Hey friends! I did find parts of Tropic Thunder a little shocking at first, but as you can see I actually laughed a lot and LOVED the movie. What a brilliant comedy! I did have to censor certain words in the film just to keep the video from being demonetized (because UA-cam is very finicky about that stuff). Some people are weirdly angry about this. If that's you, sorry! I hope your day improves! Maybe join us in the comments as we celebrate this brilliant piece of satire :)
Tip interesante Stiller, quien intentó participar en Platoon de 1986 una gran película de guerra, pero no fue elegido para el papel, ha comentado que Tropic Thunder fue su manera de hacer una sátira catártica para él de como burlarse de la manera más epica de ese rechazo de hecho la escena cuando le disparan multiple times es tal cual una burla a una escena de platoon super famosa, reflejando tanto sus experiencias personales como las absurdidades de la industria del cine, especialmente en el contexto de las películas bélicas, es parte de la cultura es un antes y un después Tropic Thunder, rayó los limites cancelables y no sabemos como sobrevivió y hasta fue aceptado y apoyado por la comunidad que pudo haber sido mega cancelado en ese entonces. Una película brillante y con trasfondo,
Thanks so much for the opportunity to choose a movie! That was incredible to watch. I cannot imagine watching that movie without knowing what it was. Loved the reaction from the laughter and dismay to the panda sadness and trailer confusion. Your reactions are the best. - Deric
😄👍 I just want to take this opportunity to warn you about something...If you don't like movies where one actor plays multiple roles, then I would strongly advise against watching any of the three Monty Python films. The same for the 1988 Eddie Murphy vehicle, "Coming To America." 😉
The only movie I've heard of that "couldn't be made" was Life of Brian, it got banned in a couple of countries because of blasphemy laws. These days there is almost nothing you can't put in a movie. You just can't expect a studio to put up hundreds of millions of dollars for a Space Movie 1992 remake.
Some of the best comedies push boundaries at that very moment they are made but are committed to doing so not to punch down and withstand the test of time and changing attitudes. As opposed to comedies based on meanspiritedness and ignorance. I'd say both Blazing Saddles and Tropic Thunder fit in the former.
Being “cancelled” is largely a myth. Things aren’t as off limits as conservatives and the elderly would like you to think. Free speech didn’t go anywhere.
@@boretrk Um, Life of Brian was not banned before it was made.....and they cannot ban the making of the film. Those places banned the RELEASE of the film after it was made. ANy movie can be made, as long as the artist is willing enough to take the criticism that will come with it, if it is controversial.
I've never seen or heard about anyone who were/are offended of RDJ's blackface.. And RDJ doesn't even play a black man, he is playing a white man playing a black man 😀
The whole purpose was to satirize some of the ridiculous lengths taken by method actors. A white American playing a white Aussie who underwent pigment augmentation to portray a Vietnam era black American. Totally ridiculous. I have also never met a single person who didn’t get the joke or found it offensive.
If I recall correctly, RDJ was seriously concerned about whether or not audiences would get the joke. It was fine of course, but I can see why he might hesitate.
"Why is he still in character?" - RDJ said he doesn't break character until he's finished the commentary lol And he did the commentary for the movie while still in character :D
so us black folks were not offended at all by RDJ playing black face... main reason,, that shit was hilarious... lmao.. every scene in this movie is straight comedy.. every person that has a line is hilarious... great reaction
@@deek60819I mean… I feel like you’re splitting hairs. He isn’t full minstrel-show, but it’s still blackface. This movie gets away with it because they’re aware of how ridiculous the character is being for wearing it
@@marquisdesade3025 I mean, the point is that RDJ isn't in blackface *AS RDJ.* He's playing an Australian actor (Kirk Lazarus) who believes (somehow) that he's the perfect person to portray a black American soldier in the Vietnam War. *That guy is in blackface (and no, I don't think this is a distinction without a difference - the difference here is quite striking).* That's why the film got perhaps the only "pass" in modern cinema for such an inflammatory feature - Lazarus's actions are part of the story...they're essential to understanding the point of the movie (that the culture in Hollywood is so far removed from the values of modern society, and that the people who are essential to keeping the industry profitable, be they A-list actors or sleazy financiers, can get away with basically anything because nobody will ever tell them "no"). You couldn't exactly tell this story without showing a white guy in blackface, or a neurotypical guy playing someone with an intellectual disability ("Simple Jack" being illustrative of the point that Lazarus actually does understand that there are some lines that you don't cross, if not for ethical reasons, then certainly for artistic reasons...he is just too wrapped up in his own BS to see that he's being a hypocrite). The last thing any viewer with half a brain cell will take away from this movie is that blackface is okay.
When Ben offered the role to Tom Cruise, Tom said yes but insisted on having the big hands and hairy arms. Kinda makes you wonder if he got the image from an actual Hollywood agent.
When Ben offered the role to Tom Cruise, Tom said yes but insisted on having the big hands and hairy arms. Kinda makes you wonder if he got the image from an actual Hollywood agent.
"It makes me uncomfortable, but it's hilarious" Thats the exact response they wanted. It's satire. We need to bring that back. People are too sensitive.
I couldn't agree more. It's like everyone has skin thinner than paper these days. People forgot how to let things roll of their backs without being bothered for some reason. I miss the days when you could make a movie like this and only offend the prudes.
It's so simple and short, but one of the funniest scenes in the movie to me is when Maria Menounos does the news reporting and drops the "Can Speendman muh-muh-make..." 😂
Cool thing about Tom Cruise, he came up with his character and modeled it after a studio head at Paramount. And insisted on a dance routine at the end of the movie. Tom was all in in being unrecognizable(his well known face and hair) changed to look nothing like tom.
So long as it's punching up, it's fine. They're making fun of the method actor for trying to be as realistic as possible. The joke is on Robert Downey Jr.'s character. I think most people understand this and aren't offended.
