 😂😂

​@@jfreitag88 Mine random line is "For 400 years..." in his voice😂

“I’m a rooster illusion.”

I'm a lead farmer motherfucker

For 400 years that word has kept us down.. In his tone

This

imagine thinking that's a genuine concern and thinking that's what your'e supposed to focus on....

There was an "outrage" on Twitter last year(or the year before), but people shut them down pretty quickly 😀

I’m a black man too. That was hilarious. “What do you mean you people?” “What do YOU mean you people?” 😂😂😂

Amazing to watch his wife trying to avoid feeling shameful for enjoying this movie. Hell, Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for an Oscar for his performance. 15 years later I defy you to find many people of any race who were offended by this movie. Just watched the interviews with Jamie Foxx about it.

🤌 when tom cruise came out in full make up did a whole performance and even danced with jlo

Why can’t they?

It's not even a raunchy movie. Usually when I see this take, I just assume it means "why can't we do blackface anymore?"

@RussiantoIndiait’s funny only cause RDJ

​@RussiantoIndiacontext?

It will just take one that does really well for more studios to take the risk. It’s a no brainer in our eyes but the studios need to see that no matter what people say the numbers don’t lie lol

Rascist will always choose to watch rascist movies. The group must be kkk

Exactly. The most important part is, that it isn't RDJ who plays a black man, but the character RDJ plays, plays a black man! It's the very important distinction that turns it from "not cool" to "funny take on method acting gone too far".

not sure if calling yourself colored (POC) is more racist towards yourself or towards white people...

It's literally the only way you could possibly do this, and he goes so all in on it it's insane.

Im a white guy, But I left a comment about this, Ill paste it here: People are acting like there was some huge backlash when there wasnt. There was some, but not a lot. Look at Kidd Rock freaking out over a trans person on a budlight can. stupid. RDJ is playing a white character, doing an offensive thing, and the movie calls him out on this by having a actual black person in the movie next to him calling him on his bullshit. In the movie Blackkklansman, Topher Grace (white actor)plays the leader of the KKK. In Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a WILDLY racist man who uses the N-word. These guys dont get backlash, because they are not portrayed by the movie in a positive light. The message of the movie is that they are bad. In Tropic Thunder, RDJs CHARACTER (not RDJ) is doing a cliche, stereotypical and racist imitation of a black person, and the movie makes it clear. they have a black man standing next to him saying "what do you mean you people" and "Not all black people eat collard greens". Thats why its not offensives. I would say the Simple Jack storyline is more unempathic, and lacking nuance, and has mentally handicapped people as the butt of the joke more than RDJs character.

@@luminousdragon and even then, it's about the actor's acting ability to play the character of Jack and how HE just goes over the top, too.

I'm not a huge Zoolander fan, but Dodgeball is one of my go-to comedies for a weekend afternoon. That movie is so watchable.

Except nothing has changed. RDJ won because it was a fantastic performance showing how stupid actors like his character are. That's the point.

@@MRocky323 He was nominated but he did not win. Heath Ledger won for his role as the Joker.

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idk why you call it crazy, he deserved it, and honestly he should've won but heath ledger did instead

Watching it in theatres, it flowed directly from the trailers to the fake trailers without any indication of a change. It was amazing

This is in fact the 2nd joint appearance of Robert Downey Jr. and Tobey Maguire (they first worked on WONDER BOYS (2000) together). In fact, Tobey's cameo in TROPIC THUNDER was an homage to that movie to an extent. WONDER BOYS has Michael Douglas (Dr. Hank Pym from the MCU) in the lead role.

She definitely lame

It's not Ron Howard. It's a movie producer named Stuart Cornfeld