July 31, 2008
Movie Trailer: Yes Man
Say yes to one-joke movies.
To be fair, Liar Liar was a one-joke movie and was quite good. Its been ten years since he's made a movie worth seeing. Perhaps this one will break his losing streak - or maybe just reading the scripts before accepting the parts, honestly Fun with Dick and Jane, why would he ever sign his name to that?
Check out the trailer below. Jim Carrey plays a guy who always says no then decides to say "yes" to everything for a year. Geez, I wonder if his life will improve. Is it me or is it a tad creepy seeing a fifty-odd year-old guy acting like a twentysomething bachelor?
To be fair, Liar Liar was a one-joke movie and was quite good. Its been ten years since he's made a movie worth seeing. Perhaps this one will break his losing streak - or maybe just reading the scripts before accepting the parts, honestly Fun with Dick and Jane, why would he ever sign his name to that?
Check out the trailer below. Jim Carrey plays a guy who always says no then decides to say "yes" to everything for a year. Geez, I wonder if his life will improve. Is it me or is it a tad creepy seeing a fifty-odd year-old guy acting like a twentysomething bachelor?
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Screenwriters: Nicholas Stoller (Fun with Dick and Jane), Jarrad Paul, and Andrew Mogel
Director: Peyton Reed (Down with Love)
Actors: Jim Carrey (Dumb & Dumber), Zooey Deschanel (The Happening), Terence Stamp (Superman II), and Danny Masterson
Labels: film, Jim Carrey, movie trailer, Terence Stamp, Zooey Daschanel
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4 Comments:
...it should be creepy, but for some reason--just what's in the trailer--as he's aged he's actually found a spot where I can tolerate his spastic humor. Has it really been ten years? When were Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Truman Show made? I thought both were great, though not "instant classic" material (Truman especially was dated the moment it was canned). And, honestly, The Majestic wasn't that bad, really (though awkwardly paced).
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was in 2003 and The Truman Show was back in 1998. I can't say I enjoyed either. Spotless Mind I thought was just a haughty bore. Yeah, I get Micael Gondry is brainy but brains don't necessarily equate talent. It reminded me of being down at the bar in college listening to philosophy students prattle on about the state of the human condition and our myopic view of the universe. All talk, but nothing of actual value going on.
The Truman Show, I know I'm separated from the crowd on this one. I didn't like, never did. I don't loathe it, its passable, but way too interested in its symbolism more than its delivery. I see it as being way too manipulative. I can see how others can enjoy it however. It has a pleasing tone and is a feel good flick.
The Majestic I thought could have gone someplace but went way off the reservation.
Carrey, for all of his talent, has simply picked an incredible list of mediocre movies. Nearly none of them were proper vehicles to display his broad style. Films like Dumb and Dumber (which I love), and Liar Liar are great examples of where he meshed well with the production.
See, his more wacky-comedy end I can't hack. What's funny in one skit out of ten is not funny in every skit on the show (as SNL and Mad TV prove) and really doesn't make it for a feature film, IMO. Me, Myself, & Irene was funny if only because the MPD think has become so tired that seeing it played out as an extended gag worked for me--but even so there were whole scenes and themes I couldn't see why I'd sit through again, for free even (it's on hulu.com). Liar, Liar had some good stuff going; not gonna say it wowed me, though.
Truman Show was not all the hype--and I'm pretty sure I saw it near the time it came out, though one reason I misplace movie releases is that I often wait months or years to watch them, rather than be in the middle of a hyped, brain-dead crowd.
Eternal Sunshine should have been--most like it are--really, really off-putting to me. They did bribe me with Kirsten Dunst, I suppose, which may have influenced me illegitimately. There was something good done with the middle of the film, and though the premise starts to fall apart a bit, well--I liked it. There were parts of the "run and hide" sequence (Mommy's kitchen) that were terrible, but they did reflect how someone thinking in terms of pop psych might have tried to pull this off. I didn't take the psychology seriously, and so felt it was less pretentious than it might have been. I didn't feel it was a preening piece like some (and, yes, Truman may have been more self-promoting that way). Again, I should have thought this--that I didn't frankly surprised me, when I finally saw it despite my presuppositions; I've seen it a couple times since, and it held up for me.
Majestic scattered all over the place in the middle, I quite agree. And the amnesia plot (like the MPD plot) is done to death, but the movie didn't skewer it like Me, Myself, & Irene did.
Was interesting how The Majestic could have been an alter-ego movie to The Mask, though.
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