carrey is a victim of his own $20m price tag; at that figure you have to do half-assed stuff like 'bruce almighty' most of the time. robin williams was a victim of becoming a dick -- carrey's More Serious Works are 100x better than williams'.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Robin Williams is about a billion times more irritating than Jim Carrey.
True, but my point was that he's been in great films too, and usually those are the ones that don't revolve around his schtick, just like with Carrey.
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
they're both better when they play it straight
― blueski, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
uh
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Lemony Snicket +1
― caek, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Williams is better when he plays it evil not schmaltzy - cf Insomnia, One Hour Photo, Death to Smoochy vs Bicentennial Man, Patch Adams.
― ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Ace Ventura 1 was stupidly funny from beginning to end, with none of the schmaltzy sentimental bullshit that mars his other "blockbuster" "comedies".
― franny glass, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know, I used to hate Jim Carrey, but now I really love some of the films where he's doing his "schtick" - Dumb & Dumber, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura - and really don't like some of his straighter films, like the Truman Show or Eternal Sunshine.
― nate woolls, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Him climbing out of the asshole of that rhino in AV2 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
― nate woolls, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
wow is there an Eternal Sunshine backlash happening? good!
I think Dumb and Dumber is the best of these. it's certainly the best "Jim Carrey vehicle."
― ryan, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i like his 'serious' ones (well probably not 'the majestic' which i haven't seen) and his 'funney' ones. it's not like there's a massive distinction between them.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
"In Living Color," though he wasn't my favorite on the show.
― Eric H., Friday, 4 January 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Dumb and Dumber
that or Ace Ventura 2 (the scene with rhino omg)
― latebloomer, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anyone else ever seen High Strung? It's got Jim Carrey and Kirstin Dunst in tiny roles, the star is Steve Oedekerk, who has made some really awful-looking shit like Thumb Wars, but it's one of those movies that one of my friends latched on to and made us watch like 20 times until everyone loved it and quoted it, and now it's out of print and impossible to find.
― n/a, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I think maybe Fred Willard is in it too, briefly.
i deliberately left it out to sort the men from the fanboys.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
those oedekerk films are all genius after the 20th viewing. see also- joe dirt, the ladies' man
― darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
there is something unusually narcissistic about all the "dramatic" films on this list. i mean, the truman show! my god...
― ryan, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"Dumb and Dumber" or "Cable Guy" or "Man on the Moon" or "Emo Sunshine". "Irene" for Carrey but I have some probs with that film. I'm gonna drink a couple of Snowballs and let them decide. Ah hell probly "Cable Guy" there's something about that one.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Cable Guy or Dumb and Dumber. Or ESOTSM.
― DavidM, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
jesus, looking at it though his movie list puts william's to shame forever, he doesn't really deserve all the comparisons.
but carrey has never come across as likeable, whereas williams does.
― darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"Fun with Dick and Jane" was about a million times better than it should have been given the premise and cast.
ESOTSM ftw
― HI DERE, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
it has alec baldwin! i'm stoked anyways.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Noodle Vague's list otm. Those are all really pretty good, and I have a hard time stomaching the rest. of what I've seen.
― will, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
caaaaaaable guuuuuyyyy
― gff, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
BROTHER SWEET BROTHER
― gff, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Chris Rock said it best (paraphrasing): "I can think of plenty of actors who would have been ok in the Truman Show, but I can't think of anyone else who would have made Dumb & Dumber work."
― da croupier, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
RONG daniels was much better in dumb and dumber.
― darraghmac, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I think both were great, and those two statements aren't mutually exclusive anyway
― da croupier, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tell her I have a rapist wit."
― da croupier, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
CABLE GUY She's clean I assure you. I tried her out last week to make sure she was top quality, and I'm as healthy as a horse. Not a drip. She's the best, ask any of my friends.
Steven cringes.
STEVE You've got to be kidding? Please tell me she's a friend of yours. You're just playing with my mind again, right?
CABLE GUY I wish I had friends like that.
STEVEN Get out of my house!
― gff, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Harry: One time, we successfully mated a bulldog with a Shih-Tzu. Mary: Really? That's strange. Harry: Yeah, we called it a bullshit.
― latebloomer, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
dumb and dumber is so awesome
^^^ all the better for matthew broderick being totally unconvincing and uncommitted to his performance.
xp
― gff, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
"don't dig too deep... you might get burnt by the molten LA-VA"
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
HEY, WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!
― da croupier, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
ah, just has a flash of the scene where he fights the dead cow blocking the road in irene...
― AleXTC, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG in Dumb & Dumber when they give the blind girl a dead parakeet, the hardest & most painful laughs ever. Went w/Cable Guy tho.
― Abbott, Saturday, 5 January 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Liar Liar is surly among the worst movies ever made.
Best typo ever.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 January 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
liar liar was on tv this eve and i missed it. i have very fond memories of seeing it on release, stoned as a mf, with my main dude a.b., so i'm not gonna hate.
