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Jim Carrey falls off the wagon in front of his SOBER BUDDIES!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a tiny bit of news regarding Mr. Jim Carrey. He's apparently attached himself to a flick called SOBER BUDDIES, a comedy at Universal. Andrew Kurtzman birthed the idea, that of a party animal of a software exec who gets into some trouble and is appointed a "Sober Buddy" by the court. This sober buddy is to be played by Jim Carrey, who ends up falling off the wagon when he accompanies the software exec on a Vegas business trip.
Sounds like a decent concept and if it means Carrey has a ton of fun with it then it could be really good. Thoughts?
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Well, as long as it's someone else.
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wack
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Believe it or NOT!
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Makes you think.
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Makes you Drink!
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This cat is desperate for a hit. Lately he is about as funny as that furry assclown Robin Williams. His act is old and tired, but maybe he can return to form.
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old carrey, new carrey. old school 80's type comedy, crappy new stuff, apatow style stuff, you never know.until they attach more people and it gets fleshed out, could go any way.
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But drunk, sounds OK to me.
Seth Rogen for the software exec!! -
That would be the classic Dumb and Dumber. I can't think of another one of his films that made me laugh nearly as much as that film.
The Number 23 is a close second. -
...is a phrase that will never be attached to this project. I for one am heartily sick of 'goofy' Jim Carrey movies, wherein he gurns and pratfalls his way through 89 minutes of once useful film stock. As a comedian, Carrey makes a good mortician.
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I think Bruce Almighty was the beginning of the end of Carrey. It may have been a big hit but it was the same old schtick mixed with the schmaltz that sunk Robin Williams, etc.
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Is it just me or does this sound like it's going to be - guy gets unwanted irritating comedy leech attached that he can't shake off type of thing like Cable Guy? Call me mad but i always kind of liked Cable Guy. I was never a big Carrey fan, no, let me rephrase, I was never an any-size Carrey fan, but Cable Guy is one of the few I've seen more than once. Truman Show's the only film i love that he's been in though.
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...were both piss poor.
There.. I said it.
but i AM jim carrey; believe it or not - emphasis heavily on the latter -
Anger Management to me with some tweaking.
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Despite our immense consumption of alcohol, full blown alcoholism is no longer seen as a suitable matter for comedy. It became inappropriate in the time that elapsed between the two "Arthur" films. Of course in recent years "bad taste"/"politically incorrect"/whatever comedy has come in vogue so I could be completely wrong.
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fall apart. Until he gets back on the straight and narrow and cries...god, this will have to be a special script for it not to suck. I don't like to make predictions, but this is almost guaranteed to be a miserable failure. Whatever sick amount of money they pay Carrey to be in the film won't be made back.
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Especially when you have a brief episode of sobriety in your mid 40s and realize you've been beating your kids for 10 years, and that the deer you hit back in the early 90's was actually a pregnant woman. What a fucking laugh riot.
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Liar Liar, aand Truman Show were pretty damn good! What other comedians do you have out there making consistently good movies...Will Ferrell???Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy...Yeah Right????????Jim Carey is the ONLY comedian that is your best bet to make a terrible script into a decent comedy.
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The late Moore is the only actor I ever saw who could play a convincing hilarious drunk. All others pale, as I'm sure Carrey will. Oh, and "Dumb and Dumber" is one of the Ten Funniest Movies of All Time. "So you're telling me there's a chance..."
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"Arthur" still rocks.
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Just as long as they do show that there are repercusions to drinking like an idiot.
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You're absolutely right Donnie Drunko, this is Anger Management basically. Good point
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Transformers movie i've been waiting for for 20 years. Thanks dick head. Optimus Prime and Megatron brothers? US military taking out Decepticons? Shia Lablabla defeating Megatron and rescuing Prime? Way to go in dumbing down a fucking cartoon.
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there are countless examples of attempts to show the lighter side of alcoholism (that shitty Sandra Bullock thing) that are about as funny as a granny being stabbed for £2. With that complete pile of human excrement "birthing" (much the same way as you "birth" a turd) the insipid idea this will be absolutely awful. Arthur was great, but mostly because of Gielguld. It's a shame really as I quite like Jim Carrey both when he is being funny and otherwise.
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is definitely when Jim Carrey's career jumped the shark.
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is his career low, but i think he was already on downward spiral before then
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in Truman and Eternal Sunshine-then whay doesnt he go and ACCCT!! Do some theatre and leave the goofball days behind (although Ace Ventura 1 and Dumb and Dumber were class)and etch out a dinified acting career.
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1) Captain Haddock
2) Kid Shelleen
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I'm in. If it's the Jim Carrey from DICK & JANE, not so much.
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...and this one certainly doesn't look capable of changing that situation.
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A faux drunk Jim Carrey?? Good God we're screwed....well maybe Jenny McCarthy will show up too....mmmmmmm
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Alan Swann rocks. WHy don't we get more movies like "My Favorite Year"? And what ever happened to the comedy-variety show? I think the Mandrell sisters killed it.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Now THAT was FUNNY!!
