New Favorite Movie
I haven’t even seen it, but anything that draws the crabs from the terribly concerned crowd, before it is even open, has got to be a winner.
Actor Robert Downey Jr has in the past been applauded for his edgy roles.
But his latest may be a step too far - as the actor dons make-up to play a rather convincing looking black man in a new Hollywood film starring comic actor Ben Stiller.
In a still from film Tropic Thunder, Downey Jnr is sandwiched between Ben Stiller, and a blonde Jack Black.
By the way, fantastic makeup, makeup person.
And here is the real kicker, he is playing a part of an actor in a movie, who is playing the part of an actor in a movie. The part was originally supposed to be a black actor, but IN THE MOVIE, they wanted Downey Jr’s character.
Regardless of all this, the story line just cracks me up.
The film centres on a group of pompous actors making the most expensive Vietnam war movie ever made.
Fed up with their self-involved cast, the film’s makers drop them into the jungle to take care of themselves, where they get caught up in a conflict they don’t realise is real.
If that isn’t a story line we all wanted to see, I don’t know what is.