OUR FIRST TIME WATCHING THE FUNNIEST COMEDY MOVIE OF ALL TIME TROPIC THUNDER.... 

LOL

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Or is he a dude who has no idea what dude he is and claims to know what dude he is?...

I think he might be confused who he is though.

No, RDJ is the dude playing a dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.

that happened to me too! I saw the 3 of them promote the movie IRT on the MTV movie awards and when I saw it in the theater? The first war scene? 🤣 I was like where's RDJ??

I subscribed just because of this. Hahaha

Bruh, the movie is so funny, it's scary.. "I'm a little scared now to watch it.." ..don't be afraid to watch a comedy guys.. sheesh.

Instant sub. 😂

He should have got Oscar

Seriously. This movie is a classic

@@kindofabigdeal7284I enjoy people reacting to this movie quite a bit and so far not one person (no matter what skin colour) was offended by that character - quite on the contrary, he's many people's favourite part of the movie. :) Well, SOME light skinned people have a second or two where you see them thinking "OMG, can I laugh about this?", while dark skinned reviewers go in laughing out loud from the beginning. And that is an observation I find a little funny in itself ^^. Everybody quickly gets that he's not making fun of dark skin (the way "classic" black face was used more often than not), but this is supposed to be an actor who takes his job WAY too far. I think they're called "method actors"? And sometimes you hear stories about some being WAY too much into their characters, like with the one who played the joker in the first Suicide Squad. The makeup itself is pretty damned impressive - hats off to the makeup people working on DowneyJr - and you really can forget you're watching a white guy in makeup, the acting completes the picture. :)

@@commanderkruge Nah I've seen every reaction to this movie that's out there and the black reactors definitely mull it over more.

It's the best modern satire ever created

This

It was even more confusing seeing it in theaters, because the real trailers lead right into those, so by the time you catch on, you're like "wait, how many of the other trailers I've already watched were fake?"

​@@elbruces on top of that, in the theatrical cut, they even had the green "This trailer has been approved for audiences" screen before each one, so unless you caught some little details it was pretty much impossible to tell until they called Ben Stiller by the wrong name 😂

Not me, tbh. Since it was a satire of Hollywood movies, it didn't really fool anyone I knew back then. Of course, since the trailers hit closer to ACTUAL movies, it was understandable.@@elbruces

Shit was hilarious. Idk why no one got it

When I watched it with some friends (I had already seen it, they didn't), I literally hat to take the remote from them because they wanted to skip that part. They would not believe me it's part of the movie. XD

Tom Cruise quote: "I want FAT HANDS and I'm going to DANCE"

And many actors have commented how the character is "spot on". Meaning there really are people that bad in the industry.

McConaughey's agent role closely resembles Owen Wilson's mannerisms more, considering his extensive collabs with Ben Stiller. However, it was also during that time when Owen Wilson attempted to self-delete in 2007 and Matthew took over the role while Owen recovered.

@@greyngoI think he was basically doing a Harvey Weinstein impersonation

​@@greyngo I love that Tom was like "This is my chance to shit on every studio exec I've ever met and I'm not missing it"

Actually and technically he didn't do black face. He was playing an method actor, who did black face. That is a big difference. ;-) Being a murderer and playing as an actor murderer also ;-)

​@mioszkrawec7793 ... dude RDJ murdered blackface in this... dude serial killed it so hard I need milk.

Rob McElhenny pulled it off in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Streaming services pulled the episode for racism, despite the joke being the same as it is in this movie - that the character is too ignorant and insensitive to realize how fucked up what he's doing actually is. There's also a few episodes where his wife, Kaitlin Olson, plays belligerent, racist charicaturrs, and is told how insensitive and wrong it is. Those are also pulled from streaming.

C Thomas Howell did it in an old movie called Soul Man with Rae Dawn Chong. He marked that he was black on a college app to get affirmative action and got in. Lol

I wore blackface at college for an entire day as a makeup project. It was the early 2000's, so nobody had a problem with it as there was still a modicum of sanity left.

As an America, that's good to know. Edit: OP secretly corrected themselves so now my comment makes no sense. :(

That can’t be true. Seriously?

@@bigpictureguys8415 Yes. It's not 100% accurate but it is much more accurate than any other foreigner attempting it that I've heard. I'm not referring to the accent he uses throughout the movie as that's American. I'm referring to the accent he used in the interview scene at the beginning.

Who in crikey fuck is Half Squat?

he did an Australian accent in natural born killers as well. (he also does excellent British accents )

That is something that sounds fake but is actually true lol

Had he not been up against Heath Ledger as The Joker, that year, I bet Downey would've won. He played that role faultlessly.

@@AlphaLimaXray I think Josh Brolin would've likely won that year, especially since he was the only Supporting Actor nominee that year in a Best Picture nominee.

And he finally got one for Oppenhemier!

I like how he recognized RDJ immediately, but didn't register he was playing a black guy until she pointed it out. That's gotta be one heck of a complement to the actor.

Apparently that was a really hard kiss to do, with water running in his nose while upside down. Lucky it was raining in some ways as Kirsten Dunst couldn't tell how much of it was snot from his nose! Slurp, slurp.

