Tropic Thunder
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys. From TMDB
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60 of 194 · most liked firstPicturing Elon Musk just hopping mad, deciding to righteously deploy an epic quote from the funniest movie character he has ever seen, Tom Cruise in TROPIC THUNDER
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder (2008) Directed by Ben Stiller
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder couldn't be clearer in its thesis that War is not a movie. The idea of the film came to Stiller after seeing a bunch of actors on Empire of the Sun treat the experience like they went to war and how off putting that was.
unlabelledView post →A movie like Tropic Thunder is satirizing the type of Hollywood mentality and self obsessions that leads to stuff like that. It is therefore making an argument for a more “politically correct” world. It wouldn’t be funny if the point of the movie were “why can’t I do blackface” which is what Daily…
unlabelledView post →My favorite Tom Cruise movie is Tropic Thunder
unlabelledView post →Ben Stiller scold the Epstein gang: "Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie."
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder (2008) 🎬🖤 Directed by Ben Stiller
unlabelledView post →That Jack Black movie "Dear Santa" looks like a fake movie that would've had a trailer at the beginning of Tropic Thunder.
unlabelledView post →My friends and I all watched Tropic Thunder last night and now we all want a satirical film by Ben Stiller making fun of podcast bro culture.
unlabelledView post →It's the sort of thing I'd expect an uncontrollable 10 year old kid to say, (it is actually a bastardisation of a similar phrase from a movie, Tropic Thunder)
unlabelledView post →Share a COMEDY movie title that begins with the letter “T” 🎥 T is for… Tropic Thunder
unlabelledView post →You absolutely could make Tropic Thunder today, but the problem is the entire movie would involve the characters making terrible jokes about getting canceled
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder is a legitimately great antiwar movie with delightfully subversive politics. it also made bank at the box office, which is an excellent plus.
unlabelledView post →🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 354 - TROPIC THUNDER In 2008, Ben Stiller made a war movie about people making a war movie, and in doing so, made one of the more prescient satires of 21st-century Hollywood egos. It was also not without its controversies. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧
unlabelledView post →Tom Cruise said the entire phrase that begins “take a big step back” in the movie Tropic Thunder. ALL of Elon’s lines ARE FROM MOVIES. There’s nothing about that dreg that’s original. Both he and Trump just slap their names on shit and take credit.
unlabelledView post →It's a quote from "Tropic Thunder." Musk thinks only in movie quotes and Internet memes.
unlabelledView post →You could do all of the CIA's 1954 Guatemalan coup as slapstick. Tropic Thunder: Shirt and Tie Edition. Or just a horror movie that presents the coup as Dr. Strangelove without the jokes. You wouldn't have to make up a thing for the second one.
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder review courtesy of Letterboxd member lexnovak7 boxd.it/1FVpfV
unlabelledView post →Edge of tomorrow - he is fine in that perfect movie Tropic Thunder - he is hilarious rain man the last samurai minority report magnolia - perfect fit for the role
unlabelledView post →using a clip from Tropic Thunder, a comedy movie about C-list actors playing characters from a war biography that turns out to be fraudulent, totally tracks
unlabelledView post →‘War Is Not A Movie’: Tropic Thunder Director Denounces The White House For Using His Art In War Propaganda www.themarysue.com/war-is-not-a...
unlabelledView post →Ben Stiller auf Twitter: Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.
unlabelledView post →Why does every Chris Pratt movie look fake*, like it should be a fake trailer in front of a Tropic Thunder sequel? * Besides Rebecca Ferguson. Respect to Rebecca Ferguson.
unlabelledView post →when i was like 8 or 9 my dad goes "we're gonna watch a movie tonight" and put on Tropic Thunder
unlabelledView post →No, he’s paraphrasing a monologue Tom Cruise gives in a movie called Tropic Thunder. He’s such a fucking loser.
unlabelledView post →#FilmHistory On this day 2008, the Ben Stiller directed satirical action comedy film TROPIC THUNDER made its debut. Nearly all aspects of the Les Grossman character were developed by Tom Cruise, the dancing, the make-up, the hairy chest and his character wearing oversized prosthetic hands.
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder is a relatively modern movie considering it could not be made today, which adds a lot to the hilarious madness
unlabelledView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #Filmsky 8/21: A movie filmed in Hawaii "Tropic Thunder" (2008);
unlabelledView post →Wife: you didn't notice [certain twist or plot point] being set up earlier in the film? Lady, I didn't notice it was Tom Cruise until the ending credits of Tropic Thunder. I'm clearly not the sharpest media watcher
unlabelledView post →Like everything else that Elon does, he stole that line. This time from the movie Tropic Thunder: youtu.be/lKxYuMIW-_8
unlabelledView post →was going to pick the most cringe movie of that year but The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Tropic Thunder, Superhero Movie, Pineapple Express, Meet the Spartans, Far Cry (Uwe Boll directing of course) and Twilight all came out the same year it turns out
unlabelledView post →The actor-director objected to his hit comedy being included in a new video: “Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.” 👏👏👏 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
unlabelledView post →So I'm watching TROPIC THUNDER for the first time and the opening trailers are great but also instantly date the movie, because no trailer has narrators anymore.
