30: Tropic Thunder

This week, let’s be controversial with Ben Stiller’s 2008 action-movie satire, Tropic Thunder! How do we talk about comedy? Is friction inherently interesting? Who can stick the landing on double-reverse satire?
Content warning: discussions of racism, ableism, antisemitism, hate speech, drug use, gun violence, military violence, gore, misogyny, profanity
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Unanswered Questions:

• Which of the controversial elements of the film have aged the worst? Which have aged the best?


• Is Stiller a convincing leading man?


• Should Robert Downey Jr. have been nominated for the Academy Award?

Further reading:

• Robin Hood: Men In Tights (www.imdb.com/t...)


• Empire Of The Sun (www.imdb.com/t...)


• The Frat Pack (m.imdb.com/lis...)


• The 81st Academy Awards (www.oscars.org...)


• Maria Menounos (www.imdb.com/n...)


• The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films (docs.google.co...)


• The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule (docs.google.co...)

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[@greenery0192]

It’s genuinely kinda funny listening to them assume this is just some forgotten bad movie and not the beloved and well regarded comedy classic it actually is in movie culture.

[@gorkmusic]

The moralizing and grandstanding in this is exhausting. If you can't laugh at subversion, then it's not for you. LOTS of people love this movie from ALL backgrounds. This is still considered a classic.