I give Downey so much credit for his attitude about this movie. He has never apologized for any joke he made in this movie and has no plans of doing so
I mean, his entire purpose in the movie is to show why the things his character does are so inappropriate. It's like saying Christoph Waltz should apologize for playing a N*zi villain in Inglorious Basterds. As far as I know, he doesn't need to.
NOTHING is wrong with this comedic masterpiece of a movie. Satire and irony seem to be a dying breed of comedy. I know and love several of the lovely reactors. They ”get it”, and so should any thinking person.
I think my favorite reaction to this film was from Arianna, of Diegesis. It’s always felt like she’s the only person who truly really got the spirit of the film, plus she caught a lot of the 70’-80’s references, which I think many other reactors missed.
Yup, we said worse, even early millennials from the 80s. These reactors basically have to put on a front that they are offended, because how society has become. They dont wanna take heat from laughing, bet they laugh and say things when the camera isnt rolling. It is all projection
Dude, you're allowed to laugh. People buy into this myth that offensive comedy is somehow not allowed anymore, and that's bs. The people who cry and complain about it are usually people who are trying to tell jokes where BEING offensive is the point (usually right-wingers), and THAT kind of "comedy" SHOULD be shamed.
@@Kira1Lawliet And here you are... Getting offended and screaming right wing and lying or denying what's Infront of your own eyes. I don't need to guess where your heart lies politically or what color your hair is.
@@Kira1Lawlietdid you even read what you wrote? You claimed ppl are allowed to laugh at jokes in one sentence and then should be ashamed (thus implying we shouldn't laugh) about some comedy in another. What kind of drug are u on?
That's because Robert's character was the only person in the movie who thought what he was doing was okay. The object of the jokes was the movie industry.
I will never understand why people get so uncomfortable about this scene. They have the friggin context to it. The words are spoken by two self absorbed actors in this story. They themselves and Hollywood as a whole are the target of the joke. Ben Stiller even said so himself.
That’s the intention though, the joke doesn’t hit as hard if the viewer isn’t uncomfortable/isn’t aware of the discomfort the word could cause. The word is repeatedly intentionally to make you cringe or laugh at how it couldn’t be said now. It’s actually missing the context of the word rather than the scenario that would make this not funny.
@@sub-zero710 I’m glad you made it. A high school friend of mine in the 80’s deleted himself at 16. Not to mention many more friends leaving for one reason or another along the way. Not every one makes it to 60.
@@thebigmonDeleted? Why not just call suicide what it is? Eventually "deleted" will be too offensive and you'll have to replace that with somethjng else.
@VAVORiAL alright, a grammar cop can I hit you up for spell checks, too ? Remember you think I'm old, which means I don't have much going on in life and nothing but time on my hands. Chances are, I'm gonna keep responding to your nonsense.
It's sad how PC and lame everything has become. The world really could use fun comedies like Tropic Thunder, American Pie, EuroTrip, Wedding Crashers and so on.
yes its sad shit like this wont be made at least not anytime soon although i think most people are craving a good irreverant comedy Hollywood is just too scared to make one
Their parents failed to prepare them for the real world. If you cant stand up to a word, how can you expect to stand up to failing a test, losing a race, getting fired, the military, crime, or being injured. If a WORD beats you down, wait till you see what LIFE will do to you. Hope you like living indoors.
Does standing up by your definition mean applauding the use of the word or using it yourself? Most of them are both offended and laughing. Is that not an appropriate reaction?
Compared to the banter between my teenage friends and I in the late 90's this is wildly tame. You'd stroll into rollcall in the morning, slap your pal on the back & joyously greet with a "Sup ___________ !?!?!?!" 🤣😂😂
I'm glad he didn't add Natalie gold's reaction to this. She got so high up on her moral arrogant high horse judging this movie that I couldn't watch her channel anymore.
Same here. That was it for me. It is a movie, just laugh. People dont want to laugh at things that are raw because they don't want a perception about them and want to project they are moral. I'm sure everyone that did that projection while watching this has done some messed up things in their life.
I stopped watching her when I clued in that all her reactions are fake. She's already watched the movies and prepared her reactions, then pretends to be reacting spontaneously.
“Tropic Thunder” could never be made today, which is ridiculous. People really need to stop being so soft and sensitive. The characters were idiots. When idiots do idiot things, people shouldn’t be offended.
it was used as a medical term and now they changed it to "intellectual disability" so that it won't hurt other people's feelings ffs. Hell, the word "late" is called "r3tard" in french. Will you get offended by the french people with that? There are so many snowflakes in western nowadays 😂
I love how everyone is so shocked, saying this isn't ok, cancelled, etc. and yet all of them are laughing at it and they keep watching. Can they just admit that this is funny, and not worry about how offensive it may be to "some people?"
