GREEN BERETS React to Tropic Thunder | Beers and Breakdowns
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2023
- Hope you guys enjoy this episode of Beers and Breakdowns, in this episode we react and laugh while watching Tropic Thunder!
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Crazy thing about Roy Benavidez was that he actually stepped on a landmine in his first tour, was told he would never be able to walk again, and walked out of the hospital a year later. Then he signed up for SF. What a legend.
During his later MOH actions he even loaded up two dead NVA onto the second helicopter in hopes of gaining intel with holes throughout his body 😳 The stud jumped into an ambush to help save his friends with only an IFAK and a knife! Beyond Legend status for sure!
MSG Benavidez is a certifiable American badass hero! If a movie was made about his life, people wouldn’t believe it…
The book to read is "Legend" by Eric Blehm.
@@MikeDodds They had a GI Joe but a movie would be awesome his story is amazing
Here is his speech. ua-cam.com/video/_oUtJxE4sjs/v-deo.html
Jack "Mad Jack" Churchill was a British soldier who went through WWII with only a longbow and a Scottish Broadsword.
Them laughing at simple jack at me dying 😂
You...you...you ma-ma-ma-make me haappy.
The entire look of the character played by Tom Cruise was put together by Cruise. When Cruise pitched the look to Stiller he didn't get it at first. After Cruise was in full dress and danced Stiller said "ok now I get it". Tropic Thunder is absolutely in my top 7 movies of all time.
Those giant hands though 🤣
It was honestly Cruise's best role in his career lmao...and dude killed it in Collateral. Dude should have stuck to playing bad guys tbh
DVD said it almost got a spin off.
That would have been truly culture changing LOL
If ironman was black who would play him? Robert Downey Jr.
Terry Crews
He,s just a Dude playing a Dude disguised as another Dude
Jamie foxx
@@Remember.The.Creek24 lol ya!!
RDJ should have played T'Challa for the second Black Panther movie.
The first scene you showed is a very direct spoof of the death of Sgt. Elias, Willem Dafoe's character in Platoon. Fun fact, if you look closely, Dafoe's holding the detonator in his hand, he set off the squibs himself.
In the top five of war movies ever made…..
I never noticed that before
They didn’t use squib shit in the final cut
What about at the end when the bridge blows. bridge of the river kwai
The opening scene is making fun of Platoon
Robert Downey Jr. even got a nomination from the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor! Just getting a nomination for a comedy like this is extremely rare and shows what a brilliant comedic performance it was...
I'm a lead farmer, muthafcuker...
Aussie here and loved his performance. BUT.... the accent isn't quite there. Granted for a yank he got very close. 2nd BUT.... he SWEARS like an Australian and freaks out like us.
Just had to throw in a few C words lol
Hes the dude playin a dude disguised as another dude!
Naturally, the Oscars was too chicken to show any acting clips that year. . .
Best line in combat history was when Jamey Caldwell, a CAG guy, rescued that Italian hostage and used the line “we’re navy seals and we’re here to get you out”. Check out the bodycam footage. 😂😂
"I'm a dude playin a dude disguised as another dude"
"What do you mean, You people"
"What do YOU mean, YOU people?!?!"😭🤣
@@Nick-qf5zl 🤣
Ben did a good job with the Platoon part
Surprised more folks didn't catch that it was a Platoon spoof.
@@armynurseboy Probably too young
@@jasonbrown5014 Even Buck was too young...
Tropic Thunder was epic. I didn't realize that was Tom Cruise until the ending credits. Also, the baby stabbing Ben Stiller on the bridge was hilarious. Also, love your guys Generational Kill breakdown.
Same here! Didn't realize Cruz was in it until the end. Great film.
This movie is an instant classic 😁
I don’t think he was credited originally? I didn’t realize that was him til somebody told me two weeks later!
Sean and Kurt laughing uncontrollably for a minute at about 11:06 was just about as unwholesomely wholesome as it gets. Love you guys.
Was in Basic training and someone yelled “cover me you limp d*ck f*ckups!” During a simulation. Dude was from a Louisiana swamp so hearing it in his accent made it priceless.
Tropic Thunder really is one of the funniest movies ever made. And the ending with Cruise's dance is just perfect.
Your story around 31:00 about working with newly graduated Privates after coming home was amazing!
It was hilarious in the way you told it, but also interesting to hear your point of view & thought process.
I think you were 100% justified in lighting them up, but I may have also felt guilty afterward.
Tom Cruise WANTED to be Lex, he created the character description in his head and told Ben Stiller he wanted to play him just like that.
“I want fat hands, and I want to dance”
Roy literally says he was holding his intestines in at a point in his insane ordeal that day. He is the most badass soldier EVER!
