Day: August 5, 2008

Defamer reported some kind of Century City bomb threat a little while ago. Evacuations of the MGM tower commenced about a half-hour ago, the report says. The only responsible thing is to evacuate, obviously, despite the usual suspicions that bomb threats are usually bogus. Only losers with small appendages announce an intention to cause harm. Truly malevolent people don’t warn. Serious evil either happens or it doesn’t.

“As a director I love all the visual and technical stuff and it’s really fun to do but the hard lesson that you learn when you screen the movie is when it’s a comedy, people want to laugh. They don’t care about the explosions up or how much money you spent…if they’re not laughing, the movie’s not working. Everything has to play into the tone of the comedy.” — Tropic Thunder director-star-cowriter Ben Stiller during last weekend’s press junket.

Ben Stiller

And yet the fact that Stiller made Tropic Thunder feel believable and well-jiggered in a first-class way let me relax on a certain level. If the action choreography, special effects and cinematic values hadn’t been delivered on such a high level, I might not have been in a receptive laugh-y mood. I can’t laugh at movies that feel in the least bit sloppy or imprecise or roughly slapped together. Comedy is a brutally difficult thing to get right.

I’ve cut out the opening distributor-logo intro and confined this mp3 to music from a prologue portion-plus-main title of a certain action-adventure film. If you haven’t gotten it by the 30-second mark, you need to pack it in. This is the easiest music clip I’ve posted since I started this game last week.