I think that’s the point though. You’re supposed to both laugh and cringe at this movie, it wouldn’t hit as hard or make its point if it didn’t have the offense factor. That’s what makes it stand out as opposed to other comedies, it’s meant to push boundaries. The movie WANTS to make the viewer uncomfortable.
This is why Vince Vaughn stated that studios are afraid to create these movies because executives feared that they would get fired seeing younger generation feeling uncomfortable with the language.........sad state of affairs!!!
All the grown people laughing their ass off because it’s funny. And watching the self righteous young people sit there stone faced seething is equally hilarious 😂
Tropic Thunder is basically our version of Blazing Saddles. It's meant to show these kinds of attitudes (including their casual use of a slur) and the movie industry in general as something to be mocked, by portraying the people doing it as being the absolute dumbest people possible.
@@theseven5359Well, at least half the reactors had either shocked or cringe reactions. The only people saying people are too sensitive are the trolls in the comments. So I don't think you have a case for that.
It's hilarious seeing people freaking out over a word. Just a clinical, descriptive word, no worse than any term they have replaced it with. As if changing words changed reality lol
@@benschultz1784 Short answer that doesn’t end up repeating itself, satirising a racist practise of Hollywood and the entertainment industry by doing said thing is in-fact uncomfortable and racist.
I grew up in the 1970s, and if anyone was mean to you, or said something to try and hurt your feelings, we had a mantra that we would tell ourselves: sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. It helped you to develop a tough skin (metaphorically speaking). People these days are far too sensitive, and get triggered on almost anything. People need to grow up and learn to roll with the punches. I can’t imagine being so angry all the time, it must be exhausting.
Brown University did a study and concluded that this is entirely false. It's more like 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names leave emotional scars that take much longer to heal, and possibly never will'.
@@rogersjgregory Data collected during 2003 - 2011, published during the pandemic. Exposure to stressors makes you more vulnerable to stressors later on. So if you're emotionally injured at an earlier point, it's a lot easier to be hurt again, and it's easier to develop mental disorders. And no, people aren't 'too sensitive', they're less willing to put up with your bullshit.
I see it as normalizing intolerance of ignorance. Instead of brushing off people who are being inappropriate, mean, etc., we are calling them out on it. It’s better that people are scared to be mean than just deciding to move on to other people who will give their attitude attention.
Right on! And I say it more if someone gets upset..because Gen X ain't pu$$ies..we like to scare younger people with it..and we got legal precedents insuring our right to say it. Offended? Shrinks can help with that low self esteem...We didn't sign up to be nice to these generations. Lol
''Playing a guy who ain't smart but thinks he is, that's tricky,'' Kevin Kline was able to pull it off to perfection in ''A Fish Called Wanda''. And he did win an Oscar for it.
I know, I think we should actually exclude as many people as possible, that way we can really get all sorts of diverse ideas in art. Elon Musk and you are geniuses, Nelson.
I think most people aren't actually offended by using the word like this. They just know that they have to ACT offended otherwise they'll get into trouble. They care too much about what other people might say. Most normal human beings can tell when it's used inoffensively and when it's used maliciously. Like every other "offensive" word.
I think it's about half and half. Many people are legitimately appalled by things like this. You can tell by the people who nervously laugh vs the ones who genuinely look shocked and irritated. Ironically, I've noticed that the folks who get easily offended are sometimes the same people who treat other people pretty horribly. Turning vicious if you don't agree with something
This was great because even at the time it was roasting Stiller's character for his choices and having his head up his butt. Layer that on top of RDJ's character doing blackface in the 2000s and it's just perfect because he's doing the same thing. It's hilarious, uncomfortable, and deeply insightful. Great mashup my friend
There’s a scene where RDJ says “I don’t stop playing a character until the DVD commentary.” And if you ever get a a chance to see the DVD commentary for this movie RDJ stays in this character throughout the whole thing…
Some are actually 'progressive' virtue signallers like the 2 Canadian reactors. All of them are conscious of how they'll look if they react too offended or laugh too hard. It's running through their heads fast....how do I react to this? Normal humans just laugh, cuz it's funny.
people mistake RDJs comment to him, never go full because it becomes less of a character and more of a caricature. Rain Man and Forrest Gump go just far enough to be believable but not as far as I Am Sam that feels like he is making fun of those like that in the audience, even if that wasnt the intention.
Just to watch every single reactor wince is priceless. This was only 16 years ago. That's amazing. I would have never dreamed in a 100 years that our morals and standards would have become so self-censored and changed so drastically. It's like we went backwards 150 years.
