Live Blog

I received some passes to a screening of the movie Tropic Thunder last night and was going to film it on my cell phone and live blog the movie, but unfortunetly they had actually security guards walking around. BEfore the movie started they came up and talked about the radio station that sponsored the evening then said that recording the movie is illegal, the polic will be called, jail time will be given, the whole nine, and then they said there was security their "with night vision."

The movie was actually quite funny. The movie started with fake trailers from all the actors previous work. For example Ben Stiller in Scorcher VI: "After saving the Earth from the end 5 times, does he have it in him to do it again?" Jack Black in The Farties: Fart 2; was basically Jack Black playing 6 roles (ala Eddie Murphy) and just sitting around the table farting for 30 seconds. Then Robert Downey Jr. (still white) as 6 time academy award winner and 3 time crying monkey award winner in a movie with "MTV Best Kiss Winner Tobey Maguire" about 2 Irish priests who must decide between true love and God's love."

Then it gets into the actual movie and the next 20 minutes are absolutely hilarious. It makes fun of all actors as being over the top and pretentious. Jack Blacks character is hooked on all kinds of drugs, Ben Stiller's character is a terrible actor who is spoiled by his agent and always gets his way, and Robert Downey Jr. is a character who never breaks character, and eventually is not even able to break character "until the DVD is out." There is even a surprise actor who is usually a duche bag who is a good portion of the movie (none of the trailers) and is hilarious.

Once the actors get dropped "in the shit" to make the movie, it takes a small step down, but is still absolutely hilarious. In this scene Robert Downer Jr. is talking to Ben Stiller about how to be a true character actor and why Ben Stiller did not win any awards for playing a retarded stable boy in Simple Jack:


There is even a dead hooker joked worked into the movie. Overall I suggest this movie to anyone who likes laughter. I can say with confidence that it is the funniest movie since lasts years Superbad and makes Step Brothers look like Bambi.