{"id":11375,"date":"2008-10-17T00:56:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11375"},"modified":"2010-11-23T00:26:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:26:05","slug":"tropic-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/17\/tropic-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropic Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I just came back from the movies where I enjoyed an action comedy “Tropic Thunder<\/a>“.\u00a0 To be honest, initially I didn’t want to see this movie.\u00a0 Silly poster, one of my most unfavourite actors and directos Ben Stiller<\/a>, and a few other minor factors were all pointing to towards “You can safely ignore this movie<\/em>” sign.\u00a0 But then I’ve heard a few good reviews and changed my mind.<\/p>\n

Gladly, the film turned out to be pretty good.\u00a0 I think that make-up artists, good cast, and participation of one of the Cohen brothers in the screenplay writing saved this flick.\u00a0 Ben Stiller wasn’t as bad as he usually is.\u00a0 Jack Black was pretty good.\u00a0 Especially in that short little scene where he was tied up to the tree.\u00a0 Tom Cruise was a surprise – both acting-wise and make-up-wise.\u00a0 Robert Downey Jr. was really good.\u00a0 He was as good as his make-up.\u00a0 Extra make-up point goes for the Japanese-like looking gangster, shooting automatic weapon in the purple haze.\u00a0 That was aesthetically refreshing.<\/p>\n

There is plenty of good action in this film, with gun fights, explosions, helicopters, and so on and so forth. As for the humor – it’s an interesting mix, between the low-level silly Ben Stiller kind of jokes and smart parody and satire Cohen-brothers style.\u00a0 Done really well.<\/p>\n

Overall, 7 out of 10<\/strong> for good entertainment.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I just came back from the movies where I enjoyed an action comedy “Tropic Thunder“.\u00a0 To be honest, initially I didn’t want to see this movie.\u00a0 Silly poster, one of my most unfavourite actors and directos Ben Stiller, and a few other minor factors were all pointing to towards “You can safely ignore this movie” … Continue reading Tropic Thunder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1707,1,24,2478],"tags":[2485,1613,1581,1525,1615],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-stars","category-general","category-movies","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthony-ruivivar","tag-ben-stiller","tag-jack-black","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-tom-cruise"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8312,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/08\/no-more-ben-stiller-please\/","url_meta":{"origin":11375,"position":0},"title":"No more Ben Stiller, please","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I am officially fed up with Ben Stiller acting. 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