@neil2444 Exactly. This is satire on Hollywood and all the ridiculous personalities and stereotypes that run through it. Your washed up action star who took too many roles (Nicholas Cage), your "method actor" Who takes things ridiculously far (Jared Leto), etc...
"I was actually trying to ride Tobey as we were filming this. He was having none of it. Talking about being happily married." Robert Downey Jr. during the DVD commentary.
Remember, none of these actors called anyone with special needs the R word. The point is to make fun of actors. These are actors who TRY to "find" a character and TRY to be true to that character. But they are so oblivious to the real world that they just don't get it. The characters are offensive because they're oblivious and ignorant...not because they're bigoted. But the overall point of the movie is that it's actors making fun of actors and acting.
This movie is the last bastion of comedy. Good that Ben stiller didn't apologize when he was being pressured by the "group". This movie is the definition of "no pulled punches"
This movie was just actors and directors making fun of Hollywood actors and directors. They never took themselves too seriously, but made fun of the drug problems, the cultural appropriation, the total disconnect some producers have, and the idiocy of some actors. This was Hollywood making fun of Hollywood and I'm here for it.
One advantage of being old is not even thinking twice at laughing my ass off at this movie and not feeling uncomfortable at all in any of the so called inappropriate scenes. Must be miserable for people to not be sure when you can laugh at certain things.
@@falxonPSN It's the problem we have in society at this point in time. Everybody is so concerned about everybody's feelings and getting cancelled, all joy is taken out of everything. I believe you can laugh at the joke and not at the person or condition. Sorry, but too many snowflakes these days. I grew up in a very non-'politically-correct' time, had jokes made about me, and jokes about everybody I knew, and we all survived without being traumatized. We just laughed, fired one back and we all stayed friends. Jokes are jokes, not life defining statements.
In regards to why they didn't cast people similar to their characters, the whole purpose of acting (and what most actors enjoy as a challenge) is to become someone other than yourself. The greater the difference, the greater the challenge, and the more respect you get from your peers if you pull it off. Just never go full r-word.
i think we give to much power to a vocal minority, this is comedy, its funny, and there is no harm, we should not be afraid to make content that may offend someone, we are free to do so, they are free to not like it, and we go about our lives, so yes we can make this film again today
I just wonder if a studio would be willing to put up millions of dollars to make a movie like this these days. Maybe it would be smaller budget and go straight to streaming
@@CristyReacts movies like Deadpool, which took a risk rated r profited massively by respecting fans and not holding back, so maybe we are at a turning point where studios will take more risks
True, a movie like this can be made in today's world. But it can't be made without massive backlash and controversy, and it probably wouldn't be as successful as it was in 2008.
As a black man, I could tell you right now that about 90% of the black community found this movie hilarious. No reason to feel uncomfortable. The whole purpose of it was a commentary. How far some at the actors will go for a role. how studios will hire a white actor over a black actor to lead a movie. and as Tom Cruise’s character, how ridiculous outrageous some producers can be. If you look up some clips, Tom Cruise will tell you why he decided to look like that and then he really does know someone like that in Hollywood. it’s a hilarious satire on acting and producing and making movies in Hollywood. It’s brilliant. Watch it again this time don’t be. Uncomfortable. Just have fun with it.
@@CristyReacts by the way, funny sidenote. At one of the MTV awards if you look it up, you can find it. Tom Cruise dressed up as that character did a dance routine with Jennifer Lopez.
@@NataliePine it was used by the left first to describe themselves so it is incorrect to say only the right uses it. The left is embarrassed by the stupidity of it now so now the lefts standard answer is it doesn’t exist and the right uses it to describe something they don’t like. It’s the lefts current script. They all say it lol.
When Ben asked Tom to do the part, Tom insisted he dance and have big hands. Ben didn't understand until Tom sent him a video of him doing Les. After that Ben was on board with it.
Ben didn't ask him to do the part, he asked him to read the script. Which Tom did and his advice was that there needed to be a studio head putting pressure on the movie and came up with the idea of Les Grossman. At least that's what I understand.
Yes this movie could be made today. It would be hilarious people would go see it and love it and laugh like they did this movie and then we'd have a bunch of ridiculous people protesting and pretending that their feelings have been hurt!! There is a way greater number of people that just need to just go on with our lives make movies like this and enjoy them. There's a whole generation of people that can't take words and I'm so glad I grew up in the 1970s when anyone could be made fun of and everyone would laugh and there would be no animosity and everyone would go on with their lives!!
Great Reaction Cristy like always, this movie is EPIC, love it. The characters in this movie are basically parodies of actual people in Hollywood. The action star, the warshed up comedy star, the extreme method actor, etc. This movie is a satirical take on Hollywood and I love it! The main point a lot of people miss with Robert Downey Jr.'s "Full R****d" speech is how Hollywood tends to treat acting rolls that involve the handicapped and LGBTIQA+. You might've noticed in the pictures at the end that's what every actor other than Ben Stiller was nominated for before Kirk announced the winner. The only people mad about this are this new generation who are mad at literally everything. Theyre constantly mad at comedians and actively boycotting them wherever and whenever they can, then ignoring people who say things and actually mean it. There are very few movies like this, for obvious reasons. Mel Brooks is the only other director I can think of who satirizes Hollywood, although he does it with more affection. When Tom Cruise was asked to star in this movie, he only had 2 conditions. He wanted to dance and wear a fat suit with big hands, and Ben Stiller said "sure". Also roughly 3/4 of the character Les Grossman was improvised by Tom Cruise! Fun fact. Just like he said in the film, RDJ stayed in character as Lincoln Osirus for the dvd commentary of this movie! Its fucking hilarious! Keep up the good work.
As a black male, don't be bothered by RDJ in blackface. It is pure satire. It's a visual commentary on how beyond ridiculous Hollywood studios and actors have been in the past. Historically White actors have been cast and played Black, Asian, Indian, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic/Latin characters and played up over-the-top stereotypes instead of writing and playing these characters with dignity.
