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THR.com calls "Tropic Thunder" "a broad action comedy that manages to mix subtlety with satire." Creator Ben Stiller "imagines a lost patrol of self-absorbed yet terminally insecure actors working on a war movie to end all war movies in Southeast Asia only to wind up in a real-life combat with narco-terrorists." (Co-creator Etan Cohen's previous works include "My Wife is Retarded" and "Idiocracy."). Rolling Stone raved about the movie: "Think of all the ways you can hurt yourself laughing, as in... (The Trentonian, NJ)
Inconsistent 'Thunder'gets 3.5 stars Aug 12, 2008
Actors playing soldiers in "Tropic Thunder" find themselves in a real war in this Ben Stiller sendup of Vietnam war movies starring Stiller, Nick Nolte, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black. More on this topic. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Disability groups vs. 'Tropic Thunder' Aug 12, 2008
The movie, opening Wednesday, is about ignorant actors trapped in the jungle while making a war movie and includes a sequence in which the actors discuss playing mentally challenged characters using disparaging terms. Disability rights groups including the Special Olympics staged a protest at Tropic Thunder's premiere. (USA Today -- Life)
Downey Jr. pushes boundaries Aug 12, 2008
He undergoes his crazy transformation to play an African-American character in a new war movie ... Tropic Thunder satirizes the shooting of Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Deer Hunter, Hamburger Hill and other Vietnam war movies. (Jam! Showbiz)
Action 'war' film makes fun of Hollywood Aug 11, 2008
"Tropic Thunder" is a comedy about actors in a war movie who wind up in real danger ... "Tropic Thunder" is a comedy about actors who film a war movie and end up in real danger. (Fresno Bee)
'Tropic Thunder' comics soldier forward Aug 11, 2008
So Stiller, who co-wrote, directed and stars in the film, recruited his friend and a platoon of other heavyweights - including , and - for the tale of a band of hapless actors trying to film a war movie in the jungle, only to run afoul of a real army of drug runners ... Then we just ended up having a Hawaiian priestess come, and she started crying for the land because she was upset that she felt like we were going to do real damage to it because we were doing a war movie there. (New York Daily News)
Pegg's Glorious New Role? Aug 9, 2008
Tarantino's film borrows its title from Enzo Castellari's 1970s war film of the same name, but uses it as a jumping off point to explore his own love of exploitation and war movies. For a full review of the original film. (IGN FilmForce)
Top 10 War Comedies Aug 9, 2008
Dramas, action-adventures, romances, even a good old fashioned straight-forward war movie ... Still, with Tropic Thunder about to drop its gag payload at cinemas, we take cover in the cinematic undergrowth before unleashing the top 10 war movies most likely to shatter your funny bones. (IGN FilmForce)
Playing war gets serious in 'Thunder' Aug 9, 2008
" In fact, a variant of that Spielbergian nightmare manifests in one scene as insanely self-obsessed movie stars working on a bloated Vietnam epic suddenly find themselves facing real bad guys deep in a Southeast Asian jungle. The relaxed and friendly filmmaker said the idea germinated when his friends were attending boot camps for those '80s war movies. Their claims of being profoundly affected by the safety-netted, Reader's Digest versions of what actual troops go through struck the comedian... (San Francisco Chronicle)
HERBERT "HERB" BISHOP Aug 7, 2008
Herb enjoyed fishing, hunting especially deer hunting, flower gardening, playing poker, and watching television, especially war movies. He especially loved spending time with his grandchildren. (Ogden Reporter, IA)
Newsweek: Ben Stiller, A-list director? Aug 7, 2008
This raucous, low-down commentary on Hollywood filmmaking, war movies, narcissistic actors and the thin line between makebelieve and reality is the most giddily entertaining, wickedly smart and cinematically satisfying comedy in a season overloaded with yuk-'em-ups. If there's any justice, "Thunder" (which opens Aug. 13) should be the breakthrough moment for Stiller as a director. (MSNBC -- News)
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. Visit Camp Pendleton for Screening of 'Tropic Thunder' Aug 7, 2008
"I think they really got a kick out of seeing a bunch of spoiled actors complaining about how hard it is to do a war movie. But seriously, it was really hard. We almost did a boot camp, but then decided on a cast dinner instead.". Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in this action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the biggest war film ever. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Cursing Tom Cruise to Shock with Bad Language in New Film Aug 6, 2008