When I first watched this movie, I legit thought they replaced Robert Downey Jr to make the joke that the actor was so engrossed in becoming the character. I actually thought it was a different actor until the second time I watched the movie, and it was late into the second time when it clicked and I was like “OHHHHHHHHH HOOOOLYYYY SHIT!” 😂 almost the same with Tom Cruise. My dad and I watched it in theaters and when he’s dancing at the end I was like, holy shit dad that’s Tom Cruise and he didn’t believe me until the credits proved it. Such an amazing movie
Ben Stiller's gun was supposed to be an xm177e1 or e2. A short run SF weapon in VN but I seem to remember them using a front assembly that was too modern.
Good stuff, guys. Stiller's weapon appeared to be a CAR-15 submachine gun, or is replicating one, that dates back to about 1960 and was used in RVN; often with LRRPs. Based on the M-16, it originally was for armor guys (tankers) as a space-saver yet had lots of firepower to replace the old WWII-era .45 caliber M3 (usually call a Grease Gun because of its' appearance). It had an collapsible/extendible buttstock and with it closed the total length was under 30".
Kurt not knowing about the XM177 variants/CAR-15 crushed my soul a little bit 🤦♂️ Hell it was the preferred weapon of all special forces as soon as they could get them... LRRPs, MACVSOG, ODA's all had access to them by some point... Even certain big army soldiers had them towards the later years... Come on Kurt! Your supposed to be the educated aficionado, not the transformers marvel CGI explosion loving Buck! 😂
Figured someone else talk about it and same them not knowing about the CAR-15 brought a tear. lol.
The Tom Berenger character in " Platoon " carried a CAR - 15.
The first scene they review is from Platoon (1986) with Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen
Can't believe they didn't know that.... 🤪
@@johnyd1911 They need to review Platoon
Bingo
There it is!! I love that damn movie, Platoon! "The only thing that can kill Barnes is Barnes!" Me and my old LT used to just rattle off lines from that movie back fourth when we were on route security together. Good times!...not really ha
@@bgarri8001 "We did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves" Epic movie
So glad you guys watched this! I remember watching this on deployment and quoting it for 11 months straight. Would love for you guys to watch Clear and Present Danger sometime!
Clear and present danger is such an under rated film!
Harrison Ford will always be the real Jack Ryan to me.
"Everyone knows you never go full r*tard!"
I grew up on Clear And Present Danger, Air Force One and Indiana Jones VHS tape LOL.
"SIR! THE LUITENANT GOT CLOSE BY BEING A SNEAKY BASTARD! SEARGENT MAJOR!"
"do you know the fine for littering in the state of California son?"
"(chuckles) YES SIR!"
lol
I'm a lead farmer MF! Haha so many times I would say that shit at my unit when shooting blanks
I like that the director stepped on a landmine and it blew up, not that Hollwood BS of needing to "Step Off" of it.
SAPPER
There are pressure release fuses. They aren't used when setting up typical minefields (they'd explode due to shifting pressure from freezing/thawing in the winter) rather to set up boobytraps. They do however do what movies show, explode when the pressure comes off.
They can be put under ammo crates or gas cans or, best of all another mine. Do that last one and the top mine holds down the trigger device the "normal" mine gets disarmed and moved out of the hole, the pressure comes of and the delayed pressure fusing device sets off its mine, and the one in your hands.
I always thought he just took his foot off when looking down.
Can you imagine if they released a bloopers reel from this.
It wasn't Tears of the Sun. It was Platoon. Willem Defoe's character. Which is an interesting scene regarding the blood special effects. If memory serves, the cut they used wasn't synchronized correctly. He did all the movements but the squibs didn't fire.
I think Platoon should be the next movie up for Beers and Breakdowns.
He was talking about the music in the background not the scene itself
One of the biggest thing I miss about being in the military is having friends like you guys to talk about a movie
If you get a chance, watch the Blu Ray director's cut with the commentary on. Robert Downey Jr is full-on in character the whole time.
He don't drop character till the end credits
That dramatic scene of him being shot referenced Willem Dafoe's character in Platoon. Ya'll gotta watch that movie now' lol. I was dying when you said Bruce Willis 😆
I thought the scene of Ben Stiller getting shot while looking up at the rescue copter was more reminiscent of the scene from Platoon when the same was happening to Wilem Dafoe
Yes that is exactly what it was referencing. Sometimes beer has a way of changing little details like that LOL.
Outstanding movie, especially 1st half-- when Ben Stiller grabs the decapitated Director's head and starts drinking his "fake" blood, never gets old watching that scene, and so many others...
