Jim Carrey is incredibly underrated as an dramatic actor. "The Majestic" did a terrible box office but it was a terrific film. Carrey's performance could've been nominated for Best Actor but no.. the Academy steered away from it.. but we can also thank that on part of the AUDIENCE WHO DIDN'T GO SEE THE FILM IN THEATRES. folks, this is the same director, Darabont, who made "Shawshank Redemption" and "Green Mile", two successful films (not so much SR in box office but when released on video)... why do people snub Carrey when he isn't doing something where he is effortlessly hamming up his colourful character role??
yo: http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=744
mac, y not try redirecting my boot from yo ass, u info posting MUTHER!!!!!!
you've just made a war u cannot afford....SHUT UP!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Shut up! Shut, shut, shut, shut, SHUT UP!!
Anyway... is anyone here looking forward to "Bruce Almighty?"
Damn...I'm tired of Jim Carrey!
By the way on this board I always feel like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie and wants to know..... :?
Quote from: Sigur RósBy the way on this board I always feel like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie and wants to know
that's cos u read too much duck and GT.. sumtimes u have to pick ur battles..
bahhh picolas
I give credit to Carrey for being able to pronuciate all his lines clearly when he does drama and being able to say the lines louder when in a situation of stress and tension and for bringing the confused look perfected in the tv movie of the week back. This is the description of him trying to straight drama, because he never has inhabited a role yet. His qualities of a comedic actor seem mainly to be him at his most manic in one persona bleeding over all his comedies. But, with Man on the Moon, he incorporated both the manic quality with the pretentious dramatic acting. The thing is, I liked Man on the Moon, The Truman Show and The Majestic. I didn't complement Carrey for bringing the material up, but he kept it afloat at least for the purpose we could still admire all the other qualities of those movies.
~murder, redrum, rougerum (never fucking mad!!!!)
I agree.. and I also think he deserved the nod for MotM and Majestic.. Truman Show was good but I just didn't think he would've deserved a nomination for it
Alright, I'm starting to crack a smile. You admins are nuts, y'know that?
Or as Regis Philbin would say: bonkos.
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No, no. I didn't mean it like that. The administrators on this board like to have fun with us commoners.
Indeed they do. And Reeg likes to have fun making up words. Fuckin' Reeg.
don't mess with regis man. he's alright. kathy lee.... man, am I the only one that really really really wants to fuck the shit outta kathy lee gifford? in the ass
Quote from: PawbloeAlright, I'm starting to crack a smile. You admins are nuts, y'know that?
No Shit... I leave for a few weeks and when I come back, they've lost thier minds... I think it's the stress of having me gone all the time... I'm usually like the Mom of the admins... they get upset at eachother and get in little fights and I make them a sandwich and tuck them in for a nap... except for P, who just constantly suckles at my teet.... ( he loves attention.. he's momma's favorite)
Quote from: Film Studentexcept for P, who just constantly suckles at my teet.... ( he loves attention.. he's momma's favorite)
u better not try n pull budgie outa this chair
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Excuse me, Pubrick, but I do believe Budgie is currently gay with me and no one else. Refer to the lack of flirtatious shenanigans with yourself, indeed blah blah I hate my life. Except when I'm with you Budgie! And Jim Carrey. If Budgie looked like Jim Carrey I'd be a happy chappy, as my british 39 fork eating counterparts might say, pinky in the air of course.
NOW WHERE ARE MY GOLF CLUBS.
Quote from: CinephileJim Carrey is incredibly underrated as an dramatic actor. "The Majestic" did a terrible box office but it was a terrific film. Carrey's performance could've been nominated for Best Actor but no.. the Academy steered away from it.. but we can also thank that on part of the AUDIENCE WHO DIDN'T GO SEE THE FILM IN THEATRES. folks, this is the same director, Darabont, who made "Shawshank Redemption" and "Green Mile", two successful films (not so much SR in box office but when released on video)... why do people snub Carrey when he isn't doing something where he is effortlessly hamming up his colourful character role??
i think he did some that piss off he people who nominmated people. i think he should of won best actor in the truth man show
Quote from: Cinephilei think he should of won best actor in the truth man show
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!?!!!
Quote from: mogwaiAnyone else who've had one of those dreams?
yeah dude back in the day i dreamt i saw the end credits of Wayne's World and it was almost identical to the real jokes at the end of it.. i was 10 at the time.
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I watched Dumb & Dumber twice today and am seriously convinced its Jim Carreys best performance.
Does anybody know what Jim Carrey thinks about them making a prequel to Dumb and Dumber? Maybe a link, Mac?
Is he not in it??? I honestly hate Jim Carrey and his work. I found his substance very weak comedically and just a complete failure in his attempts at drama. Too cartoonish in my opinion.