There is a mockumentary about the making of the movie about the making of the movie based on the book. Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness ua-cam.com/video/7UCEcgvDuLo/v-deo.html
Robert downey Jr Was asked recently if he thinks you could make a movie like this today and His reaction was "well you could" and then chuckled nervously lol
I think it could be made today. Most intelligent people know the difference between satire that points out racism in society and something that’s actually racist. Plus, the Borat sequel only came out 4 years ago, so any argument that we can’t make controversial comedy anymore is invalid.
36:30...Oh come on! If they'd cast an actor who actually looked like Les Grossman rather than put tons of make-up on Tom Cruise then they would have taken away the huge amount of f*ck me's felt by the audience when they finally realised who it really was...which was a load of fun.
This is a movie. In which we are watching a movie about a bunch of actors attempting to make a movie of a war mission, only to get into some real war type stuff. And some of them think it's still a movie. The meta inception is crazy
7:45 - it's actually reference to Platoon and iconic shot (pun intended) with Willem Dafoe (so iconic that this moment often placed on the cover for the film heh) 28:25 - "I am home" - it's from "Apocalypse Now"))
I’m sure you go to work & tell offensive jokes all the time, eh? I think people are way too uptight about swearing (they’re just WORDS, right), yet I respect people’s rights & don’t cuss like a sailor everywhere I go. I’m tired of people getting upset for being held accountable for their horrible views towards other groups of people. You have free speech & others are free to tell you they think you’re an a-h*le.
Jay Baruchel (Sandusky) played the lead in another great comedy that maybe wouldn't be made today, called This Is The End (2013). Danny McBride (Cody) is also in that movie. 😊
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It really isnt controversial. everyone who watched the movie recognize it is not someone playing blackface, it is making fun of method actors who go overboard.
@@CristyReacts have you considered alternative platforms like Rumble, they don't derank your content for naughty words and I would love to see more non-political content on the site so I can use less UA-cam
This is one of the last great comedies ever made. This movie is a complete knock on hollywood stereotypes including method actors…aka RDJ in blackface. You could never make a movie like this today because everyone is offended by everything and doesn’t know how to just sit back and laugh for a couple hours.
The only thing this movie makes me feel is just gut bust’n laughter. 😂 There wasn’t controversy when this movie came out. We get the comedy, the jokes.
I didn't care for this movie at first (wasn't offended, just felt "meh"), but it has grown on me more over time. Also, English is my first language and I can hear fine still, but I use subtitles all the time, and have since I was a teen. I watch a lot of foreign stuff, in languages I do and don't understand (varying degrees), but ALSO, I just like having it as a backup in case I miss a word or line of dialogue. I can rely on two senses instead of one, and not have to rewind lol.
The RDJ character is poking fun at extreme method actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Vincent D’Onofrio & Christian Bale who undergo radical and dangerous physical and mental transformations to play characters for films meant as Oscar bait.
I think that the black face works, at least in this movie for me, because there is a black guy in the movie calling bullshit on RDJ’s character every chance he gets, but that’s just how I see it. It was heroin.
That's exactly why the blackface works. Alpa Chino is always there to call out how ridiculous Kirk is being (what do you mean you people, and for 400 years that word has kept us down)
RDJ wouldn't have gotten away with playing a black man. He's playing an ACTOR who's playing a black man. It's a one-time gag though. Nobody will get away with it again
Yeah, this movie wasn't controversial at all when it came out. Somewhere in the last 10-15 years, certain groups of people decided to be outraged over everything. Mostly fake outrage thats spread like a virus 😂
Some people seem to get offended by anything and everything these days. This movie came out during an era when people weren't offended by anything for the most part. Not gonna lie, I miss those days.
Anyone complaining about Subtitles should just not use them when THEY watch a movie. Guaranteed they don't watch movies that aren't in English, which already shows how limited their opinions are. You do you!
RDJ gets most of the credit, but Ben Stiller wrote the character, so I think he deserves jsut as much credit as Downey for the charcter of Kirk Lazarus/"Lincoln Osiris." Stiller and Downey got the joke, and put an actual black person (Brandon Jackson, who's also funny and relatable) in the group to be the actual character who's looking at him and going "Bruh, SERIOUSLY?!" That's why it's funny: it takes a very controversial concept, turns it on its ear for the sake of making it absurdly satirical, and it WORKS without offending anyone in the process in spite of the subject matter!
The "never go full r-----" scene was never about making fun of anyone handicapped, but strictly about making mocking the Hollywood film industry, as the whole movie does. And as far as RDJ's peformance. It was highly praised, laughed at all over (yes, black people found it hysterical too), and even got an Academy Award nomination.
This movie could never be made today. Just goes to show you how crazy our world has gone. This goes to show you comedy is comedy and people need to lighten up. Not everything is racist, offensive, or bigoted. Comedy is funny
Is it OK for RDJ to play a black man in a movie, well I give you Eddie Murphy in Coming to America, and in A Vampire in Brooklyn. 😂😂😂 Wait, he also played Richard Simmons in The Nutty Professor.
@@CristyReacts you owe it to yourself to watch Coming to America, and try and see how many characters Eddie Murphy plays. Tropic Thunder is funny, we gotta stop making EVERYTHING racial, bigoted, and negative. By the way I'm a 49 year old BLACK MAN that wants America to be great again. 😂
I agree that Tropic Thunder is funny! I don't know why some people are pretending like I didn't find it funny or I was offended by it. Yes the humor was shocking at first but I laughed a lot and loved the movie!
Dude that's exactly the problem, it is totally inconsistent! I've had videos demonetized for a tiny swear I forgot to mute, and other videos (like early Sopranos reactions) where there's a LOT of swearing and violence yet the video remains monetized. Because of this inconsistency I'd rather be safe than sorry!
This is a parody of Hollywood. Satire of the industry. Took parts of platoon, saving private Ryan, the deer hunter, apocalypse now, mission impossible, Indiana jones, full metal jacket etc.