That's why it's funny, it's a stupid award lol

@@sproductionsinc yes

To be fair, that kiss is surprisingly decent in dry conditions

Yeah the point of the bit is the contrast between Kirk Lazarus with his 5 Oscars and Tobey Maguire with his measly MTV best kiss award.

This is a fact I can confirm... respect

That made me buy the DVD and it is the Greatest Commentary Ever

There’s a documentary they released on RU-vid about making Tropic Thunder (the fake movie). It’s pretty neat

Ey just because it‘s a theme song doesn‘t make it not true.

I absolutely lost it the first time I saw that part. Had to pause the movie for like two minutes. I think it's Al's face that gets me

It's the most perfectly delivered "What the fuck?!!" that I've ever seen. An impossible mix of double take, confusion, anger, incredulity, and exasperation.

That is my favorite scene from the whole film. It's so damn hilarious.

😂😂😂 Everytime I watch that scene. It brings me back to when I watched in the theater. One of the best audience experiences. Everyone laughing!

Tropic Thunder was released 5 months after Iron Man-principle photography began for Tropic Thunder in July of 2007. RDJ was cast as Iron Man in September 2006. So, unless Favreau had a time machine and travelled 11 months into the future, Stiller wouldn’t have known anything about how RDJ was on set prior to him being cast as Iron Man. In fact, I found this article in Variety where RDJ explains how he came to be cast in Tropic Thunder: “I was in pre-production for 'Iron Man,' he recalls of the serendipitous casting, "and a friend of mine said, 'Hey, Stiller's in town; you might want to give him a call.'” So, he was definitely cast as Iron Man before he was cast in Tropic Thunder.

sorry but NO Blade saved marvel ass. and then you guys got your marvel universe.

And the marvel effect set Hollywood back 20 years. Iron man was great though

@@delukard07WRONG! THE FIRST X-MEN MOVIE SAVED MARVEL YOU FOOL!

Ya this isn't true

Wow! That’s amazing! Thank you for your service. 🫡

Damn I wish I could have been in that room. The floors were probably shaking with laughter.

That’s so cool!!

You better have those framed in your living room!

@@wristcontr0lmy ex wife still has them in some album somewhere. :)

It's a really good little speech, but from reactions, many people find it hard to parse, especially in the moment.

@@zegh8578 very good scene, but this braindamaged generation things its a bad word

It is a bad word lol, that's why they did the scene as they did... It's mean to be offensive@@thekingtserriednich9510

And they mute it wtf

I mean...Sean Penn got nominated BECAUSE he went full retard,no one except the academy liked that shit. They might not have either but maybe felt bad. But I do agree that there's a lack of nuance and depth when you go full retard cause you play a condition more than a person.

So here's a question to think about. Is that line in reference to his character wearing blackface then dressing as a Chinese farmer, or is it in reference to himself playing an actor that in turn portrays someone else?

@@patrickevans9604basically he’s playing a dude, n that dude played a dude, who played a dude who did blackface it’s confusing af but that’s essentially the premise

Best line make me laugh so hard every time.

​@@patrickevans9604 yes....

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tKvqhlhXq9s.html

Suck my unit! lol that whole exchange is awesome :D

That was my late best friend's ATF scene. I still laugh picturing him completely losing it in the theater. He basically had the entire theater cracking up for 5 minutes. That and "dangle your dice on Lance's forehead" almost killed both of us. 😂😂😂

Me too.😂

Sounds like me and my dad, he's very wise in real life and horror buff to movies, and we figure out conspiracies and shit and find Easter eggs from other movies❤😊😊

a fat suit*

​@@NewsofPEon camera he said he has 2 conditions. "I want fat hands and I wanna dance"

A real odd man

Not really, it was more like he was dancing to a hip hop song during a makeup test. The crew thought it was funny so they worked it in the script. If I am wrong, I apologize.

@@marcen12 i mean i heard that, that is the story about the big hands but if he's dancing BTS it was definitely his idea

Facts! I remember when it came on DVD and turned on the commentary. He was still in character 😂😂😂

That scene breaks people. It's one of the funniest things ever put on film.

YEET!!! 🤣

Just because it’s a theme song don’t mean it not true

Daniel Day-Lewis would be a better example, since he was known for being method with pretty much every role he's accepted. AFAIK Ledger was only method for the Joker role, unless he started living like a knight and jousting for Knight's Tale and did a lot of -bareback- horseback riding for Broke Back Mountain.

​​@@Kaspar.C0LD I know that Heath didn't "go crazy" playing Joker like people exaggerated. Aaron Eckhart on the hospital scene remembered Heath muttering and pacing in Joker-mode when on set between takes; but on the way to makeup at the end of the day Heath pulled him aside talking normally "that was some good fucking work back there, man." By accounts he was in good spirits after wrap and couldn't wait to see how the movie would turn out. I think it really was just an accident, what happened.

Ledger never did that. People spun a false narrative

Jared Leto is a much better example of an over-the-top method actor Joker, but that was way after this movie.

