TOP "For 400 Years That Word Has Kept US Down" Reactions! Tropic Thunder Movie Reaction

[@DestroySteve]

That look on RDJ’s face when he says “for 400 years.” Like it’s been haunting him for that long 😂

[@lawlietriver8869]

That is the best F-ing part! Hahaha. It is so freaking good.

[@mookiestewart3776]

It’s so god damn disrespectful and out of touch with the reality he/exist in, that’s why it’s so funny 😂

[@scipioafricanus5871]

@@mookiestewart3776 "For 400 years? That sounds like a choice..."

[@cafesmitty]

Dude has no right to be that damn funny and it was a genius performance lol. A good comedy is one that makes you laugh over and over again.

[@Spectre-907]

It's the single tear welling out of his eye while singing the jefferson's theme for me

[@cafesmitty]

As a black man... i straight out howled with laughter... RDJ is invited to the picnic... but he must be in character. I laugh, every single time on that 400 years clip... smokes me... every time.

[@aaronbarlow4376]

Picnic? You mean the cookout.

[@FineWine-v4.0]

Cuz he's RDJ

[@CraigCR]

Picnic? Lmfaoooo my mans invited rdj for sandwiches in a basket in a checkered blanket 😭

[@Pimp-Slappington]

He's bringing potato salad regardless

[@popipopipo111]

are you even invited? because what is a picnic lmfao

[@Marcell2aG]

As a black man, the 400 years line had me laughing literally out loud. 😂 You can see it’s the brothers that are laughing the hardest. RDJ is a genius.

[@helenmachelen4200]

RDJ is a national treasure in any color

[@Ivotas]

I'd even go so far to call him an international treasure

[@Randsurfer]

A white American actor, playing a white Australian actor, playing a black American soldier, ridding the world of the "N" word. So beautiful.

[@mookiestewart3776]

Yeah ngl , if that MF said that shot to me he would have to taken off this earth 😂

[@theotherjared9824]

Mr. Worldwide

[@darththor3982]

​@@mookiestewart3776keyboard warrior at its finest

[@SheiraVita]

@@mookiestewart3776 like you can do anything, wanna test it out? you know what to reply next totoy....

[@DTfan43]

​@@mookiestewart3776You completely missed the point of the parody here. Flip the roles, and that treatment becomes eerily similar to what y'all actually went through.

[@yew2oob954]

Robert Downey Jr not getting an Oscar for this role shows just how badly the Academy Awards treats black actors!! ✊🏽

[@mykeegetsit]

you mean kirk lazarus😂😂

[@BruceKendallMartinJr]

👊🏿✊🏿

[@zionmiller1749]

True that but Heath Ledger was going to win for The Dark Knight that year. But still you have a point

[@thehunterstruck]

I’m fucking choking 🤣😭

[@yew2oob954]

@@thehunterstruck Are you saying....you can't breathe?

[@jculver1674]

A rich white dude in blackface lecturing a black man about racial discrimination. That is some truly brilliant social satire right there.

[@raymeester7883]

Shaun X.

[@black-frost6290]

Yup that was the joke, you got it. I'm so proud of you..

[@dess234]

lol

[@DeanTheLaughingMann]

You know Tropic Thunder is immune to cancel culture when it's still getting these reactions from a truly diverse audience.

[@face2face78]

Like blazing saddles

[@keenanvil]

🙄

[@Tman001100]

Right because it's a damn FICTIONAL MOVIE lol. What is there to cancel?? It's a comedy/parody movie, for crying out loud.

[@degov5]

I like to think that these reaction channels show that most people today still enjoy this humor and laugh. It's just a small, but loud, group of people that gets the media's attention with their cancel culture.

[@isimioyekunlemarktaiwo3643]

When was it ever tried to be cancelled? You are overreacting

[@KevyNova]

Most of these people are too young to get the Jeffersons reference but I’m GenX and grew watching that show and that part of the movie absolutely broke me!