Funny enough, while non-malicious words have become so taboo to say, people now say some of the most vile and legitimately horrible things to one another online. We just swapped inoffensive words with actually offensive words lol
I know, I pray every night that I can say more slurs again like I used to 😢 I’m scared for this younger generation feeling so repressed, they all must want to say it so bad
It's actually easy to see how these guys who are reacting to this scene are so easily offended. For me whenever I watch this scene, I just laugh my ass off 🤣🤣🤣
Look at most of the people's reaction to the word 🙄 I hate to break it them but that was the word we were taught to use in the 80's. It was the PC way to address them during that time period. Guess what? Words we use today will be considered taboo in the future. Language evolves. To be aghast at hearing a word is silliness. Words are content. Context is what matters. In this scene the joke isn't on special needs people. It is on the 2 egomaniac actors & the Hollywood system as whole .
In Jr. High we were learning some musical notations, and one was the Italian word "ritardando", which means to gradually slow down. So of course the rest of the week, everybody went around saying, "You're a ritardando." "No, you're a ritardando." "No, YOU'RE a ritardando!"
Robert Downey, Jr. shook this scene.This piece is hilarious, regardless of the now-oh-my-goodnesses, it would receive today. It is raw humor. On purpose. =)
It’s not that hard to not say. Idk why people can’t prevent themselves from saying offensive words as if they have an innate desire to do so. Not everybody says these things even alone, cause some of us have restraint and aren’t champing at the bit to be offensive for no reason. Not the worst thing you can do obviously, but makes me wanna roll my eyes with how eager older adults are to say it like kids learning the word fuck for the first time.
Back when I was in the Air Force, they described the G-suit pilots wear to prevent from blacking out as an apparatus that “retards the flow of blood to the legs” I wonder what its been changed to today.
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 12. Thought nothing of Robert Downy Jr. with the black face paint, or them saying r*tarded. To be fair, I was young, so didn't really know much. Funny how things change over the year.
Just to adore how great this movie was the outrage over this movie at the time was them doing simple Jack. Nobody was even worried about rdj doing blackface except the characters in the movie
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It’s funny to see the younger generation being so uncomfortable with this. When it came out I saw this in the theater and nobody I knew got upset by any of it. It was just a funny movie. Saying retarded wasn’t a bad thing and a white actor dressing up as a black person wasn’t what people make it out to be now. Dan Aykroyd did it in Trading Places and nobody even talks about that. It wasn’t an unusual thing and I never saw it as them making fun of black people. It was just funny like when Eddie Murphy dressed up as a white person on several occasions which was always hilarious. People just want to drag everything into the dirt and make it into something bad.
All you guys talking about how sensitive everyone is these days have never watch American Dad or South Park. They do way more today, right now than this movie ever did.
What the hell happened to the GD world ? People afraid to use words nowadays, it's like everyone was drop on their heads at some point and now we live in bizzarro world.
The scene is hilarious and always will be to me. The reactors both laughing and cringing are hilarious. And the comments from people offended that people are offended are equally hilarious. Wish we had the internet for longer because i would love to see the comparison comments from history "these kids today getting all offended by the N word". 😂
This film is an examination of the difference between the dubject of a joke and the object if the joke. Anything can be the subject of a joke if you are careful with the object, the person or thing being mocked. In this scene, both of these characters are the ones being mocked. Ben's character is being mocked for even thinking his approach to the Jack character was okay. Robert's character was mocked by being the only character in ghe movie who thought dying his skin was okay. Similar to Mel Brooks movies. You put the most outrageous and unsatisfactory words in the mouth of the dumbest characters.
I think that it is time for some people to grow a thick skin after years of PC Culture! My generation and previous before mine knew the difference of what is or is not offensive. I have watched TV shows such as All in the Family, Jefferson, and Sanford & Son. Those shows represented the time of 1970's Now, some show does offend things, then some people called it to be cancelled!
The guy from the couple in bed was wrong. There were all types of people and groups seriously upset over this. One mother’s of mentally challenged kids even sued the studio if memory serves. I remember hearing about it at the time because I loved the movie then and now and it made me mad that they were catching crap for it. People then got butt hurt too, but nothing like they do today. Today everybody is so soft it’s sad. If there was a world war we’d be in serious trouble! What so many people miss is that they are not making fun of any person or group out there! They are making fun of their own industry! They are showing how the people we hold up as role models and as being better human beings than we are, that they are in fact deeply flawed individuals! We are the better people, Hollywood is full of damaged jokes that not worth our time and definitely not worth our admiration or money!
VERY funny scene indeed! I'm SO glad I'm a Gen X'er & grew up in a time when everyone said "retarded" at least weekly & NO ONE cared. Makes me sad for the younger generations who have to navigate a woke minefield today. Dasha had the reaction I'd expect to see from a non-cancel culture country. Go outside the US and you'll see how just silly this country has become. Sad 😞
I give Downey so much credit for his attitude about this movie. He has never apologized for any joke he made in this movie and has no plans of doing so
It’s almost similar to what his father did with Putney Swope
I mean, his entire purpose in the movie is to show why the things his character does are so inappropriate. It's like saying Christoph Waltz should apologize for playing a N*zi villain in Inglorious Basterds. As far as I know, he doesn't need to.