Stiller reveals, "We knew we were locked into an R-rating from the language in the beginning of the movie anyway, from all the war-movie dialogue."You just have to do that if you're doing a war movie. I think a lot of these studio guys talk like that. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Co-stars amazed by Tom Cruise in new comedy Aug 6, 2008
The "Meet the Parents" actor added: "We knew we were locked into an R-rating from the language in the beginning of the movie anyway, from all the war movie dialogue. "You just have to do that if you're doing a war movie. I think a lot of these studio guys talk like that. (Xinhuanet, China)
Robert Downey jnr denies 'channeling' Russell Crowe Aug 5, 2008
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. August 5, 2008 - 2:27PM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Actors thunder onto Marine base for movie screening Aug 5, 2008
Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black choppered into the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base on Sunday evening for a special USO screening of the comedy, about selfish, pampered actors who go overseas to make a war movie and accidentally provoke real jungle warlords ... With Black and Downey by his side, Stiller told the service members and their families packed into the 1,300-seat theater at the base that he was inspired by actors from war movies who brag about the intensity of their... (USA Today -- Life)
NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/August 11, 2008 Issue Aug 4, 2008
What He Really Wants to Do is Direct" (p. 54). Senior Editor David Ansen reviews Ben Stiller's new movie "Tropic Thunder," calling it the funniest movie of the summer. The movie is a raucous, low-down commentary on Hollywood filmmaking, war movies, narcissistic actors and the thin line between make-believe and reality and it's giddily entertaining. And it should be Stiller's breakthrough moment as a director. TIP SHEET: "Vacations a Short Drive Away" (p. 60). Special Correspondent Tara... (PR Newswire)
Female Agents Aug 2, 2008
The exceptions make up many of the greatest war movies - the fearless ones, such as Kubrick's Paths Of Glory, or Lewis Milestone's All Quiet On The Western Front - but most filmmakers still look for heroes and honour in war, which is odd, given what war is usually like. And yes, Australian war movies are just as guilty of this heroic myth-making. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* [FILMREVIEW] Whose historical truth is this? Aug 1, 2008
With Assembly, Feng not only sets a new benchmark for Chinese war movies, but has proven himself to be a talented blockbuster maker who excels in different genres. This story has been viewed 294 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Late-summer comedies 'Tropic,' 'Express' have an edge Aug 1, 2008 'If I want a payday once or twice a year, I go for the horror' Jul 25, 2008 Trading Tex not as simple as some think Jul 22, 2008 Theater review: Big cast and a big sound underscore 'Yank!' Jul 15, 2008 Keepin' It Reel Podcast, Episode 22 Jul 14, 2008 • The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre Jul 7, 2008 Good men, bad war Jul 7, 2008 Back in the day, we ate at home and walked to school Jul 6, 2008 War Movie: The Dirty Dozen (1967) Jul 5, 2008 How to fight our gun-obsessed culture? Burn your copy of 'The Godfather' and push for a $20 tax on each bullet sold Jul 2, 2008 JAY BOOKMAN: As time goes by, one movie's magic lives on Jun 22, 2008 Passchendaele to open the Toronto International Film Fest Jun 20, 2008 Making sense of the AFI's 'Top 10 Films in 10 Genres' list Jun 19, 2008 Live Free or Die Hard Director a Good Choice To Helm Gears of ... Jun 18, 2008 Critic's corner Jun 17, 2008 Tim Russert: A Custodian's leave Jun 17, 2008 The week's best films on TV Jun 14, 2008 THE IMPENETRABLE HULK Jun 12, 2008 Dripping Gore Jun 12, 2008 Barack Obama's Tinseltown Trip Jun 11, 2008 Spike Lee on Eastwood Flap: 'We're Not on a Plantation' Jun 10, 2008 Hollywoods Unions Battle It Out Jun 10, 2008 Spike Lee Talks About The Importance Of 'Miracle At St. Anna,' Says It's A Struggle To Make James Brown Biopic Jun 9, 2008 Men behaving manly Jun 8, 2008 CLINT EASTWOOD: SPIKE LEE SHOULD SHUT HIS FACE... Jun 6, 2008 Campaign 2008 Movie of the Week Project Jun 6, 2008 Web cam to link father in Iraqwith his newborn son Jun 5, 2008 Kill, kill, kill: Presidential bloodlust Jun 4, 2008 Top 10 Movies With Balls Jun 2, 2008 Spoiling Sex and the City May 31, 2008 It's more fun when you join in the conversation May 30, 2008 Holding down the fort May 30, 2008 Cannes 2008: Tarantino Announces Next Project May 29, 2008 Waiting, debating, and fighting in wartime Lebanon May 29, 2008 Casey: Fading memories of Memorial Day May 29, 2008 A Cobbled Character May 25, 2008 Soderbergh, Tarantino: Warrior Auteurs May 23, 2008 Spiking Clint May 21, 2008 Clint, Angelina and the movie with no name May 21, 2008 My View: Copiers don't copy technology's parade May 20, 2008 Ari Folman's journey into a heart of darkness May 20, 2008 'Narnia' fantasy charges into battle mode with 'Prince Caspian' May 16, 2008 Hot summer movies May 16, 