[@sonablom]

Funnily enough most of them got the crocodile Dundee reference

[@igloo2158]

I loved the Jefferson’s.

[@tinostarks]

yea alot of them not getting the references

[@dawb86]

@@tinostarks I notice that with a lot of the 90s and even early 2000s films references. It's sad because it made me realize our generation was the last that truly had a bit more reverence, if that's the right word here, for older entertainment to the point where we might get a 60s reference in a movie made in the 90s. I was telling my cousin not too long ago I don't even think a lot of kids now would probably know the Beatles, Temptations or maybe even an Elvis record if they heard it.

[@NomnomJawsnomnom]

To this day, I look at Sgt. Lincoln Osiris and STILL don't see Robert Downey Jr. Just an absolutely amazing performance.

[@Vugtis_El_VillaVODS]

Yeah I dont RDJ also I don't see Tom Cruise I just see Les Grossman

[@ken_kaniff246]

​@@Vugtis_El_VillaVODSI didn't know it was Tom Cruise until I looked for the actor in the credits because he looked familiar but I couldn't place the face

[@andrewwolverton3762]

"Pump your brakes kid, that man's a national treasure"

[@geoffwilliams4478]

@@andrewwolverton3762 I'm just f-ing you Kangaroo Jack! I'm sorry a dingo ate your baby! 😎

[@joemasters2270]

Robert Downey Jr. channeling Danny Glover 🤣🤣🤣

[@kalzyoung]

For 400 years …he was looking back deep into the past with that stare

[@stormdavis3178]

Kudos to RDJ for having the balls to pull off that role. Pure genius and hilarious as hell.

[@freelikeyve]

i am glad he was nominated for an Oscar

[@solvingpolitics3172]

I grew up on “The Jefferson’s” I miss Weezy. 😂

[@tylerhassey5210]

I’m white as fuck but always had black friends growing up just because of where I was raised so every time one of my friends tries to give me the pass (like I need it) I give them this whole ass speech 😂 “for four hundred years…”

[@robertlee4809]

I was born and raised in rural Mississippi, and had way more black friends than white ones. 70's up till 2007. I ain't NEVER got a pass on that word. Gitcho teefs knocked out quick😂😂But also, that was a long time ago and there was still two sides of town. This side of the tracks and that side of the tracks....when some of the brothers and sisters from my generation and graduating class started coming home with money and degrees and local businesses after college? Them old ass white folks LOST THEIR SHIT! And then? They started buying up houses on the white side of town😂😂😂and this was in the 90s. We, on the other hand, loved that shit!❤

[@robertlee4809]

That is brilliant!!😂

[@smeltikozuyesmelti]

This movie is absolutely brilliant. If it offends you, you have missed the entire point of it. Tropic Thunder itself is a jab at Hollywood and the extremes actors will go to for roles. It was inspired by the production of Into The Sun (great movie), after some of the cast went through some basic military training and had the audacity to compare themselves to actual soldiers. RDJ was initially reluctant about the role since he just got his acting career back. After much thought about how blatantly absurd and extreme it would be, he recognized the entire point behind the character and accepted the role. I'm sure his agent was thrilled... To add extra irony, he was nominated for an Academy Award for it. ...and then of course there's Tom Cruise basing his character on Harvey Weinstein. A hairy hot-tempered monster with little value for human life. Les ("The" in French) Grossman. The Gross Man.

[@Foolofatook889]

The fact that Tom Cruise was OBSESSED with the idea of Les having ridiculously huge hands and pushed for the prosthetics is such a hilarious and perfect detail too 😂

[@smeltikozuyesmelti]

@@Foolofatook889 "What do you need, Tom?" "...just give me a diet coke." 😅

[@donkhorse]

I wish my reaction had been captured on camera. As soon as he said “for four hundred years” I absolutely bursted into laughter. I laughed for at least 8 minutes! When I finally stopped laughing my cheeks were actually sore. I can’t think of anything else that made me laugh like that in the past twenty years. Awesome movie.

