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Burton and Carrey's RIPLEY is back, BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Tim Burton and Jim Carrey were supposed to do a flick based on RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, but for reasons unknown it was shelved. Probably schedule conflicts. Now Paramount has brought in Steve Oedekerk to write the newest draft of the script, effectively breathing new life into the project. Both Burton and Carrey are still attached.
I'm a little mixed on this. Harry said the original script was great. Haven't read it myself, but I am totally, 100% not a fan of Oedekerk's THUMB series... THUMBTANIC, THUMB WARS, etc. I found those and KUNG POW to be like nails on a chalkboard for me. However, I thought BRUCE ALMIGHTY was alright and I'm one of the few people that think ACE VENTURE: WHEN NATURE CALLS is just as funny as the first one. "Your balls are showing..." Oedekerk (Not the Mr. Show guy) scripted those as well. So, he can work well with Carrey...
I'm just happy the movie's still going forward. Could be a helluva fun flick. What do you folks think?
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Oedekirk did Barnyard, right? I still can't give over the fact that he gave female body parts to male characters!
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I heard the movie got shelved for monetary reasons. Perhaps Oedekirk is writing the low budget version!
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Damn you Michael Bay
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I remember watching Big Fish with my wife one night and looking over to her saying "Ya know what would be a cool movie? A movie based offa Ripley, from Ripley's Believe it or Not." Then we dismissed the very idea, cuz it would probably seem exactly like Big Fish. hmmm....
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His best film so far has been Nothing To Lose.
It had Martin Lawrence in it. -
is the funniest Jim Carrey scene of any Jim Carrey film. (For me).
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It's better than every torture porn in the world!
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One of the two or three good films with Martin Lawrence!
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Give me an Uwe Boll movie instead. Christian Slater & Tara Reid in a sex scene to the tune "7 seconds away" - now _thats_ funny.
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If they're going to make it more of a comedy, that would be a mistake. It's a good script, with lots of adventure and fun. It actually kinda reminded me of RAIDERS.
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Which is one annoying as fuck abortion of a movie. That and Burton, mmm...
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I've njoyed all his work till now, though the Thumb stuff is gay. One minor gripe - the guy also did Patch Adams. Patch Adams was a work of shite - I was hoping for a flying lesson gone bad when Robin was standing over the cliff .... him and his bitter sweet bullshit shtick. Can't stomach that movie. He had a string of wanna be Good Morning Vietnams that, yes, there was no fighting, but tried to balance the drama and comedy and just fell flat into rasberry territory.
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Before they let him do a Mask prequel. His "films" and "talent" make Son of the Mask look like the original.
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I went to the Ripleys Museum last week in Newport Oregon. Carrey will ham it up too much. In conclusion, Captain Panaka does unspeakable things to babies.
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a missed opportunity in soft drink container collectibles
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KUNG POW rocks. Of course you have to be drunk to watch it. But it still rocks. It also doesn't hurt to be a fan of kung fu theatre and Bruce Lee films. The who movie is all cut scenes and is a spoof of CHINESE CONNECTION (at least I think that's the one). The guy in the bunny slippers cracks me up. It's like a cheesy-ass DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID.
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bumblebee tuna.
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THUMB WARS is one of the funniest and most quotable STAR WARS parody films ever and KUNG POW deserves some love for introducing us to Master Tang and Evil Betty.
?At that moment, the Chosen One learned a valuable lesson about iron claws... THEY HURT LIKE CRAP, MAN!"
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...the Monopoly guy. (*whispering into ear) Thanks for the free parking."
Ave Ventura: When Nature Calls: solid
Jim Carrey: solid
Tim Burton: solid
this new movie: should be solid
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...it wasn't schedualing conflicts. It was that Carrey and Burton kept rewriting the script(Which was good and had great characters including the half-torso wonder, Johnny Eck as one of Ripley's buddies that goes on an adventure to find the Horned Man.) making it more and more unbelievable, thus skyrocketing the budget. So, the producers shelved it. It's a good role for carey to play and Burton would do a fine job bringing it to the screen. It would be nice if it got back on track again.
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Admit it. All of them have something individually, but as a whole? Eeks.
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Easily one of the greatest comedic achievements of humankind, no debate.
Master Betty: I have been called bad before. Many have said I do things that are not correct to do. I don't believe in talk such as this. I am nice man, with happy feelings. All of the time. First, a joke. What do you get when you cross an owl with a bungee chord? My ass. Nyah, haha, haha, haha, ENOUGH.
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Because the talkback opportunity has presented itself, and you know you just can't get enough.