Nor should he, it's a movie and it was funny as fuk.
Watching reactors get all squirrelly over the word retard is my favorite part of this video.
@@Wheja_sciart and yet some actors still apologize and disavow their previous works
I just love how effective a well placed "damn" can be 😂
This is actually funnier now in 2024 with the sensitivities we have today. Glad this movie got made.
It’s the movie that keeps on giving.
The only thing funnier than this movie, is watching people squirm while watching it😂
NOTHING is wrong with this comedic masterpiece of a movie.
Satire and irony seem to be a dying breed of comedy.
I know and love several of the lovely reactors. They ”get it”, and so should any thinking person.
No one wants to understand nuance anymore
I think my favorite reaction to this film was from Arianna, of Diegesis. It’s always felt like she’s the only person who truly really got the spirit of the film, plus she caught a lot of the 70’-80’s references, which I think many other reactors missed.
Gen X watches this scene and doesn’t even flinch. For us, it’s just a word.
Yup, we said worse, even early millennials from the 80s. These reactors basically have to put on a front that they are offended, because how society has become. They dont wanna take heat from laughing, bet they laugh and say things when the camera isnt rolling. It is all projection
Only ones are getting offensive are these days are Lefties Woke Gen Z & Millennial
@@ajpringle03 that is what makes them simple jacks aka ret**ds
@@ajpringle03 they are simple jacks
@@davidward9737 yessir 😂
This movie actually gets better and better by every year. The more we aren't allowed to laugh the funnier it gets.
Dude, you're allowed to laugh. People buy into this myth that offensive comedy is somehow not allowed anymore, and that's bs. The people who cry and complain about it are usually people who are trying to tell jokes where BEING offensive is the point (usually right-wingers), and THAT kind of "comedy" SHOULD be shamed.
@@Kira1Lawliet
And here you are... Getting offended and screaming right wing and lying or denying what's Infront of your own eyes.
I don't need to guess where your heart lies politically or what color your hair is.
@@Kira1Lawlietdid you even read what you wrote? You claimed ppl are allowed to laugh at jokes in one sentence and then should be ashamed (thus implying we shouldn't laugh) about some comedy in another. What kind of drug are u on?
At the time, Ben Stiller got more heat for the Simple Jack character than the blackface ever did
That's because Robert's character was the only person in the movie who thought what he was doing was okay. The object of the jokes was the movie industry.
Neither did, There was no need for heat.
exactly
There was no heat until gen z came around. Damn kids are sensitive
And also bc a lot of us didn't know it was rdj, i thought it was an actual black dude!! And now that I know, it's 200x better!!!!!
I will never understand why people get so uncomfortable about this scene. They have the friggin context to it. The words are spoken by two self absorbed actors in this story. They themselves and Hollywood as a whole are the target of the joke. Ben Stiller even said so himself.
Never underestimate the need for people to be praised for fake virtue. Most people don't care but they must be seen to pretend they care.
That’s the intention though, the joke doesn’t hit as hard if the viewer isn’t uncomfortable/isn’t aware of the discomfort the word could cause. The word is repeatedly intentionally to make you cringe or laugh at how it couldn’t be said now. It’s actually missing the context of the word rather than the scenario that would make this not funny.
@@amandabisby3546 People laughed their butts off in this scene because it was funny.
Some things just fly over the next generations heads.
Watching this really shines a light into how free we were in 2008.
As an autistic person who was in high school in 2008, I can tell you I feel much more free now than I did at the lowest point in my life.
@@sub-zero710 I’m glad you made it. A high school friend of mine in the 80’s deleted himself at 16. Not to mention many more friends leaving for one reason or another along the way. Not every one makes it to 60.
@@thebigmonDeleted? Why not just call suicide what it is? Eventually "deleted" will be too offensive and you'll have to replace that with somethjng else.
@@HEAVYDIAPER TH-cam has already given me a warning and I’m tired of making new accounts every time they ban me.
@@sub-zero710everyone in highschool is at their lowest point
The reactors censor it for fear of demonetisation. FTW Reactor to reactors goes all in!!! Keep it up big man. Always go there.
I'm 42 years old. This movie's humor is right up my alley. People are too damn sensitive these days. Laugh folks, it's just a movie. 🤣😂
Ok grandpa, thanks for telling us your age
@VAVORiAL No problem, toddler not much you can do with it.
@@EricksonMedina-i7q
That comma placement is very random. Does that happen often to you? Simple things being a challenge, I mean.