[@stonebringer1]

For four hundred years-----

[@alanmurray5963]

......dat word.....

[@SOPARA862k]

.....has kept us down.....

[@No_Waifu_No_Laifu]

What the F*ck!?

[@geoffwilliams4478]

Took a whole lot of trying...just to get up that hill

[@marsayde1237]

⁠​⁠Now we up in the big leagues…

[@jedsithor]

Man, Downey should have gotten an Oscar for this role.

[@momochanjones7302]

Considering who he was up against that year…

[@scipioafricanus5871]

At least he should have gotten a Black Reel Award (BRA)...

[@buttnugget2900]

I bet he didn't win an Oscar due to being black. Typical!

[@anthonydionne4703]

I'm shocked how many of these people didn't get the joke of RDJ playing a method actor playing a black man...

[@infiad1275]

People seem to want to be offended but that makes it even funnier for me!

[@warren4110]

I’m not shocked at all 😔

[@MultiLimpet]

Rdj stayed in character until the dvd commentary

[@Antwannnn]

timestamp to where they "didnt get the joke" just finished it and i think youre bullshitting trying to act like some big tough guy when in reality 99% of people understand it and laugh

[@Commander_Shepard.]

@@Antwannnn Most of the black reactors were offended and saying "he needs to stop" or "he needs to reel it back in".

[@MultiLimpet]

The black rapper being secretly gay is topical these days

[@oneyankee73]

😩😩😩

[@jasminedragon7360]

Downey did the commentary with this voice too! I will never forget “Jack go ahead and miss me with that bullshit” 😂😂😂

[@oneyankee73]

That's one of best commentaries of all time.

[@MrTech226]

I remember when this movie came out, RDJ came out as "blackface" I thought oh shit! RDJ will face some backlash by being. But there wasn't much backlash of his portrayal. RDJ portrayed method actor who will go to extreme in his craft.

[@RJALEXANDER777]

That's the genius of it. If it was just RDJ doing black face that would've gotten flack. But he's a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude, and the joke's satire on the film industry being racist, not on black people, which is why it works.

[@veggiesarefruits]

Exactly! The real controversial came from the use of the "r word". People were smart enough back then to recognize the message: that method actors could get away with anything. People understood and could laugh at the fact that this movie was making fun of the ridiculousness of racism. RDJ did an AMAZING job with this film. Absolute top-tier acting.

[@JeshuaSquirrel]

The RDJ parts of this film work because of who is being mocked. For one, the film industry is being mocked for hiring Italians as Mexicans, etc. Also RDJ's character is being mocked because he's the only person in the film who thinks what he's doing is okay.

[@UserAndLoser1985]

Brandon T. Jackson doesn't get enough credit for his role. RDJ's character doesn't work without BTJ. I've always been surprised he didn't become a bigger star.

[@tc3501]

Hollywood used John Wayne as Genghis Kahn

[@benlarmouth]

Don't worry, things are in the works for that to change soon... #SKPFilmz #INTBOTB​@UserAndLoser1985

[@UserAndLoser1985]

@@benlarmouth great news!

[@jaycee_baron]

It's also satirizing method actors like Christian Bale.

[@jordanwolfe739]

There are terrible crimes that happen everyday, but the greatest crime may be Robert Downey Jr NOT winning the Oscar for best supporting actor for this

[@ncharpentier526]

Two words heath ledger

[@Wearywastrel]

​@@ncharpentier526Heath Ledger wasn't the supporting actor, he was the star.