Master Tang: Listen, and listen well. I really like the band N-Sync. My favorite member is Harpo. I think there's a Harpo. If not there should be. I will write their next hit, maybe 'A boom-boom chiky chiky boom-boom a boom-boom chiky chaka chaka cho cho.' By the way, you must beware of Betty's iron claw. They are sharp, and they hurt. And beware his song about big butts, he beats people up while he plays it! -
it has to be Kung Pow: Enter The Fist. Why this has not happened is beyond me.
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One of the best lines ever. And just for shits and giggles, here's a great exchange cut-and-pasted from IMDB because I'm too lazy to retype it...
Black Helmet Man: "Do not underestimate the power of the Thumb."
Imperial Thumb: "Oh, don't try to scare me with your ooby-dooby magic talk, Helmet Man. Your 'I'm a horrifying warlock and I'm going to get you with my mystic potions' talk sickens me! I laugh at you and your 'I'm a frightening wizard' threats of hostility. Why don't you gather up some frog legs and eyes of a newt, and conjure up a potion that will get you your face back, and perhaps make you one mere ounce less pathetic than you truly are?!"
[Black Helmet Man strangles him with the "Power of the Thumb"]
Imperial Thumb: *strangled gasping* "...Or not..."
[Imperial Thumb's head pops off]
Black Helmet Man: "Any other comments?"
British Thumb: "I have a question...Why is it that we all speak in British accents, when we're from outer space and there's no Britain?"
[Black Helmet Man turns and pops British Thumb's head off as well]
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Ripley should be weird in a natural, believable way - not outright stupid funny like Oedekerk is wont to do. Yes, I loved Kung Pow, Thumb*, Ace Ventura, etc (I laughed so hard in Kung Pow my chest and sides hurt for days)... but he really needs to keep his hands off Ripley. He's just TOO out there to make this work.
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It's Good to see Burton doing some big budget stuff...
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might just end up being that Joel Schumacher high budget remake of Pi that they keep advetising. I think its called 23, not to be confused with 24, the show. Looks like a strong potential for unintentional comedy of the year!
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Does anyone remember his "Psychic Severed Head" routine?!
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...there is actually a Talkbacker with the handle, "PatchAdamsSUX". I'm gonna venture a guess and say that he agrees with you.
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Gong Li's cleavage. THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN SHOWER.
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The only reason he is still in the business is because people think he's Kevin Nealon's retarded cousin. LEGENDAAARRRYY!!!
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Tim Robbins walking into a gas station with smoking shoes and the dude at the counter, without missing a beat, goes "You must be really fast."
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for an alright movie.
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Nor do I really care too much about this movie.
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I don't think his style is going to be right for this sort of a film. This had so much potential. I have to keep the faith, though, that no matter what crap he comes up with, Burton will be able to compensate
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sucks.
big time.
nothing will change that. even the movies people go, 'well, it wasn't THAT bad...'. they were. they were THAT bad. and, jim carrey has potential. but, so far, i've yet to see him fully realize himself as an actor. mostly, i just wanna punch him. and, patch adams... -
The job of the actor is to bring the script to life. The writer is not supposed to write the script for the actor. This is why so many films are boring.
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...but Trevor's right about that rhino birth scene. Caught it by accident while flipping channels one day and fell out of my chair laughing. As much as I enjoyed the actual show, a movie about RIpley's life holds little to no interest for me simply because I know it will be a dramatization of an adaptation and I suspect a documentary on the History Channel would do the guy more credit.
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Now that's a freakin movie. The trailer at the end is pure gold. I want part 2, now!
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Despite the whole movie just being an excuse for various Carrey setpieces (i.e. it's a Carrey vehicle and nothing more) it's still fucking great, partly because it doesn't pretend to be anything else, and partly because Carrey delivers the goods in droves ("there's......someone on the wing...some...thing!"). If they did that with ANY funnyman now the movie would just fall flat on it's face.
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shit sandwich
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even before the rhino birth carrey crack me up. when he is in the rhino, sweating balls, he takes off his underpants, wrings them out and says: "WAARRRMMM!"
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Bill, Bob, Steve, Marlon, and Tito. Are they brothers, or cousins or just a fluke they're all in comedy with the last name?
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now!!!
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Someone needed to say it.
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sorry, I got nothing...
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Was the shit...how come nothing else that guy has done is funny?
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http://tinyurl.com/yzborj
http://tinyurl.com/yhfzvz
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...if you see a Radio Shack!"
"bwa bwana. Neo. Bwana bwana bwana bwa. Sporin."
"Product placement Taco Bell..."
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They make "In Search Of...: The Movie" with full-on Nimoy!