I saw Bruce Almighty earlier this evening, and it is AWFUL. I love Jim, and was hoping (although the trailers didn't help) that this would be something in the vein of Liar Liar. No luck. Patch Adams was funnier than this. Every single funny gag is in the trailer, so you should just save your money and wait for Eternal Sunshine later this year.
i agree that they used way too many of the gags in the trailer. very disappointing. i started a Bruce Almighty thread over in now showing in case anyone else will admit to seeing it!
i taped carrey on letterman, it aired just about a week ago, he walked on stage with a bunch of cameras taped in different places on his body with cables running from them. pure genius
the conversation shifted to the new movie and then dave started talking about the dumb and dumber prequel, in which jim said that they got people that looked remarkably like him and 'jeff', but he made it very clear that he was in no way associated with the movie.
the interview was hilarious overall, i might just post it up on xixax later today
Quote from: GhostboyI saw Bruce Almighty earlier this evening, and it is AWFUL. I love Jim, and was hoping (although the trailers didn't help) that this would be something in the vein of Liar Liar. No luck. Patch Adams was funnier than this. Every single funny gag is in the trailer, so you should just save your money and wait for Eternal Sunshine later this year.
just about everyone in the theater I saw it in would disagree with you I think
It was good fun entertainment, I thought
I think the word "underrated" is being entirely misused on this board...
Is Jim Carrey a no-talent? Absolutely not.
Is Jim Carrey a genius (on film)? Probably not.
Does Jim Carrey get a lot of respect and a lot of slack cut for his often terrible films because he's just as often the one good thing about them? Absolutely.
Therefore, Jim Carrey, while not universally praised, is hardly underrated. He gets a lot of respect and deference, sometimes when, in my opinion, he doesn't deserve those things at all.
as many of the veterans know, i despise ______-rated. i don't think it has any bearing on anything and is quite useless and difficult, if not impossible to judge.
cheers
Jim Carrey is The Hypnotist at Revolution
Source: Variety Monday, October 13, 2003
Revolution Studios is in final talks to purchase Sacha Gervasi's romantic comedy pitch The Hypnotist, with Jim Carrey attached to star and Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment to produce.
The story concerns a world-renowned hypnotist who exhibits a completely different personality when not onstage. When he loses his powers, he has to woo a girl and fall in love with her in order to get them back.
Cooper, who is also working with Carrey on New Line Cinema's I Know That You Know That I Know brought the actor to the project.
Gervasi wrote the screenplay for DreamWorks' The Terminal, which Steven Spielberg is currently directing and stars Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. He's also writing Comrade Rockstar for DreamWorks and Hanks.
Jim Carrey is The Six Million Dollar Man
Source: Variety
Dimension Films will adapt the 1970s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man for a feature comedy to star Jim Carrey and to be directed by Todd Phillips. Phillips will team with his (Old School) writing partner Scot Armstrong to script a vehicle for Carrey to play the bionic man.
The project is based on the Martin Caidin novel "Cyborg" that was turned into the Lee Majors ABC drama series. Carrey pitched a take of the movie that persuaded Phillips to make a deal. He and Armstrong will begin writing as soon as they complete scripting the Dimension remake of School For Scoundrels, which Phillips plans to direct next.
After Carrey stars with Cameron Diaz in the Dean Parisot-directed Columbia Pictures remake Fun With Dick and Jane and Phillips completes "School," they hope to meet in fall 2004 to get The Six Million Dollar Man into production.
I wonder if he'll get paid six million dollars for that role.
Seriously, though, I think Carrey's a comedic genius. Dumb and Dumber = great. Ditto with The Cable Guy. I'm one of the few people that really liked that movie, it seems. I just think people were rather uncomfortable with Carrey as a villainous character. And porno password was priceless.
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaDitto with The Cable Guy. I'm one of the few people that really liked that movie, it seems. I just think people were rather uncomfortable with Carrey as a villainous character. And porno password was priceless.
At that time it was easily his best performance, as a matter of fact I started to like him because of that film, then later came Truman and Man on the Moon which are his best IMO.
I prefer Man on the Moon and The Majestic with Truman Show as a runner up.
Wow, what a perfect name for this thread! Jim Carry is probably my favorite living Actor. The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind are probably my two favorite films of all time after the films of David Lynch (my favorite director). And those two performances, along with Man On The Moon, are 3 of my favorite performances any actor has ever given (though I thought the script and direction could have been a little better in Man On The Moon). So, yes, I defintilty think he is very under rated. I wish more great projects woudld come his way. I din't like Bruce Almightly, I hated The Grinch and I thought Me, Myself, & Irene could have had some much better direction....especially given Jim Carrey's brilliant performance in it. The Farrely brothers had probably Carrey's best comedic role of all time there and they should have done more with it. And as far as The Grinch goes, I cringe every time I watch it because Jim Carrey would have been the most perfect Grinch ever! But he couldn't get into character properly with all the constricting make up on. And that horrible script too. Oh well. I'm really looking forward to Lemony Snicket though. I've read the books and it's a great role for him. Plus it seems like it's going to be a really well made film. So we'll see.
Jim Carrey Will Get Film Award
Jim Carrey will receive the American Film Institute's Star Award at the 2005 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in February.
Carrey, winner of Golden Globes for "The Truman Show" in 1999 and "Man in the Moon" in 2000, will be honored in a career tribute hosted by Conan O'Brien of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."
