Friday, March 26, 2004
About Bush's Economic Policy . . .
Let me start off by saying something in response to a name used in the comments of the previous blog post. "Jim Carrey Kiss my ASS" is not the kind of thing I appreciate in my blog. Yes, it's true, he's had a long list of really bad movies - Me, Myself, and Irene, The Majestic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Mask, Liar Liar, and especially Bruce Almighty. But Jim Carrey has been in some bona fide top-notch movies as well. Most everyone seems to like Dumb and Dumber and regard it as probably Carrey's best, Ace Ventura and its sequel were both good, though I liked Ace Ventura 2 much more, and, personally, I liked The Cable Guy, but apparently I found that there're some people who don't like the Cable Guy so much, these people obviously have chlamydia, an STD, probably contracted from a koala. Carrey proved he was at least somewhat competent at pulling off dramatic roles in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, which were both pretty solid flicks. The Majestic was of course a heaping pile of shit, but there's a pretty stellar performance by Bruce Campbell somewhere in the middle of the movie that's easily worth the time spent watching the rest of the refuse - Campbell plays some sort of sword-wielding pirate that has to save a blond Scandinavian chick from an unhinged magician. And let's not forget Jim Carrey's best role to date! I am of course referring to his role as The Riddler in Batman Forever starring Chris O'Donnell and Cold Mountain's Nicole Kidman.
*side note*
Cold Mountain was a very bad movie, but let me tell you, it was chock-full of some truly awesome cameos. Making appearances were the delightful Philip Seymour Hoffman (that fat guy from Boogie Nights), Donnie Darko's Jena Malone who captains a boat, Ethan Suplee plays a mentally challenged gorilla, the Brendan Gleeson plays an axe-wielding Scotsman (his lopping off heads with his giant battle axe scenes had to be cut out of the final product to make room for Renée Zellweger's ass), Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala, Jack White from the White Stripes (he sings some songs), and Saving Private Ryan's Giovanni Ribisi reprising his role as medic.
*end side note*
Most recently, Jim Carrey stars in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The movie's written by Charlie Kaufman, one of the business' best and most original screenwriters. If you saw and enjoyed Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, or Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, you're sure to like Eternal Sunshine. Michel Gondry's direction and visual style puts the whole thing together very nicely as well. The performances are all great, and Jim Carrey does, in my opinion, his greatest work yet - aside from his part as The Riddler, of course. I highly recommend seeing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Don't go see it for Jim Carrey, go see it because it's an original and enjoyable movie, it's not the same shit that's constantly eaten up by movie-goers, like Signs or the Disneyland ride themed movies, except The Country Bears starring the living legend Christopher Walken as Reed Thimple and Kevin M. Richardson as one of the bears. Everyone should remember Mr. Richardson from his glorious break-out role as Goro from the first Mortal Kombat movie, he's done many many voices for video games and movies alike ever since. I want to dedicate this post to Mr. Kevin M. Richardson.
Let me start off by saying something in response to a name used in the comments of the previous blog post. "Jim Carrey Kiss my ASS" is not the kind of thing I appreciate in my blog. Yes, it's true, he's had a long list of really bad movies - Me, Myself, and Irene, The Majestic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Mask, Liar Liar, and especially Bruce Almighty. But Jim Carrey has been in some bona fide top-notch movies as well. Most everyone seems to like Dumb and Dumber and regard it as probably Carrey's best, Ace Ventura and its sequel were both good, though I liked Ace Ventura 2 much more, and, personally, I liked The Cable Guy, but apparently I found that there're some people who don't like the Cable Guy so much, these people obviously have chlamydia, an STD, probably contracted from a koala. Carrey proved he was at least somewhat competent at pulling off dramatic roles in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, which were both pretty solid flicks. The Majestic was of course a heaping pile of shit, but there's a pretty stellar performance by Bruce Campbell somewhere in the middle of the movie that's easily worth the time spent watching the rest of the refuse - Campbell plays some sort of sword-wielding pirate that has to save a blond Scandinavian chick from an unhinged magician. And let's not forget Jim Carrey's best role to date! I am of course referring to his role as The Riddler in Batman Forever starring Chris O'Donnell and Cold Mountain's Nicole Kidman.
*side note*
Cold Mountain was a very bad movie, but let me tell you, it was chock-full of some truly awesome cameos. Making appearances were the delightful Philip Seymour Hoffman (that fat guy from Boogie Nights), Donnie Darko's Jena Malone who captains a boat, Ethan Suplee plays a mentally challenged gorilla, the Brendan Gleeson plays an axe-wielding Scotsman (his lopping off heads with his giant battle axe scenes had to be cut out of the final product to make room for Renée Zellweger's ass), Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala, Jack White from the White Stripes (he sings some songs), and Saving Private Ryan's Giovanni Ribisi reprising his role as medic.
*end side note*
Most recently, Jim Carrey stars in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The movie's written by Charlie Kaufman, one of the business' best and most original screenwriters. If you saw and enjoyed Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, or Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, you're sure to like Eternal Sunshine. Michel Gondry's direction and visual style puts the whole thing together very nicely as well. The performances are all great, and Jim Carrey does, in my opinion, his greatest work yet - aside from his part as The Riddler, of course. I highly recommend seeing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Don't go see it for Jim Carrey, go see it because it's an original and enjoyable movie, it's not the same shit that's constantly eaten up by movie-goers, like Signs or the Disneyland ride themed movies, except The Country Bears starring the living legend Christopher Walken as Reed Thimple and Kevin M. Richardson as one of the bears. Everyone should remember Mr. Richardson from his glorious break-out role as Goro from the first Mortal Kombat movie, he's done many many voices for video games and movies alike ever since. I want to dedicate this post to Mr. Kevin M. Richardson.
