Movie Reviews 2.0
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Saw these to recently on filmnet:
Yes Man with Jim Carrey. Very enjoyable feel good movie with a predictable end, but the movie knows it. You could see it as a thematic sequel to Liar Liar. 8/10
Whip It, with among others Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore (who also directs this) , Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon. About as enjoyable and light-hearted as Yes Man. 8/10.
Both of these got the same (7.0) rating on IMDB.
Yes Man with Jim Carrey. Very enjoyable feel good movie with a predictable end, but the movie knows it. You could see it as a thematic sequel to Liar Liar. 8/10
Whip It, with among others Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore (who also directs this) , Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon. About as enjoyable and light-hearted as Yes Man. 8/10.
Both of these got the same (7.0) rating on IMDB.
Does he do rubber faces or otherwise acting really strange or bizarre, like he did in so many of his early movies? I can't stand shit like that (except for in The Mask, where it fit the story of the movie...
); Carrey can be an excellent actor in his own way - he's no Morgan Freeman or Bob DeNiro for sure, but he can be good if given the chance. But when he starts with the rubber face shit, it all falls apart for me.WhiningKhan
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Well, you like slapstick or you don't like slapstick. Personally, I am more entertained by slapstick than the so called 'over-the-top' action (in vein of A-team) that some people seem to like.
Grall said:Does he do rubber faces or otherwise acting really strange or bizarre, like he did in so many of his early movies? I can't stand shit like that (except for in The Mask, where it fit the story of the movie...
This is not Pet Detective. Like you say, that Jim Carey is great for The Mask or The Riddler in Batman 3.
Yes Man is inbetween that and the excellent Truman Show.
I love that outtake scene where they are calling names and this older lady ends up
calling him 'you over-acter!'. He starts laughing and then does a characteristic wide eyed 'THEY'RE ON TO ME!'
Robin Williams is funny, most of the time anyway. He's a bit too hyper sometimes. And he's a genuinely good actor too, although some of his movies are absolute rubbish. Jumanji and that camping roadtrip piece of crap he did a couple years ago, dunno what it's called (don't want to know either). Dead Poets on the other hand is one of my absolute all-time favorites. I can watch this movie over and over and not get tired of it. It's just so great.
DuckThor Evil
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Will Ferrel is a genius. One of the greatest.
Will Ferrell was funny in Anchorman.
Since then he has reprised the same Ron Burgundy-style role in every single film and his cold, dead eyes give me the creeps.
Jim Carrey has been funny in a few films (The Mask and Dumber and Dumber, to name a couple) and his acting was pretty good in The Truman Show. However, he tends to overdo things in most of his comedies and seeing all his gurning on screen does nothing for me. The outtakes you invariably see at the end of his movies are some of the least funny things I've seen as the cast and crew guffaw sycophantically as his deeply unfunny antics.
Robin Williams was excellent in Good Will Hunting. I've hated practically every other film he's been in! Mork and Mindy was rubbish, too.
As you may have guessed, I'm less than impressed by many of the 'funnymen' to come out of the US in recent years!
Since then he has reprised the same Ron Burgundy-style role in every single film and his cold, dead eyes give me the creeps.
Jim Carrey has been funny in a few films (The Mask and Dumber and Dumber, to name a couple) and his acting was pretty good in The Truman Show. However, he tends to overdo things in most of his comedies and seeing all his gurning on screen does nothing for me. The outtakes you invariably see at the end of his movies are some of the least funny things I've seen as the cast and crew guffaw sycophantically as his deeply unfunny antics.
Robin Williams was excellent in Good Will Hunting. I've hated practically every other film he's been in! Mork and Mindy was rubbish, too.
As you may have guessed, I'm less than impressed by many of the 'funnymen' to come out of the US in recent years!
Have you seen "Awakenings"?
WhiningKhan
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Fisher King? Good Morning Vietnam? Insomnia?
Silent_Buddha
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Moscow on the Hudson is still one of my favorite Robin Williams movies.