1:20-1:25 Cristy: "With like a war hat." Me: "Oh, this is going to be interesting." [BTW. Nyet, is no. It's one of the few non-English languages I know much of. Zero would be Nol, Nothing would be Nichego (transliterated from the Russian Cyrillic. I don't have a keyboard config on my computer to manage it) zero or nimic would be the corresponding words in Romana if that helps any] I can't subscribe. To do so, I would have to unsubscribe, and I don't want to do that.
I don’t get why the younger generation is so traumatized by the “r*tarded” word. 😂. It’s a common insult. The only time I’d have an issue with it is if were used on a person with Down syndrome. But having a fit every time it’s used is just ridiculous.
The ill-fated director is played by the hilarious Steve Coogan. I wish he got to be in the movie more, as he's so funny when melting down over a spiralling production. Check him out in Hamlet 2 (yes, it's about a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet 😅)
Yes this movie could be made today. Blackface was just as controversial back then as is now. That's why the joke about an out of touch actor doing it anyway works.
How long have you been studying and speaking English? I was actually surprised the first time I heard you speak Spanish. You sound so fluent and accent-free, I assumed English was your first language.
RDJ is amazing in this and has my two favourite lines in the movie, "suck my unit" and "I'm a lead farmer, mother******." A couple of other great performances by him that nobody ever reacts to are Natural Born Killers and A Scanner Darkly.
Hey friends! I did find parts of Tropic Thunder a little shocking at first, but as you can see I actually laughed a lot and LOVED the movie. What a brilliant comedy!
I did have to censor certain words in the film just to keep the video from being demonetized (because UA-cam is very finicky about that stuff). Some people are weirdly angry about this. If that's you, sorry! I hope your day improves!
Maybe join us in the comments as we celebrate this brilliant piece of satire :)
@@CristyReacts It’s all good, I still watched and enjoyed the reaction anyway, regardless of the minor censoring.
@Christy Nope it would never be made today and that is our loss as comedy should have NO LIMITS. Was a treat to see you fall in love with it
Tip interesante Stiller, quien intentó participar en Platoon de 1986 una gran película de guerra, pero no fue elegido para el papel, ha comentado que Tropic Thunder fue su manera de hacer una sátira catártica para él de como burlarse de la manera más epica de ese rechazo de hecho la escena cuando le disparan multiple times es tal cual una burla a una escena de platoon super famosa, reflejando tanto sus experiencias personales como las absurdidades de la industria del cine, especialmente en el contexto de las películas bélicas, es parte de la cultura es un antes y un después Tropic Thunder, rayó los limites cancelables y no sabemos como sobrevivió y hasta fue aceptado y apoyado por la comunidad que pudo haber sido mega cancelado en ese entonces. Una película brillante y con trasfondo,
Thanks so much for the opportunity to choose a movie! That was incredible to watch. I cannot imagine watching that movie without knowing what it was. Loved the reaction from the laughter and dismay to the panda sadness and trailer confusion. Your reactions are the best. - Deric
😄👍 I just want to take this opportunity to warn you about something...If you don't like movies where one actor plays multiple roles, then I would strongly advise against watching any of the three Monty Python films. The same for the 1988 Eddie Murphy vehicle, "Coming To America." 😉
"We couldn't make it back then, either. But we did and made a lot of money."
-Mel Brooks on _Blazing Saddles_ not being able to be made today
The only movie I've heard of that "couldn't be made" was Life of Brian, it got banned in a couple of countries because of blasphemy laws.
These days there is almost nothing you can't put in a movie. You just can't expect a studio to put up hundreds of millions of dollars for a Space Movie 1992 remake.
Some of the best comedies push boundaries at that very moment they are made but are committed to doing so not to punch down and withstand the test of time and changing attitudes. As opposed to comedies based on meanspiritedness and ignorance. I'd say both Blazing Saddles and Tropic Thunder fit in the former.
Being “cancelled” is largely a myth. Things aren’t as off limits as conservatives and the elderly would like you to think. Free speech didn’t go anywhere.
@@boretrk
Um, Life of Brian was not banned before it was made.....and they cannot ban the making of the film.
Those places banned the RELEASE of the film after it was made.
ANy movie can be made, as long as the artist is willing enough to take the criticism that will come with it, if it is controversial.
Blazing saddle should be next to watch.
Or really go to the deep end according 2024 standards maybe some dirty Harry.
I've never seen or heard about anyone who were/are offended of RDJ's blackface..
And RDJ doesn't even play a black man, he is playing a white man playing a black man 😀
Great way to go about it IMO!
The whole purpose was to satirize some of the ridiculous lengths taken by method actors. A white American playing a white Aussie who underwent pigment augmentation to portray a Vietnam era black American. Totally ridiculous. I have also never met a single person who didn’t get the joke or found it offensive.
Yeah, it wasn't a jab at black folks. It was a jab at method actors. lol
If I recall correctly, RDJ was seriously concerned about whether or not audiences would get the joke. It was fine of course, but I can see why he might hesitate.
I love this movie too.
"Why is he still in character?" - RDJ said he doesn't break character until he's finished the commentary lol And he did the commentary for the movie while still in character :D
AMAZING hahaha I love that
@@CristyReacts He even took it a step further and switched to the Australian character in the commentary when he does in the movie at the end.
I've heard that commentary from the DVD, it is HILARIOUS!
"For 400 years.. that word.. has kept us down."
bruuuuuuuuuuuuh
And she was so uncomfortable that she proceeded to talk about jungles and mountains 🤣🤣
One of my favorite scenes is Jon Voights reaction to not winning the award😂
He was so mad
so us black folks were not offended at all by RDJ playing black face... main reason,, that shit was hilarious... lmao.. every scene in this movie is straight comedy.. every person that has a line is hilarious... great reaction
Funny enough the people who are mostly offended with RDJ doing that are white people. It's so weird.
