Some people are just getting too sensitive about stuff. This is a comedy! And I'll bet these protest groups haven't even seen the movie. But wouldn't it be great if this "protest" was actually a studio ploy to deflect attention away from the Robert Downey situation, which many figured would be the main controversy from this film, and onto something so petty that it can't be taken seriously?

I'll be the first to say it I really dont like retarded people and I will without a doubt support Tropic Thunder now because its something that pisses the tards off. Scooby Doo 2 pissed me off when I worked at a movie theater and retards flocked to see and support that one so now I'll get a chance for payback.
Its funny how tards have never been all pissed like this before. Theres something about Mary, The Ringer, South PArk, Palindromes, etc. all folk much deserved fun at these drooling mistakes. Why are they now going after Tropic Thunder?

Do you mean people, whoever it may be, who are offended by this, or do you mean you hate legit "tards"?

I believe one leader of said group saw the movie and said he 'walked out feeling he had been assaulted'... Talk about a humorless douche.

I love the one guy's ridiculously small sign.

That came to mind. I think it's a studio thing.

Getting? More like .. have been over-wrought with it for years now.

Good theory.

But the Downey Jr. story is just as nonsensical. Where was the uproar when White Chicks was released!!??? The neo-Nazis must have all been scouring back under the couch .. but probably not for the reasons everyone thinks. Watch the film to find out ..

Wow. I mean, this has to be an ironic post, right?

In real estate, the motto is, "Location, location, location." In passing judgment, it *should* be, "Context, context, context." My wife and I saw this film Wednesday night, and I thought it was pretty funny. The "retard" statements are really confined to one subplot and comes up only in two scenes. Stiller's character is an insensitive, shallow actor who employs the term clearly unaware that it's no longer considered an appropriate or acceptable term. He claims to have immersed himself in a "Forrest Gump" type role, studying mentally challenged people and going full throttle into his performance. Robert Downey, Jr.'s character is a better actor, a Russell Crowe-type guy who plays along with Stiller's guy's explanation of his performance while admonishing him that he shouldn't have gone "full retard."

Sometimes people in real life use terms without realizing they're obsolete; I have to constantly remind my grandmother and my mom that they're going to a Chinese restaurant, not "the Oriental place." And sometimes when you correct--or even take a swipe at--someone using those terms, you do it subtly, so they don't quite realize what you're doing. It's entirely acceptable to me that Downey's guy would just continue to employ the word, as he speaks to Stiller's guy and gets his message across to the guy. This controversy is just one more piece of evidence that our school system has completely failed to generate critical thinkers for at least an entire generation. Instead, we're left with kneejerk reactions, regardless of contextual understanding.

I'm actually curious as to these abilities they speak of. Like, one can fly and another can lift cars or something?



I don't think we should deprive anyone of a good laugh just because they're born without souls.

K

"First off, the retarded don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it – nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ‘em, don’t do it. Puts ‘em on edge. They might go into berserker mode, come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming, ‘No, no, no,’ – all they hear is, ‘Who wants cake?’ Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake."

Ugh, a couple of these people are on FOX News talking about this right now.

Wilford Brimley knows all.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movi...der/index.html

I'm guessing the Special Olympics is only ok with it when they are getting paid.

Wait, actual retarded people are protesting the movie? I don't want to go to the theater and have some dude using his retard-strength to beat the crap out of me just for seeing this movie.

I'm going to go to Hell for laughing at that.

I worked in a sheltered workshop with handicapped people the whole time I was in High School. They are great people with great skills, and I knew quite a few that would have laughed at that, or better yet, wanted to star in it.

For the billionth time, impawards links don't work. What are you, retarded?

^Hey! It's intellectually challenged. I'm boycotting DVDTalk.

It was a good movie.

I guess the mentally handicapped community don't have a problem with the film after all.

Well I don't like people who do not have car insurance.

SO, there was actually a disabled person in the theater when I saw this on Friday afternoon. I dont know the extent of his disability but he was in a wheelchair and his hands were all weird and he had the retard laugh. Maybe he was just physically disabled and not mentally disables or a combo of both but I'm not sure. Strangely enough he seemed to enjoy the film as much if not more so than anyone else in the theater.

I think you could make a strong case that Stiller's underlying message was very respectful towards mentally handicapped people. I thought that what the movie was really making fun of was Hollywood's over-sentimentalized stereotyping of the mentally handicapped, not the people themselves.

did you spit on him or let the air out of his wheelchair tires?

Agreed. The people being lampooned were the callous actors, agents, and executives, not the disabled.