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Saturday 9 October 2010

"I've watched 2 ridiculously funny & good movie"

I should have post this on yesterday but I'm just too lazy to blog at that time. I have watched "Cop Out" & "Tropic Thunder" during day & night respectively. Let's start with "Cop Out".

James "Jimmy" Monroe (Bruce Willis) and Paul Hodges (Tracy Morgan), cops working for NYPD, have been partnered for 9 years. After failing of capturing Juan Diaz, second-in-command of local Latino gangsters, and causing a disastrous shoot-out in the neighbourhood, they were suspended without pay. Jimmy wanting for that money to pay his daughter's, Ava's (Michelle Trachtenberg), wedding with the price close to fifty-thousands dollar. Running out of source to get that sum of money, Jimmy decided to sells his price-less 1952 Andy Pafko baseball card to pay the wedding. Jimmy was robbed by Dave (Seann William Scott), who steals Jimmy's card & Paul's favourite gun whilst robbing the shop Jimmy was selling his card to. Jimmy & Paul found-out that Dave is about to rob a house on the same night, they stake out the house to retrieve the card and gun. Paul arrests Dave and discovers he has sold the card and gun for drugs. Dave told them that the card & gun might on the local gangsters' hand. So, they went to meet Poh Boy, the leader of local Latino gangster, to get back Jimmy's card. Poh Boy also a die-hard fans of baseball refused to give the card back to Jimmy unless they could help him to find his stolen Mercedes Benz. Poh Boy claimed that he got some important 'document' that should be delivered to him via car (the Mercedes Benz) earlier. And what is the important 'document'? I won't tell you!


Sadly, the storyline is a bit poor. 3.5 out of 5


But overall, the story is OK. Willis is a calm-sometime-can-be-crazy cop & Morgan are super noisy & silly cop. And as usual, Michelle Trachtenberg looking pretty! 

OK, move on to "Tropic Thunder". This a 2008 movie & this movie is somewhat a tribute/parody/portraying movie. It is a movie directed, produced, written & played by Ben Stiller alongside with Jack Black & Robert Downey, Jr.

A movie about the memoir of hook-handed Vietnam Veteran, John "Four-Leaf" Tayback (Nick Nolte). With the exception of newcomer supporting actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), the cast: fading action hero Tugg Speedman (Stiller), five-time Academy Award-winning Australian method actor Kirk Lazarus (Downey, Jr.), rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), and drug-addicted comedian Jeff Portnoy (Black) behave unreasonably. Rookie director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) is unable to control the actors during the filming of a large war scene and just five days into shooting the production is reported to be one month behind schedule. Cockburn is ordered by studio executive Les Grossman (Tom Cruise) to get filming back on track.

Acting on Tayback's advice, Cockburn drops the actors into the middle of the jungle, where he has installed hidden cameras and rigged special effects explosions to film "guerrilla-style". Cockburn & the 5 actors were drop-off in the middle of Golden Triangle, home to heroin-producing Flaming Dragon gang, by helicopter. Speedman was given the map & scene listing that will guide the troops to a helicopter waiting for them at the end of the mountain. Cockburn will be the only one who can communicate with the outside world if there are any troubles & persuaded the actors to start the journey. Right after the shooting begun, Cockburn was blown-up by an old land-mine, leftover of Vietnam War & the loud-explosion alerted the Flaming Dragon gang, mistakenly thought the actors were anti-terrorist who coming to eliminate the gang & seize the heroin-producing plants. Speedman believing that Cockburn is faking his death & convinced the other actors that his death is part of the scene & continue on the their trek to the jungle. And in that journey, they face troubles more than goods. And what will happen to them? I won't tell you too!


Best comedy ever!. 5 out of 5


Why do I say this is a tribute/parody/portraying movie is because in this movie, Stiller copy the ideas from few war-movie such as "Hamburger Hill", "Full Metal Jacket" & other more. In this movie too, the actors were compared with real-life big stars. Tugg Speedman as Sylvester Stallone, Kirk Lazarus as Russell Crowe & Jeff Portnoy as Chris Farley. This film were acted or cameo by lots of big actors & actress such as Matthew McConaughey as Tugg Speedman's agent, cameo by Tom Hanks, Lance Bass, Sean Penn, Jennifer Love Hewitt & many other more. This is an all-stars comedy movie.

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