Wednesday
09Jul2008
'Tropic Thunder' Presents the Documentary 'Rain of Madness'
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 9:28AM 
I first saw this at
\film, and I'm inclined to agree
that it's better in concept than execution, if only because the concept is
almost unbeatable. We already know quite a bit about
Tropic Thunder - a war movie turns real,
Robert Downey becomes a black guy - and
now there's a very cool twist.
Spoofing Apocalypse Now and the documentary about its
filming, Heart of Darkness, Tropic Thunder has come up with Rain of Madness, a
phony documentary about the events in the film, and the unraveling of the most expensive war movie of all time.
It's Red Band, so there's some R-rated dialogue,
although the best line is from the narrator: "After only five days of shooting,
the film was two months behind schedule..."
I would love for an actual mockumentary to pop up on the
DVD, but the fake trailer is good enough for now.
Please, check out Rain of Madness - with more
Steve Coogan than we've seen in the Tropic Thunder
trailers - from "acclaimed
documentary filmmaker" Jan Jurgen.
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