Hello everyone. This is my first blog and the first time I have written anything in it. Like I said in the email, this is for extra credit for a class I'm taking. The more interaction I have with you, the reader, then I am able to score in class. Thanks for reading even if you don't respond. Please feel free to correct my grammar or spelling at any time. Clay
First, allow me to qualify my reviews. I will be using a typical A-F grading scale. Personally, I am quite familiar with the letter C.
I saw "Tropic Thunder" on Friday night. I have to say it had several moments where I was chuckling out loud. This movie is along the lines of some of the Farrelly Brothers movie's like "There Something About Mary," and "Kingpin." So, there were fart jokes galore, racial comments, and even worse at times. The cast includes Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, and Jack Black, but it's Stiller and Downey that deliver most of the laughs. Well, that is unless Tom Cruise was on the screen. Quite simply, it's the best material Tom has churned out in a long time. His portrayal as Ben Grossman, a stereotypical producer with a potty mouth, too much body hair, and a bald head, is hilarious.
The plot centers around a big budget Vietnam movie.....kinda like Platoon, but with action heros in it. The director (Keith Coogan) decides (with the help of the "technical advisor" Nick Nolte, looking 115 years old) to shoot the movie "guerrilla style" and drops the cast in the middle of the jungle. The actors of course, think that every bullet that's fired is a blank and the bugs won't bite. The movie strays off course for a while when Ben Stiller's character, "Tugg Speedman" gets captured by local heroin producers and is forced to play a character from a previous movie. Of course, the gag is that this character is mentally retarded...hilarity ensues. It's borderline offensive. The point that's made in the movie is that to win an Oscar, you have to play someone mentally challenged. I do find it interesting that Adrian Brody (The Pianist), Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump), Geoffrey Rush (Shine) and of course, Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) have all won Mr. Oscar. Anyway, the bit got old after a while and the plot suffered for it.
All in all, I think this is a good movie to see if you like a certain kind of humor. I do, and Tom Cruise saves it from mediocrity. B
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I agree with you. Without Tom Cruise the movie would have at least lost one letter grade. I however do not think he made it a B movie. I give it a C+. Ben Stiller as usual over acted his part most of the time.
I haven't seen the movie, but I might go with a friend now that you have it a "B". I think it would be hilarious.
We may have to go see it for the Tom Cruise element. Dramatically, he drives me nuts at this point.
did you know Evan has a man crush on Tom Cruise up until A Few Good Men? Anything after that he hates him...
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