Tropic Thunder is undeniably the best comedy ever made.

Tropic Thunder is the best comedy every made

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It's funny, but best? Its over indulgent and the Simple Jack bit takes up too much screen time and seems slightly dated now. Compared to something like say Blazing Saddles its barely in the conversation.
 
Funny? Yes. Timeless? Sure. The best ever made? Nah.
 
I ain't gonna make a declaration of something being the best but there's gotta be like 4 John Landis movies alone that were funnier than Tropic Thunder. Maybe even like 2 from Adam Sandler.
 
the dude your opinion GIF
 
Hollywood has really gone to shit, hasn't it? As a man who loves his comedies, the death of comedy has hit me hard. This movie is one of my favorites. I guess it is now a classic.
 
With all due respect to Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, My Cousin Vinny is my favorite comedy ever. I will not fight anyone about Blazing Saddles though and it would be on my short list unlike Tropic Thunder.
 
Nah, there's too many great comedy movies to pick just one, but this isn't charting for me compared to the below and others:

Monty Python movies
Chevy Chase movies
Leslie Nielsen movies
Baseketball
Not Another Teen Movie
Office Space
Police Academy

Etc
 
bitbydeath said:
Nah, there's too many great comedy movies to pick just one, but this isn't charting for me compared to the below and others:

Monty Python movies
Chevy Chase movies
Leslie Nielsen movies
Baseketball
Not Another Teen Movie
Office Space
Police Academy

Etc
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Office Space is a good call, but I was living that work life when it came out so I'm not sure it hits the same for everyone. Big Lebowski and Legend of the Drunken Master would also be on my list. For movies with Jack Black in them, I'd rather watch School of Rock than Tropic Thunder.
 
You don't have to say "this is the best X ever made" when you talk about something you enjoy (or "worst ever" when you don't like something), you can just say you enjoy it.

And Tropic Thunder is a great movie indeed, and probably the only movie where I don't see Jack Black doing Jack Black.

I'm more a Dodgeball fan.
 
Tropic Thunder isn't terrible but its a terrible choice for the best ever. I think a big problem with stuff after 2000 or so is that millennials have no sense of humor at all and a very low tolerance for comedy.
 
It's definitely one of the more satirical comedies out there, but even then, Team America is better in my opinion.

But in terms of flat out comedy, the whole cast have been in their own funnier movies. Ben Stiller especially has some classics under his belt, like Zoolander and Dodgeball.
 
bender said:
With all due respect to Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, My Cousin Vinny is my favorite comedy ever. I will not fight anyone about Blazing Saddles though and it would be on my short list unlike Tropic Thunder.
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Personally I thought Meaning of Life was the best Monty Python movie. (In big part because unlike HG and LoB it actually is like watching an episode of MP turned into a movie vs those two which feel like movies done MP style.)
 
I should rewatch the whole thing in eng.

I only saw it with italian dub with the boys many years ago and i thought it was beyond terrible, but then again, any american comedy turn into absolute trash with italian dubs except a couple of exceptions.

Also i was probably too little to get some of the jokes.
 
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It's definitely one of the best ever. Personally, Airplane, Dumb and Dumber, Vacation, Office Space, Step Brothers, and Old School are my favorite comedies.
 
StueyDuck said:
Can we all agree on one thing, though....

That Seth Rogan and the retard stoner comedies of the late 2000s and early 2010s killed comedy movies.
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Nah, there's plenty of Seth Rogen gems. Pineapple Express, This is the End, Superbad, The Night Before, Neighbors, The Interview... all great
 
Baemono said:
I'm more a Dodgeball fan.
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Me too. It's in my top 3 comedy movies ever. I've watched it probably more than any other movie in the last 15 years. I always say that Dodgeball is a Simpsons movie, except it doesn't feature the Simpsons. The comedic timing is relentless and always impeccable.


GymWolf said:
I should rewatch the whole thing in eng.

I only saw it with italian dub with the boys many years ago and i thought it was beyond terrible, but then again, any american comedy turn into absolute trash with italian dubs except a couple of exceptions.

Also i was probably too little to get some of the jokes.
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Yup, same here. TT had me in stitches with those fake trailers at the start, then it actually made me fall asleep halfway through. Italian dubbing of comedies has gone to shit when they started translating dialogues more literally and caring a but too much about lip-synch.
TT just can't work in Italian, as half of the movie is a white dude in blackface parodying the speech of black American people, which isn't a thing in Italy (same reason why some scenes from Borat 2 just feel flat in Italian).
I mean, just the RDJ scene posted in the OP here makes me laugh in English, but it falls completely flat in Italian.
 
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