{"id":9162,"date":"2016-09-25T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:54:51","slug":"tropic-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/tropic-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropic Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I don&#8217;t read the script. The script reads me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tropic Thunder<\/strong>, released in 2008<\/p>\n<p>Famous actors Kirk Lazarus, Tugg Speedman,\u00a0 and Jeff Portnoy are in Vietnam filming a war movie. Their director has been blown up, but most of them think that was a special effect. They&#8217;re deep in the jungle with real Vietnamese gang on their trail &#8212; and they think they&#8217;re making a movie.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the funny characters Tom Cruise&#8217;s part of producer Les Grossman is the funniest. Cruise plays a part that&#8217;s very different from his usual ones, and his dance moves will amaze you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ridiculous, but as long as you&#8217;re not easily offended I think you&#8217;ll find it very funny.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about people who make things up for a living, and the people around them.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Robert Downey, Jr., Ben Stiller, and Jack Black. It also features Jay Baruchel, Nick Nolte, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Ben Stiller (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty\/http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty\/\"><strong>The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/strong><\/a>). The soundtrack is populated by terrific 1960s songs.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I don&#8217;t read the script. The script reads me.&#8221; Tropic Thunder, released in 2008 Famous actors Kirk Lazarus, Tugg Speedman,\u00a0 and Jeff Portnoy are in Vietnam filming a war movie. Their director has been blown up, but most of them think that was a special effect. They&#8217;re deep in the jungle with real Vietnamese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}