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Shockeye
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"With the recent acquisition of MGM, we wanted to give our marketing department the time and opportunity to launch this very important franchise," Sony Pictures Releasing president Rory Bruer said. "We've seen the movie, and we really love this film. It's a franchise we believe in and are really excited about, and Steve Martin is great as Clouseau." Steve Martin is not Inspector Clouseau in any way, shape or form. They can bury this film in a vault and never release it and I will be very happy.  !=  |
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Pococurante
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Both have very physical comedy and there's no shortage of silly costume roles played by Sellers. Toss in John Cleese and it would be freebase day at the special olympics. Martin probably will overdo the body language and accent. Sellers' interpration worked so damn well because he managed to be over the top and understated all at the same time.
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Abagadro
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I like Steve Martin in lots of his stuff, but he can't carry Sellers' jock. And no studio launches a "franchise" is February. That is "bury this piece of crap" time.
I find it interesting that Judge's movie comes out in less than two months but has no title.
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« Last Edit: June 07, 2005, 01:32:29 PM by Abagadro »
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Yegolev
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and Universal's "Curious George," an animated film version of the perennial children's classic starring Will Ferrell and Drew Barrymore. Somebody stop the assclowning. I like Martin enough to wait and see. I have no doubt it will suck, but who to blame will be up in the air for now. |
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Bunk
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"Itz fer you. Itz a behm.
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A BEHM!!!"
A favorite quote, or a prediction towards the Martin version. Take your pick.
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Pococurante
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starring Will Ferrell My brain escapes and takes my wallet with it. I really dislike him - even the sound of his voice does terrible things to my neural chemistry. It's the same visceral reaction I have to Jim Carrey after the trauma that was Dumb & Dumber. /sigh |
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HaemishM
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I like Steve Martin, but he cannot compare to Sellers. At all. About all he'll be able to bring out of the part is the shitty accent, and some of the physical stuff, without really even having a reason to do any of it. Sellers was calculating. His timing was perfect. It wasn't just a pratfall, it was there for a specific reason at just the right reason.
I like Will Ferrell, but Curious George? MEH? Ferrell is dangerously close to being overexposed.
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AOFanboi
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Adam Sandler, then? He even somewhat looks the part.
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HaemishM
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Die.
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Murgos
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Adam Sandler, then? He even somewhat looks the part.
Stick him in a yellow rain coat and he would have the part nailed. It wouldn't even be acting. |
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Pococurante
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It's only now becoming common knowledge but the fourth ring of Hell is reserved for Sandler fans. You'll see. You know who you are.
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It's only now becoming common knowledge but the fourth ring of Hell is reserved for Sandler fans. You'll see. You know who you are.
Even us that hate all his work except for Punch Drunk Love and the Hanukkah songs? |
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Yegolev
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Even us that hate all his work except for Punch Drunk Love and the Hanukkah songs?
In for a penny, in for a pound. Don't lie, you know you loved The Waterboy. |
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AOFanboi
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In for a penny, in for a pound. Don't lie, you know you loved The Waterboy.
I mentioned him because I zapped into Happy Gilmore the day before. Thinking it over, he really doesn't have such a reigster a Sellers does. In fact, he has the "one facial expression" curse of those 80s action stars (Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Segal in particular). So I retract my suggestion: Sandler would suck. In other news, Natalie Portman is 24 today. In another 24 she will probably learn to act. |
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HaemishM
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Hey I LIKE Adam Sandler movies for the most part, since I know what I'm getting. I liked 50 First Dates, Wedding Singer, Waterboy, Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison. Big Daddy was ok.
But him as Clouseau? Fuck no. He doesn't have any sort of acting range whatsoever, and the part would require that.
With readily available DVD's, there is no reason to remake the Pink Panther movies, because the old ones hold up just fine.
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Madman
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It's the same visceral reaction I have to Jim Carrey after the trauma that was Dumb & Dumber. /sigh
You must be broken. I didn't think there was anyone around that didn't like Dumb and Dumber. You know it is going to be a fantastic movie in the opening minutes when you see the "Shaggin' Wagon" jump over the hills and the ears going flying. |
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Pococurante
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Gawd but I hope you're trolling. We definitely run in very different groups.