No, it was never controversial. RDJ was even nominated for Oscar for this role.
Yes Ben Stiller took all the heat for the "Simple Jack" character he played in the movie.
because it isn't blackface lol it's like no one knows what blackface is when they say that
Yup. He lost to heath ledger as tbe joker. Probably the only Oscar fact i knw lol
@@deek60819I mean… I feel like you’re splitting hairs. He isn’t full minstrel-show, but it’s still blackface. This movie gets away with it because they’re aware of how ridiculous the character is being for wearing it
@@marquisdesade3025 I mean, the point is that RDJ isn't in blackface *AS RDJ.* He's playing an Australian actor (Kirk Lazarus) who believes (somehow) that he's the perfect person to portray a black American soldier in the Vietnam War. *That guy is in blackface (and no, I don't think this is a distinction without a difference - the difference here is quite striking).* That's why the film got perhaps the only "pass" in modern cinema for such an inflammatory feature - Lazarus's actions are part of the story...they're essential to understanding the point of the movie (that the culture in Hollywood is so far removed from the values of modern society, and that the people who are essential to keeping the industry profitable, be they A-list actors or sleazy financiers, can get away with basically anything because nobody will ever tell them "no"). You couldn't exactly tell this story without showing a white guy in blackface, or a neurotypical guy playing someone with an intellectual disability ("Simple Jack" being illustrative of the point that Lazarus actually does understand that there are some lines that you don't cross, if not for ethical reasons, then certainly for artistic reasons...he is just too wrapped up in his own BS to see that he's being a hypocrite). The last thing any viewer with half a brain cell will take away from this movie is that blackface is okay.
This movie is Hollywood satire at its finest! 🏆
When Ben offered the role to Tom Cruise, Tom said yes but insisted on having the big hands and hairy arms. Kinda makes you wonder if he got the image from an actual Hollywood agent.
When Ben offered the role to Tom Cruise, Tom said yes but insisted on having the big hands and hairy arms. Kinda makes you wonder if he got the image from an actual Hollywood agent.
"It makes me uncomfortable, but it's hilarious" Thats the exact response they wanted. It's satire. We need to bring that back. People are too sensitive.
Sounds like I had the correct reaction!
I couldn't agree more. It's like everyone has skin thinner than paper these days. People forgot how to let things roll of their backs without being bothered for some reason. I miss the days when you could make a movie like this and only offend the prudes.
Robert Downey Jr.’s role is a perfect example of satire. very well written.
Nobody black was offended RDJ was brilliant and hilarious as the over-the-top method actor.
Exactly because RDJ wasn’t doing blackface, Kirk Lazarus was and it’s making fun of people who go over the top
Nobody at the time…they eventually did try to “ cancel him” but he refused to apologize and the other actors involved all said it was not an issue.
@@emanymton713 theirs always going to be people that didn’t like something that doesn’t mean you’re getting “cancelled” 🙄
@@freeportkid no ,they for a time we’re actively trying to destroy RDJ comeback career.
@@freeportkidexactly. It used to be called “bad press”. Now it’s a conspiracy.
It's so simple and short, but one of the funniest scenes in the movie to me is when Maria Menounos does the news reporting and drops the "Can Speendman muh-muh-make..." 😂
Cool thing about Tom Cruise, he came up with his character and modeled it after a studio head at Paramount. And insisted on a dance routine at the end of the movie. Tom was all in in being unrecognizable(his well known face and hair) changed to look nothing like tom.
You shouldn't even ask, "Is that ok?"
It's comedy. Comedy at It's most absurd.
So long as it's punching up, it's fine. They're making fun of the method actor for trying to be as realistic as possible. The joke is on Robert Downey Jr.'s character. I think most people understand this and aren't offended.
@neil2444 Exactly. This is satire on Hollywood and all the ridiculous personalities and stereotypes that run through it. Your washed up action star who took too many roles (Nicholas Cage), your "method actor" Who takes things ridiculously far (Jared Leto), etc...
"I was actually trying to ride Tobey as we were filming this. He was having none of it. Talking about being happily married."
Robert Downey Jr. during the DVD commentary.
Remember, none of these actors called anyone with special needs the R word. The point is to make fun of actors. These are actors who TRY to "find" a character and TRY to be true to that character. But they are so oblivious to the real world that they just don't get it. The characters are offensive because they're oblivious and ignorant...not because they're bigoted. But the overall point of the movie is that it's actors making fun of actors and acting.
Yep I get it! It was a little harsh because I'm not used to hearing the word so much but I got what they were going for
For a Brit, the most offensive thing in this film is hearing an American call David Beckham "Dave Beckham" 😭
Deadpool fixed it. You ever hear David Beckham speak?
"No idea what i am walking into"
The best quote to give before starting this gem of a comedy 😁
I really had NO IDEA lol
Columbian girl: that doesn't look like coke 🤣
Colombian*
@@CristyReacts my bad😅
This movie is the last bastion of comedy. Good that Ben stiller didn't apologize when he was being pressured by the "group". This movie is the definition of "no pulled punches"
2008 was the beginning of a whole new career for RDJ, because Ben Stiller and Jon Favreau took a chance on him!
What a comeback!
Watch black people react to this movie! Priceless!!!! Might get others to relax a little.
This movie was just actors and directors making fun of Hollywood actors and directors. They never took themselves too seriously, but made fun of the drug problems, the cultural appropriation, the total disconnect some producers have, and the idiocy of some actors. This was Hollywood making fun of Hollywood and I'm here for it.
1:27...'A war hat, uniform & face paint' ...this is gonna be excellent! 😊
One advantage of being old is not even thinking twice at laughing my ass off at this movie and not feeling uncomfortable at all in any of the so called inappropriate scenes. Must be miserable for people to not be sure when you can laugh at certain things.
I'm right there with you.
Same
It’s not miserable at all actually, I just err in the side of caution and not laugh at anything ever.
