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Jim Carrey loves Ewan McGregor!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS is the name of the flick, the directorial debut of BAD SANTA scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Luc Besson is producing.
Jim Carrey plays a married conman, a father, who gets caught and put into a Texas jail. There he meets Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor) and he falls in love. The dark comedy aspect is that his love prompts him to try escaping using his particular talented ingenuity. Of course, when he is unsuccessful his sentence grows, which prompts him to try escaping even more until his sentence goes over 100 years.
Ficarra and Requa wrote the script, an adaptation of a book by Steve McVicker, which makes me happy as I hold BAD SANTA as being one of the funniest damn movies to hit in the last 5 years. Of course, they had help from the Coen Bros and Terry Zwigoff, but still. Very much looking forward to this one. You?
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My first first?
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Damn you Michael Bay
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Honestly, I'll take a pass.
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Starring Ahmed Best as the voice of Snowflake and Jar-Jar Binks!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RET4LTsWpBc
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Maybe you should wear these extra gloves, my hands are starting to get sweaty.
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wtf?
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I am very curious as to whether or not Phillip Morris tobacco company secretly conspired to have Hollywood put out a movie called "I Love You, Phillip Morris". Even if the story has nothing to do with tobacco just that phrase being associated with a popular Jim Carrey movie could do powerful things for the company's image; if only just on some kind of neuro-linguistic level. I imagine meetings leading up to this being like Aaron Eckhart's dealings with Rob Lowe in "Thank You For Smoking". Of course I could be full of shit. Just thinking.
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Check it out...pretty funny movie.
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Not interested. Carrey is dead to me as an actor (No. 23?).
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i hope it's not a homophobia-disguised-as-stupidity fest like 'i now pronounce you chuck and larry'..
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Does J.J. Abrams pay people to come on this site and promote his movie in talkbacks that relate in no way for extra publicity? For fuck's sake people, maybe it'll be good, but it's not going to alter your life forever. And at this point, since no one knows what kind of quality we're looking at, maybe you want to temper you're excitement a little. Abrams hasn't been directly involved in anything spectacular except Lost, of which he has very input.
Oh right, the movie talkback. Sounds like a funny premise, hope they pull it off. Carrey needs something good on his resume in the last ten years. -
was a great movie but Terry Zwigoff sure fucked it up with his Director's Cut. How could one man be so wrong and a test audience be so very right?!!!
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...Carrey taking another good role. This sounds daring and original. Can't wait.
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OK well a prison romance is more like it, but still. Who do you guys think is the byotch in the relationship? I am sure Carey would take the pipe.
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Was Bad Santa really better than Badder Santa? oh yeah this movie sounds kinda lame
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Dec 18, 2007 1:37:11 AM CST
Harry, robertplant keeps spamming your talkbacks with his gay YT
by mace tofu
If I'm going to watch gay porn I want to see some cute oiled up ATM action not robertplant's butt-ugly boy-toys.
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Good to have you back buddy.
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No, seriously though.
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12 goddamn years and Bad Santa was a steaming pile of dog shit. I look for this to hit DVD within 4 weeks of the theater release.
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Yeesh.
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Ho ho! I still got it!
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And a complete waste of time and money. No laughs, just one big groan.
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like someone looks forward to having their prostate operated on.
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Prison Break made breaking out of prison cool. I don't know if breaking out of prison just to bone Ewan McGregor will keep it's cool. Carrey keeps trying to make serious movies but usually fails. Carrey once said that the public only wants to see him with his hand up his ass. Now it looks like we'll see Ewan McGregor's hand up Carrey's ass.
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'Nuff said
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but i sure as hell am interested, please no ignorant homophobia though
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because Carrey looks like a two dollar crack whore now?
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...subjects for yaoi. So are we going to see Riddler/Obi-Wan slash fiction? Heck, if they got McGregor to be the Mad Hatter in one of the Batman movies, it would make sense...
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In which case, I LOVE YOU BETTY CROCKER.
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I wish I knew how to quit you, Andy!
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Check out this clip of Louis CK talking in his stand up about going gay for Ewan at
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Crap like I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS gets greenlit, and good stories get passed up. As for the acidic commentary on Jim Carrey's career ... y'all couldn't be MORE RIGHT! This guy keeps proving he jumped the shark with that crap-fest THE MAJESTIC. And don't get me started on Darabont (director of aforementioned waste of celluloid). Every parent I know (even the ones who HATE THEIR KIDS) are lining up to bitch-slap that idiot over the ending to THE MIST.
