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I keep thinking I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events again, and then I remember HOW MUCH Jim Carrey ruined the movie for me.
Actually his impact lessens on repeat viewings. You spend more time (a) loving the kid casting; (b) loving the costuming; (c) loving the set designs; (e) loving the opening and closing credits; and (f) loving the supporting actors, especially Meryl Streep just killing in one of her all-time best comic roles.
I keep thinking I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events again, and then I remember HOW MUCH Jim Carrey ruined the movie for me.
This is the effect Jim Carrey has for me for every movie I've seen him in.
This is the effect Jim Carrey has for me for every movie I've seen him in.
I like The Mask and The Truman Show.
And I may try and rewatch ASOUE soon, if it's on Nexflix Instant.
So today we watched The Devil Bat, in which Bela Lugosi concocts a special aftershave to put on his victims ("Rub it on the tender parts of your neck"). The aftershave attracts the gigantic DEVIL BAT he creates with electricity and glandular...something or other. It's so ridiculous, but it's a really good bad movie! Very entertaining.
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This is the effect Jim Carrey has for me for every movie I've seen him in.
I like The Mask and The Truman Show.
I wanted to like The Truman Show, really I did, because my Ed Harris love knows no bounds (I even watched Milk Money, for god's sake), and because people kept saying "Oh, but Jim Carrey's not really LIKE his other roles in this!"
Uh, no. He's my movie kryptonite. He's never, ever the character he plays; he's just Jim Carrey, dressed differently. And I include the Riddler in that sweeping statement.
If forced to choose (DINAO), I would watch an Adam goddamn Sandler movie over a Jim Carrey movie.
I would watch an Adam goddamn Sandler movie over a Jim Carrey movie.
I would watch The Mask over just about any Sandler or Jack Black (haven't seen School of Rock) movie out there. I remember enjoying the lying one at the time, but I wouldn't see it again. Sandler comes much closer to annoying me by his very existence.
I enjoyed Big Daddy and The Wedding Singer and loved Happy Gilmore, so although I haven't liked the looks of any of Sandler's movies in recent years I don't object to his existence on general principle like I do Carrey's.
I like both Punch Drunk Love and Eternal Sunshine.
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