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Reject Report: This Weekend’s Box Office Looks “Dangerous” Welcome to the post-Summer Movie Season edition of the Reject Report! And you sure can tell it’s the post-summer edition, because there’s NOTHING on tap this weekend. By John Cairns on September 5, 2008 | Comments |
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Third Winning Week for Tropic Thunder; $500 Million for The Dark Knight It’s pretty obvious that people out there across North America are just movied-out. Everyone is just sick of movies. They are too busy vacationing/watching college football/fleeing hurricanes to bother with the latest junk at the theaters. By John Cairns on September 1, 2008 | Comments |
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Get Introduced to Les Grossman, Tom Cruise’s Alter Ego Yesterday we showed you our first online look at Les Grossman, the booty-dancing, over the top studio executive played by Tom Cruise Tropic Thunder. But that was just a picture, today we’ve got video. By Neil Miller on August 28, 2008 | Comments |
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‘Rain of Madness,’ Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman Hit iTunes Paramount Pictures has officially released the documentary behind the movie Tropic Thunder, known as Rain of Madness, online for free on iTunes. It also includes a few surprises. By Neil Miller on August 27, 2008 | Comments |
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The Hollywood Offensive: Islamic Group Offended by Alan Ball’s ‘Towelhead’ Another day goes by and someone else is offended by a movie that is closing in on its release date. This time, it is a group of Islamic-American’s who aren’t too fond of Alan Ball’s upcoming flick Towelhead. By Neil Miller on August 26, 2008 | Comments |
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Box Office: Tropic Thunder Hops Past The House Bunny Tropic Thunder ended up hanging on to first place with a $16 million haul. That was not a surprise. What was surprising, though, was how strongly The House Bunny did. By John Cairns on August 24, 2008 | Comments |
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Steve Coogan Has No Shame in ‘Hamlet 2′ I can’t think of a movie in recent history that has the same feel and attitude, or even remotely the same story. It’s creative and it’s unique. You don’t find that sort of thing at the movies nowadays. By Kevin Carr on August 22, 2008 | Comments |
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Tropic Thunder: 10 Things I Liked, 5 I Didn’t Robert Fure rumbles in the jungle with “Tropic Thunder” and pisses his pant suit while farming lead. By Robert Fure on August 18, 2008 | Comments |
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Tropic Thunder Takes First; The Dark Knight Takes Out Star Wars at the Box Office Oddly enough, it wasn’t Tropic Thunder that made history, even though it ended up in first place with a haul of $26 million. Instead, the Caped Crusader set another milestone. By John Cairns on August 17, 2008 | Comments |
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Fat Guys at the Movies: Episode 78 – Fly Me to the Tropic Clone Fatness Controversy is all over the place as Kevin calls for a boycott of Tropic Thunder due to insensitivity to fat people while Neil takes some shots at Tim Shriver. Nothing is sacred, and everyone should be offended at this week’s Fat Guys at the Movies. By Fat Guys at the Movies on August 15, 2008 | Comments |
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The Reject Report has a Threesome with Scarlett Johansson I say “threesome” in honor of Woody Allen’s new love-triangle movie Vicky Christina Barcelona. As well, four other flicks roll out wide including Star Wars:The Clone Wars and Mirrors. By John Cairns on August 15, 2008 | Comments |
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STFU: The Skinny on Kevin Carr The one thing that makes Kevin Carr’s claims totally outrageous is something that no one in our audience knows about. That’s right. I’m about to drop a bombshell. A big one. By Dr. Cole Abaius on August 14, 2008 | Comments |
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Movie Style Guy: Survive a Tropical Jungle If you find yourself in a Tropical Nightmare, these tips may save your life. Or get you killed. By Robert Fure on August 14, 2008 | Comments |
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Tropic Thunder Doesn’t Back Down; More Viral Brilliance I am not here to talk about the controversy, I am here to bring you more funny videos from the faux documentary within the faux production of the real movie that is Tropic Thunder. By Neil Miller on August 13, 2008 | Comments |
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WTF: I’m Offended by ‘The Fatties’! My hope is that Paramount Pictures issues a heartfelt and public apology to obese American everywhere for the thoughtless and derogatory depictions of people with weight issues. By Kevin Carr on August 13, 2008 | Comments |
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Jack Black Talks ‘Year One,’ Pipe Dream Project At the Tropic Thunder press junket, Jack Black took a moment to talk about a few things that won’t be inspiring controversy. By Robert Fure on August 13, 2008 | Comments |
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FSR’s Neil Miller Joins Tropic Thunder Debate at CNN While the Olympics has inspired our very own Executive Editor Neil Miller to do the first push-up he’s done in twelve years, it only took a call from CNN to get him to write his second opinion piece in one week regarding Tropic Thunder and the groups boycotting the film because of its depiction of the cognitively disabled. By Dr. Cole Abaius on August 13, 2008 | Comments |
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The Reject Report: Tropic Thunder Preview Another early edition of The Reject Report takes aim at just one more in a long line of Wednesday releases. This time around, we take a gander at the highly controversial action comedy Tropic Thunder. By John Cairns on August 13, 2008 | Comments |
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If You Don’t Get the Jokes in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ You Don’t Deserve to Laugh Some have suggested that this movie goes too far with inappropriate language, situations and characters, but unlike some movies, Tropic Thunder isn’t just going for shock value. At its heart, Tropic Thunder is a parody of its own industry and nothing more. By Kevin Carr on August 13, 2008 | Comments |
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Movie Drinking Games: Tropic Thunder Everybody is all up-in-arms about the new film Tropic Thunder, but so few people have seen it yet. If you think you might be the least bit offended by this movie, you can stay home… or you can drink until the movie isn’t offensive at all. By Kevin Carr on August 12, 2008 | Comments |