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Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck
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Last couple of films were misses. How about doing that INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET film, or LUPIN III or GOD OF COOKERY or something friggin funny. Bring back the old, not-so-serious Jim Carrey.
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Jim Carrey running around, meeting up with weird people and shit who do weird things? How do you fucking make something like this a watchable film? By having a bunch of thumbs popping up (probably into Carrey's eagerly accepting ass)?
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He also did this TV special about 6-8 years back that I found pretty got-dang fucking hilarious.
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http://imdb.com/title/tt0120209/
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the original draft was written by the writers of ED WOOD. You all know how fucking good that was. Hopefully, this is merely a minor polish, and their work isn't completely shelved.
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And Kung Pow was some of the most retarded shit I've ever seen, so I guess I'm a communist.
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Can't we rise up in protest and force Hollywood's unneeded big bucks into schools, hospitals, police? Something worthwhile? These buttweasels earn Big Bank for crapulacious ideas while motherfuckers are starving in America. As Jim saunters back to his air conditioned trailer, I hope he catches the whiff of homeless turds in the gutter.
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... picture this, Mr Ripley comes on camera, we see a man who's hair is basically out of wack... he is pale as a ghost, his arm comes up and (reveal!) he has fu**ing scisors for hands! Don't care who writes it, Burton will try to make it a dark goth movie about a man who's looking into strange things... Fu** Burton... Fu** him and his movies...
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...yes fu*k Burton and Bumble Ward!
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Dec 18, 2006 10:43:02 PM CST
Chud's header on this is good: "shitty; horrible writer
by jackpumpkinhead
...one of the least funny guys in Hollywood"... All of this being much too gentle for this scum Oedekerk, but at least it's close to the truth.
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That made some of his flicks better than others. The Thumb series was all his, and they were painfully bad. Obvious and lame jokes abound, and the thumb faces got old after about ten seconds. I'd also guess that Kung Pow was his own solo job without someone keeping an eye on his script, and it had a few funny moments, but got real damn old before long. Barnyard was a rotten abortion of a film, but I guess the suits figured the CGI novelty would make up for it. I'm guess that his better films like Bruce Almighty and even Ace 2 had studio correction and a horde of other writers correcting his bullshit. Patch Adams was a book adaptation. We've seen what happens when Oedekerk gets control of a project, and that's unleashed agony. Now, for some horrid reason, Kung Pow 2 seems to be in production (IMDB, so take with a grain of salt). God help us all.
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until you get to the cow scene, and then it's all downhill from there. The alternate voice track on the DVD is pure comic genius. You get to actually hear what they were saying before it was dubbed over...fucking hilarious shit. Oedekerk will always get a pass from me for giving me Kung Pow and When Nature Calls.
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...hand's down. All the rest are pale imitations. And i guarantee it's still being watched long after Rocky 6 has hit the bargain bins (a couple of weeks at best).
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someone give that guy an anatomy book on the difference bwteeen boy cows & girl cows - here's a hint, there's more to their differences than a fucking bow tie in the hair. between barnyard and kung pow I've never seen someone so obsessed over cow tits
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I hope Gong Li is Still attached to this.
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Dec 19, 2006 1:35:10 PM CST
Oedekerk. Only reason that guy keeps getting work is...
by gandalf the gaye
...people keep mistaking him for the Mr Show guy. "You wanna get Oedekerk in to write this? GREAT, I love Mr Show!" - fuck, I saw this guy interviewed for some Making-of-Barnyard shite and he came across as what can only be described as a "stupid cunt". Those Thumb Wars quotes you people keep cut and pasting are *terrible* - like something a fucking 14-year-old would do.
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...it's definitely my favorite Stephen Chow movie. I can see why Carrey wanted to redo it, it's an intense role requiring real acting skill, with moments requiring drastic shifts in performance from comedy to tragedy in the space of a few seconds. Watch Chow carefully in GOD OF COOKERY, he's giving one hell of a great precision-timed performance. Carrey's one of the few other people who could pull off that role, in my own, ultimately irrelevant opinion. With Chow directing, this time with a budget and hopefully the inclination to clean up the rather half-assed ending, this hypothetical film could be pretty cool. Certainly cooler than some of the shit Carey's turned up in lately. Just keep Jay Roach the hell away from it this time.
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But now it feels like it's gonna get cheesed-up really badly. It needs to be a big-budget film. Carrey? Burton? Ripley? It HAS to be big-budget. There gonna kill it if they don't pony up the cash. Mark my words! (My luck it'll be a smash!) I hope for the best, but expect the worst.
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