Happy Hour #38 - Tropic Thunder (feat. HeelvsBabyface)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- The movie that triggers idiots on Twitter every couple of years, Tropic Thunder is the kind of irreverent comedy that just wouldn't get made today. Join Az and myself as we get drunk and have a laugh at it.
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After Cahdwick Boseman tragically died too young from cancer somebody made a post on Facebook asking who could possibly replace him as Black Panther and some legend posted a picture of RDJ from Tropic Thunder in the comments.
now way , this is so funny!!!😅😅😅
😂😂😂😂😂 top notch comment
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LMAO That is too funny. Hope everyone got triggered!
🤣
"I don't read the script. The script reads me".
- Kirk Lazarus
What the hell you getting at with the 'book' 'script'...spit that shit out man! (intense stare and smile).
What does that even mean!?
@@thomasp.crenshaw185 Tell em Szekorsky, Tell him what time it is!
In soviet Russia you don't read script, script reads you!
Kirk lazarus:
"Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude."
“What do you mean ‘you people’?”
“…what do YOU mean, ‘you people?’”😂😂
@@MrHarrystank what a magnificent moustache 💪
"I don't drop character till the DVD commentary"...
I think RDJ is still in character in the DVD extras xD
And RDJ actually does the DVD commentary in character, for real🤣
Lmaoo!!!!
@@doublep1980 yep. He drops at the credits.
The fkg face he makes will saying it was priceless 🤣 👌
The best part of Tropic Thunder is people figuring out who actually played Les Grossman. "That was Tom Cruise?!"
I remember an audible gasp from the crowd in the cinema when Toms name came up in the credits
Tom Cruise stole every scene he was in!!!
Cruise was an absolute bloody legend in this.
He tells a great story about how he was approached for the role and was like, "I need big hands. Make me some big hands." And the prosthetics guys did it, and he put on the fake hands and bald cap and was just like, "Ok, I'm in."
No shit I had no idea it was him and freaked when I saw his name in the credits.
@@rydz656 The genius move was not doing any marketing that mentioned Tom Cruise being in the movie. Who else would have done that? Any other production and they would have made it out like it was a Tom Cruise movie.
Tropic Thunder was filmed on my Island of Kauai in Hawaii. Known as “The Garden Island”, we are the go to place anytime Hollywood wants to film any Jungle Scenes for a Movie. King Kong (1976), South Pacific, Jumanji, all the Jurassic Parks, The Descendants, Soul Surfer, North, North Shore, Flight of the Intruder, Dinosaur, Fantasy Island (TV Series), Six Days Seven Nights, Lilo & Stitch, Jungle Cruise, F9, and a ton more!
I remember when Tropic Thunder was here filming. They rented my new Box Truck to use in the movie as a “Film Crew” Vehicle. They painted it up for the Movie and when they returned it, they had to paint it back to it’s original color.
I mean, to the minute of detail of factory finish. I was like, you guys don’t HAVE TO do that. Close enough was fine. But they were willing to spend a lot of money to return my truck better than new! So from then on, I never wondered again why they use up Millions of Dollars to Film a Movie! 🤷♂️
I also got to meet Nick Nolte! And let me tell you! His hair and rough look in the movie was NOT done by the makeup department… it was ALREADY Movie Perfect ! 😅
A massively, _massively_ underrated film - an incredibly complex and shrewd deconstruction of so many Hollywood tropes, it's impossible to keep count.
Very close to perfect, IMO.
One of my favorite things about the movie wasn’t even in the movie. I remember this movie came out around the same time Pineapple Express came out. Both movies are funny but this one was on another level. And I’m a pothead so that’s with my bias!
@@niceguy0080 Seth Rogen is possibly the least funny "commedian" I can think of.
He basically IS Jeff Portnoy, IMO.
@@JMUDoc hmmm I feel like Seth rogen WAS funny but got too comfortable. Like Adam Sandler.
Side note: I’m just realizing Danny McBride was in both of these movies. 2008 was a good year for McBride 😂
@@niceguy0080
Which led to Eastbound & Down starting in 2009, no doubt.
Just remove Ben Stiller from in front of the camera.
"never go full re-tayrd"
The genius behind this film WAS Ben Stiller. He wrote and directed it. It was definitely spoofing on real Hollywood people in the industry.
a little FYI...Downy improvised most of his role in this film.