2008 Movie review: 'Narnia' sequel lacks magic May 16, 2008 "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," a graver fantasy May 16, 2008 Cartoon Pandas, Animated Nightmares May 16, 2008 BREATHLESS AND TIMELESS May 15, 2008 A WAR FLICK WITH HONOR May 12, 2008 Lodi's National Guard soldiers come home quietly; troops adjusting to life outside Iraq May 10, 2008 Summer comedies just might deliver laughs May 9, 2008 The Iraq movie we've been waiting for May 8, 2008 Where Have All the Moguls Gone? May 5, 2008 Critics' Picks May 3, 2008 Soderbergh Wants The Girlfriend Experience May 2, 2008 * With Iron Man,Downey winks at his past May 2, 2008 Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz Apr 23, 2008 Charlie Wilson's War Apr 22, 2008 Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr mimics Russell Apr 20, 2008 Robert Downey Jr.: Back from the Brink Apr 17, 2008 Letters for Sunday, April 13, 2008 Apr 14, 2008 Make football, not war Apr 10, 2008 Catch some shut-eye during odd hotel hours Apr 9, 2008 Errol Morris want people to know hes funny Apr 9, 2008 Newest "Indiana Jones" being filmed on Big Island (1) Apr 8, 2008 Leatherheads pays homage to an era in film and sports Apr 5, 2008
13) is Tropic Thunder, which lampoons over-earnest '80s war movies and inside-Hollywood stupidity. Featured is an elite force of funny men headed by director/co-writer/co-producer Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. There's even a disguised weapon of mass hilarity: Tom Cruise, in bald cap and blubber suit, as an out-of-control studio executive. (USA Today -- Life)
Box Office Boffo Jul 29, 2008
Pic is about a dysfunctional bunch of actors who are filming a war movie, only to stumble upon a real war. It certainly sounds like it could be funny, what with Downey playing an actor who takes a pill that makes him an African-American and Tom Cruise making a cameo as a foul-mouthed and overweight studio exec who hurls an unmentionable obscenity. (Variety)
He told a reporter that this dates back to a childhood viewing of The Naked and The Dead, the Pacific War movie based on Norman Mailer's book. "In it, there was this translucent, lime-green snake in all its VistaVision, Cinemascope glory. It freaked me out.". (Globe and Mail)
sixfourthree, from you question at end of last blog: I d probably go Full Metal Jacket as my favorite war movie (and that Eastwood one a few years back was great, the first of the two he did in succession). As for Generation Kill, to me it s a whole different thing that Band of Brothers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
With its snappy humor, period dialogue and perfectly diverse assemblage of characters, it takes after those old war movies that reveled in throwing together ragtag bands of guys to bond in battle. For Zohar, Yank. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Additionally, we look back on an office favorite, Red Dawn, which is scheduled for an update, and turn to the future with news on Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino's long-gestating war movie. Finally, we prophesize the coming weekend's box office win 00000B60 ner, asking some pointed questions to our readers about Hellboy II, as well as comparing Eddie Murphy's new film Meet Dave to the many films he's made in recent years where he conceals his own mug in favor of a prosthetically-enhanced... (IGN FilmForce)
The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre - Los Angeles Times ... The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre ... "It is the self-licking ice cream cone of Hollywood: They make a war movie based on another war movie," Breasseale said. (Q13.com, WA)
When Marines trade insults or a soldier with a camcorder quips, "CNN would definitely pay for drama like that, bro. That shit was extreme!" we're offered a glimpse of the surreal experience of modern warfare that's very different from either romanticized, heroic war movies like "Saving Private Ryan" or nightmare scenarios like "The Thin Red Line" or "Platoon." Unlike the nervous, reluctant rookie soldiers we've been introduced to so many times before, the 1st Recon Marines remain unnaturally... (Salon)
When we got in trouble for scooching around like idiots in class, the nuns would interrogate us like a war movie. "Tell me what you find funny about the word 'bird'?" demanded Sister Mary, a lamp shining on my face in a dark room. (New Haven Register, CT)
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine & Charles Bronson Star in WW II Film. Lee Marvin leads a group of G.I. convicts on a suicidal mission in Nazi-occupied France in The Dirty Dozen. (Suite101.com)
Of course, banning war movies are no-brainers. Burn you copies of "Godfather" and "Goodfellas." Only allow your offspring to view more wholesome shows such as "Beach Blanket Bingo" or "Sex in the City.". (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