@VAVORiAL alright, a grammar cop can I hit you up for spell checks, too ? Remember you think I'm old, which means I don't have much going on in life and nothing but time on my hands. Chances are, I'm gonna keep responding to your nonsense.
@@EricksonMedina-i7q
Don't worry, I'll surrender. You win. Goodbye.
If people are this sensitive now, I can bet that in 2034, we won't even be able to say the word "stupid" anymore.
It's sad how PC and lame everything has become. The world really could use fun comedies like Tropic Thunder, American Pie, EuroTrip, Wedding Crashers and so on.
Blazing Saddles!
@@rancidmarmot1994 THIS! one of the best comedies ever made
yes its sad shit like this wont be made at least not anytime soon although i think most people are craving a good irreverant comedy Hollywood is just too scared to make one
Robert downey jr is a great actor. Hilarious 😂😂😂💚☘️
Their parents failed to prepare them for the real world. If you cant stand up to a word, how can you expect to stand up to failing a test, losing a race, getting fired, the military, crime, or being injured. If a WORD beats you down, wait till you see what LIFE will do to you. Hope you like living indoors.
Does standing up by your definition mean applauding the use of the word or using it yourself? Most of them are both offended and laughing. Is that not an appropriate reaction?
@@amandabisby3546 There's nothing to be offended about.
Compared to the banter between my teenage friends and I in the late 90's this is wildly tame. You'd stroll into rollcall in the morning, slap your pal on the back & joyously greet with a "Sup ___________ !?!?!?!" 🤣😂😂
Watching the woke self-righteous youngsters squirm whilst the older people can just laugh out loud is perfect 😅 (Addie counts and Dasha reacts)
It's the self-righteous virtue signalling that is so disgusting.
I know, we totally owned them 😂😂😂 high-five!!!
I'm glad he didn't add Natalie gold's reaction to this. She got so high up on her moral arrogant high horse judging this movie that I couldn't watch her channel anymore.
Same here. That was it for me. It is a movie, just laugh. People dont want to laugh at things that are raw because they don't want a perception about them and want to project they are moral. I'm sure everyone that did that projection while watching this has done some messed up things in their life.
She always does that shit. I can't stand watching her anymore.
kudos for staying that long, i got over the whole channel years ago, can't even say what the last reaction was. might have been alien or SPR.
@@scottb3034 maybe a vampire that sucks your soul out. But in the end just a succubus
I stopped watching her when I clued in that all her reactions are fake. She's already watched the movies and prepared her reactions, then pretends to be reacting spontaneously.
“Tropic Thunder” could never be made today, which is ridiculous. People really need to stop being so soft and sensitive. The characters were idiots. When idiots do idiot things, people shouldn’t be offended.
Yeah you are right. I shouldn't mad at Trump 😂😂
@@busuncle2006Spoken like a full ret@rd.
The streamer at 4:37 should be the response from EVERY person lollol
The R word is a clinical word, no reasons to get triggered 😂😂😂😂
No it isn't. In what universe?
Indeed. And then they are taking a certain religious figure’s name in vain as part of their reaction.
@@patinho5589 yeah backward their mind is
it was used as a medical term and now they changed it to "intellectual disability" so that it won't hurt other people's feelings ffs. Hell, the word "late" is called "r3tard" in french. Will you get offended by the french people with that? There are so many snowflakes in western nowadays 😂
It's not a clinical word. There's no such clinical condition as "retarded".
I love how everyone is so shocked, saying this isn't ok, cancelled, etc. and yet all of them are laughing at it and they keep watching. Can they just admit that this is funny, and not worry about how offensive it may be to "some people?"
I think that’s the point though. You’re supposed to both laugh and cringe at this movie, it wouldn’t hit as hard or make its point if it didn’t have the offense factor. That’s what makes it stand out as opposed to other comedies, it’s meant to push boundaries. The movie WANTS to make the viewer uncomfortable.
This is why Vince Vaughn stated that studios are afraid to create these movies because executives feared that they would get fired seeing younger generation feeling uncomfortable with the language.........sad state of affairs!!!
I know, that’s really what I regret most these days. We used to be so free, but now we can’t say slurs 😢 truly the saddest state of affairs
The 2000's a much better time 💯😂
I like the fact they’ve refused to apologize for the film. They have no reason to. This is comedy.
yeah black face is super funny
No, the turn of the century was full of pc, self righteous morons who are causing all the problems today.
@@ssj-rose4572 it really is tho lol
@ssj-rose4572 It is. Just like when the Wayans brothers or Dave Chappelle did white face. It's a joke. It's funny.
All the grown people laughing their ass off because it’s funny. And watching the self righteous young people sit there stone faced seething is equally hilarious 😂
yea, all the "grown" people in their early 20's? lol
A lot of older people who've lived long enough know how to roll with the punches.