"Oi, I'm Dave Beckham!" *kicks head*
Y’all need to watch the commentary because RDJ STAYED in character just like he said he does lol
This movie came out when I was in Afghanistan. Man, I grabbed a copy of it at one of the Bazaars in our AO. Best money I ever spent. My boys and I laughed non-stop at this. Definitely needed.
Gotta correct Kurt the SF and MACV-SOG guys did have telescoping stocks on the XM177 commando carbines
They did, but the CAR-15 stock has a different shape then the modern M4 stock
@@MrSpudz2 but it has the correct stock…
This film will go down as a milestone and a classic. Maybe someday we can make movies like this again. Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise had the best roles imo.
If I would have seen a Brigadere General as a pvt two weeks out of boot...I'd have jumped through the ceiling coming to attention. Colonel and above were mythical creatures ya just never saw, but knew they existed. So when you did see them, you couldn't help but give the utmost respect.
This movie came out right after I finished Basic and it was family day. So we went to see this. I will never forget how much I laughed when my mom thought the fake trailers at the beginning were real! I loved this movie so much, it's a Stiller classic
Absolutely 100% Roy Benavidez was an American badass of epic proportions! His story you couldn't make it up if you tried. Unbelievable! RIP badass!
Fun Fact the "prototype" of the M4 the XM177/CAR-15 Commando did have a collapsible buttstock and was used by the special forces in Vietnam.
I really like the XM177's flash hider it just looks nice to me. It doubled as an adapter for firing rifle grenades usually a HEAT grenade or a HE Composite B grenade was later replaced by the M72 LAW, M79 grenade launcher, and MX148 under barrel grenade launcher.
"we cant comment" "please be careful" all while absolutely losing it laughing. Fucking love it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They could never make this movie in todays climate. We must be thankful for these gems :)
I'm in my late fifties. I recognized immediately the words spoken by Robert Downey Jr's character that were the words from the song, "Movin' On Up", the theme song to the 1970s hit television comedy show, "The Jefferson's".
Kurt not knowing about the XM177's or CAR-15s used extensively by SF during Vietnam (and later by select big army soldiers) killed my soul a little... 😥😄
Yeah I felt the same. But when I first watched Tropic thunder years ago I thought the same thing until I looked into the rifle variants and learned about the XM177s and CAR-15s. This movie actually improved my understanding of history in a round about way LOL.
We need to start a petition to make a sequel: Desert Thunder. Same premise but about the GWOT instead of Vietnam.
No
Thank you guys so much!! I've been requesting We Were Soldiers and Troppic Thunder since you guys started these
This is one of the most hilarious quoted movies. also, showing my age but please do "Spies Like US".
Every now and then when I'm depressed I come back to this reaction😂😂 The simple Jack scene was hilarious " I don't want to say anything we're going to get in trouble we got a tiptoe around this"
Awesome awesome video bro! Laughed so hard. This will be in my top 3 favorites. Yall should beers and breakdown the A-Team
I love you guys man. Just stumbled across the channel and Man yall did it. Bless yall, cheers brothers🙏
This is the goldiest of gold content 🥇! Between the reviews and the stories, just epic sirs!
my favorite thing about this series is how you can tell they filmed them on the same day/weekend...you can see them get progessively drunker and drunker through all the episodes lol
lol you’re 100% correct, we filmed the last 4 episodes in one night.
@@AbelHernandezguitar you boys about to get a little wild for the next b&b, I ensured that 🤣
I went full Tom Cruise ham on an LT as a 1SG after his Bradley shot the wrong target with their TOW at NTC, and he apologized to me. Awesome.
If you watch the commentary version, Robert does the whole thing in the Lincoln Osiris voice like he said during the movie lol
This is now one of my favorite Beers and Breakdowns! I was dying laughing because you guys were laughing so hard.
Brilliant episode had tears running down my face 🤣🤣👍
The quotability of this movie deserves an award in and of itself
I saw this as a special release at ft bliss. Standing ovation with cheers and laughter. Top 10 war movie ever.
Best episode of beers and breakdowns!! Thanks guys.😊
I love the, "Survive!", It kills me every time.
OMG I've been waiting for this episode since you started doing Beers and Breakdowns!
Thank you for using the term MOH "Recipient". Too many people use the term "won" and it gets under my skin. I learned my lesson early on when I met John "Bud" Hawk, a WWII U.S. Army MOH recipient. I used the term "won" and was raked across the coals by Bud. I have never used that term since. He told me it wasn't a contest, so he didn't "win" anything.
Denzel Washington: you don't win it you receive it.
Bronson Pinchot: tell that to Congress. From the motion picture courage under fire. Congress also calls it the "congressional" medal of Honor
When I’m down, feeling depressed, this is my go to movie, my FAVORITE movie of all time hands down! The entire movie is comedy gold! I can’t stand Tom Cruise but even he had me dying of laughter. Jack Black and RDJ are my favorites in this of course.
