I liked "Spanglish" too, and "Funny people" Ok, I think I'm going to have to admit that I like Adam Sandler. But he didn't write "Spanglish" or "Funny People" so he acted like a grown-up in those.
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erikaj - Mar 07, 2011 6:55:59 am PST #13501 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Sophia Brooks - Mar 07, 2011 7:01:10 am PST #13502 of 30000
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I love Jack Black, but I have never seen him in a "Jack Black" movie. I liked his little part in High Fidelity, LOVED School of Rock, and adored him in The Holiday.
I think he has more charm and less general smarm than the other two, but that could be me.
I did like Jim Carrey as the pre-Riddler, and also in Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine.
I liked Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer.
I think the take home might be that I like romances more than comedies.
Scrappy - Mar 07, 2011 7:01:14 am PST #13503 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I LOVE Wedding Singer.
Strega - Mar 07, 2011 7:01:56 am PST #13504 of 30000
My favorite Jim Carrey movie remains Peggy Sue Got Married. Which is also my favorite Nicholas Cage movie. I saw Batman Forever and The Truman Show in theaters, and while I have no particular wish to see them again, I wasn't traumatized. I'm vaguely curious about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, although I suspect it'll annoy me.
I watched some, or maybe all, of The Wedding Singer when there was nothing else on TV on a Saturday afternoon. I don't think Sandler's done anything else I'd be willing to expose my eyeballs to, so on that basis, Carrey wins.
But at this point I find Will Ferrell more irritating than either of them.
Amy - Mar 07, 2011 7:09:34 am PST #13505 of 30000
Because books.
I loved Jack Black in School of Rock, but the kids and Joan Cusack also had a lot to do with my love of that movie. I have very little desire to see him in anything else, though.
Jim Carrey makes me cringe, although he was in a TV movie way way back, before In Living Color (or maybe concurrent) called ... The [Surnames] of Maple Drive, or something like it. Family drama kind of thing, and he was really good. It was also before he was Jim Carrey (TM), though.
Tom Scola - Mar 07, 2011 7:10:30 am PST #13506 of 30000
hwæt
But at this point I find Will Ferrell more irritating than either of them.
F/C/M: Eternal Sunshine, Spanglish, Stranger Than Fiction.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 07, 2011 7:13:07 am PST #13507 of 30000
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Oh- I forgot Peggy Sue Got Married- also loved Carrey in that.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 07, 2011 7:16:13 am PST #13508 of 30000
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Jim Carrey sort of reminds me of this kid I went to High School with who discovered he was funny, and so did all the musicals. ANd never ever listened to the director, because his friends and relations laughed so much. But he actually had the potential to be much better, but if he was better, he actually would get less positive feedback, so it was sort of a loop.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2011 7:23:29 am PST #13509 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jim Carrey makes me cringe, although he was in a TV movie way way back, before In Living Color (or maybe concurrent) called ... The [Surnames] of Maple Drive, or something like it. Family drama kind of thing, and he was really good. It was also before he was Jim Carrey (TM), though.
Doing Time on Maple Drive.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2011 7:25:24 am PST #13510 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I loved Stranger Than Fiction, but I understand that I shouldn't extrapolate from that to his larger oeuvre.