This is a no-nonsense zine about the movie Tropic Thunder, starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.
Plotline: Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become...
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This is a no-nonsense zine about the movie Tropic Thunder, starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.
Plotline: Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
So how was your weekend? Mine was pretty busy, thanks.
In fact, we covered a bunch of stories you might have missed while you were off
enjoying yourself and, let's not forget, your Columbus Day holiday. That's right: We still pay tribute a guy who mistakenly
thought he'd found something that was not only already populated but had been
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Is
Tropic Thunder the consensus funniest movie of
the year? I'd have to say that it probably is. The raunchiest jackasses I know
loved the movie and then at a press screening this past Wednesday, the very
genteel and amiable female host of a local TV morning show confessed the same
thing to me.
For satire, there's no question that Thunder is
incredibly well done, and like the best Mel Brooks satires - and make no
mistake, this is very much in that mold - it's also insanely funny... Read Full Story
Because Catholic women still tend to pop out babies until their uterus collapses, and that means a lot of the time the last one has Down's Syndrome or some other disability, I have been involved in activities for the mentally disabled since I was a kid. I have been a counselor at special summer camps, and for many years participated in the Special Olympics—I am also about ten credits short of a Masters of Education Degree in Special Education. I pound my perky breasts not as as an... Read Full Story
This is a review of the motion picture score for Tropic Thunder by Theodore Shapiro.
“Although this movie or score for that matter won’t win many awards, it and Theodore Shapiro certainly has won my respect”
Title: Tropic Thunder
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Tracks: 22
Length: 40:02
Label: Lakeshore Records
Release Date: August 5 2008
Price: $18.99
Tropic Thunder, a very cool name for an action-comedy or a B quality action starring Dolph Lundgren. This is the former with... Read Full Story
Tropic Thunder (2008)
This latest summer comedy is directed by Ben Stiller - his first movie since Zoolander (2001), and is written by Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen.
The plot: A big-budget war movie with star-actors is being cancelled by the studio. Desperate to save the movie and turn it into a biggest baddest war movie ever made, director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) takes suggestion of a burnout screen writer Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte) to add more realism to the... Read Full Story