I usually get a couple of laughs out of these, but this one was entirely hilarious. Great pick!
So glad you did this , I just watched it again a few days ago
Just watched this for the first time last week, so the timing couldn’t have been better! The new movie Devotion was pretty good and might be worth a Beers and Breakdowns episode. Fantastic as always, Gentlemen!
Tropic Thunder!?!? I'm here for it! 🇺🇲🤘🏼
Abel: Please be careful!
Me: 😂🤣😂🤣😂
You guys are awesome, love your commentary. In Vietnam, SF was issued the CAR-15 which in today's terms was an AR with a shortened barrel and telescopic stock. Essentially an SBR. Feel free to reference any of the LRRP books from that era👍
YES!!! Finally!!! Thank you guys!
Before I even watch this… I have to say that one night I was hanging out with a bunch of retired SEALs, and the endgame of our night was to watch this movie while high as fuck. Let me just say it did not disappoint
LOL 🤣 love when he pulls off that shot behind his back! 🕶️
another lesser-known excellent Downy Jr comedy: “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” it’s frickin hilarious
This is one that could never been made post 2020. An absolute masterpiece 😂
Absolutely brilliant beers and breakdown.
I sort of interview with Ben still at once where he said he had the concept of this movie written for about 10 years and because of the success of night at the museum the movie studio let him make whatever movie he wanted so he made this one....
Awesome breakdown of an awesome movie. Thanks boys!
killed it absolutely, killed it, I've watched that movie 50 times and you all laughing brought me back to laughing to tears, thanks guys need that today, Cheers
I've seen this episode so many times. By far one of my favorites BnB. 😁
The weapons in the movie are generally period correct. Collapsible stocks were used on the XM177 carbine, a shorter version of the M16. Later 700 series rifles were based on these earlier versions.
Cool story about the guard in processing incident. Can't let disrespect go unanswered in any military unit. Thanks for having integrity when no one else did.
Absolutely RD Jr's best film and he should've won the academy award & golden globe for best comedic performance EVER!. Great movie that makes me laugh everytime I see it.
The guy falling asleep story is one of the best stories ive ever heard and that comes from the way its told
I laughed all over again with y'all on this one. Love.
It would be great to see what you guys make of The Way of the Gun, so underrated and brought action movies kicking and screaming into the modern world. 'Moving!'
I haven't seen it in forever, but yes, it's super underrated!
Yeah, but it's not really a military movie per se. Parker and Longbaugh were tactically very sophisticated for a pair of criminal lowlifes. If they'd just established some back story...
Love that these guys can have fun with a spoof.
Booty sweat au natural. 😂😂
And tom cruise CRUSHED his cameo
2:40 Dude. It's from the end of Platoon, Brother
Yea!! I've been waiting!!
The Lead Farmer was and is epic. Love the vídeo.
That dramatic death scene was from Platoon with Dafoe. There was that dramatic music in the background. Tears of the Sun was amazing and similar, but not the intended scene. Great review!
You guys are fuckin awesome! I’ve waited for quite a while for this review😂 was actually talking to a buddy about it like a week ago and I almost suggested it on a different video😂🤘🏼
Tropic Thunder is our modern day Blazing Saddles. Fight me or change my mind
Was wondering if you guys where going to be reviewing this masterpiece of a film? I remember being in the theater when it released. Everyone in my theater was laughing hysterically. Lol
What's sad..if this movie came out today people would be screaming and freaking out...once 2012 hit everyone turned into a bunch of crybabies..maybe 2012 was the real end date.. people have turned into little babies who can't take any type of criticism
Aussie here.
Aussie war movie staring a very young Mel Gibson, Gallipoli.
It was basically a massacre when ANZAC (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) landed at the wrong spot in Turkey in WW1 and literally had an uphill battle up a cliff.
Absolutely best time Sunday afternoon!
I haven’t even watched the video but goddamn this is the review we never knew we needed!!!!
Ben Stiller was usinh the Colt Commando/CAR15/XM177 and was used by spec ops in the Vietnam era and had a retractable stock. I think it only had two positions or something like that, but it was adjustable.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies about the making of a movie.
jesus christ i had never laughed soo much watching your episodes before. definitely watching this movie again tonight.
I saw an interview with Tom Cruise about that role. He made them agree that he could dance and have big hands before he’d sign on. Brilliant.
Finally! This was great!
When they show his hands or lack of...and I'll be tickling the ivories was hilarious
I would like to get your take on Soviet era film Come and See.The Director based the script on himself in 1943-44 and his local experiences.Your views would be sort of from the other side of the fence.Good job on this one guys.
All your comments are so on point.