A bunch of talkbackers crying about how unfunny alchoholism is because they were drunks and fucked up their lives!!!
Ahhhh... the pieces of the puzzle finally fall into place. So, THAT is why so many TBs are assholes. LOL!!!
Guess what guys. Rules of funny are: don't make fun of people who can't control their fate.
Nothing is funnier than a dumbshit who let alchohol fuck him over complaining about people laughing their asses off about how much of an assclown he made of him/her self. LOL!!!
Oh, and the 'poor me' bits about hitting people with your car and beating your family are the best. Cause everyone should be so sensitive to how bad you guys feel about having been monsters because you couldn't stop yourself, you know, it was... a sickness.
Don't worry guys. Cell phones are quickly catching up with drinking as a cause of most deaths on the road. -
Is old and mean looking.
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Like Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, he'll probably only make one great film.
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JonQuixote I agree. Cable Guy is one of those movies that for me gets better every time I watch it. I think Jim Carry is great, but has been all over the place in the roles he has chosen.
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Could be something along the lines of Liar Liar.
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Jun 29, 2007 10:21:50 AM CDT
Cable Guy and Eternal Sunshine are his best performance
by performingmonkey
s. The former for comedy and the latter for proper acting. Cable Guy is very underrated. A lot of people didn't see it because there was a Carrey backlash at the time, then he did Liar Liar and Truman Show which boosted him somewhat. Cable Guy got lost in the middle of it all. Ben Stiller directed. It contain classic hilarity when they go to Medieval Times, also the little news thing that keeps cropping up throughout the movie, the Sam Sweet Trial(or whatever it is) it's fucking funny.
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Yeah, you heard me.
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If not, you're as big a numbskull as that Moe twit that reviewed Harold & Kumar. Funny is funny is funny. Jesus, if we spent our lives not laughing at ANYTHING that is otherwise serious... we'd be a pretty fucking dull and morose buncha sad sacks, wouldn't we?
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I love laughing at the weak. Jim Carrey jumped the shark when he started believing that he was a real actor and not a slapstick comedian.
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I had a real problem with alcohol for a long time (I simply loved it too much), and while I eventually got off the booze, I still look back at some of the insane, frequently absurd shit that happened to me as a result of my drinking, and I laugh at it, because quite a bit of it is just really damn funny. Stupid, frequently dangerous, not remotely well thought out... but funny. Of course it's not all funny, not even close, but you could say the same about anyone's life, drinking issues or not. I have no problem with the subject matter on principle. It could be handled well, or poorly, but I don't find it inherently and automatically objectionable. Let's see what they do with it.
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Jun 29, 2007 11:37:21 AM CDT
Anyone who thinks the chronic mugging in LIAR, LIAR is
by thegreatwhatzit
"hilarious" should be condemned to hell and sealed in a cubicle that projects Jerry Lewis movies for an eternity.
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The game is afoot.
And Carrey should be under it. -
Hilarity ensues when Jim Carrey falls off the wagon and tears up a greenhouse looking for a bottle of booze he hid in a flower pot. Oh, alcohol...the cause of and solution to all of life's problems. This movie would be MUCH funnier if Robin Williams starred in it...
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he's so desperate for a hit at this point, he'll drop back to the talking out his butt joke.
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Next: Lindsay Lohan in THE LOST WEEKEND (co-starring Paris Hilton and Britney Spears), by the producer/director who brought you THE NUTT HOUSE (remember Traci Lords as Miss Tress? What a kneeslapper!). uss cygnus, you're right on the money.
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Albert Finney and Paris buy a "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" and head for the bar. Hilarity ensues!
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I haven't seen Transformers yet (it doesn't even open until Monday). I clicked on this article to read about a Jim Carrey Movie. Not for spoilers on Transformers (I've actually been avoidingg them). But thanks.
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is a fucking classic comedy.
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Though I rate "The Truman Show" a lot higher than just "watchable and interesting", I loved it and thought the premise was really cool. I watch "Dumb & Dumber" whenever I'm feeling low - it always cheers me up.
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cocaine is a helluva drug
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and going to say I actually liked a lot of his Count Olaf in Lemony Snickett. "I'm sorry, I don't speak monkeee..."
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And they can cast Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton as his daughters.
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of trying to live up to Dudley Moore's performance in Arthur, still one of the funniest, and most quotable, movies ever. "Perhaps you'd like me to come in there and wash your dick for you, you little prick." "He's taking the knife out of the cheese! Do you think he wants some cheese?!?" "Are you sure you want to be a night club comic?" "That's great, you probably never run out of ice cubes!" FUCKING GOLD! Like someone said up there, this could turn into a classic or a dog, just depends on the details of the story and what Carrey does with the character...
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started with the majestic.
