Advocates for disabled to protest "Tropic Thunder"
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While I will not be seeing it, it is for entirely other reasons. None of the cast nor the director are a draw to me. I however hope this does not affect it or it's success. If art had to bow down to every pressure group that came along, nothing would ever get done.
Can you imagine the mess it would be if Star Trek XI had to meet the wants of everybody on this board alone? LOL
Can you imagine the mess it would be if Star Trek XI had to meet the wants of everybody on this board alone? LOL
I don't think it will affect it too much. I saw a screening of the movie a couple of weeks ago and thought it was great. What specific part of the movie are they protesting as inappropriate? I can't think of any situation where they picked on the disabled.
Apparently there is a part in the trailer where they call him "retard" that's their major problem.
Oh yeah, duh, I'm surprised I didn't remember that. I could see how some might be offended by that part of the movie, but I thought it was all pretty hilarious. I don't think a big deal should be made of it though. Just don't go see the movie if you think it's so offensive.
I'm with you, I couldn't give a shit about it, and I attended a special needs school. Besides, how does calling him a retard become any more offensive than the million other times you hear it in movies and TV shows?
... Wait what?
Do they point that out? Good on them because that shit is ridiculous.
^Yeah, they do, and it's pretty funny. And so true! 
I'll have to see if I can dig it up, but I had heard that many black folks loved RDJ's performance in this and that Stiller even screened it for the NAACP.
I suspect if the NAACP had any real problems with it we would've heard from them by now.
^^The actual African American character in the film doesn't fail to point out the absurdity of Robert Downey Jr's role.
You know, the more I think about it, the more I think this is the kind of film that anyone who is easily offended about any topic should not see. It's a little more risque than Ben Stiller's past films.
You know, the more I think about it, the more I think this is the kind of film that anyone who is easily offended about any topic should not see. It's a little more risque than Ben Stiller's past films.
Yeah. There's that and it's just thar RDJ is just simply awesome at it.
"Wait. What do you mean by 'you people?"
"What do YOU mean by 'you people?!"
It's insane how much the hair changes his look. You know it's him but you just can't see it until the hair comes off.
Yeah. The make-up work on him is incredible and his performance is great too (from the trailers.)
When did RDJ become such a great, used, awesome actor?
I'm going to a sneak of this tomorrow night. Expect my review then.
When did RDJ become such a great, used, awesome actor?
When was he not?
(Unless I'm not quite grasping your meaning of the word "used." I don't quite know what you mean there, but as for great and awesome, he's always been both of those things.)
It WAS a big "thing" a few months ago. Not with the NAACP, specifically, but lots of people were voicing discomfort with the idea. I think that once people learned he was going through the change IN the movie (and not just playing a regular black guy with no acknowledgement of who he was) then the furor kind of died down.
But mental note: If you're gonna have a white guy play a black guy, you have to acknowledge that in the movie, or people will get upset. We saw it start up a little before it died down.
When did RDJ become such a great, used, awesome actor?
When was he not?
(Unless I'm not quite grasping your meaning of the word "used." I don't quite know what you mean there, but as for great and awesome, he's always been both of those things.)
I dunno. Just seems like he hasn't been around a whole lot or anything big and major and I, personally, have never been impressed with his acting talents.
(Looking at his IMDB page the last thing he's been in that I've seen/was worth seeing (before Iron Man) was Bowfinger.)
But seems like between this year's Iron Man and Tropic Thunder he's become more "main stream" (again?).
When Downey had his downfall, his leading roles dried up so he had to do a lot of supporting roles (Wonder Boys, Bowfinger), some which were still good parts, just not lead roles. He also did a straight-to-video flick called Danger Zone with Billy Zane as the star(!!!!!). His season on Ally McBeal was part of his career rehab. Then he started getting lead roles in small movies like Zodiac and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Even though no one saw them, they were critically acclaimed and thus he was on his way back to the bigtime.