JANUARY WATCH PARTY - Tropic Thunder (2008), Haunting in Venice (2023), Shang-Chi (2021)
"Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying." - IMDB What the actual f- I will never forgive my friend for making us watch this lololol. I will never be able to unsee Robert Downey Jr.'s performance. It was so offensive in all the right ways - the only instance of "black face" that seems to excepted (based on comments I've seen on the internet) , you know, since he was just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude playing a dude. While RDJ is the unquetionable standout of the film, the rest of it is quite funny. The plot of these actors running wild in the jungles of Vietnam while facing dangers of this mob run by a child was great. Comedy is so hit or miss for me, but I found myself laughing pretty much every other scene. Being in the height of cancel culture, I also found myself to be missing the 2000s as I was not prepared for the controversial bits