I know, I wish they’d just say the word instead, we’d be a much freer country than what these liberals are doing to us 😂😂🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Tropic Thunder is basically our version of Blazing Saddles. It's meant to show these kinds of attitudes (including their casual use of a slur) and the movie industry in general as something to be mocked, by portraying the people doing it as being the absolute dumbest people possible.
Its amazing how sensitive everyone is today 😂 how sad.
And this is why we have problems trusting your judgment and your generation
@@judeless77Because your too sensitive ?
Is it that they're too sensitive or that you're too insensitive?
@@sub-zero710 Nah they be too sensitive
@@theseven5359Well, at least half the reactors had either shocked or cringe reactions. The only people saying people are too sensitive are the trolls in the comments. So I don't think you have a case for that.
RDJ will now also be cast as the Black Panther!
No, Lazarus would. That's the point, he didn't play a black man, he played an Australian playing a black man. It isn't blackface.
It's hilarious seeing people freaking out over a word. Just a clinical, descriptive word, no worse than any term they have replaced it with. As if changing words changed reality lol
People always say this, (the clinical descriptive word thing,) but never use it that way, so I think you can cut the bs.
No,you should stop the BS!!If you get offended by a word,you have the problem.Not people who take it as its supposed to be.Comedy!!!!
@@xero2135 I use the clinical, descriptive nword too
And that got more flak than RDJ being in blackface
@@benschultz1784 Short answer that doesn’t end up repeating itself, satirising a racist practise of Hollywood and the entertainment industry by doing said thing is in-fact uncomfortable and racist.
I grew up in the 1970s, and if anyone was mean to you, or said something to try and hurt your feelings, we had a mantra that we would tell ourselves: sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. It helped you to develop a tough skin (metaphorically speaking). People these days are far too sensitive, and get triggered on almost anything. People need to grow up and learn to roll with the punches. I can’t imagine being so angry all the time, it must be exhausting.
Brown University did a study and concluded that this is entirely false. It's more like 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names leave emotional scars that take much longer to heal, and possibly never will'.
@@SentaiYamaneko I'm guessing it was done fairly recently. People these days are way too sensitive.
@@rogersjgregory Data collected during 2003 - 2011, published during the pandemic. Exposure to stressors makes you more vulnerable to stressors later on. So if you're emotionally injured at an earlier point, it's a lot easier to be hurt again, and it's easier to develop mental disorders.
And no, people aren't 'too sensitive', they're less willing to put up with your bullshit.
I see it as normalizing intolerance of ignorance. Instead of brushing off people who are being inappropriate, mean, etc., we are calling them out on it. It’s better that people are scared to be mean than just deciding to move on to other people who will give their attitude attention.
I love watching younger generations cringe over the words we used and still use daily. I laugh
Adults don’t use it daily
@@judeless77 awwwwww lol
Right on! And I say it more if someone gets upset..because Gen X ain't pu$$ies..we like to scare younger people with it..and we got legal precedents insuring our right to say it. Offended? Shrinks can help with that low self esteem...We didn't sign up to be nice to these generations. Lol
@@judeless77 Gen X does. No biggie.
@@ruthsaunders9507 Don't even try to speak for Gen X
''Playing a guy who ain't smart but thinks he is, that's tricky,''
Kevin Kline was able to pull it off to perfection in ''A Fish Called Wanda''. And he did win an Oscar for it.
DEI Kills Art - Elon Musk. It's so true on all mediums
I know, I think we should actually exclude as many people as possible, that way we can really get all sorts of diverse ideas in art. Elon Musk and you are geniuses, Nelson.
I hate how sensitive and spineless people are to stuff like this nowadays.
100% that's the word I was looking for "spineless." Thank you. Cant even stand up to a movie.
11:49 Pretty sure these two went Full Ret**d. Barely cracked a smile.
It offends me how offended people get over this word. They're using it in context.
I think most people aren't actually offended by using the word like this. They just know that they have to ACT offended otherwise they'll get into trouble. They care too much about what other people might say. Most normal human beings can tell when it's used inoffensively and when it's used maliciously. Like every other "offensive" word.
I think it's less of them being offended an more of knowing what society they are in.
I think it's about half and half. Many people are legitimately appalled by things like this. You can tell by the people who nervously laugh vs the ones who genuinely look shocked and irritated. Ironically, I've noticed that the folks who get easily offended are sometimes the same people who treat other people pretty horribly. Turning vicious if you don't agree with something
Can I say, bring these times back
This was great because even at the time it was roasting Stiller's character for his choices and having his head up his butt. Layer that on top of RDJ's character doing blackface in the 2000s and it's just perfect because he's doing the same thing. It's hilarious, uncomfortable, and deeply insightful.
Great mashup my friend
Why dont the younger generations understand satire?