When the point to something is to parody something else, I don't see how people get nervous about laughing at it.
@@falxonPSN It's the problem we have in society at this point in time. Everybody is so concerned about everybody's feelings and getting cancelled, all joy is taken out of everything. I believe you can laugh at the joke and not at the person or condition. Sorry, but too many snowflakes these days. I grew up in a very non-'politically-correct' time, had jokes made about me, and jokes about everybody I knew, and we all survived without being traumatized. We just laughed, fired one back and we all stayed friends. Jokes are jokes, not life defining statements.
It's interesting how cultural satire makes us more uncomfortable than violence and gore parody.
It is, actually!
In regards to why they didn't cast people similar to their characters, the whole purpose of acting (and what most actors enjoy as a challenge) is to become someone other than yourself. The greater the difference, the greater the challenge, and the more respect you get from your peers if you pull it off. Just never go full r-word.
i think we give to much power to a vocal minority, this is comedy, its funny, and there is no harm, we should not be afraid to make content that may offend someone, we are free to do so, they are free to not like it, and we go about our lives, so yes we can make this film again today
I just wonder if a studio would be willing to put up millions of dollars to make a movie like this these days. Maybe it would be smaller budget and go straight to streaming
@@CristyReacts movies like Deadpool, which took a risk rated r profited massively by respecting fans and not holding back, so maybe we are at a turning point where studios will take more risks
True, a movie like this can be made in today's world. But it can't be made without massive backlash and controversy, and it probably wouldn't be as successful as it was in 2008.
The jaw thing is a clear indication of drug usage? "Where'd you learn that, Cheech? "Drug school"?"
As a black man, I could tell you right now that about 90% of the black community found this movie hilarious. No reason to feel uncomfortable. The whole purpose of it was a commentary. How far some at the actors will go for a role. how studios will hire a white actor over a black actor to lead a movie. and as Tom Cruise’s character, how ridiculous outrageous some producers can be. If you look up some clips, Tom Cruise will tell you why he decided to look like that and then he really does know someone like that in Hollywood. it’s a hilarious satire on acting and producing and making movies in Hollywood. It’s brilliant. Watch it again this time don’t be. Uncomfortable. Just have fun with it.
I did have fun with it! Just had to work through that initial shock haha
@@CristyReacts by the way, funny sidenote. At one of the MTV awards if you look it up, you can find it. Tom Cruise dressed up as that character did a dance routine with Jennifer Lopez.
As Mel Brooks said, "It doesn't have to be good taste to be funny." There are no woke comedies.
yeah, because that doesn't exist. Its only a word used by the right to describe something they don't like.
@@joseherrera8489the left invented the word so nice try.
@@deanrotering879They didn't say it was invented by the right, they said it's only used by the right, and that's true.
@@NataliePine it was used by the left first to describe themselves so it is incorrect to say only the right uses it. The left is embarrassed by the stupidity of it now so now the lefts standard answer is it doesn’t exist and the right uses it to describe something they don’t like. It’s the lefts current script. They all say it lol.
Oh boy
24:46 RDJ broke character a bit right here and almost started laughing.
When Ben asked Tom to do the part, Tom insisted he dance and have big hands. Ben didn't understand until Tom sent him a video of him doing Les. After that Ben was on board with it.
Ben didn't ask him to do the part, he asked him to read the script. Which Tom did and his advice was that there needed to be a studio head putting pressure on the movie and came up with the idea of Les Grossman. At least that's what I understand.
Yes this movie could be made today. It would be hilarious people would go see it and love it and laugh like they did this movie and then we'd have a bunch of ridiculous people protesting and pretending that their feelings have been hurt!! There is a way greater number of people that just need to just go on with our lives make movies like this and enjoy them. There's a whole generation of people that can't take words and I'm so glad I grew up in the 1970s when anyone could be made fun of and everyone would laugh and there would be no animosity and everyone would go on with their lives!!
Great Reaction Cristy like always, this movie is EPIC, love it. The characters in this movie are basically parodies of actual people in Hollywood. The action star, the warshed up comedy star, the extreme method actor, etc. This movie is a satirical take on Hollywood and I love it! The main point a lot of people miss with Robert Downey Jr.'s "Full R****d" speech is how Hollywood tends to treat acting rolls that involve the handicapped and LGBTIQA+. You might've noticed in the pictures at the end that's what every actor other than Ben Stiller was nominated for before Kirk announced the winner. The only people mad about this are this new generation who are mad at literally everything. Theyre constantly mad at comedians and actively boycotting them wherever and whenever they can, then ignoring people who say things and actually mean it. There are very few movies like this, for obvious reasons. Mel Brooks is the only other director I can think of who satirizes Hollywood, although he does it with more affection.
When Tom Cruise was asked to star in this movie, he only had 2 conditions. He wanted to dance and wear a fat suit with big hands, and Ben Stiller said "sure". Also roughly 3/4 of the character Les Grossman was improvised by Tom Cruise! Fun fact. Just like he said in the film, RDJ stayed in character as Lincoln Osirus for the dvd commentary of this movie! Its fucking hilarious! Keep up the good work.
Love to hear that about Tom Cruise lol
bro the 'new generation' aren't the upset ones lmao it's the boomers who are snowflakes about this pointless shit
@@deek60819 Exactly wrong.. in every way, wrong. There was little to no backlash about this movie until the past 10 years or so.
@@OUsniper1 By "backlash" you mean a few randos on Twitter didn't like it?
Other than that there's literally been zero backlash.
As a black male, don't be bothered by RDJ in blackface. It is pure satire. It's a visual commentary on how beyond ridiculous Hollywood studios and actors have been in the past. Historically White actors have been cast and played Black, Asian, Indian, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic/Latin characters and played up over-the-top stereotypes instead of writing and playing these characters with dignity.
Exactly this. And this is so obvious, it makes me wonder how some perople don't get it.
True!
