Reader comments: 'Thunder' a painfully unfunny, big-budgeted bust

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Sharon | 5:43 p.m. Aug. 13, 2008
I could not agree more. It is so strange, the controversy aside, that nobody is talking about how bad the movie is, all on its own. It just is not good.
Anonymous | 9:43 p.m. Aug. 14, 2008
I could not disagree more. The movie was great, all the performances were nailed, especially Cruise, his sleazy studio exec was parody perfection. Mateo as the agent was great. The fake trailers were awesome, Eddi Murphy deserves jabs, he hasn't been funny....ever. It's a foulmouthed violent 2 hour awesomefest that will leave you with cold feet to see another movie, mainly because your socks just got blown off.

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Ben Stiller, left, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson and Jay Baruchel star in "Tropic Thunder." The film is an action comedy about a group of actors shooting an epic Vietnam War movie in the Vietnamese jungle and winding up in a real battle with Southeast Asian drug runners. (Merie Weismiller Wallace, Dreamworksassociated Press)
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Ben Stiller, left, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson and Jay Baruchel star in "Tropic Thunder." The film is an action comedy about a group of actors shooting an epic Vietnam War movie in the Vietnamese jungle and winding up in a real battle with Southeast Asian drug runners.