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Wanna Check Out The TROPIC THUNDER Teaser Site Right Freakin’ Now?!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
You do. You may not know it yet, but you do.
I’ve been hearing great things about this script ever since last year’s now-legendary round-table reading, where guys like Bill Hader and Danny McBride were destroying with regularity, and where I hear this thing really came to life. I love the premise (which strikes me as vaguely THREE AMIGOS, which is never a bad thing), and I dearly love that Robert Downey Jr. photo from earlier this week, and now...
... well, as long as you pass the age-restriction test, you can see a quick tease of the trailer that we'll see a week from Monday, and judge for yourself whether this one looks like it lives up to the hype. I am now officially onboard the TROPIC THUNDER train, and I can’t wait for this one to hit theaters.
Check it out right here, RIGHT NOW, motherfuckers, and watch Mother Nature piss her pantsuit!!
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
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how exactly is this exclusive?
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Is this the 80's?
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best trailer eva...
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It was just a glorified cast list.
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The Vietnam war was hilarious, who knew.
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Let us Canadians see it.
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It looked pretty f'n cool.
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The stupid age verifications never work for me.
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looks good..
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Didn't show very much but the "piss her pansuit" line was funny, and loved the cigar chomping black man Downey.
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Why did they even bother casting Terrence Howard? RDJ could clearly play James Rhodes as well!
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It's about a film crew making a Vietnam movie.
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to watch a damn preview?
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This could be funny or it could suck. Please don't suck... It's slated for August. Isn't that Summer Blockbuster Leftover territory? The ones that couldn't fit the bill during the real season get put in this slot... Then again, didn't Unforgiven come out in August? This could be a best Picture!! Haha
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Cause it sucks like he did.
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Jesus, could a simple "what's your birthday?" work? NO! Instead they have to go through government databases looking for your Driver's License.
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That's right folks, this is the thin edge of the wedge... in the very very near future you'll have to show your ID card to take a shit in your own toilet. Welcome to the future.
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is because it's a teaser and not a trailer. There is a difference. Just clearing that up for some folks here not understanding why this doesn't tell more about the story.
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My name and birthday don't work, does anyone know a way I can see this thing?
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Would have been nice.
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bahahahaaaaa, "driver's license" hahaha yes we all fell for that one you fascist cunts.
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This is going to be mother f**king awesome!!
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I hope he wiped the jungle with those pussies Stiller and Black!
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...everybody that actually plugged in your real info and still had it not recognize you: This is how accurate all the government databases will be. Terrorism? No-Fly list? Tax evasion? Real ID? All are/will be massively prone to error and fraud.
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McConaughey? Didn't they bring him in to replace Owen? Guess they're really keeping him and Cruise top secret...
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All that age check id crap, for one "motherfucker." I'm severely disappointed. They could have thrown in some tits for good measure.
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Apparently the film is stuffed with them.
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Use it, and Love it!
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Why? For a teaser that doesn't show anything? Fuck that. I'm keeping my oath and never filling one of those things out (as I'm sure you'll all remember my pissed-offedness for the last age verification trailer).
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cause he's cool in Robert Zemeckisesses'ssss Frightners
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Thank you TV.... I use that for fake registration everywhere. Not here though! Of course not.
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http://www.tropicthunder.com/teaser.swf
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how does this ID verification work? Why are they assuming I am a liar? Where do they get their information from, and can nefarious people steal it? This is a trend that must be reversed, and the only weapon I have is my attention, which I will be placing somewhere else.
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Worst teaser ever, and way too much fucking hassle to watch. Asshole.
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I am fucking IN!!! I love when Nolte just goes batshit crazy, and as long as no one Bogarts too much screentime (*ahem* Stiller *cough, cough*) this could be a LOT of fun.
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TROPIC THUNDER, OH YEAH!
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Take that American government, which I obviously did not just play 4 da phool.
The teaser doesn't give much away, but I was already looking forward to this, so it's all good... or at least it didn't suck. -
Use white pages, stick in a name from that with zip code, use birth date over age of 18.. boo yeah. Suck on that Big Brutha !
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hulk trailer to be run this wednesday....and rumors of a sopranos movie are resurfacing again....and you heard it hear first
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and the whole, "we know who you are" id check thing, really weirds me out....so i am gonna download that fucker and put it on youtube
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And for the majority of the global population...
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Mar 07, 2008 8:41:32 PM CST
Oh and trailer did suck. Just the ending battle cry was good.
by happybunni
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you mean not exclusive. /Film has this too and beat you to it.
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I like it.
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and over 18 and it should work..worked for me.
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i'm probably old enough to be y'alls' niggas' ancestor.
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That looked more authentically vietnam than ANY of those serious films!
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and it worked
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Anyone else notice that the screenplay was co-written by Etan Cohen? Think that's a real writer? or just trying to be a joke on Ethan Coen..
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Funny stuff right there. I especially like the tagline for the movie, "SHIT BLOWS UP."
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All I know is that Mr. Asdf Asdf, born in 1910 and living at zip code 12345, worked just fine.
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same dude....etan is hebrew for ethan
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IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK ME AND IT FUCKING IS ANNOYING AS HELL.
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-towlie
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Great, you know I thought MAYBE AICN would ween off this guy. But no TB'ers bend over and get ready to a big butt plug of updates about anything this guy does. May as well call this TMZ for Danny McBride. He is mildly funny. But something tells me he isn't the keystone that is going to make this movie.
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We're in a real war. This movie will bomb harder than a Kate Beckinsale flick.
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is tom cruise reprising his rol from Born on the fourth of July?
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Date doesn't seem to matter.
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Mar 07, 2008 10:53:59 PM CST
Etan Cohen and Ethan Cohen are two different people...
by filmcritic3000
Etan Cohen co-wrote "Idiocracy" and has written episodes of "Beavis and Butt-Head", "King Of The Hill" and an episode of "American Dad", among other things.
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...i think it'll be great. Zoolander is far from a great movie but it's a good one to watch every so often.
And what the hell...Justin Theroux co-screenwriter? Why isn't he more popular? He was funny as hell in American Psycho and anything he does with the Stella boys is spot on. -
I meant if it's as funny as Zoolander it'll be just fine. Can't call a movie great then compare it to one that I said isn't great, now can I?
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That is the single best teaser trailer I have ever seen. Period.
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that's a great question. i wonder why theroux isn't in this, or if he is, why his part isn't bigger? he's great, i loved him in The Baxter. Imagine if the Apatow crew teamed up with the Stella gang? I guess it's sorta happening with Rudd and Jane Lynch in Wain's Little Big Men, but I'd like to see Rogen and Showalter go head to head in something, like some movie about a bar trivia contest.
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thanks for the info about Etan Cohen. I'm a big fan Idiocracy and KOTH. Good to know he has a pedigree.
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The couple of fakies I tried didn't work. :( And no way in hell am I putting in my actual information.
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I guess since their site doesn't work I'm not going to waste my time with their movie!
I tried three times to get past the stupid verification crap.
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WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH AICN AND THEIR GOD-DAMNED VIDEO LINKS? THEY GET TOO DAMNED LAZY TO EMBED THE VIDEO INTO THE PAGE?
IT DOESN'T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO LEARN HOW TO DO THIS! AFTER ALL, THEY USED TO DO IT. -
Dude, that's actually a really good idea for a movie, especially for those two. Though I do think Showalter would mop the floor with Rogen.
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Alas, it seems if you're Canadian you won't be enjoying this trailer.
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This link will take you straight to the teaser without the age verification:
http://www.tropicthunder.com/teaser.swf
I got a javascript error on the page in ie7, but firefox loaded it fine. -
hot dog!
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....just kidding.
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and the hallucinated still of blackfaced Downey. Other than that, I'l wait for a REAL trailer. Thanks.
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Did I miss something in that trailer or is Robert Downey Jr. playing a black marine in Vietnam war movie???
Good God I love it! -
....Looks like this is going to be viewed via illegal download for me, just like The Foot Fist Way. Fuck you for treating your fans like shit.
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Thanks to the above, most generous poster who provided the trailer link, I will pay to see this movie. Your fucking lucky, Mr. Faggot Totalitarian Fuckhead Film Studio. Shit Blows Up. I like it.
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is this movie only getting released in the US, or didn't they think that anyone else would want to take a look?
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they got john toll cinematographer is really fun detail. looks good.
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Someone mentioned Idiocracy earlier. We are heading down that route. This could be great or not. I gotta admit Downey looks great. Hmmm a black guy in a war movie and his name is Jackson. Never saw that coming. Granted it's the actor, but still.
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...so I have to fuck around making up some imaginary name and 'zip code' just to sit through a non trailer. Thanks. Way to piss people off. Hope whoever you vote for in November strips this stupid censorship and paranoia bullshit out of your country, like the customs checks and this kinda crap.
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Mar 08, 2008 7:31:49 AM CST
Wait, does that say ETHAN COEN is one of the screenwriters?
by reynard muldrake
That's what it says below - unless there's another ethan coen.
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too herkyjerky...wtf.
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Start with Nolte, so people think they're seeing a "real" action movie, and then have the cast get more ludicrous as it continues. But what do I know?
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Stupid age verifications are retarded. I don't know how anyone says they have troubles with 'em.
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was someone trying to stuff the intestines back in with the end of a rifle.
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It's the usual marketing crap - it purposely doesn't work a few times. They assume they'll then get a portion of the entries correct, using the numbers for some sort of marketing bullshit. Blah, blah, blah. They obviously can't verify a person's age with the requested info
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Age verification *sniff*...bullshit, can't get *cry!* stupid Big Brother! Wah! Wah! Wah! ...*sniff* Canadian...you just wait! ...stupid Bush Administration...ID card...Wahhhhh!
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Audiences are adopting a three strikes and your out policy regarding tom Cruise. Movie one, lions for Lambs bombed. Tropic thunder...I have no idea, if that will be good or bad but if Valkyrie bmbs or what ever its called bombs cruise's career is as good as over. then there is the hardy men.
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Cloverfield opened in January in the US. opened here in feb. and its gone. Cloverfield didnt even last a month. Thats bad.
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i'd wager most tom "Scientology" cruise has already struck out in most people's minds.
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"most" got left in that posting by accident. cruise is still a crazy, cultist... but at least scientology is making money off him.
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yeah not like anyone from any other country in the world wants to see this or anything. fuckers.
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might as well go on a rant. when did using quicktime no longer become cool? OMG you can have flames overtop of the video!!! thats totally worth using a shitty media player
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The age verification uses state's PUBLIC databases to make matches. You need to have an ID, DL, or other public state record for it to work. It has has nothing to do with the federal government. Also, state's don't track access to this information so you shouldn't worry.
I know this because I work for Sony in culver city and we've implemented it in the past on other releases. -
Asdf Asdf, born in 1910 and living at zip code 12345
Seriously, not that hard. I don't live in the US and it worked fine. -
It's not hard to get around, but the site/tease is part of the US marketing campaign. Studios are going to start blocking/giving access to certain content based on your location using your IP address.
In other words, you won't be able to access a US movie site unless you're on the continental US. There will be a few exceptions. Warner Bros. and Disney have similar programs that they're rolling out with marketing on movies this summer. Disney uses it to block worldwide viewership of ABC.com's online televsion episodes. -
For anyone wanting to access the red-band trailers on these sites, just use a famous person's address and name. For instance.
Laura Bush
20500
11/04/46
I tried it on a few and it worked perfectly. George Bush, Daniel Glickman, any of these people whose zip code and age is public knowledge. It's that easy. You can find most on Wikipedia or other sites. -
why is someone named "BurgerKing" complaining about an American movie's American advertisement, on an American site, being directed towards Americans? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
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Man, he's probably a car bomber.
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Somebody is making suckers out of the studios, and some money on the side.
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Downey Jr wasnt as "black" as in the picture? Maybe surgery gets done half way through? RDJ may well own the year after this.
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Also. Just saw the MI2 extra again the other day. If Cruise takes the piss out of himself, this could be his comeback. Before MI4.
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was going to do MI4. Now that Brad rules the paramount roost. and steve grant, most people struck off tom cruise after that Video got leaked on the net last month where he extolls Scientology virtues. All cruise's films and that of his wife, should carry the follwing health warning These products contain NUTS.
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Either he is dying or not. It was reported widely, ovier here, that he had 5 weeks to live due to the fact that he was supposed contracted Pancreatic Cancer and that it had spread. Now his dr and his people say that he responding well. I am confused. Isnt Pancreatic Cancer, uncurable. I was shocked when I heard the news on Irish radio. either way way I hope he gets better. Having lost my mother to cancer, its an awful illness. but Pancreatic cancer is a death sentence.
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It looks too jokey to be any kind of a decent action pick and too grim to be fun or funny. This will flop.
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No. It's "...for Brooklyn, Motha-fucka!!! Lolz...
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