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Steph L. - Mar 07, 2011 5:42:57 am PST #13490 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

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.

§ ita § - Mar 07, 2011 5:50:11 am PST #13491 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.

Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 07, 2011 6:10:31 am PST #13492 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

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.

DavidS - Mar 07, 2011 6:16:21 am PST #13493 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I like both Punch Drunk Love and Eternal Sunshine.

Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2011 6:27:02 am PST #13494 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

15 conspiracy movies: [link]

tommyrot - Mar 07, 2011 6:32:45 am PST #13495 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

15 conspiracy movies: [link]

That's what they want you to think.

Polter-Cow - Mar 07, 2011 6:33:16 am PST #13496 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Ha, tommyrot, you beat me to my response, which was: Or ARE they??

tommyrot - Mar 07, 2011 6:36:51 am PST #13497 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Also, The Conversation is awesome.

Steph L. - Mar 07, 2011 6:49:14 am PST #13498 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Eternal Sunshine.

Otherwise known as Cry Moar, Emo Carrey.

Fred Pete - Mar 07, 2011 6:49:42 am PST #13499 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Referring back to last week -- I finished Skidoo over the weekend. I still think it's a very strange movie. And I'm not sure how I feel about the first hour or so. But the last half hour is comedy gold.

I'm not sure when exactly it gets great. Probably when the LSD-tripping guards show up on the tower. By that point, the movie has developed an absurd chaos that's great fun if you just go with it.

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