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Tropic Thunder
Directed by Ben Stiller
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. When budgets skyrocket and schedules fall far behind, the director tries to save the production by leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they inadvertently encounter real danger. From TMDB
221 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 30, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 27 | 7 | 161 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 12 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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Tropic Thunder is a 2008 comedy war action film, directed by Ben Stiller, starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black.
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- posts span Feb 20, 2022 to Oct 29, 2026
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60 of 221 · most liked firstPicturing Elon Musk just hopping mad, deciding to righteously deploy an epic quote from the funniest movie character he has ever seen, Tom Cruise in TROPIC THUNDER
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder (2008) Directed by Ben Stiller
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder couldn't be clearer in its thesis that War is not a movie. The idea of the film came to Stiller after seeing a bunch of actors on Empire of the Sun treat the experience like they went to war and how off putting that was.
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie like Tropic Thunder is satirizing the type of Hollywood mentality and self obsessions that leads to stuff like that. It is therefore making an argument for a more “politically correct” world. It wouldn’t be funny if the point of the movie were “why can’t I do blackface” which is what Daily…
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite Tom Cruise movie is Tropic Thunder
positive · AI labelView post →Ben Stiller scold the Epstein gang: "Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie."
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder (2008) 🎬🖤 Directed by Ben Stiller
neutral · AI labelView post →That Jack Black movie "Dear Santa" looks like a fake movie that would've had a trailer at the beginning of Tropic Thunder.
neutral · AI labelView post →My friends and I all watched Tropic Thunder last night and now we all want a satirical film by Ben Stiller making fun of podcast bro culture.
positive · AI labelView post →It's the sort of thing I'd expect an uncontrollable 10 year old kid to say, (it is actually a bastardisation of a similar phrase from a movie, Tropic Thunder)
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a COMEDY movie title that begins with the letter “T” 🎥 T is for… Tropic Thunder
neutral · AI labelView post →You absolutely could make Tropic Thunder today, but the problem is the entire movie would involve the characters making terrible jokes about getting canceled
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder is a legitimately great antiwar movie with delightfully subversive politics. it also made bank at the box office, which is an excellent plus.
positive · AI labelView post →🚨BRAND-NEW EPISODE🚨 Episode 354 - TROPIC THUNDER In 2008, Ben Stiller made a war movie about people making a war movie, and in doing so, made one of the more prescient satires of 21st-century Hollywood egos. It was also not without its controversies. Listen in your podcast app📱🎧
neutral · AI labelView post →Tom Cruise said the entire phrase that begins “take a big step back” in the movie Tropic Thunder. ALL of Elon’s lines ARE FROM MOVIES. There’s nothing about that dreg that’s original. Both he and Trump just slap their names on shit and take credit.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a quote from "Tropic Thunder." Musk thinks only in movie quotes and Internet memes.
neutral · AI labelView post →You could do all of the CIA's 1954 Guatemalan coup as slapstick. Tropic Thunder: Shirt and Tie Edition. Or just a horror movie that presents the coup as Dr. Strangelove without the jokes. You wouldn't have to make up a thing for the second one.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder review courtesy of Letterboxd member lexnovak7 boxd.it/1FVpfV
neutral · AI labelView post →Edge of tomorrow - he is fine in that perfect movie Tropic Thunder - he is hilarious rain man the last samurai minority report magnolia - perfect fit for the role
neutral · AI labelView post →using a clip from Tropic Thunder, a comedy movie about C-list actors playing characters from a war biography that turns out to be fraudulent, totally tracks
neutral · AI labelView post →‘War Is Not A Movie’: Tropic Thunder Director Denounces The White House For Using His Art In War Propaganda www.themarysue.com/war-is-not-a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Stiller auf Twitter: Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why does every Chris Pratt movie look fake*, like it should be a fake trailer in front of a Tropic Thunder sequel? * Besides Rebecca Ferguson. Respect to Rebecca Ferguson.
neutral · AI labelView post →when i was like 8 or 9 my dad goes "we're gonna watch a movie tonight" and put on Tropic Thunder
neutral · AI labelView post →No, he’s paraphrasing a monologue Tom Cruise gives in a movie called Tropic Thunder. He’s such a fucking loser.
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmHistory On this day 2008, the Ben Stiller directed satirical action comedy film TROPIC THUNDER made its debut. Nearly all aspects of the Les Grossman character were developed by Tom Cruise, the dancing, the make-up, the hairy chest and his character wearing oversized prosthetic hands.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder is a relatively modern movie considering it could not be made today, which adds a lot to the hilarious madness
positive · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #Filmsky 8/21: A movie filmed in Hawaii "Tropic Thunder" (2008);
neutral · AI labelView post →Wife: you didn't notice [certain twist or plot point] being set up earlier in the film? Lady, I didn't notice it was Tom Cruise until the ending credits of Tropic Thunder. I'm clearly not the sharpest media watcher
neutral · AI labelView post →Like everything else that Elon does, he stole that line. This time from the movie Tropic Thunder: youtu.be/lKxYuMIW-_8
neutral · AI labelView post →was going to pick the most cringe movie of that year but The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Tropic Thunder, Superhero Movie, Pineapple Express, Meet the Spartans, Far Cry (Uwe Boll directing of course) and Twilight all came out the same year it turns out
neutral · AI labelView post →The actor-director objected to his hit comedy being included in a new video: “Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.” 👏👏👏 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →So I'm watching TROPIC THUNDER for the first time and the opening trailers are great but also instantly date the movie, because no trailer has narrators anymore.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JustFinished The Whale This is a fake movie they’d play the trailer for in Tropic Thunder. A cast of Oscar worthy performances acting out the cinematic equivalent of crying while watching a mukbang Don’t Watch
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched Tropic Thunder (I’ve seen it before). Most of the time, when people say, “they couldn’t make that now,” I think it’s extra, but they fr couldn’t make that movie now 💀
neutral · AI labelView post →I kinda want to see the new Running Man movie, but Glen Powell just perpetually reminds me of Ben Stiller’s fake action movie actor in Tropic Thunder.