[@Doctor_of_Fartiology]

No one was winning that oscar but Ledger. RDJ cashed in his I.O.U. with Oppenheimer last year. Were all square.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

They wouldn't even nominate RDJ for a Black Reel Award wtf

[@ThunderPants13]

The Jeffersons Theme Song Well we're movin' on up, to the east side To a deluxe apartment in the sky Movin on up To the east side We finally got a piece of the pie Fish don't fry in the kitchen; Beans don't burn on the grill Took a whole lotta tryin' Just to get up that hill Now we're up in the big leagues Gettin' our turn at bat As long as we live, it's you and me baby There ain't nothin wrong with that Well we're movin on up To the east side To a deluxe apartment in the sky Movin on up To the east side We finally got a piece of the pie

[@medievilbo25]

Never seen The Jeffersons but I know Batter Up by Nelly

[@scipioafricanus5871]

W the actual F? That's the theme song to the Jefferson's!

[@mabutoo]

Robert Downing Jr's performance in this movie was the boldest piece of cinema I have seen in my lifetime and his comedic timing; perfect. This was a great movie overall. I can't watch this movie without tissues cause I laugh so hard my eyes water.

[@mic88ed]

The funniest thing about Tropic Thunder is that Robert Downey Junior almost won a real Academy Award for his performance.

[@34stzoo]

2:40 You can tell this couple's goal in life is to be offended by anything they can hang their hats on. As a black man who went to the theater and watched this movie/classic and at first didn't know that was RBJ. I loved this movie and his role he knocked it out of the park!

[@herewego8686]

It's funny because rdj didn't want to do it and Jamie foxx convinced him to

[@The_1and_OnlyUce]

I am out of breath and drooling from constantly laughing man these scenes the whole movie never ceases to make me wheeze and die of laughter I need help😂😂😂😂

[@vinsanity40k]

good idea to include both black and australian reactions to this scene

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

“Just cause it’s the theme song, don’t make it not true..”🤣

[@rustywater3219]

'I'm the dude, playing the dude, playing another dude'

[@NelsonMunoz-m9w]

watching RDJ on Joe Rogans Podcast telling his mom about him playing this role and her saying " Oh Bobby , noooo " is hilarious.

[@atlaustell]

I saw Tropic Thunder in the movie theater when it came out. I have never laughed so hard in my life. I think it is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. Robert Downey Jr was hilarious! And I am a black woman.

[@michaelbuhl4250]

Tropic Thunder is absolutely magnificent and all of these reactions were great, but my all time favorite Tropic Thunder reaction video is on the *It's Alaana* channel.

[@joshritz7067]

RDJ got some mileage out of that goatee. This AND Ironman in one year

[@bebop_557]

What is so brilliant about this movie is how the black guy is the comedic relief but not in the usual Hollywood way of demeaning them. The relief is the black guy calling out the RDJ character's bullshit and being the only sane man.

[@TheJacyn313]

This movie specifically this character is why most us black folks fw RDJ so heavy

[@briannamarz9343]

black woman here and to this day i laughed so hard!! RDJ is incredible 😂😂😂

[@tinostarks]

it's the perfect loophole, Robert Downey Jr. didn't play blackface...he played an actor in a move who played blackface... 200IQ play right there.

[@jamiehill3621]

I remember when this movie first came out you had a small group of white people claiming that was racist. Yet no black folks seemed offended they thought it was so dumb it was funny.

[@donpietruk1517]

White liberals totally fail to grasp the concept of satire and dark comedy.

[@foolslayer9416]

I loved how reactors knew when he said, "For 400 years..."

[@kennethyazelle7544]

I have the Blu Ray and HD dvd from the year it came out. Grew up watching Blazing Saddles, and knew this way modern comedy gold.

[@ReekieReels]

"Man, I don't drop character till I done a DVD commentary."

[@Foolofatook889]

“I’m a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude” This movie is iconic and hilarious. RDJs character is such perfect social satire…it’s just…perfect 😂

[@casey1973]

Everyone is like "he's doing too much".... that's the point

[@Dang3rMouSe]

"Yea, just because it's the theme song to the Jeffersons doesn't make it not true." Aint that the truth.