They've been conditioned to respond a certain way even without thinking about it, most probably couldn't even say why.
these are grown adults who are probably millennials, why do you keep saying younger generations like they are gen z?
They’re unsure how their audience wants them to react
@@minnesotafats6662 You know that is probably a better way to say it.
There’s a scene where RDJ says “I don’t stop playing a character until the DVD commentary.” And if you ever get a a chance to see the DVD commentary for this movie RDJ stays in this character throughout the whole thing…
Watching these people get triggered is so cringey. What a weak-minded society we have now.
agreed
Only a immature child would think that
Some are actually 'progressive' virtue signallers like the 2 Canadian reactors. All of them are conscious of how they'll look if they react too offended or laugh too hard. It's running through their heads fast....how do I react to this? Normal humans just laugh, cuz it's funny.
It’s fucking irritating as shit, dude.
I don't think they were triggered. They just know the word would trigger others watching it.
RDJ is talkin about this dude at the top right
Stupid ass jack. Lmao I love this scene
It was RDJ facial expression when he said that line is what killed me LMAO 🤣 😂 😆
he forgot to meantion leonardo dicaprio from whats eating gilbert grape but he won a oscar for that i think
Fact: 1994. Best actor in a supporting role
people mistake RDJs comment to him, never go full because it becomes less of a character and more of a caricature. Rain Man and Forrest Gump go just far enough to be believable but not as far as I Am Sam that feels like he is making fun of those like that in the audience, even if that wasnt the intention.
Love how offensive it is…we need more of this
Such a great concept, reacting to reactions. I love your stuff, my man!!
words have too much power for this generation.
Just to watch every single reactor wince is priceless. This was only 16 years ago. That's amazing. I would have never dreamed in a 100 years that our morals and standards would have become so self-censored and changed so drastically. It's like we went backwards 150 years.
Funny enough, while non-malicious words have become so taboo to say, people now say some of the most vile and legitimately horrible things to one another online. We just swapped inoffensive words with actually offensive words lol
I know, I pray every night that I can say more slurs again like I used to 😢 I’m scared for this younger generation feeling so repressed, they all must want to say it so bad
If these people saw “Soul Man” from the 80’s… they would have heart attack,…lol
It's actually easy to see how these guys who are reacting to this scene are so easily offended. For me whenever I watch this scene, I just laugh my ass off 🤣🤣🤣
Wait, why do you think this scene is funny?
best laugh ever at 4:30
Seriously!!!! I’m honestly in love with that laugh!
Look at most of the people's reaction to the word 🙄 I hate to break it them but that was the word we were taught to use in the 80's. It was the PC way to address them during that time period. Guess what? Words we use today will be considered taboo in the future. Language evolves. To be aghast at hearing a word is silliness. Words are content. Context is what matters. In this scene the joke isn't on special needs people. It is on the 2 egomaniac actors & the Hollywood system as whole .
These reactions prove how sensitive people have become in recent years. lol
In Jr. High we were learning some musical notations, and one was the Italian word "ritardando", which means to gradually slow down. So of course the rest of the week, everybody went around saying, "You're a ritardando." "No, you're a ritardando." "No, YOU'RE a ritardando!"
Robert Downey, Jr. shook this scene.This piece is hilarious, regardless of the now-oh-my-goodnesses, it would receive today. It is raw humor. On purpose. =)
Be funny see a Police Academy podium scene reactions lol
It's amusing to see reaction channels cringe over a word that they most likely use when no one is around to hear it.
It’s not that hard to not say. Idk why people can’t prevent themselves from saying offensive words as if they have an innate desire to do so.
Not everybody says these things even alone, cause some of us have restraint and aren’t champing at the bit to be offensive for no reason.
Not the worst thing you can do obviously, but makes me wanna roll my eyes with how eager older adults are to say it like kids learning the word fuck for the first time.
Nah I'm sure they say it even on their own time, they are adults after all so I don't know why they'd be offended to say it.
Back when I was in the Air Force, they described the G-suit pilots wear to prevent from blacking out as an apparatus that “retards the flow of blood to the legs” I wonder what its been changed to today.
Great job. Love the laughs.
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 12. Thought nothing of Robert Downy Jr. with the black face paint, or them saying r*tarded. To be fair, I was young, so didn't really know much. Funny how things change over the year.
I'm glad I grew up that way.....🤜🤛
@@joshkyb3388hell yeah dude, nothing better, I get hard just thinking about when people could say slurs whenever they wanted 🎉🎉
Now is moist era sad times 😢😢
I like how they talk about satire and them making fun of the industry to deflect from them laughing at it.
i dont understand, its not a bad word, its a real word, with real meaning, you can use it as much as you like
Everyone knows you never go full😂😂😂
You can see that was only North Americans that got triggered by that word.
