JIM CARREY POLL

eternal sunshine for the emo win

i still need to see that 23 movie. I feel I am missing something very special.

ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE

Dumb & Dumber

The Mask

probably 'cable guy' though i'm watching 'dick and jane' this w/end and am holding off voting till then.

"i'm gonna put the SYSTEM on trial"

Man on the Moon (1999)
Simon Birch (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
Liar Liar (1997)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Batman Forever (1995)
Dumb & Dumber (1994)
The Mask (1994)
"In Living Color" (1990-1994)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

This truly was a bleak time

no you dick those all rule.

Man On The Moon

When I saw the synopsis for "The Truman Show" back when it first appeared, I thought "That's what I believed back when I was five! That the whole world was some stage set, and exeryone not actually engaging with me in my visible space were 'backstage having a cigarette and a coffee, until their part called on them again'.

I still think that, but only about cars that pull out of side roads ahead of me that go 10 mph slower than I'd like.

Me Myself & Irene the worst

Cable Guy. Brilliant film.

Oh god I can't stand Jim Carrey.

"dumb and Dumber" in terms of him personally. it ought to be noted that he is usually the worst thing in any movie he is in. horrible overactor, very irritating face. he's ok in truman show (stupid movie though) and good in "Eternal Sunshine" that's about it.

He's good in Eternal sunshine because you're waiting for him to be annoying and he isn't. He's like those people who bother you, but when they stop bothering you you kind of lose respect for them because it's like they're pandering to you and you're like "do you really hate yourself this much"

argh

i still like his 'jut chin out, hint of teeth and go "hnnm?" move

SMOKIN'!

Ruby Wax "interviewing" him was painful.

SMOKIN'!

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, January 4, 2008 3:02 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

hahahaha "things we used to say in the mid-90s"

somebody STOP ME!

Truman Show is probably the best film of these (Eternal Sunshine loses because it devotes too much time to the mindwank part inside Carrey's head, and too little to the actual romance part), but that's mostly due to a great premise and a tight script. Carrey's quite good in it anyway, so I'll vote for that.

Jim Carrey is kinda like Robin Williams - when he's given a free rein to do his thing, the results often suck, but when the script or the director puts a limit to that, he can be great. The Mask is probably the only film where giving him free hands actually works.

pre-Eternal Sunshine (the clear choice), my faves were Irene, Cable Guy and his Riddler.

Robin Williams is about a billion times more irritating than Jim Carrey.

carrey is a victim of his own $20m price tag; at that figure you have to do half-assed stuff like 'bruce almighty' most of the time. robin williams was a victim of becoming a dick -- carrey's More Serious Works are 100x better than williams'.

Robin Williams is about a billion times more irritating than Jim Carrey.

True, but my point was that he's been in great films too, and usually those are the ones that don't revolve around his schtick, just like with Carrey.

they're both better when they play it straight

uh

Lemony Snicket +1

Williams is better when he plays it evil not schmaltzy - cf Insomnia, One Hour Photo, Death to Smoochy vs Bicentennial Man, Patch Adams.

Ace Ventura 1 was stupidly funny from beginning to end, with none of the schmaltzy sentimental bullshit that mars his other "blockbuster" "comedies".

I don't know, I used to hate Jim Carrey, but now I really love some of the films where he's doing his "schtick" - Dumb & Dumber, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura - and really don't like some of his straighter films, like the Truman Show or Eternal Sunshine.

Him climbing out of the asshole of that rhino in AV2 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

wow is there an Eternal Sunshine backlash happening? good!

I think Dumb and Dumber is the best of these. it's certainly the best "Jim Carrey vehicle."

i like his 'serious' ones (well probably not 'the majestic' which i haven't seen) and his 'funney' ones. it's not like there's a massive distinction between them.

"In Living Color," though he wasn't my favorite on the show.

Dumb and Dumber

that or Ace Ventura 2 (the scene with rhino omg)

Has anyone else ever seen High Strung? It's got Jim Carrey and Kirstin Dunst in tiny roles, the star is Steve Oedekerk, who has made some really awful-looking shit like Thumb Wars, but it's one of those movies that one of my friends latched on to and made us watch like 20 times until everyone loved it and quoted it, and now it's out of print and impossible to find.

I think maybe Fred Willard is in it too, briefly.

i deliberately left it out to sort the men from the fanboys.

those oedekerk films are all genius after the 20th viewing. see also- joe dirt, the ladies' man

there is something unusually narcissistic about all the "dramatic" films on this list. i mean, the truman show! my god...

"Dumb and Dumber" or "Cable Guy" or "Man on the Moon" or "Emo Sunshine". "Irene" for Carrey but I have some probs with that film. I'm gonna drink a couple of Snowballs and let them decide. Ah hell probly "Cable Guy" there's something about that one.

Cable Guy or Dumb and Dumber. Or ESOTSM.

jesus, looking at it though his movie list puts william's to shame forever, he doesn't really deserve all the comparisons.

but carrey has never come across as likeable, whereas williams does.

"Fun with Dick and Jane" was about a million times better than it should have been given the premise and cast.

ESOTSM ftw

"Fun with Dick and Jane" was about a million times better than it should have been given the premise and cast.

it has alec baldwin! i'm stoked anyways.

jim carrey smackin ass and saying 'my name is fingerling' to She Wants Revenge was a moment the rest of the movie couldn't live up to

you guys, Eternal was fucking shit. I'm never listening to one of these polls ever again.

i liked Eternal Sunshine ok but ohhhhh you fuckin guys

-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, January 11, 2008 1:04 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

this. i like it more than ok (though find it impossible to watch: hi dere repressed emo) but ffs.

