Just saw Tropic Thunder this weekend courtesy of Netflix & I have to say I liked it. I've been hearing reviews go either way, people seemed to really like it or really hate it. Either way, Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. are definitely the movies' saving grace.
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 American action comedy film directed and produced by Ben Stiller and written by Stiller, Justin Theroux, and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr. as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film when their fed-up writer and director decides to abandon them in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle, forcing them to fight their way out.
Tropic met controversy among the disability advocacy community prior to its release in the United States on August 13, 2008. It received generally good reviews with 83% of reviews positive and an average normalized score of 71% according to the review aggregator websites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, respectively. It earned $26 million in its opening weekend and retained the number-one position for its first three consecutive weekends of release. The film went on to gross more than $180 million worldwide before its release on home video on November 18, 2008.
Les Grossman (aka Tom Cruise) dancing during the credits
The controversial scene between Tugg Speedman & Kirk Lazarus
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