The premise sounds interesting enough: Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr, (all actors, portraying actors in a movie within a movie) filming an action flick (Vietnam/War/Buddy movie) in the middle of the jungle when their movie all of the sudden becomes the "real deal" as a group of drug-lords think they are an American SF unit sent into take down their opporation.
"Contra"-versy
Downey Jr. performed the role in what they call in the biz, "black-face" (see: Al Jolson) and evidently this is ruffling a few feathers around the blogosphere (link to FlowTv article) and the use of the "R" word is gathering another group of protestors, including former Brady Bunch star, Maureen McCormick (who's brother is "mentally challenged"). (Link to article on StarPulse). Last week, our buddy "the news guy" Warren Peper and Carolyn Murray introduced the Holy City viewing audience to a story (link to line-penned by Larry Collins) about mentally challenged people who work at Delicious Delights, a local bakery, who won't go and see the movie because the term, "retard" is used in the movie 17-times. Obviously, these are the same people who (do) go to R-rated movies, boycott the entire city of Boston, Jimmy Fallon's old Boston love-birds skit on SNL, etc over the use of the word "retard".
But here's what sofa-king retarded: I was talking about this segment the other day and said the words, "mentally handicapped", which led to a thirty minute beach-out from some lady (one must be careful when out of their element and talking politics at a Chattanooga Applebee's) for my lack of the proper semantics for those with an extra protein in the genetic make-up. But WTF people? Why can't we just let this be a movie satire about the people in show-business? Are we that hyper-sensitive as a nation that our American zeitgeist is more in tune with defensive and subjective terminology, than we are with "real" issues? But to leave you on a high note: Stiller's movie is being protested by the dame who played Marcia Brady on television's Brady Bunch, the same role played by Stiller's wife and former smoking hot chick on "Hey Dude" (Christine Taylor) in the movie version, "The Brady Bunch Movie". Btw, the latter Marcia Brady is also in Tropic Thunder.
Regardless of the controversy, I think I will shell out the 9 bucks to see this flick.
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