Comments on: TROPIC THUNDER [2008] review

By: Jason Collin

Jason Collin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:10:54 +0000

I was referring to another “f word” Dy. THE F-word, I use constantly. Instead of the “f-word” Jack Black uses often, I prefer the much more civilized term “gas.”

In multiple dreams last night dogs approached me and let me pet them.

By: Jason Collin

Jason Collin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:09:35 +0000

I thought the middle had some story and progression, first the arguments about where to go, then planning out the rescue mission, then carrying out that mission. Granted, it was a loose story structure.

Tome Cruise really needs to play that character again though!

By: Michael John Grist

Michael John Grist — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:18:48 +0000

I’m pretty much the polar opposite of you on this movie- the only funny bit for me was the opening 10 minutes, during which I laughed a lot and thought to myself- awesome, this is gonna rock. Then they went into the jungle and the rest of the movie was the same stuff from the first 10 minutes, but watered down and spread out over a pathetically dumb plot.

Jack Black was awful in this not because Jack Black was awful, but because the script he had to read was just not funny. At all. Likewise with all the other characters. Almost unbelievable to me that the people who made the beginning of the movie (yes, and the end with Tom dancing) also made the whole middle bit. It was tight, ridiculous, humor-dense, then just baggy and weak and I didn’t laugh once til Tom Cruise appeared again. Weird.

By: Dy

Dy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:57:28 +0000

Hold the phone. You don’t use “the ‘f’ word?” Do you have small children?

As for the gore, is your distaste for it mitigated at all by the absolute knowledge that it’s all fake?

(You might want to leave your “American Badass” t-shirt in Japan….)