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Bunk
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Oh come on now Poco, I can be as much of a film snob as anyone (well, except maybe Schild), but every once in a while you just need to shut down 80% of your brain and enjoy mindless stupidity. The thing about Dumb and Dumber is that it managed to be extremely stupid and juvenille, yet also funny and entertaining. That's not the easiest thing to achieve, as movies like Dumb and Dumberer, Tom Cats, Leslie Neilson's last four movies... all prove.
I like Carey. Thought ESotSM was a great flick. Hell, I even sat all the way through the MAjestic without falling asleep.
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Shockeye
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Hell, I even sat all the way through the MAjestic without falling asleep.
Now you're just bragging. |
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Hell, I even sat all the way through the MAjestic without falling asleep.
Now you're just bragging. Seriously. I remember watching that film with two friends. I was doing something with my hair, I don't remember what. Maybe tying it in knots then untying it or something. I was bored enough that that was my escape. Another friend decided that watching me screw with my hair was more entertaining than watching the movie, so he did that. My last friend spent most of the movie not paying attention to the movie, but debating with himself whether or not he was bored. He came to the conclusion that, if he was spending his time in a movie ignoring the movie and wondering whether or not he was bored, he was probably bored. |
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schild
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I actually killed myself halfway through the Majestic.
As such, I'm not actually alive. I post as a zombie.
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Daydreamer
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How does that affect your job? We've been considering some zombie hires here in SoCal, but we're worried about possible health code violations.
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schild
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They're not alive. Health Code should have no pertinence. That said, we don't have the plague like most would believe. Or any sort of disease.
We keep quite clean.
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Madman
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Gawd but I hope you're trolling. We definitely run in very different groups.
No I am not trolling at all because Dumb and Dumber was a great movie. I generally watch movies to be entertained, not to think deep thoughts. If I want to have deep thoughts then I will go to the bathroom and read a book or newspaper. When I am sitting on my Laz-E-Boy at home watching a movie, I want to be able to shut down most of my brain and just enjoy myself. But then again, I am a connoisseur of bad movies. I usually enjoy a good bad movie more than I enjoy a normal good movie as evidenced by the fact that I have seen 'Deep Blue Sea' and 'Anaconda' well over a dozen times (well it was on in the backround anyway). There is really something special about a really good bad movie that just can't be described. Hell I have left 'The Day After Tomorrow' on a few times while playing poker or a game on the computer. You really need to learn to appreciate a good bad movie. In fact, go out and find yourself a copy of 'The Big Bus' and then come back and talk to me. RAISE THE FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS! THAT WILL SLOW US DOWN! |
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Oh God, Not 'The Big Bus'. No. The Horror, The Horror.
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FWIW, Dumb and Dumber is the only Jim Carrey movie I have ever liked. I hate him with the fire of a thousand suns.
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HaemishM
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Hell I have left 'The Day After Tomorrow' on a few times while playing poker or a game on the computer. You really need to learn to appreciate a good bad movie. I see your Day After Tomorrow, and raise you a House of the Dead. |
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Pococurante
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Ok it must be me. Rats...  Carey's Mask was just awesome. Just about anything he did for Living Color - more awesome. Parts of Pet Detective I - awesomeness. All else... meh. |
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Eh, on rewatching them a decade later none of his early work really holds up. Now Eternal Sunshine and The Truman Show however, those I can keep rewatching.
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Immaginative Immersion Games ... These are your role playing games, adventure games, the same escapist pleasure that we get from films and page-turner novels and schizophrenia. - David Wong at PointlessWasteOfTime.com |
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Shockeye
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Am I the only person who found "The Truman Show" horrid?
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Am I the only person who found "The Truman Show" horrid?
Nope. Although I may have liked it if anyone else on the planet (save Carrot Top) played the lead. |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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Am I the only person who found "The Truman Show" horrid?
Nope. Although I may have liked it if anyone else on the planet (save Carrot Top) played the lead. I kept hoping Truman Capote would show up and make things interesting. Sadly, it never happened. |
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HaemishM
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About the only thing Carrey has done that really holds up over the years if Living Color and some of the first Pet Detective. The Mask... not.
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Madman
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About the only thing Carrey has done that really holds up over the years if Living Color and some of the first Pet Detective. The Mask... not.
I believe you have forgotten a few of his movies. Namely 'Once Bitten', 'Peggy Sue Got Married', and 'Earth Girls Are Easy'. |
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