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a comedy of this caliber is going to cause loads of controversy. it seems thats the goal these days, create as much interest whether good or bad, as long as the movie resonates in your brain. that way when your standing in line staring at the marquee of films, you choose that one because you "wanna see what all the hype is about"
well thats how it plays out in my head anyway.
haha.
I can only imagine this will include Jim riding on some sort of mechanism through a hotel, drunk as fuck and yelling at people in a drunken rage.
throw in him being spotted by an AA member, and guilt will set in, thus causing him to "drink at them"
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Alcohol is fantastic!
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sounds good as long as Steve Oedekerk stays aways from the pic. Far, far away
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4) Cap'n Crunch
5) Brian Jones
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Any High Strung fans in here? One of Jim's early works. Funny stuff.
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Are you serious? How many people quoted Dumb and Dumber all through High School? That's what I thought.
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Can it be better than Arthur 2: Love on the Rocks? Probably not.
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He did that movie where he played the old man in the creepy house that scared the kids. Whatever the hell that movie was called... "The Illustrious Tales of Winthrop Von Thigglebottom" or something gay like that.
Keep in mind, however, that Jim Carrey is a true comic genius and a talent so it is only a matter of time before the right script comes along that revives his career. He's inherently funnier than the whole Ferrel, Stiller, Owen, Vaughn pack combined. -
maybe you should have these extra gloves, my hands were getting sweaty anyway.
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He's The Sober Buddy - get it? The thing is, his "let's have fun doing this instead of drinking" suggestions get the dude in more hot water than just getting drunk would have. See? But I'll bet they both become better people from the experience.
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The version I posted above is how the movie SHOULD be.
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loser. His comedy is too antagonistic, his drama is boring. He needs a dramadey.
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just because you don't personally find him funny doesn't mean he's not. there's alot of different kinds of funny in the world. thank god. would suck if humor only had one note.
one thing that made carey popular is the fact that he also played to multiple jokes at a time so alot of different people with different types of humor would enjoy his movies. that's the genius of his comedy. in my opinion.
funniest thing I ever saw Carey do was the tonight show and a bit with leno where he talks about having to do interviews and getting the same question over and over and over again. how it starts out sincere and then gets old then tired and then he's getting pissed. when acting out being pissed he grabs the coffee cup off the desk and breaks it like he's about to start a bar fight. amazing moment of humor from a genuinely funny person. -
Granted, the Enron-type stuff dates it, but Alec Baldwin is hilarious and the film is full of funny stuff. I laugh like a mental patient during the "Indicted!" scene.
Not so much a BRUCE ALMIGHTY fan; a lot of it felt forced.
I read about this at another site; they suggested Will Ferrell as the exec. Don't know what you guys think, but that MIGHT work. -
Yea, he's so desperate...he just doesn't have enough MILLIONS in the bank already, he needs more...right? Dumbass. I hate it when I hear guys like you hating on these actors trying to make it sound like they're washed up or something. This guy could kiss acting off all together and never work anothr day in his life and would still have more money than everyone on your entire family tree.
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ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE, DUMB AND DUMBER, THE MASK, LIAR LIAR, THE TRUMAN SHOW, MAN ON THE MOON, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. He'll be back.
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The scene with Jim Carey using the voice distortion is enough for me to watch it a few times and laugh my ass off. If they use Vince Vaughn in the main role I think this movie would kick ass and be hysterical.
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Didn't rubberface play a drunk in 'Doing Time on Maple Drive'? He's already played this schtick! Oh this is a comedy??? Well I'll sneak my friend Jack Daniels in the theater and we'll get sauced together jimmy-boy!
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and if you disagree you're a lightweight. Seriously -- who's offended by the premise of this thing? You know it's not going to be the comic reimagining of Leaving Las Vegas, it's not going to be The Lost Weekend meets Liar Liar -- he won't be playing a full blown alcoholic going for laughs. He'll be a regular guy who likes to responsibly imbibe and gets fucked for a one-time-only moment of irresponsibility. Like Paris Hilton. Maybe being an alcoholic isn't always funny (it's a character flaw - like loud talkers in restaurants) but being drunk is a comedy goldmine -- just look at Lord of the Rings.
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I'ma tie one on and run over a kid tonight. Cheers to the twinkies who can't laugh at misfortune.
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... on an r rated subject? - if the studio involved and carrey and whoever else has any balls this will be a big nasty r rated broo haha - like '40 yr old virgin' or 'me myself and irene' - but the way things are going it will be pg-13 - like all the recent robin 'i used to be hilarious' williams comedies - america has gone nerf
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Ace Ventura, Ace ventura 2, Dumb and Dumber, the Mask, Liar Liar, Cableguy, the Truman Show, even Eternal Sunshine. I didn't like Dick and Jane and Me Myself and Irene sucked balls... but the man has had more hits with me than misses and I look forward to seeing what he's up to next! My high school religion teacher also happened to be Jim Carrey's cousin and that doesn't mean anything but I'm just saying that's about as close as I've gotten to the man...
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