'Out Of Gas'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
I loved Stranger Than Fiction, but I understand that I shouldn't extrapolate from that to his larger oeuvre.
Punch Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine, Truman Show, Wedding Singer. Yes yes yes.
F/C/M: Eternal Sunshine, Spanglish, Stranger Than Fiction.
Ha! And ow.
M: Eternal Sunshine, if I must. F: Spanglish. C: Stranger Than Fiction.
I've heard that Spanglish is not just terrible, but also offensive, so it'd be hate-fucking, I guess. And I've heard that Stranger Than Fiction is pretty good. But I learned from watching Speed that I'd rather be infuriated than bored, and STF looks boring.
Doing Time on Maple Drive
Thank you, Frank!
I'd still like to see Stranger Than Fiction. Even though I won't ever forgive either Ferrell or Kidman for stomping all over Bewitched.
I actually liked Stranger Than Fiction, but more for the Emma Thompson and Queen Latifah than for the Wil Ferrell.
Also, The Conversation is awesome.
True. I also love The Lady Vanishes.
I'm very impressed that Jean de Florette is on that list.
I won't ever forgive either Ferrell or Kidman for stomping all over Bewitched.
That's how I feel about Land of the Lost. When I was seven years old, Land of the Lost was the coolest thing ever. (And in spite of the now-cheesy looking SFX, they had A-list scifi writers working on the show). It's like Ferrell went back in time and spat at my seven-year-old self.
I was surprised how much I liked Will Ferrell in Elf. I am pretty fond of Adam Sandler when he isn't turned up to 11, and Man in the Moon was pretty great despite my tepid feelings for both Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman.
It's like Ferrell went back in time and spat at my seven-year-old self.
Exactly.
I will say probably no one's going to make the Bewitched movie of my dreams, but what they did was so far off the reservation, it was barely recognizable. Sniffle.