'fun with dick and jane' is very good -- tea leoni seems to have done very little but she's outstanding in 'flirting with disaster' and good in this.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I can dig him but serious or comic role I always feel like there's something missing from behind his eyes. Like, some real disconnect. So any role that calls for emotional heft, no - Truman Show's last ten minutes were a lot of wasted potential
― J0hn D., Saturday, 5 January 2008 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought "truman show" was terrific at the time but haven't seen it since it came out.
is his character in "cable guy" really just called "the cable guy"? because that's awesome.
― J.D., Sunday, 6 January 2008 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link
The quality of Carrey's moments largely outstrips that of the films in which they're contained. Thus, though the film itself may suck gigantic balls, the essence of the man's career boils down to the Rhino Scene from Ace Ventura 2.
― Pillbox, Sunday, 6 January 2008 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha yes!!!!
― latebloomer, Sunday, 6 January 2008 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i called a teacher "saddlebags" bcz of him, once
eternal sunshine is awesome but cable guy....hmm
― impudent harlot, Sunday, 6 January 2008 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't seen earth girls are easy in years but i'm pretty sure it's brilliant
― impudent harlot, Sunday, 6 January 2008 06:51 (sixteen years ago) link
he really is just called 'the cable guy' in 'the cable guy'. for most of the movie he's called 'chip douglas' but his names are all taken from tv characters.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 6 January 2008 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Chip Douglas was in The Turtles and produced The Monkees! That whole mediaeval jousting bit in "The Cable Guy" is genius - "Goodbye, Jim" - but the film isn't as good as he is, I've got no interest in his "serious" films.
― Tom D., Sunday, 6 January 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not sure earth girls are easy is as brilliant as you'd want it to be
i think i'm going with bruce almighty. haha it was a fun viewing!!
― Surmounter, Sunday, 6 January 2008 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/3780493/jim-carrey-lawsuit-cathriona-white-note/amp/
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 5 October 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
https://globalnews.ca/news/3780493/jim-carrey-lawsuit-cathriona-white-note/amp/
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 5 October 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
jim carrey was more himself crashing jeff daniel's conan interview, was good to see
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
I thought this revive would be for his starring turn in the hilariously titled Dark Crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WWC0GTP08w
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
we air dyouly appainted daerk cryminals
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
looks halfway decent? at least for the cast
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
Carrey sounds Irish there
― omar little, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Jim honors Chaplin in speaking against the current war on the poor and weak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQSyQj1Fj74
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 October 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Wow, that was fantastic. And something that I, at least, very much needed to hear. I was on the edge of tears a few times. And man, that is some jacket he's wearing there. Bryan Ferry himself could rock that!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 29 October 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
I liked the Chaplin bits but pls Jim no pining for the days of "conscious" capitalism
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:15 (five years ago) link
I don't know, I think his intentions are right on target. He's smart enough to know that most Americans, albeit foolishly, equate Socialism with Communism. So he hedged his bets, as it were. I don't believe one can truly "pine" for days one never experienced, at least not in any mature,adult sense. I think in this country as it is today, these things need to be said. And honestly, I think 60% of the Hollywood shit weasels in that audience didn't agree with it either. Wouldn't want to see their well padded bank accounts going towards helping anyone in need. Well, fuck that and fuck them. You go Jim Carrey!, And if u disagree than you disagree. It's a free country. So they say.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 29 October 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
he's co-written a metafictional novel which i was gifted with
not bad so far
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 July 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
do we have to redo this now that the Sonic movie is out
― frogbs, Friday, 17 July 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
he's spent 12 years making us hate the films he was actually good in, not sure a new poll will help
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
All the recent bumps of this thread reminding me of so much bad stuff I’d managed to completely block out: the gondry show, that dogshit scando detective thing, his idiot russell brand phase... thank god for sonic tbh
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Friday, 17 July 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
ilx's Nicolas Cage cult would probably enjoy this novel's rendering of him as a spirit-animal-type loon with a homemade dojo (he beats up Carrey after JC fails to heed his warnings about Jim's new actress gf)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
has his Gondry show been cancelled yet? or just on hold cause of COVID? I was vaguely curious but not enough to actually watch lol
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
i mean the second season just aired recently no? i watched it and it was... fine, not bad even
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
So I finished the Carrey-Dana Vachon novel. I don't want to oversell it -- it's not The Day of the Locust -- but it's a more than serviceable Hollywood satire, climaxing in a Malibu battle with aliens featuring John Travolta and his Scientology platoon showing up in gold spandex bodysuits.
You'll at least like it if you loathe Disney (he clearly never wants to work for them again), Kelsey Grammer, Gwyneth Paltrow, pop gurus, or basic cable action shows.
It also features Charlie Kaufman grooming him for a Mao biopic (allegedly with funding from Taiwan), with Anthony Hopkins schooling him on the Great Leap Forward while eating shrimp and noodles with his hands in a cheap motel. Also Nic Cage preparing to fight his alien nemeses by wielding a samurai sword in his beachfront dojo.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 August 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
the title is Memoirs and Misinformation btw
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 August 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
it sounds preferable to the actual new Kaufman novel tbh
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Saturday, 8 August 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
i think Carrey has mentioned there could be a film version of the book where the celebrities are played by different celebrities
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 August 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
that could be a solid gag
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Saturday, 8 August 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link