Isn't Tropic Thunder just The Three Amigos all over again?

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Three idiotic actors thinking they are shooting a film but don't actually realise they are in the middle of some sort of dangerous battle - they later realise it is indeed real before fighting back...:confused:
 
It might not be a totally original idea, like most films now, but it's still a fab and fun comedy. Would watch it over Three Amigos anyday.

Galaxy Quest was the only movie that came into my head while watching Tropic Thunder, same story of actors but in totally different places.
 
TBH - this looks like a really stupid movie which alot of Ben Stiller movies are. It really doesn't look like a movie i would enjoy - i really don't see what all the hype is about.
 
Exactly. The trailer alone told me to stay away from it.

"Oh, he's playing a black guy - it's hilarious!"

Honestly, the race thing has no resonance in Britain. Especially when you compare it to America. We're so much more cultured and accepting of one another in this country.

I went to LA at the start of the year and apart from noticing how rude everyone was, and how I wasn't allowed to smoke anywhere, I noticed that people of different ethnicity didn't speak to one another ever. It was a huge culture shock. I feel that by comparison, Britain is a world leader in acceptance and integration. There are always going to be bad apples, but race is not an issue here like it is in the US.

Most American comedians use race in their material because it is soooooo important to the psyche of the country. Robert Downey Junior's portrayal of white man acting like a black man is purely an example of how race is continuously in the public eye across the pond. The only humour from his character that I understood from the trailer was purely race-related.
 
That's the thing - i think people in this country learn from things like jokes and our television programming that it isn't a big thing over here.
Obviously the americans don't do that.
 
It's all to do with the actor using the 'method acting' and he has taken the method acting too far..., it's not making jokes out of black people, it's making fun of actors playing certain roles and so on. It's more or less all jokes towarRAB actors, hollywood/L.A and so on.



That's L.A, I didn't see a problem when I was in places like New York.
 
Note to Revelian and priggy: people who go"We're so enlightened in this country, unlike the backward Americans/British/French/whatever" are generally far less enlightened than they think. Welcome to ye olde ignore list.
 
I've not been to LA, New York is fabulous. Much better than London.

I might see this film on DVD but it doesn't sound such a hoot as the hype is making out.
 
i'm not trying to say this country is so enlightened as we do have our problems as with any country. I'm not saying any country is backward just that maybe our country is more integrated with different religions and cultures.
I know i still have a lot to learn - i was just going on what a previous poster noted just like you.
Can I note as well to you cindylover that people who go to people telling them that they're not so "enlightened" are also not as "enlightened" as they think.
 
No country is perfect. Where people are different, there will always be problems. It's human nature. However, I see black people, white people, Indian people, Pakistani people, Somalian people all getting along in this country, in a way that I just couldn't see in LA. :(



Yeah, but it's funny how it means something to Americans, yet we hardly bat an eyelid over here. If they wanted to show a method actor going too far, they could have shown him preparing for the role by eating cockroaches, or living in the jungle for a year - not surgically changing his skin colour.
 
Visit Parts of London, Hull, LeeRAB, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham and you will see a different view. Just because LA is bad, it doesn't mean that all major American cities are.





A gag about eating cockroaches would last a few minutes at best, a gag about a guy pretending to be a black man as part of over doing the method method acting has a number of gags which can last a whole film - your analysis implies that the whiteman-as-a-blackman gag is a one trick pony.
 
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