TheRetroCritic

Tropic Thunder sure made noise when it came out. You had an all-star comedy cast, with Robert Downey Jr. famously and controversially playing an African American character... or, rather, a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude, and ultimately winning an Oscar for his performance. The film also included a nearly unrecognisable Tom Cruise in a rare goofy comedy role at a time where his popularity really needed a boost. The movie's plot revolves around a group of egomaniacal Hollywood actors working on a super-expensive Apocalypse Now -style war movie. When the film goes massively over budget and looks like it'll flop harder than John Carter , the film's director (played by Steve Coogan) decides to follow Nick Nolte's advice (he plays the writer of the novel the film is an adaptation of) and land all the actors in the real Vietnamese jungle so they can somehow shoot a gritty and more realistic version of the movie. Which is odd since that doesn't really