unlabelledView post →#JustFinished The Whale This is a fake movie they’d play the trailer for in Tropic Thunder. A cast of Oscar worthy performances acting out the cinematic equivalent of crying while watching a mukbang Don’t Watch
unlabelledView post →I just watched Tropic Thunder (I’ve seen it before). Most of the time, when people say, “they couldn’t make that now,” I think it’s extra, but they fr couldn’t make that movie now 💀
unlabelledView post →I kinda want to see the new Running Man movie, but Glen Powell just perpetually reminds me of Ben Stiller’s fake action movie actor in Tropic Thunder.
unlabelledView post →Indy: um... they didn't screw up the theme tune, I guess? Never Let Me Go: A meh film with some great performances Tropic Thunder: Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would Late Night w/ the Devil: Really liked this... what? It used AI stuff? Aw, c'mon! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
unlabelledView post →Some people are just obsessed with it. I never got into it, I even tried to watch it on acid and it still didn't interest me, btw don't do acid and go to a movie theater. I almost walked out of watching Tropic Thunder because I was like wtf is this in the character intros, so yeah acid isn't always great for public stuff. Anyway the funny was my ex-fiance was really into HP, one day she asks if she can read the books for me. I said okay. Then ironically she decides the perfect time is when I'm…
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder was a parody of actors who think being in a Vietnam movie was like actually being in the Vietnam War. These people think they’ve fought in the Alien Wars.
unlabelledView post →Hmm. Okay, I haven't paid much attention to that. Although Tropic Thunder does seem to be available for streaming on several major platforms at the moment. Paramount, Amazon, Apple, Tubi, to name a few.
unlabelledView post →Needing a corny laugh. Yep watching Tropic Thunder a hilarious film. Robert Downey and Tom Cruise kill it in this movie lol #filmsky #tropicthunder
unlabelledView post →Make Tropic Thunder II With Jay Mohr in blackface doing Tracey Morgan’s voice for the entire film you cowards
unlabelledView post →Imagine if someone made a movie about an established well liked actor, trying to go for a try hard Oscar bait campaign, only for it to flop and ruin his career/reputation Like the Simple Jack bit in Tropic Thunder, but treated seriously cause thats how Hollywood likes its Oscar Bait
unlabelledView post →Yeah, he's thinking of the movie Tropic Thunder
unlabelledView post →Tom Cruise in my opinion is not an actor he is a movie star. He literally plays the same character in every film with the exception of his cameo in Tropic Thunder which was quite entertaining.
unlabelledView post →It’s fine if you like it. But this movie and Tropic Thunder are two cultural milestones for millennials that find thoroughly hateful in nearly every regard
unlabelledView post →As I watch "Severance" I can't help but think of this... Ben Stiller as Tugg Speedman as Simple Jack in the movie-within-a-movie "Simple Jack" from the movie "Tropic Thunder". Acrylic on canvas 9"x12" 2025 Available at Ghoulorama.storenvy.com #benstiller #painting #contemporaryart
unlabelledView post →The phrase "fuck your own face" is a notable line delivered by Tom Cruise's character, Les Grossman, in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder youtu.be/Odd8Zdhuj9o?...
unlabelledView post →@ripperoni.com have you seen Tropic Thunder? it not we need to do a movie night
unlabelledView post →All I know of it was a trailer I saw before another movie. I sat there the whole time going *What is this madness?* before being blindsided by the Cruise credit. Afterward, I realized that was why the dancing guy reminded me of Tropic Thunder. Is it as insane as the trailer made it out to be?
unlabelledView post →guy watched the tom cruise parts of Tropic Thunder and thought "whole movie of this"
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder is so crazy because like lord of the rings it’s the one thing film nerds and total normies can agree on
unlabelledView post →Tropic Thunder singlehandedly killed the 'Actor desperate for an Oscar nomination plays a disabled person' genre of film. In this house, Ben Stiller is a hero. End of story!
unlabelledView post →Greatest DVD commentary ever post: RDJ stays in character for commentary of Tropic Thunder, and drops black affectation for Australian at that point in the film. Spinal Tap guys are IN CHARACTER. Ebert Dark City is legend. Carpenter & Russell are always fun. unclefishbits.com/the-greatest...
unlabelledView post →"Robert Downey Jr's character in Tropic Thunder defends black representation in film"
unlabelledView post →Ben Stiller Slams White House for Using Tropic Thunder Clip and Demands They Remove It: 'War Is Not a Movie'
unlabelledView post →Ben Stiller is a pampered, cowardly star in a rut who unwittingly ends up in the jungle, initially thinks that it’s all artificial for his benefit & eventually defeats the native enemies. Madagascar & Tropic Thunder are the same film.
unlabelledView post →A good metaphor for how I feel about my gender presentation is like watching a film with Tom Cruise Whatever role he's playing (maybe with the exception of the guy from Tropic Thunder), and no matter how hard I try, I don't see him as [insert character name here], he's just always Tom Cruise
unlabelledView post →Like the Spinal Tap one, Tropic Thunder had Robert Downey Jnr stay in character the whole way, just like he says in the film, and brilliantly switches to his Australian accent when he breaks character in the film.
unlabelledView post →unironically that bit in Tropic Thunder (ik don't get me started) abt the 2 gay monks in a movie would've been a better film like give me the homoerotic tension of two medieval monks stuck in a monastery pls
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