Thats what it felt like to me
I was enamored by him in the role he nailed
Ben Stiller was here maybe at his best ever. RDJ improvising his role is amazing but he is a great actor, so I would expect that. Ben Stiller is not that great (or he has shitty taste in movie roles), so his performance here is perfect. He came out as a good dramatic actor which surprised me.
What's equally and hilariously brilliant is Robert Downey Jr. did the audio commentary in full character
You need to do a happy hour on blazing saddles, it’s hysterical and there’s no way it could get made now with all the deep cuts it makes at Hollywood and society in general.
"Go back and get a shit load of dimes!"
Well. Mostly it can't be made today because there's no genre to completely destroy with its competent satire. Different time Different circumstances
These days its hard to even talk about that movie without getting cancelled. Lol
Where all the white women at?
@@jasonglebe3235 What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here!
I watched this with my buddies in the theatre. One of my friends was actually angry at the preview trailers because he thought booty sweat was real. Never had I laughed so hard in a movie. Great work.
I saw actual cans of Booty Sweat in a Hastings. No joke.
RIP Hastings
DreamWorks did actually sell Booty Sweat during the lead up to the film's release, so your friend had no reason to get mad.
I managed a movie theater when Tropic Thunder came out and the biggest complaint we got was about the Booty Sweat parody ad at the beginning.
The look on people's faces when I told them it was actually part of the movie was priceless
Dude we were sitting at a theatre with a couple of mates and when that retarded movie came on we were like wtf this year is kinda shite all these movies are trash lol
''Survive'' scene is so brilliant in its absurdity.
What’cha doing man? Out playing with grenades...
The meening was: oker you got shot, now SURVIVE!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can you guys fathom how unbearably handsome CD would be if not for the drinking and Scottish sadness? Thank you alcohol for keeping this legend from getting everybody pregnant.
Now this is a comment befitting this legend. (By the way, I no longer have ovaries but if I did, a repentant, post-tragic, teetotaling Drinker could make me pregnant nonetheless.)
@@bring-out I would like to respectfully suggest that you missed the entire joke. Are you familiar with hyperbole and irony? Or, I guess I could have missed your joke and you just wanted to make an elaborate sarcastic comment about the Drinker's perfect hair?
CD is a looker. I wonder if he's commando when he wears the kilt 😻💋
@@bring-out Is it though? He is Scottish...
He's not that handsome... he's just juxtaposed with Az!
When I went to see this in the theater I was late and came in during the “Satan’s Alley” trailer and honestly thought that was a trailer for a real Hollywood Oscar-bait movie!
The RDJ interview with Joe Rogan where they covered this was pretty funny.
One of my favourite factoids from that podcast is the RDJ's mother didn't want him to do it.
When he told his mother about the role and she was like, "Bobby... I don't like this." That cracked me up.
Kung Fu hustle, super troopers, Kung pow - enter the fist, tropic thunder. It's comforting to know that SOMEONE in Hollywood still understands wtf true comedy is. No one is safe. No topic is off limits. All is fair game. XD
This movie is one of my favorites and I think we watched it almost every weekend when we got it on DVD. It is so funny and the beginning is gold. Tom Cruise easily stole the show with his character and I was always wanted a sequel.
“I killed the one thing I love in this world!”
“…you killed a hooker?!”😂😂
@@niceguy0080 "Amanda, that's probably not even her real name."
Another "oldie but a goodie" movie about the industry examining itself is Singing in the Rain, though that was more about the transition from silent film to talkies. Damn that's a fun movie.
Along with Singin' in the Rain, Sunset Boulevard and The Bad and the Beautiful are the masterpieces on that meta theme. But to pick a more recent one, America's Sweethearts (2001) is lots of fun, too.
Old? What are you? 12?
@@timmyb7734 it came out in 1952. It starred Carrie Fischer's mother in her prime... It's nearly 70 years old. What are you, an ageless vampire?
Just watched it over the weekend as I was sick and I could probably quote it by heart. I totally forgot the scene near the end where he chucks the kid off the bridge. I fell off the couch laughing it was so damn funny 😆
Downey Jr's character is definitely a stab at over the top method actors like Daniel Day Lewis, where most movie-goers don't know what the actor actually looks like outside of a role, and going a bit meta with it that the actor himself doesn't even know who he is after so many roles.
For a while, I didn't know what Gary Oldman looks like in real life because he is completely unrecognizable in his roles. The only role I can think of where he looks like his real self is when he played Commissioner Gordon in the Dark Knight Trilogy.