"Casablanca" is many things -- a date movie, a chick flick, a war movie, a spy thriller. But it is also a profoundly political movie about the importance of surrendering individual desires for the greater common good. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Actor and director Paul Gross on the set of the war movie Passchendaele. Colleen De Neve/Calgary Herald Font. (Canada.com)
what's with all the war movies included there ... For example: *Ensemble war movies with lots of actors who went on to be big on television. (Entertainment Weekly)
Live Free or Die Hard Director a Good Choice To Helm Gears of War Movie ... Live Free or Die Hard Director a Good Choice To Helm Gears of War Movie. (MTV.com)
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Among this year's stash is a shirt worn by John Wayne in "The Green Berets" and an original costume from the Civil War movie classic "Gone With The Wind.". Georgetown ghosts. (Human Events Online)
A routine second world war movie reinforced with some decent characterisation. It's set on the front line in Italy, with Oscar-nominated Mickey Rooney as a soldier who, in between the fighting, wins $30,000 in a dramatic game of craps (that's dice): but will he survive to get the dosh home. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The result is an Incredible Hulk so violent that it suggests a war movie. (In three big combat scenes, the Unjolly Green Giant demolishes a Brazilian soda-bottling plant, a college campus that evokes Kent State and Harlem s 125th Street. (New York Press)
Among this year's stash is a shirt worn by John Wayne in "The Green Berets" and an original costume from the Civil War movie classic "Gone With The Wind.". Lou seeks legacy. (Townhall.com)
It's a war of words over war movies. While out promoting his own war flick, "Miracle at St. Anna," which features a WWII unit comprised of African-American soldiers, Lee complained about the absence of African-American actors in Eastwood's films, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima.". (Newsmax)
And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II." Related Stories While promoting his own war movie, "Miracle at St. Anna," about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought the Germans in Italy during World War II, Lee said Eastwood's Iwo Jima movie "Flags of Our Fathers" lacked a single African-American. "There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having... (Fox News)
Oddly, theyre having a war of words over war movies. While out promoting his own war flick, Miracle at St. Anna, which features a World War II unit comprised of African-American soldiers, Lee complained about the absence of African-American actors in Eastwood's films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. (Newsmax)
MTV: I suppose the obvious question is, why a Spike Lee war movie ... MTV: You recently had some words with Clint Eastwood over war movies. (VHI.com -- Music News)
"It's fun for people to watch to see how cavalier they are on the surface about the dangers inherent in their jobs. It's entertaining when someone at a bar talks about their dangerous job and they're casual about it. When you see them on TV they tend to have the same sort of bring-it-on attitude. People at home are like, 'Would I do that? Could I do that?' It's kind of like when you're watching a war movie and think, 'Would I run out of the trenches and attack that machine gun nest?' ". Tough... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The "he" is Spike Lee, and the reason Eastwood is asking is because of something Lee had said about Eastwood's Iwo Jima movie Flags of Our Fathers, while promoting his own war movie, Miracle at St Anna, about a black US unit in the second world war. Lee had noted the lack of African-Americans in Eastwood's movie and told reporters: "That was his version. The negro version did not exist.". (The Drudge Report)
We loved it then we killed it: America doesn t like war movies with unhappy endings. The What the Hell is Oliver on option. (Human Events Online)
" Always a Marine, Robert usually isn't one to show emotion, said his father, David. And he always knew he wanted to be a Marine, David Donar said. "He has a collection of war movies that he would watch all the time," the grandfather said. ". He's most proud of the ribbon he has for receiving fire and returning fire. (Athens Banner-Herald)
I was probably five or six and sitting with my father in a movie house off New York's Times Square - one of the slightly seedy theaters of that dawn of the 1950s moment that tended to show double or triple feature B-Westerns or war movies. We were catching some old oater which, as I recall, began with a stagecoach careening dramatically down the main street of a cow town. (Asia Times Online)
"Yes, darling, I liked Atonement too, but a war movie should have a) loads of bloody violence in it; b) twelve desperate, dangerous, death-row facing military convicts forced on a virtual suicide mission against the Nazi to mitigate their sentence; c) Lee Marvin, who in ancient times was used to melt ice as a superior alternative to grit, being directed by d) legendarily hard boiled director Robert Aldrich. Can we watch that instead? Please stop crying.". Man Moment: The Field Training Exercise,... (IGN FilmForce)