Take Sir Ben Kingsley for instance. He is Indian but he played a Jew in "Schindler's List".
People often make a lot of fuss about nothing.
Jungles, while beautiful, will kill you in a million ways.
Oh for sure!
Rumor has it, the makeup decisions for Tom Cruise's character were all his and it was actually a condition they did all that makeup on him
There is a mockumentary about the making of the movie about the making of the movie based on the book.
Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness
ua-cam.com/video/7UCEcgvDuLo/v-deo.html
Robert downey Jr Was asked recently if he thinks you could make a movie like this today and His reaction was "well you could" and then chuckled nervously lol
"It makes me a little uncomfortable, but it's hilarious"
Pro tip: Some comedy is SUPPOSED to make you uncomfortable.
Sounds like it worked!
One of my favorite (and under-appreciated) things about this movie is Matthew McConaughey's ringtone
I think it could be made today. Most intelligent people know the difference between satire that points out racism in society and something that’s actually racist.
Plus, the Borat sequel only came out 4 years ago, so any argument that we can’t make controversial comedy anymore is invalid.
Ooh, I need to watch that!
36:30...Oh come on! If they'd cast an actor who actually looked like Les Grossman rather than put tons of make-up on Tom Cruise then they would have taken away the huge amount of f*ck me's felt by the audience when they finally realised who it really was...which was a load of fun.
Great point
@@CristyReacts 👍
The only issue I've heard about this movie was Simple Jack...RDJ grabbing the map made me think of how my black friends in the Army would act...
This is a movie. In which we are watching a movie about a bunch of actors attempting to make a movie of a war mission, only to get into some real war type stuff. And some of them think it's still a movie. The meta inception is crazy
7:45 - it's actually reference to Platoon and iconic shot (pun intended) with Willem Dafoe (so iconic that this moment often placed on the cover for the film heh)
28:25 - "I am home" - it's from "Apocalypse Now"))
I hate how everyone is afraid of WORDS now..... :( The age of fun is officially over. Welcome to the age of youtube monetization rules. Yaaay.....
I’m sure you go to work & tell offensive jokes all the time, eh?
I think people are way too uptight about swearing (they’re just WORDS, right), yet I respect people’s rights & don’t cuss like a sailor everywhere I go.
I’m tired of people getting upset for being held accountable for their horrible views towards other groups of people. You have free speech & others are free to tell you they think you’re an a-h*le.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 This is exactly what I'm talking about. You don't even have the balls to call me an ASSHOLE. So pathetic.
Jay Baruchel (Sandusky) played the lead in another great comedy that maybe wouldn't be made today, called This Is The End (2013). Danny McBride (Cody) is also in that movie. 😊
I saw this in theaters when i was 10 and i did not realize the whole movie that it was RDJ or Tom Cruise 😂
What a pick. That patron is a real one.
The future of your channel is in MY HANDS!??
i don't need this pressure right now...
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I enjoyed this movie Robert Downey Jr.‘s character being such an extreme method actor he even altered his skin pigmentation.
Deserts with mountains in the background are breathtaking.
"gimme the GD map"😂😂😂😂 gets me everytime
"Spit that 💩 out!" 🥴
RDJ crushes the little moments.
It really isnt controversial. everyone who watched the movie recognize it is not someone playing blackface, it is making fun of method actors who go overboard.
RDJ was nominated for an oscar with this movie
Well deserved!
I like the fact that you say, " Oh my God!" instead of "Oh my gosh!"
This is a classic!!! The more u watch it the more u like it😂😅
16:30 Words should NEVER be censored, censorship is evil, it restricts free expression.
The alternative is not making the video at all, so 🤷♀️
@@CristyReacts have you considered alternative platforms like Rumble, they don't derank your content for naughty words and I would love to see more non-political content on the site so I can use less UA-cam
This is one of the last great comedies ever made. This movie is a complete knock on hollywood stereotypes including method actors…aka RDJ in blackface. You could never make a movie like this today because everyone is offended by everything and doesn’t know how to just sit back and laugh for a couple hours.
Come back to reality, the world is not a Ben Shapiro UA-cam video.
They can't even turn a 200 year old fairy tale without people going apeshit.
21:56 deserts suck?
Time to watch Lawrence of Arabia!
The only thing this movie makes me feel is just gut bust’n laughter. 😂
There wasn’t controversy when this movie came out. We get the comedy, the jokes.
That's good!
At the time, many people did not recognize Tom Cruise until the end credits.
RDJ actually does the real dvd commentary in the black character.. shit was hilarious. you should check it out.. your gonna laugh damn near the same
I wanna hear that!
@@CristyReacts you might be able to find it on UA-cam.
hope the patron is more raw. Its a movie and a satire and your not running for office so we just hanging out in Christy digital space chillin
Wait how do you know I'm not running for office?
I didn't care for this movie at first (wasn't offended, just felt "meh"), but it has grown on me more over time. Also, English is my first language and I can hear fine still, but I use subtitles all the time, and have since I was a teen. I watch a lot of foreign stuff, in languages I do and don't understand (varying degrees), but ALSO, I just like having it as a backup in case I miss a word or line of dialogue. I can rely on two senses instead of one, and not have to rewind lol.
I love my subtitles
I hope you are in the right kind of mood for this movie. First time I watched it was about as close as I've ever came to peeing my pants laughing 🤣
Robert Downey Jr was nominated for an Oscar for this, he lost to Heath Ledger as the Joker...
White face keeping the black face down.
Same old story.
A Panda is still a bear and while it may not eat you it can still mess your day up if it chose to 😂
Wait is this true? I thought they were totally harmless
@@CristyReacts usually, they are, but they still have bear strength, so they can mess you up if provoked lol
Tom insisted on the fat suite and fat hands and he wanted to dance.
If you like this movie you should watch: Tropic Thunder Rain of madness.
They made a "documentary" about it 😅
Is that a full movie?
