Steve/Tony drawing - Also, I saw Tropic Thunder (no plot spoilers)

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First off, here’s a little picture of Tony and Steve in the morning – man, I LOVE drawing bedhead!




Tony as coffee addict is my friend.

Also, I went to see Tropic Thunder last night. It’s worth your eight dollars. Not surprisingly, RDJ absolutely walks away with the movie – this is his, “That’s right, bitches, I can play ANYTHING!” role. Not only does he do the blackface thing (complete with quotes from the Jefferson’s theme song), but he also plays *that* character masquerading as an Asian man (who can’t speak his own language), and under all THAT, he’s an Aussie with impossibly watery blue eyes. Seriously, imagine Jensen Ackles acting a scene in which Dean discovers that Sam has drowned in a swamp, while locked in the Impala – now imagine MORE teary-eyed than that.

Jack Black was also surprisingly hilarious as a crude actor known for fart jokes, who spends the film withdrawing from heroin. If you see this movie for one reason (other than RDJ) see it for the scene where Jack Black begs to be tied to a tree, then begs to be untied. I’m not a huge JB fan, but he did really well in this.

The weak link is the movie’s writer/director/star, Ben Stiller. He starts off well, then once he gets separated from his acting troop, dissolves into the same surreal idiotic man child role he always plays. If you like Zoolander type humor, you’ll like Stiller’s scenes. I don’t, but thankfully, every time it starts to get annoying, we go back to RDJ and Jack Black.

If you go, get there on time – you don’t want to miss the fake trailers, especially RDJ and Toby McGuire as monks in love in the Brokeback spoof, “Satan’s Alley”. One of the biggest laughs in the movie.

Comments

[ennui-blue-lite.livejournal.com]

Yes, messy hair is the best!

I would see Satan's Alley for RDJ, but the "preview" did not make it look like a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. Tropic Thunder is pretty good, and funny, and the blackface thing isn't even remotely offensive, IMO. The joke isn't on African Americans, it's on Kirk Lazerus, and the lengths he will go to stay in character, even when he knows they aren't making a movie anymore.

Thanks for commenting.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I drew a deep breath on the blackface front as soon as I heard that it was being done as satire -- there was this horrible moment when the movie was first mentioned to me when I thought Hollywood was dead-seriously casting a white actor in blackface to play a black guy (i.e. thought Ben Stiller et all were actually doing in all seriousness what the fictional film crew in the movie are doing) and all I could think was "WTF, OMG, why?"

the "preview" did not make it look like a good movie by any stretch of the imagination

I'm pretty much envisioning Dante's Cove (http://www.amazon.com/Dantes-Cove-Rena-Riffel/dp/B000FZEU1A) with monks (i.e. awesome for it's sheer, breathtaking, OTT soap opera badness).

[axolotl-lan.livejournal.com]

It was pretty good but I went to see it after having a few drinks first. RDJ is fantastic... I didn't find stiller /THAT/ grading compared to how much I normally hate him but I think it was how we often got to sidetrack away to him to his manager or Tom Cruise just being Hilarious~! When I saw the credits I was all... Grossman was Cruise? They made him look like a chubby balding porno worker executive.

And like ennui said, the fake trailers were some of the best things.

I also liked the "rapper" type guy's storyline and the young actor whose name I also conveniently forget, at one point he was all "It was in the book- you read that right? Okay, well it is essentially the same as the version in the script...you didn't read that either did you?" *rest of cast blank faced*

[ennui-blue-lite.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to know, what the hell is Cap wearing in your icon there?

[axolotl-lan.livejournal.com]

He is a captipillar - an alt drawing by the person who drew Cassie in Wonderland.