The only thing wrong with eternal sunshine is that it's come to signify an entire rock movement devoted to knitting sweaters.

yes.

although i voted for dumb and dumber, to see the grinch get no love makes me al ittle sad.

Seuss will rise from grave and eviscerate you

the cable guy OWNES

http://www.jimcarreytrulife.com/video-post/jim-carreys-message-to-emma-stone

props to this poll for including "Copper Mountain". it is probably the worst movie ever made. it's like 80 minutes long but it feels like 7 hours. you'd have to be out of your mind to vote for it.

i sort of enjoyed some of Karl Popper's Penguins ysteday but it had some v. confusing moments and implications that i wanted to draw out and discuss even tho i hadn't seen it properly than Jim Carrey said USA USA then i lost interest really

Too bad we could time this poll to coincide with I Love You, Philip Morris, one of his best roles.

This poll is ILX contrarianism at its worst.

wonder how i didnt vote grinch tbh

because ilx contrarianism hasn't gone that far yet

slow drift then one day POW

for the dead pool to not even get a mention throughout the thread is...strange

what's contrary about EtSunshine boosterism?

That video was great.

truman show 5 votes wtf

lol the Emma Stone message

“Jim Carrey is reuniting with his Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry to star in a new half-hour comedy for Showtime,” reports Michael Schneider for IndieWire. “Kidding, which has been given a 10-episode order, will represent Carrey’s first series regular role in more than two decades.” He’ll be playing Jeff, “also known as beloved children’s TV personality Mr. Pickles,” whose family is falling apart. “Dave Holstein (Weeds) created the show and wrote the pilot. He’ll also serve as showrunner.”

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/jim-carrey-showtime-comedy-michel-gondry-kidding-1201876460/

Mr Pickles!

"There is no me. No Self. Jim Carrey is gone, actually never existed.

What seems to be happening is that things seem to be happening that matter to other people, or apparently matter to other people, because of that, or whatever, but...

I feel free of it, I'm free of whatever construct that appeared to be, and...

You create yourself at the beginning of your life to fit in and be accepted and to be admired and then at some point, maybe, if you're lucky, things start spitting at the seams now/the whole thing's tumbling down and you're free."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICPGhxjW3fw

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/3780493/jim-carrey-lawsuit-cathriona-white-note/amp/

https://globalnews.ca/news/3780493/jim-carrey-lawsuit-cathriona-white-note/amp/

jim carrey was more himself crashing jeff daniel's conan interview, was good to see

I thought this revive would be for his starring turn in the hilariously titled Dark Crimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WWC0GTP08w

we air dyouly appainted daerk cryminals

looks halfway decent? at least for the cast

Carrey sounds Irish there

Jim honors Chaplin in speaking against the current war on the poor and weak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQSyQj1Fj74

Wow, that was fantastic. And something that I, at least, very much needed to hear. I was on the edge of tears a few times. And man, that is some jacket he's wearing there. Bryan Ferry himself could rock that!

I liked the Chaplin bits but pls Jim no pining for the days of "conscious" capitalism

I don't know, I think his intentions are right on target. He's smart enough to know that most Americans, albeit foolishly, equate Socialism with Communism. So he hedged his bets, as it were. I don't believe one can truly "pine" for days one never experienced, at least not in any mature,adult sense. I think in this country as it is today, these things need to be said. And honestly, I think 60% of the Hollywood shit weasels in that audience didn't agree with it either. Wouldn't want to see their well padded bank accounts going towards helping anyone in need. Well, fuck that and fuck them. You go Jim Carrey!, And if u disagree than you disagree. It's a free country. So they say.

he's co-written a metafictional novel which i was gifted with

not bad so far

do we have to redo this now that the Sonic movie is out

he's spent 12 years making us hate the films he was actually good in, not sure a new poll will help

All the recent bumps of this thread reminding me of so much bad stuff I’d managed to completely block out: the gondry show, that dogshit scando detective thing, his idiot russell brand phase... thank god for sonic tbh

ilx's Nicolas Cage cult would probably enjoy this novel's rendering of him as a spirit-animal-type loon with a homemade dojo (he beats up Carrey after JC fails to heed his warnings about Jim's new actress gf)

has his Gondry show been cancelled yet? or just on hold cause of COVID? I was vaguely curious but not enough to actually watch lol

i mean the second season just aired recently no? i watched it and it was... fine, not bad even

So I finished the Carrey-Dana Vachon novel. I don't want to oversell it -- it's not The Day of the Locust -- but it's a more than serviceable Hollywood satire, climaxing in a Malibu battle with aliens featuring John Travolta and his Scientology platoon showing up in gold spandex bodysuits.

You'll at least like it if you loathe Disney (he clearly never wants to work for them again), Kelsey Grammer, Gwyneth Paltrow, pop gurus, or basic cable action shows.

It also features Charlie Kaufman grooming him for a Mao biopic (allegedly with funding from Taiwan), with Anthony Hopkins schooling him on the Great Leap Forward while eating shrimp and noodles with his hands in a cheap motel. Also Nic Cage preparing to fight his alien nemeses by wielding a samurai sword in his beachfront dojo.

the title is Memoirs and Misinformation btw

it sounds preferable to the actual new Kaufman novel tbh

i think Carrey has mentioned there could be a film version of the book where the celebrities are played by different celebrities

that could be a solid gag

i saw a post about him on twitter today reminding me he's maybe the most repellent and annoying actor/comedian who ever lived

Plenty of competition

alrighty then

Russell Brand to thread