And agreed that Jumanji and that camper movie were a couple of his worst. He was better when he was younger and less full of himself. He's gotten to a point where he's almost self righteous and insufferable to listen to.
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SB
And agreed that Jumanji and that camper movie were a couple of his worst. He was better when he was younger and less full of himself. He's gotten to a point where he's almost self righteous and insufferable to listen to.
Regards,
SB
Hmmm. A good few years since I saw the Fisher King but I don't remember being overly impressed with either the film or Williams' acting.
Good Morning Vietnam was OK, as was his role in Insomnia.
Perhaps my dislike of his many terrible films makes me unwilling to acknowledge he has acted in many good ones? :smile:
I generally really don't like Will Ferrel, but there are a handful exceptions. Blades of Glory was perfect, as was his tiny role in the Wedding Crashers.
On the other hand I really like Robin Williams. There are definitely films I don't care about, but he's willing to take on a reasonable spread of different kinds of roles and many of them very well. Dead Poets Society, Hook, Good Will Hunting, Good Morning Vietnam, Ms Doubtfire, Aladdin (where he wrote most of the lines for the Genie which the animators then worked with, rather than the other way around) there is plenty of good stuff and it has a good range. I also love some of his older standup, like the one where he describes different types of drugs.
As for Jim Carey, same thing for me - not all his films are great, but he is stil absolutely genius and there is plenty of really good stuff. And even when he is overacting, he brings something unique to the table that very few can do. I love when he rewinds himself in Ace Ventura (among others) or the fight he has with his own hand in Liar Liar.
But Yes Man is really very good, with some good acting also by the rest of the cast, can really recommend it.
Oh, and while we're at it, I saw Inglorious Basterds a while ago, and then saw a bit of it again this weekend, and I only kept watching because it was near the end and I wanted my wife to see that, so I could spare her the full movie. I thought it was a bit more pulpy than it needed to be. Really didn't like it at all. I saw another Jewish resistance movie recently that I thought was much better, even though that was pretty mediocre too.
Looked it up, it's Defiance and I'll rate it 6.5/10, vs Inglorious Bastards 5/10. IMDB rates them 7.2 vs 8.4, so I guess I don't agree with popular opinion there.
WhiningKhan
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Christoph Waltz's performance in Inglourious Basterds was great, but everything else in that film stirred strong feelings of indifference in me.
LOL. I love the concept.
Watched No Country for Old Men and thought it was great: 9/10
The funny part is that I didn't even know it was Cormac McCarthy and the last monologue at the end reminded me of the last paragraph in the book The Road so much that I said so to my wife who then told me it was McCarty.
Defiance 5/10
Inglorious Bastards 6/10
original Inglorious Bastards 4/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076584/
yes with tarantino's stuff (like bergman , lynch, fellini etc ) his films will get an extra ~2 points from a lot of ppl cause of the directors name
The best Tarantino films consist of a bunch of good scenes, loosely woven together by a thin plot.
The poorer Tarantino films consist of a bunch of average/poor scenes, loosely woven together by an even thinner plot.
Inglorious Basterds was OK, I thought, but hardly a classic. A couple of excellent scenes in there but these were barely woven together with a pretty much hopeless attempt at a plot. Thinking back, I'd give it perhaps 6 or 6.5 out of 10 for those two excellent scenes. However, a friend of mine who watched the film with me is an enormous fan of Tarantino's work and thought it was a brilliant movie!
The poorer Tarantino films consist of a bunch of average/poor scenes, loosely woven together by an even thinner plot.
Inglorious Basterds was OK, I thought, but hardly a classic. A couple of excellent scenes in there but these were barely woven together with a pretty much hopeless attempt at a plot. Thinking back, I'd give it perhaps 6 or 6.5 out of 10 for those two excellent scenes. However, a friend of mine who watched the film with me is an enormous fan of Tarantino's work and thought it was a brilliant movie!
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