The movie came out 8 months after Heath died

Are you serious lol

@@dewanewelch1744it’s on RU-vid. It’s funny

No, it did not.. everyone says that.. come on, don't cope for them.. it's sooo obviously Tom Cruise

@@StayFractalesque Not sure what you’re trying to say? Prosthetics are pretty terrible, which I probably didn’t notice when I was younger. And I can’t remember ever actually seeing a Tom Cruise movie, so I probably don’t recognise his face very well

@@StayFractalesquelol I watched a lot of Tom movies and even I was like hold up is that cruise? the moment he talked I was like yeah that’s him lmao.

Tom Cruise was my least favorite character, he was trying way to hard and it doesn't feel natural. Robert and Ben carried this movie.

​@@StayFractalesqueI actually did not notice when first watching until my friend that showed me the movie quit hinting at the surprise cameo and just flat out said, "that's Tom cruise bro" it wasn't exactly super obvious to everyone cause some of us were too busy enjoying the movie to figure out that was Tom in a fat suit

as he should have

Wild ain’t it? Lol. I think he might’ve already been iron man I can’t remember which came first but both iron man and this came out in 2008. I’m glad politics wasn’t like it is now back then. Had this move been done later it would’ve offended a bunch of people and I bet Disney woulda fired him and cast someone else out of fear people would boycott them if they didn’t

​@@jeremyroberts8822the two movies came out in the same year. Iron man was finishes filming first I believe, but came out later in the year due to more post production work being needed

I remember that. Lol

I had just gotten out in 2007 and this movie was so good I legit saw it 6x in theaters

Not today they don't but in 2008... everything was possible.

@@movieman175 Is that what your parents said to you? lol

yh people used to say that word out loud and it was never meant in a nice or positive way, always to look down on people.@@movieman175

Free speech .. get your head out of your governized ass bro

Welcome to reaction videos from folks who grew up under the umbrella of identity politics.. ..they honestly don't even know what to think of it.. "am I allowed to laugh at this?" ..lmao

⁠@@StayFractalesque That’s a bit unfair. They obviously enjoyed the movie and laughed at many of its scenes. They clearly didn’t have an issue with the blackface, as they found it hilarious. If they were politically correct, they would’ve been offended, but they weren’t. They didn’t understand some of the themes and commentary, but that doesn’t mean they’re politically correct.

Plus spoofing two of the biggest Vietnam movies Apocalypse Now, and Platoon.

That is not the premise of this movie. Wow.

This comment was written before watching the whole video and it shows

It is cool, it's hilarious. White chicks is a whole movie about white face, people make fun of asians, hispanics and indians nobody cares. They need to bring blackface back.

It was clear that although he was technically doing blackface, what he was really doing was mocking white actors who did that for real. Most people who watch it these days do get that subtle point, so RDJ hasn't been cancelled for it!

@@Will-nn6ux People still think cancelling is a thing? ...lol

@@sweetnumb It's not a term I would normally use... What I mean is there haven't really been any negative social consequences for him (for example not being cast in things) as a result of his choice to do it. *That* is a thing that can happen, and always has been.

Back when awards weren't infected with affirmative action and DEI agendas.. ..RDJ, the darling of the MCU, would be canceled in 5 minutes if this was made today..

and honestly he should've won it

@@NewsofPE damn straight

..public education? ..or tik-tok brain.. you decide..

Yeah, that might be the most realistic thing about this movie. Not all helicopter crashes will look like this, but tail rotor hit - which is a very fragile part vulnerable to enemy fire to the point you could actually ask why they designed it like this and there are indeed some concepts how to avoid needing one - will cause a crash exactly like this.

got to throw in a Christine joke as well LOL

I think most of the people who complain about it haven't actually seen the movie because the entire point of the role is to make fun of actors who would think such a think was okay.

And the complaints didn't get disregarded because of his acting skills. They got disregarded because the movie is a satire and tbh rdj isn't really doing blackface, it's the actor hrs playing doing blackface as rdj is clowning people that do it so they really had no way to justify the hate

It's not even real blackface, because you can actually believe they're black.

This movie had me CRYING in theatre!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Stiller just YEETING the kid always has me rolling!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Yeah. Severance is dope.

You ain't never lied. LOL. I'll be honest from hearing their comments to certain parts of the movie it doest seem like they watched the entire movie. It was like they skimmed through it almost.

right?? :P LOL

That's the thing, it's done with a clear purpose, so no one who understands that purpose gets mad at it. Of course you will always find someone saying stuff online, so people can still whine how this movie couldn't be done today, because "woke".

@@HDreamer dude please, this "couldnt be done today" stuff is getting tired. Even when this movie was made black face is a hugely despised matter and people were making the same stupid claims about past movies like blazing saddles where "you couldnt do it today". Literal decades of people making this claim. Its all bull. You can do it, any era. If you do it right and arent just ironically-unironically being a bigot.

@@tenjenkIt's even sillier with Blazing Saddles, where the racists are the punchline of the whole movie, it's about as "left wing" as it gets, yet allegedly the movie couldn't be made today lol

So he's a dude acting as a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude?