Matt Yglesias

29 Responses to “Tropic Thunder”

1. aleks Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 11:46 am

   And got him a tip of Colbert’s hat for tagging, snagging and bagging Katie Holmes.

2. dianaLB Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 11:59 am

   and got him high high high on the ladder of scientology influence.

3. cleek Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

   Katie Holmes.

   and Nicole Kidman, back when she looked human.

4. Mike Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

   I think the funniest stuff was too inside baseball – especially the method acting bits – to appeal to middle America. Pineapple Express is much better, and I usually hate stoner movies.

5. Resistance Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

   The exception is Tom Cruise who, apparently, should have focused his career on doing comic supporting roles. Except I guess the choices he’s actually made have made him incredibly wealthy, so he probably doesn’t have too many regrets.

   Maybe if he went into comedy he would have somehow decided to come out of he closet and that Scientology wasn’t real.

6. McKingford Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

   I think Cruise is only funny *because* of his history in those other roles.

7. KCinDC Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

   I think McKingford is right, and Cruise wasn’t that funny anyway. How much laughter can be milked from uncool-white-guy-emulating-rapper shtick, which is ancient at this point? Okay, judging by the audience reaction, a fair amount, but I don’t understand why.

8. Fourthseven Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

   I also think McKingford nailed it. Cruise was only mildly funny on his own, but it was knowing that this is Tom Cruise that made it funny.

9. Splotto Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

   Hello:

   Cruise was classic in MAGNOLIA. One of the few roles where I liked him.

10. Dylan Says:
    August 16th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    I saw TT last night. I can’t disagree with you more about Cruise. He had one genuinely laugh out loud moment (and it was mostly just because of the humor of the expletives).

    I got the distinct impression that everyone in the theater I was at WANTED to think he was funny but, by the end of the film when he’s doing his little dance routine it was just dead silence.

11. KCinDC Says:
    August 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    Actually the first Cruise dance routine was the point where I wondered whether the film was veering from “okay” to “bad” territory.

12. Renman Says:
    August 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    This was an adequately funny movie, the best parts coming whenever Robert Downey, jr. was onscreen talking. Great stuff.

13. lobstakilla Says:
    August 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    Cruise was classic in MAGNOLIA. One of the few roles where I liked him.

    Agree…at one point, there was an actor in there.

14. goethean Says:
    August 16th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Cruise was good in Taps.

15. Richard Steven Hack Says:
    August 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    Cruise isn’t a bad actor. There just comes a time when an actor gets so big in Hollywood that they start sleep walking through their roles – especially when the role is a cameo. Charles Bronson was actually not a bad actor back in the ’60’s when he was younger, but by the third or fourth Death Wish movie in the late ’70’s he was sleep walking. A few actors who are really in love with acting and not in being an actor manage to avoid that, but it’s hard.

    I skipped this last comedy Jodie Foster did because I could see she had really jumped the shark by doing a comedy at this stage in her career. She was excellent in “The Inside Man” and “The Brave One” (one of her best performances ever in the latter, despite the hokey “Death Wish” remake premise) – and those movies demonstrated that being over 40 doesn’t mean you have to play somebody’s mother – but a comedy was just a waste of time. And in fact, her first two movies when she was over 40, she did play somebody’s mother – but somebody’s very FEISTY mother, beating guys down with fire extinguishers. She also waited until over 40 to do a hot sex scene.

    But generally, to paraphrase Harvey Dent, “You either die a great actor or you live to see yourself become a narcissistic bad parody.”

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