Tags: Comedy, Directors, Filmmaking, Movie Trailers, Movies
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Check out the trailer for the new Ben Stiller movie, “Tropic Thunder”. It looks KICK ASS. I love Ben Stiller… from “There’s something about Mary”, to “Meet the Parents”, to “Dodgeball” to “Zoolander” to his episode in Ricky Gervais’s “Extras”, I’m just one of the percentage of people who finds Ben Stiller to be one of the funniest people alive. And all he has to do is pucker his lips and raise an eyebrow to elicit a rumbling belly-laugh.
Anyway, based on that trailer this looks lie it may well be a “Stiller Masterpiece”. C’mon- Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downy Junior (as a black-face actor!) and Nick Nolte, playing actors playing soldiers, having to be real soldiers? Brilliant! And it’ll probably contain the usual cadre of celebrity cameos and wacky humor… but something looks different- something not “usual” in the world of today’s wacky comedies… it looks to be set in a more “real” scenario than movies like “Dodgeball” or “Zoolander” (where the world is as wacky as the characters); this one looks like it’s wacky characters in a mean-spirited (normal) world, trying to survive… which, as a personal preference, I think works better in comedy.
In any case, I can’t wait to see it!
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