[@michaelcain9101]

Say man Rob has always been my dude, from "Less Than Zero" on.......& As a brother for what ever that's worth he really did his thang in this role!!!!

[@melancholymoshpit]

So glad I was able to see this in theaters. Place was packed and we were dying 😂😂😂

[@freelikeyve]

"koala huggin nikka" will always be hilarious to me

[@austinabney2990]

I remember watching this in theaters when it came out. STILL the loudest I’ve ever heard a theater laugh 😂

[@darkphoenix6807]

I still remember watching this in the theater and laughing my freaking butt off. What’s great is I live in a very conservative white area, and every other person in the theater was not comfortable laughing. But being black women, my sister and I were howling with laughter.

[@jeffwood7642]

You about to cross some fu@#&ng lines had me laughing my ass off, like he hasn't crossed any.😂😂😂

[@andrewmeadows78]

I’m just a white guy. watching black guys reacting to a white guy playing a black guy. 😂

[@reaver707]

The Jeffersons was a great show from the 70s. Shame a lot of young people don't get that joke.

[@EdilbertFernando]

15:58 - Not the Australian dismissing Paul Hogan 🤣

[@UnluckyCucumber]

Tropic Thunder would never get produced in todays world. Too many softies to get offended at what is supposed to be a comedy. But thank god they did in 2008, because it’s hilarious! 🤣

[@zsealcat]

You know this is a progressive movie, right? If this came out now, right-wing grifters would be calling it woke.

[@mattdrummond9087]

RDJ is just amazing in this movie... Hes not really a comedic actor but knocks this out of the park. Brilliant acting.

[@baddi25]

He is making fun of method actors 😂 thats why its hilarious

[@davidward9737]

One of my favorite comedies. I worked with Dr. Jackson he was a poc. We would quote lines in this movie all the time. It was needed in sad and stressful times, we would laugh. I hope the owner of this channel Does the Lance part where jack black is strapped to a tree. Lance wtf did i hear. Crazy to think RDJ was nominated for a oscar but lost to Heath Ledger from the Dark Knight

[@erikrichards5072]

An irony? Ledger is /was Australian.

[@Igarappappa]

I remember the build-up to this movie people expected this to be the part that people would be the most upset over. Then it came out and for the most part they thought this was hilarious cause everyone in the movie brought up how stupid/insane this was. Instead most complaints went to the Simple Jack thing, which was obviously NOT shown in any previews or trailers. Not sure if they planned that or not.

[@Skoltrain]

I watched half of this before i noticed the guy reacting in the top right. I then realized that i was reacting to a reaction video reacting to a compilation of reaction videos. Thats enough internet for today.

[@michaelhutchinson2854]

“Now we up in da big leagues” 💀💀

[@markpaterson2053]

man, this damn movie---the only movie in history that has parts as funny as the two great Monty Python movies.

[@trevor866]

I would love to see another movie with Robert and Brandon leading. These two had awesome chemistry on screen.

[@Neilxtc]

He’s right about that… just because it’s a theme song… 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

[@jasondamrau9943]

I loved watching this movie on the mess decks of my ship. All races sitting their laughing their asses off at this. This scene especially.

[@teeoh9192]

This clip (& movie) is immune to cancel culture, because even the dumbest mf'er knows there was no malice intended. If anything, this whole movie just pointed out how ridiculous show business can be as a WHOLE.

[@Nvrgofulretrd]

I'm a Black man, well, okay, sorta. What the hell, misegenated‼️Okay?! You happy?! Anyway, the point being, I have never encountered any Black person who was offended by anything in the movie 🎦. That's a wrap🎬‼️

[@RobDaKid87]

I love that hes mad at the stereotypes and then immediately goes into every Australian stereotype hes ever heard. 🤣

[@SojuNinja]

I watched this with my Korean students back in the day. I had a lot of explaining to do that day.

