NEW PICS FROM TROPIC THUNDER

Written by Vince Mancini / 03.12.08

Happy Goat had a terrible war face

Via /Film, the studio has released a couple new stills and a synopsis from Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller’s directorial follow up to Zoolander

“When a group of actors shooting a war movie includes Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an over-the-top Australian-born method actor who has gone to extremes to get into character, novice thesp Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), gross-out comedy star Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte), the real-life inspiration for the film, pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) and rap star Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson). DreamWorks Pictures Presents A Red Hour Production A Ben Stiller Film “Tropic Thunder” starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Brandon T. Jackson, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Steve Coogan, Bill Hader and Nick Nolte.  The film is directed by Ben Stiller from a screenplay by Ben Stiller & Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen based on a story by Ben Stiller & Justin Theroux. ” 

Just to clarify, Etan Cohen is not a typo of Ethan Coen, the quiet Coen brother.  Etan Cohen is a Harvard grad who wrote Idiocracy and a 2007 movie called My Wife is Retarded.  But just because they got his name right doesn’t mean their synopsis wasn’t horribly written.  It took me ten minutes to figure out what the hell they were trying to say.  It reads like it was Babelfish translated from Chinese, or a Courtney Love blog.    

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Written by Vince Mancini / 03.10.08

Happy Goat: What a marvelous idea!

Maya Rudolph, John Krasinski (Jim from The Office), and Cheryl Hines (the wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm) have signed on for an upcoming comedy to be directed by Sam Mendes (who previously directed American Beauty).

The as-yet untitled comedy from Focus Features is the first original screenplay written by husband and wife team Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida.  Eggers, who recently adapted Where the Wild Things Are with Spike Jonze, is a well-known author, and editor of the quirky lit quarterly McSweeney’s.  Vida is a novelist and the editor of The Believer.

You can learn about all this and more in my upcoming dissertation, I’m Smart, and Know Stuff About Things

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COMMENTS OF THE WEEK

Written by Vince Mancini / 03.10.08

Happy Goat respects you for trying

A lot of people comment on FilmDrunk. But it takes a special sort not to say something lame, and an even specialer sort to actually be funny. Each week, I honor those special Drunkards.

Nominate a funny comment for next week’s "Comments of the Week" here (post is hidden, so bookmark it). Need more info?  Here’s a handy primer from ‘The Mighty Fek’lhr’. Don’t care? Fair enough.

It was tough to pick a winner this week, because the competition was fierce. But I have to go with Pauly Dangerously, who was all over the list. In last week’s Weekend Preview, he drops this delicious non-sequitir: "I think Napoleon’s last words were, ‘Make me… into… an ice cream.’"

The rest, in no particular order:

From Ellen Page off Sam Raimi Movie, Burnsy says, I heard Tyler Perry wants to do a remake of Army of Darkness. It’ll be called Madea Goes Medieval. Boy, imagine the trouble she gets into back then! 

From ‘Meet Bill’ Trailer, Pauly Dangerously says, Why would you want to get back with your cheating, slut, whore of a wife? Had that been me I would have said "Oh don’t worry, Honey. I’ll be okay, just give me a hug" then when she close enough, BAM! Knee to the pussy. 

From New ‘Doomsday’ Clip Looks… Uh…, The Mighty Fek’lhr [Editor's Note: Breaking a long drought] says "Doomsday", anagram for: "Sodomy Ad" The Mighty Fek’lhr rests His case!

From Semi Pro: Cream of the Crap, Hugh G. Rection says [In response to me mentioning that nothing rhymes with "orange"] Whorange rhymes with orange by the way. It’s Lohan’s skin color.  

From Simon Cowell is a Slow Learner, Rotwangchung says, I would prefer Baz Luhrmann to direct a psychedelic musical about Pol Pot titled "Moulin Khmer Rouge."

From Mad Max’s Retarded Brother, Donkey Hodey says, I like how whatever the sickness that strikes that city is it makes people get stupid face tattoos.  I hope the opening scene involves a full moon and Mike Tyson biting people to explain all of that.

From Robert Downey Jr. In Blackface, Pauly Dangerously says [In reference to the constant flow of spam comments for strange dating sites we get here at FilmDrunk] RDJ wear blackface to look at profiles on interracial dating sites.

From Die Yuppie Scum, Stone Soup says, $3k at Bed Bath and Beyond will cover 1/3 the cost of a set of Calphalon cookware.  I don’t even know where Calphalonia is, but those fuckers sure can make a pan.

From F You Cancer, This One’s For Dalton, Burnsy says, Too Soon Foo, Thanks For Nothing Pancreatic Cancer  

From the same post, Pauly Dangerously says [Quoting me] "You’re all going to hell." Either that or there’s always barber college. [Ed. Note - references to barber college never get old]

From 4 Fast 4 Furious Regains Hardcore Latina, Jacktion!, FilmDrunk’s undisputed king of puns, says, I preferred the historical racing drama set in World War II Germany: "The Fast and the Fuhrer: The Master Race"

From ‘I Am Legend’ Alternative Ending, Pootie Tang says, [When Will Smith drove off into the sunset] Did the license plate say "Fresh" and have dice in the mirror?

Congratulations to the winners, and special thanks to those whose comments were too racist or too much a reference to my thumb to be used in CotW.  To everyone else, Happy Goat still loves you. 

 

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