Yep. He was the perfect choice to play Count Olaf imo.
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Anyone else feel like Jim Carrey lost his way the last 10 years?
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astroturfing
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HOLD UP
Dumb And Dumber To... that's happening? by the Farrelly Brothers? there's already photos from the set with both Carrey and Daniels in character? even damn Cam Neely is in it lol?
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Dumb And Dumber To... that's happening? by the Farrelly Brothers? there's already photos from the set with both Carrey and Daniels in character? even damn Cam Neely is in it lol?
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
A semi "Hey, it's that actor", that people might not know:
Yes Man is (rather loosely) based on a true account of someone who did the base premise of the film for a year; said "Yes" to everything. The person in question? Danny Wallace. Who plays the voice and likeness of *this* guy in Assassin's Creed:
So, yes, in a somewhat bizarre Six Degrees thing, Jim Carrey is playing a fictionalised version of the guy who plays the voice of a character in Assassin's Creed.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I think for an actor like him -- and seeing that the stigma of 'guy who falls around and acts dumb' still exists here -- the streak he had with The Cable Guy, The Truman Show and Man on the Moon was really groundbreaking. I wonder what happened to put him off track as being the next Tom Hanks Oscar-winner type.
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aHebrewMenagerie
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When's Bruce Almighty 2 coming out?
Gamble
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the rest I haven't seen but from reviews and word of mouth I would have to agree
Ben Affleck -- (GOOD) Good Will Hunting, Dogma, Pearl Harbor, Changing Lanes, Sum of All Fears --> (BAD) Daredevil, Gigli, Paycheck, Smokin' Aces --> (GREAT) The Town, Argo
Megalosaro
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I personally always liked McConnoughey. He was fantastic in contact. He was great in frailty. I even like is romcoms, where he was always charming and charismatic
GregLombardi
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The answer to this thread is no, no no, because you had to wait until after March 2014 to say it has been 10 years:
Probably my favorite film of all time.
Probably my favorite film of all time.
scytheavatar
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He is an one dimensional clown compared to Steve Carell and Will Ferrell, both of who try less hard to be funny. It's only a matter of time before people get tired of Jim Carrey because he never really evolved his comedian and acting ability.
Sorcerer
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I wouldn't give Ferrel that much credit, he basically made the same movie over and over for a while, he just changed the sport.
A basketball player,
A race car driver.
An ice skater.
Beginning with Anchorman, the plot in all these movies is that he is at the top of his profession, his enemies bring him, down, his girl leaves him, he makes a glorious comeback.
DXLelouch153
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if he could get off his stupid violence is bad mindset hed make a perfect Cletus Casidy
NerdEyeBlind
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Comedians usually lose their edge once they have kids because they insist on making only movies their kids can watch. It happened with Carrey and it definiftely happened with Eddie Murphy. UGH.
poopninjamvc3mk
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PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
He's certainly better than Adam Sandler. I bring up that comparison only because I bought this at Target the other day:
A Series of Unfortunate Events isn't a perfect adaptation but it's decent and the series is so brilliant. It deserved better than to languish at the end of the third book. They were talking about doing sequels in stop-motion since all the kid actors have outgrown the parts, but I haven't heard anything recently.
Yes Man was good, even if it was mostly a retread of Liar Liar.
Haven't seen the other movies.
Woah, I need to buy this (my hd dvd player died and I have bruce almighty and billy madison on HD DVD). How much did it cost?
He was probably the best part of the movie, only undermined by the fact that he was barely in it. Wish those top billings reflected on his influence.
This is exactly what ruins Bruce Almighty for me every time I watch it.
GhostWriter24
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He peaked with Truman Show.
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