[@soadortiz]

RDJ could have been a good Kang the Conqueror replacement

[@patricksanchez1536]

Nah…he shoulda been the new black panther

[@Blizzard0fOz93]

I mean, he has a point. Just because something is a theme song, that really doesn’t mean it’s not true.

[@sandysolomon3140]

As a black man, I would looove to see RDJ doing this very act more often

[@mattmcintyre7083]

Hats off to Ben Stiller for creating this masterpiece.

[@MrMountainchris]

RDJ deserved and Oscar for this. 🤣🤣

[@loristnorton3723]

Everybody got hit in tropic thunder. Jews, White, Man, Woman, Catholics, asians, fat, thin, fit, LGBT, war veterans hahaha That's why it's a great film.

[@zsealcat]

Uh, not true at all. This movie is not an "apolitical movie that makes fun of everyone." This movie is very clearly making fun of a few specific things. Most obviously, it's making fun of greedy Hollywood people, whitewashing (casting white people to play people of color), method actors, and just movie-making as a whole. There is no instance of it making fun of any minority groups.

[@mrgraham5521]

The dingo eating a baby is a true story. A couple got locked up for murder while camping and reporting the baby was taken by a pack of dingo's. They were released when someone found the baby girls torn up clothes and some bones were found in a dingo ( wild dog ) den. That lightened things up, right?

[@userxyz783]

I have heard people read KZbin comments diligently so i'll just leave this one that i read somewhere here... "... In a world where people are not judged by the colour of their skin, but by the strength of their character".

[@diagastar7261]

Thank you for that compilation. It made me smile

[@ianrastall]

There's a lot of American reactors here, and they all recognize the significance of 400 years as soon as it's mentioned. So there's a good argument for our education systems not being as bad as all that.

[@JustinBorowski13]

Vince and Shoshanna, the first couple, are the best reactors. 100% genuine. If you like react content their patreon is absolutely worth it

[@Coheed2113allday]

I love that RDJ stayed in his black character while being offended for Australia

[@bazookajoe6760]

i say 90 perecnt dont know who the jeffersons are

[@GCHandle]

You see how the first girl was looking over to make sure he was laughing? lol. She has no clue what to think until someone thinks for her. Pathetic

[@Baileybransby]

“Ehh what do you mean you people?” “What do YOU mean you people?” Should of included that part too 😂😂

[@juliobudhai4940]

Man this role earned RDJ so much respect with the black community 😂. Tropic Thunder remains my favorite comedy movie ever.

[@HunterSentinel]

3:28 at the time this movie came out I was NOT old enough to get all the jokes. It was one of those early releases for the military… my dad took us… this movie WAS funny… but jokes like this went completely over my head… it makes me chuckle so fucking hard!

[@iggystompbarnyard]

the only Aussie reactor: "Oh that's Lindy!"

[@dashconsigliere686]

SO many people were missing the point of RDJ's character ... Tropic Thunder is the best parody of action films from the 80s - it's uncanny.

[@fontenoyjoe]

The sad thing is that most of the people reacting don't even know about "The Jeffersons" tv show let alone its theme song. DAMN I'm old

[@SubjectiveFunny]

So many of these people trying SO hard to be offended LOL

[@mudflapsmoviereviews]

RDJ is so freaking hilarious in this movie

[@tearealdavis2212]

When I seen this years ago I did not know this was Robert. I thought it was a weird looking black man new to comedy. With that being said, he killed playing us !! Hilarious !!

[@Billllz]

Back when we could all laugh together at one another, and everyone was in on the joke.

[@bpxterry]

Omg he did the RAYGUN MOVE back then... Wow the true originator.

[@hugh_jasso]

Mair and Sophie had the best reaction 😂

[@SiriuslyBlack7]

RDJ invoked "The Jefferson's" theme song on a motherphcker!! "As long as we livin',it's you and me baby,an there ain't nothin' wrong with that..Moooovin' on up!"