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Post by UT on Jul 23, 2018 19:25:34 GMT
I've never actually seen Man on the Moon , it's a movie that probably just ended up being weird timing for me and came out at a time where I was ignorant and only wanted to see Carrey in comedies. Glad I grew up from that.
I don't think I'll ever have the desire to watch it either , I've now seen Jim & Andy (crazy doc , watch it) on Netflix and I feel like I got most of the beats of the movie and trying to watch it for the first time after the doc would probably taint whatever opinions I have on it. I've heard some great things about Carrey though and you can tell in the doc that he went full fucking crazy to play that role and the lore is that he never really returned to being himself again.
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Post by Ness on Jul 23, 2018 19:29:25 GMT
01 02 Cable Guy 03 The Mask 04 05 06 07 08 Bruce Almighty 09 10 Me Myself Irene
Only reason it wasn't #1 was just in case there's close voting for my actual top pick.
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Post by Emperor on Jul 23, 2018 20:42:05 GMT
Man on the Moon is a brilliant portrayal of Andy Kaufman. I've not seen any of Kaufman's stuff (he's unknown in the UK) but from what I read this film got everything spot on. It's a great story of an original mind. Carrey is amazing. Jerry Lawler's scenes are wonderful and one of many highlights. Not my favourite Carrey film but it should be seen at least once.
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Post by mikec on Jul 23, 2018 20:49:03 GMT
Man on the Moon was my easy number two. I don’t think you get enough of the beats from the Netflix documentary to ruin the show, it’s a pretty great movie with probably his best performance in it. I’d recommend it to anyone because it is easy to watch and entertaining throughout.
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Post by RT on Jul 23, 2018 22:32:54 GMT
I asked my wife yesterday to make a list for fun and she said Me, Myself & Irene would be her #1.
She also said The Mask would be in her top 5. I'll leave the rest out because they haven't been listed yet.
I didn't vote for The Mask because it was a late cut, probably would have been 12 or 13 on my list if we went past 10. I was never a big fan of that movie. I enjoyed it somewhat when I saw it, but I don't think I've watched it again since it came out. Maybe once on TV or something but that's it. I don't know why it never did anything for me (Cameron Diaz did, but that's another story). Just wasn't my cup o' tea.
Man on the Moon would have been #11. Another movie that was good, but just did nothing for me, mostly because I've never "got" Andy Kaufman. I can respect his work, I understand why so many people thought he was a comedic genius, and I guess he was...I just never got it or cared. I was bored that entire movie.
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Post by Baker on Jul 23, 2018 23:29:58 GMT
Man on the Moon likely would have been my #1.
I was a huge Andy Kaufman fan when the movie came out. OK, so I still am a huge Andy Kaufman fan, but, like, I was an even bigger Andy Kaufman fan in 1999. I'm not sure there is a bigger Man on the Moon fan than myself. I tend to rewatch every year or two. Great portrayal by Carrey. Killer supporting cast including Danny DeVito & Paul Giamatti. It was such a hoot to see Lawler, JR, and Lance Russell(!) on the big screen in 1999. Hell, I still get a kick out of seeing those 3 wrestling legends in this flick. I'm pretty sure MotM was only the 2nd movie I ever saw multiple times in theaters. Tony Clifton impersonations were huge in my neighborhood for a while. This movie had tons of great scenes and amusing lines.
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Post by 🤯 on Jul 24, 2018 5:23:45 GMT
Carrey transformed into Kaufman for Moon in extremely impressive fashion, IMO.
Very solid biopic.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Jul 24, 2018 8:09:44 GMT
While he does exaggerate some of Kaufman's mannerisms a bit, it's still as near perfect as you can ask, one of my top biopics of all time.
The Mask is a riot, though rewatching it, it's mainly the mask bits themselves that are fantastic, movie does tend to drag a bit outside of them, dropping it down to #5 my list.
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Post by UT on Jul 24, 2018 14:20:02 GMT
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Post by UT on Jul 24, 2018 14:25:43 GMT
I loved Ace Ventura growing up , there was nothing better to my preteen self that Carrey's absurd humor and football mixed together. I watched it at some point in the last year and find most of the stuff doesn't hold up TOO well but the scenes in the mental hospital still got me to crack up quite a bit so it landed at #4 on my list for nostalgia - it was just too important of a movie during my childhood not to give it proper credit.
Also the scene where he's trying to find the missing stone in the rings is pretty funny. I love when he chloroforms that dude.
