First official image from DUMB AND DUMBER TO

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daviyoung said:
This is going to be monumentally shit
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I want this to be good.

But really, what was the last really good Farrelly brothers movie because I'd argue it was Kingpin. So basically, they made two great comedies followed up by simply decent (There is something about Mary) to awful stuff (most of the rest) since. So...I'll keep my expectations in check
 
One day, people are gonna stop hoping for comedy sequels to live up to the original...because outside Portal 2 they never fuckin' are
 
I have a feeling both Carrey and Daniels are going to play over exaggerated versions of the characters and it's going feel totally forced.

I hope I'm wrong.
 
kazebyaka said:
Read AMA by the creator of this movie, he said not to worry and that it's gonna be amazing. Well, i sure hope so. First one is one of the greatest comedies of all time.
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I read it too, but the Farrely's have slipped a little in terms of their comic genius. Their last few films have less and less understated humor and go for the cheap jokes like those spoof movies did.

Still, going to see this on opening day. Jim Carrey's hair looks too dark somewhat, as if they just dyed it. It should have a little more grey in it to show he's 20+years older.

Edit: I read the Seinfeld iAma too and one of the things someone asked him is why didn't he continue the show, and he made the point that people don't know when to stop. He said if they never made another Hangover, it would have been a comedic movie people would have always laughed at and remembered fondly, but because they did 2 more sequels that were bad, that it tarnished the first in a sense (maybe not exactly said like that, but that's the gist of it). So now I'm wondering if Dumb and Dumber really needed a sequel and if it's shit, will it take away a something from the first or the characters we remember. It's different because the prequel used different actors and it wasn't really the same.
 
Here's why this movie is going to bomb. Farrelly brothers have gone shit. At least, Peter Farrelly has. If you recall, Peter Farrelly's passion project was Movie 43 which he poured heart and soul into for over half a decade. Right now, Movie 43 sits at 4% on Rottentomatoes. Reviewers (and people who have seen it) have said it is quite possibly the worst big movie ever made. Here are quotes from Peter Farrelly on Movie 43:
"It's like Funny or Die, only if you could go crazy," judged Farrelly, "because with Funny or Die, there are certain limits. And we just wanted to do that kind of short and go much further than that."
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In 2009, Peter Farrelly and producer John Penotti took their pitch—along with about 60 scripts for the vignettes—to Relativity Media. At that meeting, Wessler, Penotti, and Farrelly presented one short that they already had shot, starring Kate Winslet as a woman going on a blind date with a seemingly successful and handsome Hugh Jackman. "They just looked at me and said, 'Go for it,'" Wessler told The Hollywood Reporter. "It takes a lot of balls to make something that is not conventional." Relativity funded a mere $6 million for the film, but no other studio would sign on. "Other potential backers", Farrelly revealed, "didn't believe it could happen—a movie with Kate Winslet for $6 million?"[7]
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Yes, the movie had Kate Winslet in it with Hugh Jackman. In the skit produced by Peter Farrelly in Movie 43, Kate goes on a date with Hugh Jackman who has testicles under his ear to which everyone but her is oblivious to. Yep, it's just as atrocious as it sounds.
The film officially began shooting in March 2010, but due to its large cast, producer/director Farrelly told Entertainment Weekly that "This movie was made over four years, and they just had to wait for a year or two years for different actors. They would shoot for a week, and shut down for several months. Same thing with the directors. It was the type of movie you could come back to." Shortly before principal photography, writers Parker, Stone, and David and Jerry Zucker backed out of the project.[8]
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Finally when the reviews hit in, this one pierces the soul of Peter Farrelly
Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph described Farrelly's film as "the work of a confused man thrashing around in an industry he no longer understands".
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Another one:
Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News gave it a negative review, saying "As a film critic, I’ve seen nearly 4,000 movies over the last fifteen years. Right now, I can’t think of one worse than “Movie 43.”" [20]
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Yeah, so I'm not confident at all on Farrelly involvement after Movie 43 which should have destroyed their careers. But I'm hoping Jim Carrey is given enough room to make the movie his own.
 
I worry because it seems like the sequel to comedy hits are always poop.

Recently, Anchorman 2 and Hangover 2.

Its like, they find out what was funny in the original, and take it to the extreme in the sequel and it always fucks up everything.

In Anchorman 1, Brick was a small character with a few lines here and there that were classic. In Anchorman 2, they give him his own storyline and way more lines, and he just became this extreme version of himself. It was terrible.

Ditto for Hangover and Zach Galifnakis.

I worry about this movie. I love Dumb and Dumber, so I just hope they don't go overboard with the situations. Like, Harry forgets how to breathe or something, and lloyd has to teach him.
 
That picture sure made me smile, just wish Carey's hair looked more like Lloyd's and less like one of the three stooges.
 
I never said Harry wasn't a moron, he was just smarter than Lloyd. He could actually read.

I second the suspicion stated above: They're going to play caricatures of their original form.
 
I worked on this for seven days as an extra. Me and some other extras played Cards Against Humanity while in holding. It was fun.

I'll talk about my experience once the movie is released.
 
I support reviving old franchises in their original production quality and completely ignoring the horribly sequels as if they never existed.

Like Home Alone 3 with Culkin's kid somehow getting left behind. And John Williams score somehow.
 
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