Seems like it. Could be also a parody of old Hollywood's approach of casting white actors as different ethnicities, with sometimes hillarious results like John Wayne's Genghis Khan or my personal favourite (because it is quite good from the acting standpoint, just ludicrous in concept), Audrey Hepburn as Native American in The Unforgiven (she was also cast as a Native woman in Green Mansions couple years prior but that movie is absolutely forgotten).
Tom Cruise deserves all the awards for his role .. (so does RDJ!)
RDJ did get nominated for a Oscar for his role, but he was gonna lose no matter what. That's the year Heath Ledger won for Joker.
Kind of surprising that Drinker didn't realize that Cruise's character was Harvey Weinstein.
I owned the Director's Cut on DVD, fukkin' perfection. I watched the Theatrical Cut and alot of the good jokes missed because they were either started or followed through on Director's Cut.
@Ivan Jaros When Ben Stiller's hands get blown off at the beginning of the movie, if they talk about starting a band, then that's the director's cut. If they talk about how he was gonna teach RDJ's character to juggle, that's the theatrical version.
Tikkelin da ivarees!
I didnt know there was a director's cut!!! Now I know what I'm watching tonight!! Thks
Superchat: "Az loves the sound of his own voice."
Well, yeah, I love the sound of Az's voice, too. That's why I subbed to him via Drinker.
I was convinced to go see this movie by a friend. I thought it was going to be stupid, and I don't generally like movies that make me feel stupider by watching them. I am so glad I went to see this. It was amazing.
Couldn't agree more. It walks that perfect line between ridiculous and stupid. I expected it to be just dumb "comedy" but it's just comedy, making fun of all the stupidity of Hollywood and movies in general. It's so self aware, like Mel Brooks films, and I just enjoyed the hell out of it. The whole time I'm thinking "Omg that's fucking stupid" while still laughing my ass off at the same time. XD
"My head movies make my eyes rain" will never not be funny
Is it really “playing blackface” if you are playing an actor who is doing (medically achieved) blackface, and everyone around but him realizes this is a horribly ludicrous and insensitive way for the ostentatious character actor to show what an unaware asshole he is?
More importantly, does it matter? It's smart satire and it's funny.
People have forgotten what the word context means
Well, I mean, yeah, it does matter. If it were just RDJ playing blackface and none of the context were there, it actually would be pretty horrible. What Kirk Lazarus is doing is super messed up, therefore, RDJ playing him is hilarious. I love how the “for 400 years speech” comes in the context of him copping a beef about Alpa making a bunch of Aussie jokes. He goes from offended about Australian jokes to offended about “the N-word” in the same conversation. Brilliant.
Who gives a shit? Anyone remember the movie Iron Sky from the naughties about Nazis on the moon? Well there was a black fella in that who had to disguise himself as a white guy. Everybody was fine with it. #itsokwhenwedoit
The issue is taking offense at blackface. The right to not be offended simply doesn’t exist.
I genuinely liked this movie. One of the few Ben Stiller movies I can stomach.
Hes never been better than he was in Happy Gilmore as the abusive orderly.
I liked "There's Something About Mary" but for everyone ELSE...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a pretty solid flick. As is Meet the Parents. The first Night at the Museum is a fun film as well.
Meet the Parents is really good too.
But only the first one.
"Wait.... So your name is GAY FUCKER?"
Wow so this is what CD looks like just my first time actually seeing his face though.
He's handsome handler of movie woes.
He's the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
He looks like he's dyed the grey out of his beard and had a spray tan in this stream.
furthermore, RDJ was on with joe rogan talking about tropic thunder and he was saying that he was asking his black friends if playing this character was cool and they were saying hell yes lol
Those trailers though...I wanted SO BAD for Stiller and Co. to actually make full length movies from those! Satan's Alley? Are you kidding me? I would watch the f*ck out of that movie!
You and Az need to do Blazing Saddles.
My all time favorite comedy film. Every second is a comedic assault. Remember when Speedman does the Rambo one arm wield of his LMG?
Hasn't Jamie Fox got a film in the pipeline where he is playing a white guy and RDJ is playing a Mexican?
If so then these kinds of films can still be made, it just takes the right people to put it together (which is the hard part).
The ironic thing is that RDJ got nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this role
I had to Google it, Toby Maguire actually did win the MTV Best Kiss award for 2003, with Kirsten Dunst in Spider Man.
When RDJ was asked who he based his Kirk Lazarus on, his answer was “my sorry ass self…”
RDJ spent time in prison for drugs. While in there he met a lot of black friends etc... so yes he based things from his experiences etc. and time in prison.