Just to adore how great this movie was the outrage over this movie at the time was them doing simple Jack. Nobody was even worried about rdj doing blackface except the characters in the movie
I’m 32 and am glad I experienced a time where ppl didn’t get so offended. Watch this and seeing reactions and them cringing. Sad
I hope this is an act for the cameras and that they are not this soft in reality.
Check out Behind the scenes tropic thunder deleted scene sgt Lincoln Osiris 😂 this should have definitely been left in the movie😂🤣 omg I pissed my pants
"Yeah, you went all out on that one"
This film would be impossible to make today, in fact I consider that humor died years ago, while wokism was born.
Millennials and younger keep trying to analyze this scene, trying to reconcile and justify their urges. Just laugh and don’t worry about it.
Most people don't remember when the "R" word was a new term used to be "sensitive" in the 1980s.
16:54 you can tell people like this are the sensitive safe space people. LOL
It’s funny to see the younger generation being so uncomfortable with this. When it came out I saw this in the theater and nobody I knew got upset by any of it. It was just a funny movie. Saying retarded wasn’t a bad thing and a white actor dressing up as a black person wasn’t what people make it out to be now. Dan Aykroyd did it in Trading Places and nobody even talks about that. It wasn’t an unusual thing and I never saw it as them making fun of black people. It was just funny like when Eddie Murphy dressed up as a white person on several occasions which was always hilarious. People just want to drag everything into the dirt and make it into something bad.
All you guys talking about how sensitive everyone is these days have never watch American Dad or South Park. They do way more today, right now than this movie ever did.
What the hell happened to the GD world ? People afraid to use words nowadays, it's like everyone was drop on their heads at some point and now we live in bizzarro world.
Dasha has a different movie cut, theres a line more from that dialogue, about Peter Sellers?
Lol, its not that they werent offended when it came out. its that they understand the difference in satire...
how ppl get soooo upset with words, is just sooooo sooo pathetic...it's how and in what context the word is said... truth is truth and that is that
The scene is hilarious and always will be to me. The reactors both laughing and cringing are hilarious. And the comments from people offended that people are offended are equally hilarious.
Wish we had the internet for longer because i would love to see the comparison comments from history "these kids today getting all offended by the N word". 😂
A great time before the world went stupid. Just look at all the reactors triggered by the mere mentioning of the word
This film is an examination of the difference between the dubject of a joke and the object if the joke. Anything can be the subject of a joke if you are careful with the object, the person or thing being mocked.
In this scene, both of these characters are the ones being mocked. Ben's character is being mocked for even thinking his approach to the Jack character was okay. Robert's character was mocked by being the only character in ghe movie who thought dying his skin was okay.
Similar to Mel Brooks movies. You put the most outrageous and unsatisfactory words in the mouth of the dumbest characters.
Society went full on
I think that it is time for some people to grow a thick skin after years of PC Culture! My generation and previous before mine knew the difference of what is or is not offensive. I have watched TV shows such as All in the Family, Jefferson, and Sanford & Son. Those shows represented the time of 1970's Now, some show does offend things, then some people called it to be cancelled!
“It’s not okay”, yeah it’s absolutely okay.
The guy from the couple in bed was wrong. There were all types of people and groups seriously upset over this. One mother’s of mentally challenged kids even sued the studio if memory serves. I remember hearing about it at the time because I loved the movie then and now and it made me mad that they were catching crap for it. People then got butt hurt too, but nothing like they do today. Today everybody is so soft it’s sad. If there was a world war we’d be in serious trouble! What so many people miss is that they are not making fun of any person or group out there! They are making fun of their own industry! They are showing how the people we hold up as role models and as being better human beings than we are, that they are in fact deeply flawed individuals! We are the better people, Hollywood is full of damaged jokes that not worth our time and definitely not worth our admiration or money!
Kristin's being held down by Cinepals/JabyKoay, she's top tier
VERY funny scene indeed! I'm SO glad I'm a Gen X'er & grew up in a time when everyone said "retarded" at least weekly & NO ONE cared. Makes me sad for the younger generations who have to navigate a woke minefield today. Dasha had the reaction I'd expect to see from a non-cancel culture country. Go outside the US and you'll see how just silly this country has become. Sad 😞
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The only people you can talk about on the internet who won't care.
Other than the Amish.
love how these people flinch at that word....so weird how people are nowadays with thier political correctness
I flinch at it
So what?
If any white person said that to me
We're fighting
People bleeping it then saying fxck right after. I really hope we are turning a corner back to a time when words weren't viewed as violence.
Blazing Saddles of its era.
Yep, half the audience laughing for the wrong reason, just like Blazing Saddles.
I am glad I grew up in that era when nothing was offensive
This is what people actually protested over, not RDJ wearing blackface.
I cant stand it when people want to laugh but choose not to because "oh, Ive heard thats offensive now so I cant laugh". What a sad way to live.