I was a little surprised to see the audience not too big on the movie , it was so big when it came out and you couldn't even show your face in school if you hadn't seen Ace Ventura. Must be a lot of recent reviews looking back , but this was the other movie (along with The Mask) that made Carrey a star.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 14:41:59 GMT
I couldnt think of 10 JC movies i liked but there are about 5 of them that are all time classics to me. Ace Ventura is one of them. This was THE movie back in the day when it came out, its still funny as fuck, the whole opening with Randall Tex Cobb, the asylum scenes that UT mentioned and my favorite part the Cannibal Corpse scene shit has me rolling just thinking about it. Part 2 was ok too. I was crazy about the Mask when i was a kid, i remember going to see it in theaters back in the day. Cable Guy is another great one
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Post by Ness on Jul 24, 2018 15:29:00 GMT
I always felt the first got overlooked due to Nature Calls. Growing up or played a lot on t.v. but hardly ever the original. Sort of a Happy Gilmore situation.
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Post by mikec on Jul 24, 2018 15:58:18 GMT
Ace was my number six, but also my favorite of his silly stuff. The Mask was my number seven. He’s outrageous in a good way in both and I’d rewatch either if they were on tomorrow. There’s enough good comedy in them to make me laugh years later.
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Post by Emperor on Jul 24, 2018 16:12:48 GMT
I loved Ace Ventura at the time it was released. As a kid anything remotely silly made me laugh. Today silly stuff is more hit and miss. I tried watching Ace Ventura recently and it was just awful. To me it's not aged well at all, but I still ranked it reasonably highly because it was a hit at the time. I put two or three Carrey comedies above this one just because they are more palatable in the 2010s.
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Post by UT on Jul 24, 2018 16:55:43 GMT
I always felt the first got overlooked due to Nature Calls. Growing up or played a lot on t.v. but hardly ever the original. Sort of a Happy Gilmore situation. Really? I remember that as being one of the first movies I had backlash towards and remember it being the general consensus as it was a steaming pile of shit and huge disappointment. It did good at the box office because of the popularity of the first but overall the movie was terrible. Could have just been me and my friends though.
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Post by Ness on Jul 24, 2018 17:30:30 GMT
I always felt the first got overlooked due to Nature Calls. Growing up or played a lot on t.v. but hardly ever the original. Sort of a Happy Gilmore situation. Really? I remember that as being one of the first movies I had backlash towards and remember it being the general consensus as it was a steaming pile of shit and huge disappointment. It did good at the box office because of the popularity of the first but overall the movie was terrible. Could have just been me and my friends though. Either it was irl or where I spent time online but they seemed to think the second was better. And since it had a lot of play on tv I just took it as fact. Then again it could be the over playing that influenced those mouth breathers.
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Post by Baker on Jul 24, 2018 18:09:33 GMT
Ace Ventura would have been my #3. This was THE movie back in the day when it came out it was so big when it came out and you couldn't even show your face in school if you hadn't seen Ace Ventura. This is true. So, of course, with me being ever the contrarian, I was that one guy who didn't rush to the theater to see Ace Ventura. It just looked so stupid! Look, I did a good job of suppressing my storytime urges in the Action Movie countdown, but no more. America's favorite pet detective is getting the full storytime treatment... As UT & Shin mentioned, this movie was HUGE to people of a certain age when it came out. We're talking clear Movie of the Year from a popularity standpoint to teens and tweens. It's the movie that catapulted Carrey to a level of superstardom which would soon make him the highest paid actor in the world. So naturally I was an Ace Ventura hater before I ever saw the damn thing. The movie's catchphrases, and Carrey's mannerisms, were everywhere in 94-95. Including my first period chemistry class. The most annoying kid in class was constantly regurgitating Carrey's most annoying catchphrases and mannerisms. Every single Monday-Friday. For month after painful month. Mark S---- turned me into a rabid Ace Ventura hater before I ever saw this bound-to-stupid movie. In fact, I was militantly Ace, flat out refusing to watch it when my brother and/or parents rented it from the video store. Towards the end of the school year I went on a field trip to Washington DC with another class. Apparently humble Baltimore County was moving on up in the world because we were getting ourselves a Beverly Hills style bus with a tv and VCR! HOLY SHIT! Bus with a TV & VCR > Any field trip I could think of other than "The Sweetest Place on Earth" Hershey Park. Furthermore, the teacher, in a rare display of scholastic democracy (perhaps because she was a Social Studies/History teacher wanting to teach us about voting?) allowed us to vote on which movie we wanted to watch on the journey. Forrest Gump, here we come! Nope. Ace bloody Ventura won with like 80% of the vote because of course it did. Dammit! This is gonna be one long ride..... So there I was forced to watch the movie I had come to loathe long before ever actually seeing it. And a funny thing happened on that ride. I started getting into it. It was hard to follow what with everybody else laughing and singing along with The Ace at the appropriate times. But it seemed far more entertaining than I had ever imagined. Anyway, I rented the movie that weekend, loved it, and spent the next few weeks being the very sort of Ace enthusiast I had previously derided. What I liked about this movie was just how out there it was. I'm sorry, but I still think "Pet detective investigates the kidnapping of Dan Marino by a disgraced former placekicker who just so happened to become a transexual police detective" is one of the more gloriously insane plots in the history of anything ever. There's even a bit of genius there, I think. In a lot of ways the character of Ray Finkle as a deranged Scott Norwood is what made the movie for me. "Laces Out"Â :lol: Â Love the scene where they go to Finkel's parents house. Oh, and I also enjoyed it way more than I thought I would when I last watched it two or three years ago. Holds up fine in my book. Y'all don't know what you're talking about.....Or maybe I just never grew up? Idk.