As a Black man I loved RDJ's role in this movie 🤣. I wish we had more of these love letters to old school Hollywood.
"HEY! What do you mean, 'you people'?"
"... what do YOU mean, 'you people'?"
Briliant, brilliant movie.
I loved the character introductions through movie trailers in the beginning. Sets this movie up perfectly.
Tom Cruise playing himself was the highlight of the movie for me.
I always figured it was a Weinstein impersonation, but having just watched The Movies That Made Us - Die Hard, i immediately knew it was Joel Silver.
One of his best roles ever. Him swearing at that dude over the phone was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in a movie!
Les Grossman was based on Weinstein and Joel Silver, producer of the Die Hard, Lethal Weapon & Matrix movies, who is also a notorious douchebag.
"AZ likes to hear himself speak"
Yeh. That's why we're here spud.
That's why Drinker invited him.
He's funny. We like him. 😁
The "dude playing a dude diskised as another dude" sceen was the best one for me especialy the ending wen ben was like "THE DUDES ARE EMERGING!" I lost it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
tropic thunder is literally my favourite Robert Downey role
Mines still Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - he is phenomenal in that. Air America too; but Tropic Thunder is just acting brilliance too.
The “can’t go full retard “ bit kills me every time
“Who left the fridge open?!”
Robert Downey Jr. best work ever. Just a perfect character (s)
That gay monk movie with Toby Maguire is gonna happen
This movie is a masterpiece. So many good quotes from all the characters. I can’t see movie previews without thinking “booty sweat and bust a nut bars at concessions now” 😂😂
Or the explosive expert yelling “big ass titties” before destination 😂😂
His comeback film was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, I think.
Yeah, that film was apparently what gave the producers at Marvel the idea to cast him as Tony Stark/Iron Man. A comeback that led to a significantly larger comeback.
I'm so happy this stream made me want to watch this movie. If you watch it every three or four years and kind of forget the jokes a little bit, you laugh harder every single time.
Also as someone who is trying to get off tobacco after 14 years, I had so much more empathy for Jack Black's character this time.
I just saw it yesterday, on Amazon! Good G_d! What a bold and brazen comedy! Great characters! I love how each "actor" has their own flavor of narcissism! Tom Cruise has a great role as a Sociopathic Executive, layered with make-up! Phew! What a refreshing rush!
So good that they produced that GENIUS movie before all that SJW-bull$h1t.
It's 11 out of 10. Hillarious!
i'm 12 mins into this and i'm crying with laughter - i completely forgot how utterly hilarious this film is and that Satans Alley scene is goddamn side splitting funny
Me and my wife got into this film and only 1 hour in did we realise its Tom Cruise and were blown away - Grossman is one of Toms finest hours
One of my fave scenes with RDJ is such a small thing... theres a scene where the characters are discussing something and they cut to RDJ and he's just gurning some weird ass faces like he's struggling to comprehend whats going on but at the same time going slightly insane being stuck in the role too - its a small shot but every time i see it it kills me!
To see Heel laugh so hard while explaining all his favorite scenes just proves how masterful this movie really was man. All time great comedy.
Tempted to rewatch this stream cos u guys are amazing!
I'd absolutely watch a fall and rise of RDJ biopic movie straight up
Can you imagine someone playing RDJ playing Kirk Lazarus playing Srgt Lincoln Osiris?
@@etherpirate the character inception lol
I'm playing a dude that's playing a dude that's playing another dude.
Such a great time. I'll definitely be watching this through again this weekend.
Simple Jack chasing butterflies with a hammer is the greatest.
The greatest movie about a movie about the making of a movie based on a book EVER!
Anytime someone gets upset about "RDJ did blackface??" you just gotta calmly tell them to watch the movie. It's brilliant.
"I'm a dude playin a dude disguised as another dude!"
It's a good way to show that context is important.
I've been looking for that goofy Enigma song forever! Thank you Mister Az!
Anyone catch AlphaChino screamed like a little girl when Tug kicked the director's head away, and then covered his mouth to stop the scream?
From what I learned, Tom Cruise just adlibbed the dance and by pure serendipity, the dance sinc'ed with the music they wanted.