So many audience members were sobbing throughout my screening, and I was struck by hearing more crying in that movie than during any serious war movie or mourning scene I've watched in a looong time. I left thinking, Geez, people are really hurting for love. (Slate)
After the first 20 minutes (which are fantastic) Ryan becomes a fairly standard and sadly mundane war movie, nothing new under the Normandy sun. Shawshank continuously overplays its hand, bludgeoning the audience with life lessons when a more subtle approach would have been more effective. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Ostensibly a war movie, Beaufort actually feels more like a character study of the type of men who become Israeli soldiers. Since service is compulsory, the boys of Beaufort have a very different very different attitude than the soldiers in (modern) American war movies, who all chose to sign up for specific reasons. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
The title is taken from the American name given to the 1977 Italian war movie Quel maledetto treno blindato, but instead of a straight remake, Tarantino intends Inglorious Bastards to be an homage to both the movie and other war fare including The Dirty Dozen, Cross of Iron and The Great Escape. QT wouldn't offer up any more info, but nonetheless, this news is rather exciting. (IGN FilmForce)
"Beaufort" is a solid war movie whose Israeli army soldiers anxiously await permission to go home. It's set at the title outpost, a historic castle in Southern Lebanon, during the South Lebanon conflict not long before Israel pulled out in 2000. (Boston Globe)
There are the usual parades, the occasional war movie marathon and a few memorial services, but each year, public understanding and interest in the true purpose of the holiday seems to decline. This is an especially odd development for a nation at war. (Medford Transcript, MA)
"Grace Is Gone" depicts a side of the Iraq war, the American home front, that has been barely touched in other Iraq war movies. It is politically neutral. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
It's the woodsiest war movie ever, and less along march than an endless slog. Directors often say that their favorite version of one of their films was the 4hr. (Time.com)
" Lee's movie is about four black GI's trapped behind enemy lines in 1944. In Cannes, he complained about the lack of black faces in Eastwood's war movies, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima. " Spewed Lee: "His version: The Negro soldier did not exist. (New York Post -- Gossip)
He has made westerns, whodunits, war movies and even comedies, but J. Michael Straczynski's script for this film, which sticks very close to the almost unbelievable facts of a real 1928 kidnapping case and its aftermath, is not quite any of those things. This story is episodic, ungainly and highly ambiguous. (Salon)
It looked like one of those radio phones you see in war movies. It was a box about the size of toaster with a normal phone handset attached to it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
"But it's not a war movie," Forman says. " It wasn't meant to be.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
With the book's prose removed, too, "Prince Caspian" is more obviously a war movie for young audiences, which made sense when Lewis was writing in the wake of World War II and makes an unfortunate kind of sense today. Specifically, it's about how to deal with conflict in the absence of God. (Boston Globe)
Three self-absorbed actors (Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.) find themselves in the middle of a real combat zone when the realism-obsessed director of a war movie they're starring in goes off the deep end. The good: It's Stiller's return to writing and directing after 2001's Zoolander. (The Clarion-Ledger)
They take a fantasy story and simplify it to the point that it's just a war movie - about a war that never happened, featuring a side that can't lose. The stakes aren't particularly high, either. (San Francisco Chronicle)
In spite of this hint of romance, what ensues is basically a war movie, with elaborate battle sequences in a castle courtyard and on a grassy plain, accompanied by thundering hoofbeats, whizzing arrows, clanking swords and Harry Gregson-Williams's rousing score. These sections are ostensibly what the public wants to see, and certainly what the producers pay heavily to bring to life. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Waltz With Bashir should touch all those who see it both the vast majority who have been raised on gung-ho war movies, and the small minority who find that the truth is the opposite of the fiction. "It's like nothing you've seen in American movies," Forman has said. (Time.com)
Even Les Carabiniers, his abstract war burlesque, puts every politically biased Iraq War movie to shame. Above all, these films are lively and extraordinarily beautiful to behold. (New York Press)