"Jim Carrey is the rarest kind of actor," said Jean Picker Firstenberg, CEO of the American Film Institute. "Jim has proven he can do comedy or drama in films that are both creatively brilliant and reach audiences of all ages."
Carrey played Fire Marshal Bill in the television series "In Living Color" before his first starring film role as the title character in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" in 1994.
He has since starred in the comedies "Dumb & Dumber," "Bruce Almighty" and "Liar Liar" and taken dramatic roles in "The Majestic" and "The Truman Show."
Previous Star Award winners include Albert Brooks, Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, the Monty Python troupe, Steve Martin, Mike Myers and Diane Keaton, who was last year's recipient.
The comedy festival is scheduled Feb. 9-13 in Aspen.
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How bland, that makes it sound like they are just making an award to give to him cause they feel sorry for him.
people rave about comedians-turned-actors the same way they rave about pro wrestlers-turned-comedians.
The Six Million Dollar Man project suddenly dissapeared from IMDb... anyone knows what happened with this project? As far as I knew Jim Carrey was in, and Todd Philips directing, and it was already in Production... except now its gone and I didnt see any news...
Carrey Joining Stiller in Used Guys
Source: Variety August 31, 2005
Jim Carrey is in early talks to team with Ben Stiller and play obsolete pleasure clones in Used Guys a comedy to be directed by Jay Roach (Meet the Fockers) for 20th Century Fox. Variety reports that the plan is to shoot next spring.
Written by David Guion and Michael Handelman from an original script by Mickey Birnbaum, the futuristic Used Guys is set in a world where women run the Earth. Men became extinct because they ingested an enhancement drink that proved fatal.
Carrey and Stiller will play clones rendered obsolete by superior models whose enhancements include better listening and lovemaking skills. The scorned clones make a run for it, bent on regaining their dignity by searching for a male nirvana known as Mantopia.
Used Guys would mark the first onscreen star pairing of Carrey and Stiller, though the latter directed Carrey in The Cable Guy. It will also be Carrey's first film with Roach.
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NOT TRUE! Ben Stiller had a cameo in Cable Guy. isn't it weird to think that Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Jim Carrey were ALL in that movie? that'd be a good trivia question.
Ani 'Horton' calls Carrey, Carell to Fox
Jim Carrey has been cast as Horton and Steve Carell has been cast as the mayor of Who-ville in Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who,"a CGI-animated feature film from 20th Century Fox Animation.
"Horton" marks the first time Carrey will voice a CGI-animated character. He previously inhabited Seuss' world as the title character in Universal Pictures' "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
"Horton" centers on an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting that there might be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community that thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help.
The film version is based on the classic book, first published in 1954 by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Seuss' books have sold more than 200 million copies, and have been translated into 15 languages.
"At the heart of the movies that we make are the characters, and in Horton, Geisel has created a character with an unwavering moral center, a charming innocence, and a selfless willingness to protect others, even at his own expense," 20th Century Fox Animation president Chris Meledandri said. "Geisel had one of the greatest imaginations of the 20th century, and Jim Carrey's extraordinary talents are a wonderful match to Geisel's vision. Steve Carell will not only be bringing his great comedic abilities to the role of the mayor but also his uncanny gift of finding the humanity in every character he plays."
"Horton" is being produced at Fox Animation's Blue Sky Studios, whose recent "Ice Age: The Meltdown" grossed $650 million in worldwide theatrical boxoffice.
Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino are directing "Horton" from a script adaptation written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio.
Carrey lights up 'Phillip Morris'
Actor breaks into comedic prison film
Source: Variety
Jim Carrey will star in "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy that was written and will mark the directing debut of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the writing team behind "Bad Santa."
Andrew Lazar and Far Shariat will produce.
Carrey will play a conman whose love for a cellmate leads him to make several prison escapes.
A financing deal for the less-than-$20 million film is about to close with Luc Besson's Europacorp, which bested several rival bids when the project was shopped in Cannes.
Based on a book by Houston Chronicle crime reporter Steve McVicker, the fact-based film casts Carrey as Steven Russell, a married father whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system.
He fell madly in love with his cellmate, who eventually was set free, which led Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times. Script has some of the dark edges of "Bad Santa" but is grounded by the affable and lovesick character of Russell. Project was pitched to financiers as "Catch Me if You Can" meets "Brokeback Mountain." It went to Besson, who recently declared an intention to take Europacorp public with an initial offering in Paris.
Lazar bought the book while it was in galleys four years ago and enlisted Ficarra and Requa, who wrote "Cats & Dogs" for the producer. Carrey was the first actor to whom he showed it.
The timing of the film hasn't yet been resolved. Like many stars, Carrey is plotting back-to-back films that can be completed before the SAG contract expires next summer.
This project is one of the finalists for those slots; another is "Ripley's Believe It or Not!," the film Paramount put the brakes on last year. Studio, director Tim Burton and Carrey all sparked to a rewrite just turned in by Steve Oedekerk.