neutral · AI labelView post →A developer peppering his testimony with a bizarre/offensive quote from the movie "Tropic Thunder" was an extremely intentional 4chan-level troll, signaling to the MAGAs, honestly.
neutral · AI labelView post →Indy: um... they didn't screw up the theme tune, I guess? Never Let Me Go: A meh film with some great performances Tropic Thunder: Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would Late Night w/ the Devil: Really liked this... what? It used AI stuff? Aw, c'mon! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
negative · AI labelView post →Some people are just obsessed with it. I never got into it, I even tried to watch it on acid and it still didn't interest me, btw don't do acid and go to a movie theater. I almost walked out of watching Tropic Thunder because I was like wtf is this in the character intros, so yeah acid isn't always great for public stuff. Anyway the funny was my ex-fiance was really into HP, one day she asks if she can read the books for me. I said okay. Then ironically she decides the perfect time is when I'm…
negative · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder was a parody of actors who think being in a Vietnam movie was like actually being in the Vietnam War. These people think they’ve fought in the Alien Wars.
neutral · AI labelView post →#EmojiSounds 🔊👂🏼🎧 #MusicChallenge 🎵 #MusicSky ☄️ Day 1️⃣8️⃣ - 🌴 Tropic Thunder Ending Scene - Ludicris “Get Back” youtu.be/1EAEQnZiYVU?... Any movie with an homage to the fate of Woody Harrelson’s character in The Thin Red Line is alright with me. 😉
neutral · AI labelView post →Hmm. Okay, I haven't paid much attention to that. Although Tropic Thunder does seem to be available for streaming on several major platforms at the moment. Paramount, Amazon, Apple, Tubi, to name a few.
neutral · AI labelView post →Needing a corny laugh. Yep watching Tropic Thunder a hilarious film. Robert Downey and Tom Cruise kill it in this movie lol #filmsky #tropicthunder
positive · AI labelView post →Make Tropic Thunder II With Jay Mohr in blackface doing Tracey Morgan’s voice for the entire film you cowards
neutral · AI labelView post →Imagine if someone made a movie about an established well liked actor, trying to go for a try hard Oscar bait campaign, only for it to flop and ruin his career/reputation Like the Simple Jack bit in Tropic Thunder, but treated seriously cause thats how Hollywood likes its Oscar Bait
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, he's thinking of the movie Tropic Thunder
neutral · AI labelView post →Tom Cruise in my opinion is not an actor he is a movie star. He literally plays the same character in every film with the exception of his cameo in Tropic Thunder which was quite entertaining.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s fine if you like it. But this movie and Tropic Thunder are two cultural milestones for millennials that find thoroughly hateful in nearly every regard
negative · AI labelView post →As I watch "Severance" I can't help but think of this... Ben Stiller as Tugg Speedman as Simple Jack in the movie-within-a-movie "Simple Jack" from the movie "Tropic Thunder". Acrylic on canvas 9"x12" 2025 Available at Ghoulorama.storenvy.com #benstiller #painting #contemporaryart
neutral · AI labelView post →The phrase "fuck your own face" is a notable line delivered by Tom Cruise's character, Les Grossman, in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder youtu.be/Odd8Zdhuj9o?...
neutral · AI labelView post →@ripperoni.com have you seen Tropic Thunder? it not we need to do a movie night
neutral · AI labelView post →All I know of it was a trailer I saw before another movie. I sat there the whole time going *What is this madness?* before being blindsided by the Cruise credit. Afterward, I realized that was why the dancing guy reminded me of Tropic Thunder. Is it as insane as the trailer made it out to be?
neutral · AI labelView post →guy watched the tom cruise parts of Tropic Thunder and thought "whole movie of this"
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder is so crazy because like lord of the rings it’s the one thing film nerds and total normies can agree on
neutral · AI labelView post →Tropic Thunder singlehandedly killed the 'Actor desperate for an Oscar nomination plays a disabled person' genre of film. In this house, Ben Stiller is a hero. End of story!
neutral · AI labelView post →Greatest DVD commentary ever post: RDJ stays in character for commentary of Tropic Thunder, and drops black affectation for Australian at that point in the film. Spinal Tap guys are IN CHARACTER. Ebert Dark City is legend. Carpenter & Russell are always fun. unclefishbits.com/the-greatest...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Robert Downey Jr's character in Tropic Thunder defends black representation in film"
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Stiller Slams White House for Using Tropic Thunder Clip and Demands They Remove It: 'War Is Not a Movie'
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Stiller is a pampered, cowardly star in a rut who unwittingly ends up in the jungle, initially thinks that it’s all artificial for his benefit & eventually defeats the native enemies. Madagascar & Tropic Thunder are the same film.
neutral · AI labelView post →A good metaphor for how I feel about my gender presentation is like watching a film with Tom Cruise Whatever role he's playing (maybe with the exception of the guy from Tropic Thunder), and no matter how hard I try, I don't see him as [insert character name here], he's just always Tom Cruise
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