[kj] OT Boycott the film Tropic Thunder

[Brendan]

I've scratched my head (figuratively) every time I've seen the previews
for it, the only funny thing I've noticed about it is the apparently
unintentional resemblance Jack Black bears to Brian Dennehy. (I reckon
Dennehy needs to be sent up the way Shatner, Hasslehoff, and Norris have.
And Busey. Imagine having Dennehy for a Dad...you'd be fucked.)

Other than that I just don't get the joke, and comedies are generally my
favourite movies. If what they have shown on the shorts are the pick of
the bunch...hrm. I tend to agree with the comments about the offensive
portrayal of intellectually disabled people.

PS: Talking about offensive comedy, was pleased to see George Carlin
discussed in glowing terms during an interview on Letterman last
night...and even more pleased to hear how many albums he has done, I only
have a few.


> Robert Downey, Jr., who utters the objectionable word in the movie

> ("retard") has even been mentioned as Academy Award material for this.

> (In Tropic Thunder he plays a famous Australian actor who undergoes

> radical cosmetic surgery to make himself into a US black man, and

> changes his manner of speaking, etc., to make himself seem truly black,

> unnerving his African-American co-stars). This plus Downey, Jr.'s

> performance in Iron Man may make this his year...

>

> I am not sure how objectionable to find the movie yet, but from the

> previews and reviews I have to admit it seems pretty funny, and I am

> curious to see it. Anything that sends up the hackneyed conventions of

> US war movies automatically makes me wanna see it. "Don't you die on me,

> son!!" "I can't feel my legs, sarge!" and all that.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> Leigh Newton wrote:

>> I'm kind of looking forward to checking it out. I like that it falls

>> into a very exclusive and rare sub-sub-sub genre of movies which involve

>> people in situations which they believe to be fabricated when they are,

>> in fact......very real. See also: the Three Amigos and The Man Who Knew

>> Too Little.

>>

>> Leigh

>>

>>

>>

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