May 12, 2008 -- HOLLYWOOD seems to have concluded that war movies don't sell. But "Prince Caspian" seems likely to prove the opposite. (New York Post -- Opinions)
During their time off, the troops watched a lot of movies to pass time and looked forward to new titles, though Somera said war movies aren't exactly favorites. He hadn't even thought about missing TV shows, but found himself enjoying DVDs of old "Saturday Night Live" and "Mad TV" episodes. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
The biggest and most anticipated (by me, anyway) movie on this list is a big-budget comedy about a group of actors who are abandoned by their frustrated director right in the middle of filming a war movie in the jungle. With that great, Three Amigos -esque premise and the all-star cast (which includes Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Tom Cruise, Tobey Maguire, and Robert Downey Jr. as a method actor so intense that he dyes his skin black for a role), this movie is pretty much guaranteed to open big and... (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
In an ordinary war movie, he'd be either the guy who gets tragically killed or the one who learns painful lessons and comes home as a sobered-up grown man. In this movie, he's a guy who barely notices crossing the line that separates soldier from murderer. (Salon)
I refer to war movies that present the American military in a bad light ... I refer to war movies that present the American military in a bad light. (Townhall.com)
A full-tilt, pulse-pounding Iraq-war movie; deep thoughts from Jack Handey; a site for old Suck fans and more ... Yes, we all know what happens to Iraq-war movies in the marketplace of ideas ... But forget about that for the moment, because Nick Broomfield's "Battle for Haditha" -- a largely improvised fictional docudrama whose cast includes ex-Marines and Iraqi refugees -- is the closest thing this conflict has produced to a "Paths of Glory" or an "All Quiet on the Western Front." It's a... (Salon)
Guevara's biopic will be a war movie. Director will make a film about the South American revolutionary. (IGN FilmForce)
Later this summer he will show up as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder, a comedy that throws multiple grenades at war movie cliches. Downeys character is an extremely mannered Australian Method actor who undergoes a pigment change to play a soulful black soldier. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Action flicks and war movies. I used to admire the Americans. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Variety delivers many ways to get your entertainment news. Choose the one that's best for you. (Variety)
Downey Jr sends up the Oscar-winning Australian in Tropic Thunder, a satirical comedy about film-making and war movies 00004000. He plays Australian method actor Kirk Lazarus, a Caucasian who is so committed to his craft that he medically alters the pigment of his skin to play an African-American army sergeant. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Later this summer, Downey will appear as an Australian Method actor who is overly committed to playing a black soldier in Ben Stiller's raucous satire of filmmaking and war movies, Tropic Thunder. And in the fall comes another plum role, as a journalist who discovers a schizophrenic Juilliard violinist (Jamie Foxx) living on the streets of Los Angeles in Joe Wright's drama The Soloist. (Time.com)
sdraoul wrote on Apr 12, 2008 10:56 PM:Another Hollywood bust of an anti-Bush anti-Iraq War movie hits the screens and flops ... Thus, "Stop-Loss" joins the parade of anti-Bush anti-Iraq war movies that are losers int he eyes of the American movie goer. (North County Times)
There's a strange little war movie living inside "Leatherheads." It has the same flippant tone as the rest of the romantic comedy an awkward fit and is concerned with the effect of journalism ethics on post-war morale. Hmm. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Waking up to a horror movie or war movie on high volume is a scary experience. Besides, the guy next door might have forgotten his earplugs. (MSNBC -- Travel)
LOS ANGELES - After two war movies, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris wants people to know that he really is a funny guy. . (MSNBC -- News)
Ben Stiller stars in the 100 million comedy about actors in a war movie who unexpectedly face real fighting. Other actors cast in the new "Indiana Jones" movie include Shia LeBeouf, Cate Blanchet, Jim Broadbent, John Hurt and Ray Winstone. (Helena Independent Record)
The last time Clooney made a movie as an ode to a bygone era was The Good German in 2006, which was directed by Steven Soderbergh as a 1940s war movie. That movie wasn't a success, and although Leatherheads is occasionally amusing, it's not a success either. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
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