Worst thing about censorship is *******
😂😂
The RDJ character is poking fun at extreme method actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Vincent D’Onofrio & Christian Bale who undergo radical and dangerous physical and mental transformations to play characters for films meant as Oscar bait.
Because it wouldn't have been funny just to have a random bald chubby guy being the producer instead of Tom Cruise.
I think that the black face works, at least in this movie for me, because there is a black guy in the movie calling bullshit on RDJ’s character every chance he gets, but that’s just how I see it.
It was heroin.
That's exactly why the blackface works. Alpa Chino is always there to call out how ridiculous Kirk is being (what do you mean you people, and for 400 years that word has kept us down)
RDJ wouldn't have gotten away with playing a black man. He's playing an ACTOR who's playing a black man. It's a one-time gag though. Nobody will get away with it again
Ironic that most black people don't find this offensive at all.
Yeah, this movie wasn't controversial at all when it came out. Somewhere in the last 10-15 years, certain groups of people decided to be outraged over everything. Mostly fake outrage thats spread like a virus 😂
So true, it's only a fairly recent phenomenon that stuff, no one even worried about getting offended at stuff like this when it come out.
Some people seem to get offended by anything and everything these days. This movie came out during an era when people weren't offended by anything for the most part. Not gonna lie, I miss those days.
Anyone complaining about Subtitles should just not use them when THEY watch a movie. Guaranteed they don't watch movies that aren't in English, which already shows how limited their opinions are. You do you!
If we're being technical, RDJ wasn't in blackface. Changing pigmentation is a different idea lol
Unfortunately I had several years with coke and depending on what it's cut with can change the color. Won't go into details though.
RDJ gets most of the credit, but Ben Stiller wrote the character, so I think he deserves jsut as much credit as Downey for the charcter of Kirk Lazarus/"Lincoln Osiris." Stiller and Downey got the joke, and put an actual black person (Brandon Jackson, who's also funny and relatable) in the group to be the actual character who's looking at him and going "Bruh, SERIOUSLY?!" That's why it's funny: it takes a very controversial concept, turns it on its ear for the sake of making it absurdly satirical, and it WORKS without offending anyone in the process in spite of the subject matter!
The "never go full r-----" scene was never about making fun of anyone handicapped, but strictly about making mocking the Hollywood film industry, as the whole movie does.
And as far as RDJ's peformance. It was highly praised, laughed at all over (yes, black people found it hysterical too), and even got an Academy Award nomination.
people are way too easily offended and triggered.
I know, right? I mean look at comments like this one
This movie could never be made today. Just goes to show you how crazy our world has gone. This goes to show you comedy is comedy and people need to lighten up. Not everything is racist, offensive, or bigoted. Comedy is funny
Is it OK for RDJ to play a black man in a movie, well I give you Eddie Murphy in Coming to America, and in A Vampire in Brooklyn. 😂😂😂
Wait, he also played Richard Simmons in The Nutty Professor.
I actually haven't seen those movies!
@@CristyReacts you owe it to yourself to watch Coming to America, and try and see how many characters Eddie Murphy plays. Tropic Thunder is funny, we gotta stop making EVERYTHING racial, bigoted, and negative. By the way I'm a 49 year old BLACK MAN that wants America to be great again. 😂
I agree that Tropic Thunder is funny! I don't know why some people are pretending like I didn't find it funny or I was offended by it. Yes the humor was shocking at first but I laughed a lot and loved the movie!
Here we go again...again.
I wanna watch the Scorcher movies!
@@CristyReacts no can do...the kids aren't dressing up as Scorcher for Purim anymore!!!!
dont understand why some creators swear non stop no problem and others say you can not swear is there a rating i am not seeing on you tube?
Dude that's exactly the problem, it is totally inconsistent! I've had videos demonetized for a tiny swear I forgot to mute, and other videos (like early Sopranos reactions) where there's a LOT of swearing and violence yet the video remains monetized. Because of this inconsistency I'd rather be safe than sorry!
This is a parody of Hollywood. Satire of the industry. Took parts of platoon, saving private Ryan, the deer hunter, apocalypse now, mission impossible, Indiana jones, full metal jacket etc.
Remember, RDJ didn't do blackface...he played a character doing blackface.
1:20-1:25 Cristy: "With like a war hat."
Me: "Oh, this is going to be interesting."
[BTW. Nyet, is no. It's one of the few non-English languages I know much of. Zero would be Nol, Nothing would be Nichego (transliterated from the Russian Cyrillic. I don't have a keyboard config on my computer to manage it) zero or nimic would be the corresponding words in Romana if that helps any]
I can't subscribe. To do so, I would have to unsubscribe, and I don't want to do that.
I don’t get why the younger generation is so traumatized by the “r*tarded” word. 😂. It’s a common insult. The only time I’d have an issue with it is if were used on a person with Down syndrome. But having a fit every time it’s used is just ridiculous.
Now everyone is offended by everything, everyone is a snowflake today
The ill-fated director is played by the hilarious Steve Coogan. I wish he got to be in the movie more, as he's so funny when melting down over a spiralling production. Check him out in Hamlet 2 (yes, it's about a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet 😅)
Yes this movie could be made today. Blackface was just as controversial back then as is now. That's why the joke about an out of touch actor doing it anyway works.
Solid point!
How long have you been studying and speaking English? I was actually surprised the first time I heard you speak Spanish. You sound so fluent and accent-free, I assumed English was your first language.
Is it bad that I enjoy watching younger people get really uncomfortable watching this movie? It never gets old.
Hahaha I'm glad my reaction amused you
@@CristyReacts
i enjoy all your reactions.
The Script reads me!
RDJ is amazing in this and has my two favourite lines in the movie, "suck my unit" and "I'm a lead farmer, mother******."
A couple of other great performances by him that nobody ever reacts to are Natural Born Killers and A Scanner Darkly.
NBK is why Kirk is Australian, as RDJ already had an Aussie accent ready 😉