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This movie seemed to embody Jim Carrey's appeal, and how his career lives on despite having what must be the shittiest agent in Hollywood.
I enjoyed it despite myself- it was so badly and transparently written (These fucking romantic comedy writers need to be sent to re-education camps or something) yet JC sort of carried it.
Focused too much on the thin/unbelievable/generic romance. This girl's cute and quirky and wears a helmet with manga eyes on them so she's *definitely* the one. Yeah.
And the one guy all these cute and quirky girls need is a fucking pencil pusher who suddenly realizes he likes to have fun and proceeds to shed his personality as naturally as a python does its skin.
Throw in a trashy indie-looking buddy who bums and constantly tries to get laid, a couple of social retards whom the protagonist can hook up together so that his character's moral inventory can grow (I'm sure those writers use terms like that as well) and you have yourself a movie.
It's ungodly, the way this genre cannibalizes itself to perpetuate its movies. This movie was done before in Shallow Hal and Along Came Polly. Don't these writers ever want to chop their fingertips off so they can avoid mass bludgeoning people's brains?
I enjoyed it despite myself- it was so badly and transparently written (These fucking romantic comedy writers need to be sent to re-education camps or something) yet JC sort of carried it.
Focused too much on the thin/unbelievable/generic romance. This girl's cute and quirky and wears a helmet with manga eyes on them so she's *definitely* the one. Yeah.
And the one guy all these cute and quirky girls need is a fucking pencil pusher who suddenly realizes he likes to have fun and proceeds to shed his personality as naturally as a python does its skin.
Throw in a trashy indie-looking buddy who bums and constantly tries to get laid, a couple of social retards whom the protagonist can hook up together so that his character's moral inventory can grow (I'm sure those writers use terms like that as well) and you have yourself a movie.
It's ungodly, the way this genre cannibalizes itself to perpetuate its movies. This movie was done before in Shallow Hal and Along Came Polly. Don't these writers ever want to chop their fingertips off so they can avoid mass bludgeoning people's brains?
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What have you done and why did you go see it?
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So was Elf, but by and large she's just the quirky chick in the forgettable comedy/romantic comedy of the moment.
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But c'mon,
Brilliant.
Seriously, first time I saw the trailor, I thought it was a joke.
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
Hitchhiker's Guide, Bridge to Terabithia?
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Winter's Passing, Surf's Up?
I'd think if anything she doesn't have enough leads yet. She's generally either the quirky love interest or the quirky best friend to the love interest.
they should just call it liar liar 2 though. or liar liar pants on fire
The first one would be called Liar Liar '90s Edition and Yes Man would be Liar Liar Millenium
Pass on this one. It's a shame 'cause I was the biggest Jim Carrey fan when I was a kid. I can still quote AV2 line-for-line.
"Hey, you have to say yes to everything right?"
"Yes!"
"Good. Take this shotgun and blow your fucking brains out for thinking this concept would make a good movie dipshit."
Umm... she played Andy's psycho girlfriend on Weeds. And she was awesome, as she always is.
At least it was his own decision in this one and not a joke by god or whatever caused it in Liar.
It's such a stupid shorthand characterization, not just in this film but *any* film that wants you to fall in love with the girl, or at least like her. It's so superficial- she's cute, she has quirky hobbies and therefore she is exactly what any man needs.
Oh yeah and she just happens to look like she wouldn't be out of place on the cover of a beauty magazine, yet she has nothing better to do than hang out with losers until Jim Carrey decides to sweep her away to non-loser-dom.
It's not really out of free will though.
Well... (Weeds Spoiler)
It occurs to me that you might be talking about her character in Yes Man, which I have not seen yet.
I thought the Go-Getter was decent.
And the whole part with the
Also, I didn't like that Jim Carrey was playing someone so young. He looked goofy wearing those clothes and was for some reason 15 years older than all of his friends.
This movie was funny. Especially the bar fight, and the jumper scene, but the whole movie was not bad. Maybe I am just happy about the holidays, but it was not a horrible movie.
Normally, I would agree... but... The Happening. Come on. She really was the worst thing in that movie, and that's saying a lot.
... don't you blame that atrocity on her. How dare you sir. How dare you!
I saw it for the same reason, and had the same thoughts. It was okay.. not great, but not wretch worthy. It was predictable, and Carrey did look way older then he was trying to play. But it was watchable, for sure.
I think of it like this...
If a private is ordered by his superior to mutilate a small child and he does it, he's just following orders. Maybe he didn't sign up to mutilate children but the fact remains that a child was mutilated and it was done by his hands.
Maybe Zooey can be forgiven, but that she was hammier and cheesier than anything in that awful movie. And even in something like Hamlet 2 her performance would be considered sub-par. I dunno man, I loves me some Deschanel but I know what I saw. :x
That Hamlet 2 comment was weird. I guess you were making some kind of comparison, but it was lost on me.
Regardless, good acting talent (and Zooey is simply good, she's not exceptional (but I still love her... and double parenthasis!)) cannot overcome a horrible script and poor directing. See: Everyone in Star Wars Episodes 1, 2, and 3 (and that's even more damning, because I consider Ewan McGregor to be very good, and Liam Neeson to be exceptional. And Natalie Portman, whom I also love.)
Seriously.
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I thought this when I first saw the preview... but actually, the two movies have absolutely nothing in common.
I doubt anyone saying that has actually seen the film but it's not so odd to link the two.
I thought he actually makes the choice to never say no.
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you know, hilarious comedy
I mean... societal convention forces him to wear pants in both movies, so I guess that's the same.
The fact is, he can say no at any time... he;s not bound by a spell or genie.