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Post by UT on Jul 24, 2018 18:28:35 GMT
Ness you could definitely be right and I could be completely wrong , my opinion on the movie , that it's a steaming pile of shit could totally alter my perception of it's popularity at the time. And after some research it actually has a higher audience rating on RT than the original. Color me shocked because I haven't heard a single person say a good thing about it and it received like one low vote in this one. Baker - that's a pretty epic story , glad you finally came around. I was the same way with certain movies growing up , like Austin Powers , which I still actually hate to this day. There was a vote in class one day for a movie to watch and me and my buddies wanted Happy Gilmore but they went with MIB because they deemed Happy Gilmore "too adult" or something like that. In protest me and my friends counted every single cuss word in MIB to prove a point so we didn't really get a chance to enjoy the movie. Once I did though I fucking loved it. Also to the point of it holding up , I think it's fairer for me to say that a lot of the scenes in it are great , but Carrey's mannerisms were on overboard at that time and can get cringey. The pysch ward , the chloroform scene and Finkels house as you mentioned are all great. I love your plot synopsis too but hey , it fucking worked for all its absurdity. It's why I love the nineties - we didn't have the internet to dissect the idiocy of movies ... I'd hate to see Ace come out today. It would completely bomb.
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Post by RT on Jul 24, 2018 22:22:35 GMT
Ace Ventura was 7 or 8 on my list. I really enjoyed it when I was younger, and I still like it to this day, but Carrey as done far better movies since then.
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Post by thereallt on Jul 24, 2018 23:19:54 GMT
Ace Ventura was my easy #1. As I've said my Jim Carrey list is based on pure comedy value and no Jim Carrey made me laugh harder and longer than Ace Ventura.
The Mask was my #6. Cameron Diaz was SMOKIN!!!!!!! and all the parts where Carrey has the mask on are money. Outside of those two things though the movie is kind of meh.
Man on the Moon was #10 on my list and really only made it for pure filler. This film did nothing for me at all.
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Post by 🤯 on Jul 25, 2018 2:59:12 GMT
I had a crush on the girl villain in Ace.
Then she turned out to be a man.
And I became very confused.
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Post by RT on Jul 25, 2018 3:17:29 GMT
I had a crush on the girl villain in Ace. Then she turned out to be a man. And I became very confused. Bro, Sean Young is probably the most underrated 80s babe of all-time. She was in Blade Runner, Dune, Wall Street, Stripes...she was so choice.
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Post by 🤯 on Jul 25, 2018 3:39:11 GMT
I had a crush on the girl villain in Ace. Then she turned out to be a man. And I became very confused. Bro, Sean Young is probably the most underrated 80s babe of all-time. She was in Blade Runner, Dune, Wall Street, Stripes...she was so choice. But that bulge was so confusing!
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Post by UT on Jul 25, 2018 6:49:30 GMT
Decided to put up Liar Liar early this morning , not sure how much I'll be on after I wake up. And I absolutely love this movie so it deserves some extra time for love and praise.
It's probably the most palatable across demographics when it comes to Carrey's movies and certainly the most well rounded comedy , and one that actually shows a bit of heart along with a pretty great premise that make outstanding use of Carrey's physical comedy. The pen in BLUEEEEEEEEEEEE scene still get's me to this day , along with the scene where he kicks his own ass in the bathroom.
They had some brilliant lines in there too , like the office scene , the "I've had better" line in bed with his boss. And some of the stuff he weaseled his way around when he couldn't lie to still get the job done.
Truthfully speaking this could have been above Me , Myself and Irene as far as comedies go for me , it's probably the better movie all around but I enjoy the more adult humor in the latter. Liar Liar is great though and showed the true potential of Carrey at the box office.
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Post by Ness on Jul 25, 2018 12:12:50 GMT
LL was my number 4. It is a very quotable movie for me despite only seeing it a handful of times. It's rubbery face Jim in all his glory.
Top 3 time.
3 Truman 2 That one movie you guys were talking about 1 DnD
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Post by RT on Jul 25, 2018 14:05:45 GMT
I think Eternal Sunshine wins.
#2 Truman Show #3 Dumb & Dumber
Never a doubt about the top 3.
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Post by mikec on Jul 25, 2018 15:11:03 GMT
List Liar is my favorite Jim Carrey comedy by far, so it wound up at three on my list.
I’d guess Dumb and Dumber is taking this list.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Jul 25, 2018 15:29:13 GMT
Liar Liar was my #1, just a laugh riot from start to finish.
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