Tropic Thunder

Movie • 2008 • Action  

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Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive to get filming back on track, or risk its cancellation. On Tayback's advice, Cockburn drops the actors into the middle of the jungle to film the remaining scenes but, unbeknownst to the actors and production, the group have been dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of heroin-producing gangs.
This movie contains 34 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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I wouldn't say "stalked." A group of people watch another group for a bit, gathering info and planning a way to attack. they don't follow them around really.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Coke addiction
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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Panda is stabbed many times until dead, then the carcass is worn by the character. Another character eats a screaming live bat. Meant for humor in context, but the noises the animals make can be disturbing to hear.
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Are animals abused?
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One is killed but isn't abused.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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a character licks the insides of a severed human head, thinking that it is a prop in a movie
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Not squashed, but mutilated in other ways
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Is there a hanging?
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kicking/punching in the balls
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Someone briefly does a fake seizure as part of a dance move.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Dunking someone repeatedly into water
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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SiRenfield
Said numerous times in a particularly (in)famous scene regarding the limits of neurotypical actors playing “mentally challenged” characters
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Someone is held hostage
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Jack Black vomits just behind a rock, when he lifts his head he still has stuff on his lip and in his mouth a little.
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone spit?
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In one of the fake previews before the movie, there is a parody of the famous dinner table scene from Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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It’s possible but not clear what the disability in Simple Jack is (even though yeah it’s very much taking the piss out of the inspirational disabled trope) and what some people forget is that there are consequences in the narrative since it’s regarded as a critical and financial failure, and even in-universe is considered horribly offensive hence why the only people that remember the movie are the drug gang
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Is there misophonia?
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Severe drug withdraw can look like an anxiety attack.
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Anonymous
A actor is such a character actor that he goes through some kind of operation or something to make him black (in reality he's just in black face.) Because of the changes he puts himself through for his role, he has difficulty identifying who he really is.
I don't know that I'd call this body dysmorphia.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Is there screaming?
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Sibelos
This being an R rated comedy, expect plenty of strong language.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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SiRenfield
Mostly in the beginning with the fake movie trailers
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Everything about "Simple Jack" is offensive. (This is a movie Stiller's character starred in in which the character, Jack, may be autistic.)
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A blank man says it to a man pretending to be black.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Sibelos
An in universe comedy is basically nothing but this.
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Is there aphobia?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Anonymous
"Retard" is used several times and the concept of a actor going "full retarded" is a concern.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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SiRenfield
RDJ’s character for a vast majority of the movie, since essentially his character is a method actor that was so desperate for the part of a black man that he went through cosmetic surgery to have his skin darkened. It’s essentially elaborate satire of the absurd lengths Hollywood is often willing to go to to deny roles to minority actors done in a ermm *tsk* “ballsy way”
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Very first scene is up close of women twerking in bootyshorts. A clear scene of boobs as a man flips through a magazine, several pages shown.
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Sickness
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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SiRenfield
Tom Cruise as Les Grossman and also an in-universe comedy movie where Jack Black plays an overweight family
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Michael Ottinger
Army helicopter
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Explosions yes, nuclear explosions no.
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Anonymous
This is a movie about making a war movie.
There's guns and shooting people.
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