Ridiculous Red Band Trailer for 'Tropic Thunder'
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And when I say ridiculous, I mean "WTF is going on in this flick!?" I'm not sure when this new red band trailer for Tropic Thunder went off the deep end: Was it when Ben Stiller took a young child who was stabbing him in the back (literally) and threw him off a bridge, or was it when Stiller was holding up the decapitated head of a soldier and sticking his tongue up to its guts. Oh, I'm totally not kidding about any of that, either -- this one looks completely out of control. Kudos to Stiller; for awhile there, it looked like he was way past his prime. With Tropic Thunder, something tells me the entire crew downed a case of "something real good" and said, "Screw it, let's just go absolutely nuts with this one and really freak people out."
Tropic Thunder stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. (who's cursing in every scene ... as a black man), Brandon T. Jackson and Jay Baruchel as a group of actors shooting a Platoon-esque war film in the jungle. When that film's director (as played by Steve Coogan) decides these guys need to be "in the sh*t," the gang wind up face to face with an army of real soldiers. I can't even begin to explain this trailer -- it's probably the most disturbing, yet oddly hilarious piece of marketing material I've seen all year.
Go here. Enter your age. Let us know what you think. Tropic Thunder hits theaters on August 15.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-16-2008 @ 6:23PM
Corey Atad said...
Can someone help me out. I'm 20 years old, but because I live in Canada I can't enter a zip code that works. I hate these stupid age verification things.
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5-16-2008 @ 10:02PM
Awesomepants said...
Yo, it's already on youtube. Just type in: tropic thunder redband.
Also, this looks like one of the funniest movies I will ever see, whoever thought up robert downey jr. as a black dude should get a medal!
5-16-2008 @ 6:44PM
Joe said...
I'm entering my actual information and it's denying me access. Somebody youtube this, I hate these annoying, pointless internet safeguards.
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5-16-2008 @ 7:11PM
Joe said...
Direct link via apple's trailer page
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/tropic_thunder/tropic_thunder-red-tlr_h640w.mov
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5-16-2008 @ 10:36PM
Niko_Bellic said...
Looks awesome!!!!! I suddenly really want to see this.
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5-18-2008 @ 4:27AM
AJ Wiley said...
Oh my God...that is absolutely insane.
Must. See.
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5-18-2008 @ 9:46AM
Andy said...
Doesn't that severed head resemble Steve Coogan? Bit of a spolier if it is...
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5-18-2008 @ 12:19PM
teenagertc said...
Yes, it does...I picked up on that too...oh well!
5-19-2008 @ 11:12AM
MosquitoControl said...
Any scene with Robert Downey, Jr. looks funny.
Any scene with Jack Black looks boring.
Any scene with Ben Stiller looks utterly unwatchable.
Did that flashback to him playing a mentally handicapped retard actually strike anyone as funny? Throw different makeup on him and it's just his character from Dodgeball or Zoolander.
Ben Stiller has two characters: guy who overreacts and guy who overacts. Neither is even remotely funny anymore.
Remember a few years back when they released a DVD player that would censor movies and show them without any violence or nudity? If they made one of those that would show this without any Ben Stiller (and maybe without any Jack Black) I'd be all for it.
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7-23-2008 @ 9:14AM
Jason said...
yep..the flashbacks struck me as funny as they were so obviously a shot at Sean Penn's lame ass that I couldn't help but laugh. And I also found Jack Black pulling a pistol out of his ass to be amusing, but I'm 10 like that.