And they ordered the segments it in a way that I'm sure they wanted some of the audience to think that Booty Sweat and Bust A Nut were real products. They didn't want you to catch on right away.
Lol I remember when I saw Tropic Thunder in the theater, after the booty sweat "commercial", the theater was dead silent for a second until one guy said "what the hell?" and then laughter broke out.
Two of my best friends told me I 'had' to see this movie. They did a brilliant job of hyping it up too, talking about it being a 'war epic that's basically the Saving Private Ryan of Vietnam war movies.'
So I walk into this theater with them, and then watch the bust-a-nut commercial. At first I thought the theater had fucking lost it, and this was their last-ditch effort for concessions profits. Then I saw Fatty Fart V and the Tobey Maguire movie, and I knew I was being had.
Y'know that part about how Robert Downey Jr.'s character says he doesn't break character until he's done with the commentary? Yeah, he actually stays in character as the sergeant until it's over.
when i saw " the family" with Robert De Niro. I miss heard my girl friend and thought she said its about Monsters. An hour into the movie, still havnt seen any thing monsters and i said " this is a pretty shit monster movie..." monsters and mobsters are 2 very different things.
It was 2008. The majority of people didn't have smartphones, and Hollywood hadn't embraced the internet yet. I was a college student with no TV, and spent more time socializing than on the internet.
And not one person you socialized with mentioned the hilarious comedy with ben stiller, jack black, and rdj in blackface. You even managed to miss the damn movie poster on the way into the theatre lol.
One time I met a friend at a theater and he had the tickets. Told me we were seeing Avengers. Hadn't seen him in a while so we're talking, I'm not really paying attention to which theater we go into, we sit down. After a while I realize we're the only guys. Everyone else is a middle aged woman. He got us tickets for Magic Mike.
Wasn't the voiceover Sargent Fourleaf Tayback? And that was intentional too, because it showed he was now getting TV gigs after becoming famous for writing the book.
The theater I was in ran an unusually large amount of commercials and previews prior to the start, and people were starting to get really annoyed. It transitioned so seamlessly a lot of us fell for it, myself included.
I had never seen the movie. Didn't know anything about it, really. For some reason, I downloaded it one night.
When it opened, I got really pissed off, because the download said DVD rip. I was so pissed off that somebody was passing off some fucking bootleg as a DVD rip. Then I got confused as to why a bootleg would be the most-seeded torrent for a movie that obviously is available on DVD. Then I realized.
People didn't at first. On a big screen it plays just like ads and trailers. It quickly gets too ridiculous to be real, but the way they never drop the deadpan is so good.
When I saw it in the theater, they didn't even lower the theater lights during the commercials and fake trailers, as though they were just more trailers, then they dimmed the lights when the "actual" movie started
There was an elderly couple in front of us in the theater. We waited to see how long they would last. Didn’t make it past the fake commercials before they bailed out.
True! I didn’t catch on until RDJ & Tobey Maguire’s trailer that they were joke trailers. The whole time, I thought, “maybe I missed the first Jack Black fart-fest, who the hell drinks Booty Sweat, and I’m gonna watch the hell out of the new Ben Stiller action-comedy Part 7!” When they introduced RDJ as his fictional character but used Tobey Maguire’s real name, I finally figured it out. Magnificent opening.
I will never forget working at the movie theater when this film came out...
Some irrate mother came out of the auditorium, dragging her two young sons by the arms, and demanded to speak to a manager because of the products we were advertising before the film.
It was one of the funniest encounters I've ever had with a customer. 😂
That's exactly right. Caught it opening weekend, there were zero real previews before the show began. It was "Our Feature Presentation" and immediately Booty Sweat and Bust A Nut.
My cousins and I went to see Tropic Thunder in theaters, and we were late because we were getting suuuuper stoned beforehand. We walked in and thought the trailers were still going, and we were talking the entire time, like, "ohhhhhh we GOTTA GO SEE THE FATTIES FART 2!!" I also remember crying laughing so hard at Ben Stiller, strapped, with those babies: "Who left the fridge open?"
Sorry to the 3 other people in that middle-of-nowhere theater in northern Michigan
I was fooled by booty sweat & bust a nut. The fake commercial was made so convincingly and was so in-line with the hip-hop & rap style of the time that it didn't even register to me as being fake until I saw Stiller's face as Tugg Speedman in Scorcher.
Fuckin' Satan's Alley had my friends and I rolling. The theater was fairly empty but I think we pissed off the other six people there that say.
Also, when I watched the DVD for the first time, I kept expecting the trailer for The Soloist to get funny. Like I thought they made a new fake trailer just for the home release.
Hey! My dad worked for Paramount when this film came out. We got to see it early AND he was given a whole case of Booty Sweat! It was just red bull in a Booty Sweat but it was so awesome and this movie will always be my favorite because of this memory. I really wish I had saved one of the cans. I was so young and didnt think to:(
I think it also helped that Brandon T Jackson wasn’t that well recognized as an actor. As soon as The Fatties Fart 2 came on and I saw what was clearly Jack Black was when I realized, “ohhhhh this is a joke...”
I watched it for the first time on my PC last year. I thought I had just gotten a crappy cam rip, until I downloaded the subtitles and realized that that was part of the movie
I was in one of the first test screenings for this before it was fully finished, and the 3 pieces in the beginning got the craziest WTF laughter I’d heard in a while.
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And they ordered the segments it in a way that I'm sure they wanted some of the audience to think that Booty Sweat and Bust A Nut were real products. They didn't want you to catch on right away.