Tropic Thunder

Spoiler intended for ivy03: ( WOMAN! )

Liked it loads, laughed a ton. I was bit disoriented by the change of moods back and forth between the disparate groups of characters and the odd cameos and the fact that even though the man is staring you in the face for half the movie, I couldn't really see Robert Downey Jr. I guess that means he did a good job. He did, to be fair. Wonder if he helped coach Jack Black on what it's like having the DTs...

I...forgot what I was going to say here.

No, really. I had something...something!!!

Gah.

Oh! I remember! I was going to tell the world at large this thing I related to some folks over the weekend. I think glvalentine will get an especial kick out of this:

So there's a clip from the movie Soapdish on Scene It wherein Whoopi Goldberg's character tries in vain to make Robert Downey Jr.'s character understand that while just about anything goes in a soap opera, there are a few things that push even a soap audience's tolerance of the absurd. To whit:

I have just found out that this exact plot line is going to be used in a certain ridiculous show I am still working on finishing. No, for real. I've seen pictures of the previously beheaded character...with his/her head firmly on and interacting with the other characters. I'm now entirely sure that this show is completely redonkulous, but, bizarrely, more interested in watching now. I better add it to the list of seasons to catch up on.

Because, seriously: HOW DO YOU WRITE A CHARACTER WHO'S BEEN DECAPITATED? This is made of awesome. In that this particular show is already so over-the-top with the incredible things it has gotten away with that I'd like to see if they can throw in a newly re-headed character and have it not even disturb the waters a little bitty bit. Because everything else is already SO RE-COCK-U-LOUS, I'm pretty sure no one is even going to blink an eye at this. I'm also positive this is a ratings stunt, but that goes without saying even without a decapitation involved.