Downey Jr has a more than passable Australian accent & he's one of the funniest people I've seen in some interviews
Watched a ton of your reviews, Drinker, but this was my first happy hour, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I might have to actually clear my schedule to actually join livestream. Also, props to AZ "heel vs. babyface."
past 20 years this and Napolean Dynamite are the standout comedies for me
Can't agree with Napoleon Dynamite, it was just a bit too stupid for me (not saying you need to be stupid to enjoy it, just the jokes didn't land for me), but I have to add Super Troopers to this list. It's just too damn funny, time and time again. XD
When they're around the fire talking about how no one read the script and Downey shouts 'What the fuck you talkin bout, "script, no script", spit that shit out boy!'
Proceed to Downey giving the most hilarious smile to stare facial expression.
Tropic Thunder is a masterpiece of comedy. Honestly as close to perfect you can get.
I bought it recently on Blue-Ray, before it might disappear 👌
Me too
My uncle actually knows David and Victoria Beckham. In his words “Dave’s super nice but they’re legitimately the two dumbest people on the planet.”
You got to hand it to Ben Stiller, he's starred in some of the funniest movies ever made in the last 25 - 30 years. Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder.
Whiplash for happy hour, one of the best movies made in the last 10 years.
RE: films that nail Hollywood. Nothing surpasses Blake Edward's S.O.B. He knew where all of the bodies were buried and he dressed them up and put them on display. More 1970's Hollywood but still fantastic.
pump your brakes; the man is a national treasure.
13:40 Robert Downey Jr. has a comedic background -- he was a cast member of Saturday Night Live.
" First, take a big step back and literally fu(k your own face." - Les Grossman
I laughed so hard my eyes rained.
Even my wife was laughing all the way through it and she hates war films and no women 'men's' films. It was a piss take of men and it was men doing it which is why it was funny
Wow. I just realized that there are essentially no female characters in this movie.
"You talkin' to ME, this whole time?!?!"
This is that rare kind of movie that gets better with time.
Speaking of films that we'll never see today, give Norbit and Zohan a go.
One of the best scenes for me (besides all the Tom Cruise scenes) was the "what do you mean YOU people scene. That was amazing. The themes touched upon there could not have been done better. It would have to be done by actual african american actors, it would be a drama and it would have to be the focus of the whole movie.
I just loved how the movie condensed really difficult and complex themes in so short exchanges.
"... for 400 years that word has kept us down"
The look on Booty Sweat dude's face kills me every time
another one of them films I can just quote and nerd out over for hours, this was a joy to listen to
Damn tropic thunder was such a great movie so many great characters so many great lines
I’ve been waiting so long for this. There is actually a Vietnam combat book called Red Thunder Tropic Lightning…it’s not a comedy.
Great discussion about a great movie!
The critical drinkers voice is coming out of this dude…seems unreal
EXACTLY
RDJ was nominated for an oscar for that performance. Lost out to Heath Ledger's joker.
Bowfinger 1999 Steve Martin & Eddie Murphy. Directed by Frank Oz. Great roast of Hollywood!
Oh Alpa Chino. That makes so much more sense. I spent over half this movie wondering if I had seen the same movie as I didn't remember Al Pacino in this movie.
A movie in the vein of Tropic Thunder is Hail, Caesar! 2016. The comedy doesn't get as crude, but has the self-depreciating approach. This Coen brothers film didn't generate a lot of attention, but this is a fun movie. I consider it greatly underrated.
Would like to know the Drinkers opinion on the overly offensive to everyone, hilarious classic that is UNDERCOVER BROTHER
"I'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude..." "I'm a lead farmer motha fucka..."
"Full retard" became as big as a catchphrase as "Show me the money". I tell ya Justin Thoreaux I'll bet has at least another three or four great comedy scripts like Tropic Thunder in him. Or even ones he wrote already but with this stupid sensitive PC climate who knows if they'll ever see the light of day. Comedy needs to be rescued!
Flame thrower attack to Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein...hahaha....an epic scene.
I wonder if drinker wears the aviators to distract from how stunning (and brave) he looks. U r gonna b a star ⭐️
We need a Les Grossman standalone movie! Especially a scene where he yells down Tom Cruise!
No way... But I absolutely NEED Les Grossman to make appearances in random films!
How come THe Drinker calls hin "Len"?
The best line is still after the director is blown up and Stiller is saying that the director is hiding and that's what "all that playing God stuff was about."
Then Downy Jr. Chimes in with that deep serious voice, "He ain't playin God. He's bein judged by him."
The DVD commentary is amazing. Even better than the movie.
One of the greatest accomplishments of this movie is that it managed to make some of the most mediocre actors funny.
Great film, great talk. Looking forward to your next video.
I really enjoy u having AZ on, 7 guys has a great flow.