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The Cable Guy and Life. Life was okay, but the last "dark comedy" Carrey did was the Cable Guy. I've only seen a few bits of it here and there to know I don't want to watch the whole thing. Nothing wrong with that, no star can knock a home run every time. I still need to see Eternal Sunshine.... I was really impressed with Carrey's dramatic skills in The Truman Show. Too bad the idiot department marketed the movie as a comedy.
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how bout NO, Scott.
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I mean really people....what a floater that just would'nt flush by Joel Poo-macher....the career killer.
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to see this film.
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there is a major movement in Hollywood to get as many male actors as possible to arse bandit each other on screen?
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Jesus fucking christ!! I can't BELIEVE anyone could possibly think that POS movie was anything other than...AWFUL! NOT ONE FUNNY SCENE IN THE WHOLE GODDAMN MOTHER FUCKING THING!!
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Jim Carrey really needs to return to the brand of comedy he was most successful at for a time. Not that he should go all the way back to Pet Detective. He's definitely outgrown that stuff. Or even the Mask. But Liar Liar, The Cable Guy, Bruce Almighty and even Dick and Jane. These were grown-up comedies with a purpose and wide appeal. The trip to the "dark side" of Carrey hasn't worked out evenly. After hitting a couple out of the park in the acting department with Truman and Moon, Eternal Sunshine ammounted to not much more than an interesting experiment, while 23 was just weak. Thankfully, a look at his upcoming slate offers hope: Yes Man could be great if handled right (think Liar) and Ripley's could be brilliant in a fucked-up freaky way. Christmas Carrol? Zemeckis is attached, so I have hope for a different take on that one. Carrey will be a fun Scrooge. That's all.
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...and Jim, ring up the Farrely Brothers again and see what they're up to. Some of the funniest stuff you've done in years was in Me & Irene. Twisted, man. Twisted.
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Who cares about Jessica Alba or Biel not taking their clothes off? If I want to see something raw I can Limewire or Isohunt it all day long. Nudity usually doesn't push a story along, it's just to pull a few more people to the theater. Actresses usually don't want to do it anyway, but some cave for the money. Halle Berry was paid an extra 500k for her sunbathing shot in Swordfish. Real movies don't need nudity to draw people to the theaters.
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When I saw that movie Shadowboxer, I thought the pairing of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Mo'Nique was the oddest romantic coupling ever to be committed to celluloid. Apparently I was wrong.
Color me intrigued though....plot sounds interesting and different, and Carrey/McGregor kick all kinds of ass. (Insert clever homoerotic pun using word "ass" here) -
"Carrey keeps trying to make serious movies but usually fails" ?? Yes, because Man on the Moon, The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were such artistic and financial failures. Carrey = genius.
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After Brokeback was nominated for Oscars everybody wanted to ride the anti-bigotry wave. There are movies in various stages of production that are centered on the injustices towards those attracted to the same gender. If you are trying to present same gender attraction as a serious subject you probably shouldn't use "homoerotic" puns like Carrey/McGregor kicking ass.
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I don't dispute at all that Jim Carrey is an extremely talented actor. I don't think that his serious movies have failed due to a lack of acting ability. Perhaps his choice of screenplays or, more likely, directing should account for his failure. Also, sometimes it's hard to detach Jim Carrey's face from Ace Venture. It's hard look at him and not think of Ace Ventura or his various Living Color roles, like Firemarshall Bill. Carrey is very talented.
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Oops. It's Ace Ventura.
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Eat shit and die. That movie is fucking great. It's an absolute classic. You're seriously a retard if you don't think it's funny. It's not typical studio garbage that tells you when to laugh. I look down on anyone who doesn't like that movie on some level. Seriously, you're just dumb.
Willie: You know, I think I've turned a corner.
Marcus: Yeah? You fucking petites now?
Willie: No, I'm not talking about that. I beat the shit out of some kids today. But it was for a purpose. It made me feel good about myself. It was like I did something constructive with my life or something, I dunno, like I accomplished something.
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Seriously... who gives a shit? He hasn't done anything truly entertaining since 'Dumb & Dumber'. His 3 'great' flicks are 'Ace Ventura (the 1st)', 'Liar Liar (Jennifer Tilly mmmmmmmmm)', and 'Dumb & Dumber'. Everything else wen't into the bargain deal bin at Blockbuster
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Fucking LMAO at your threads. So true. Whatever happened to fun, meaningless T&A flicks? That genre has just died. Too bad, because they filled the niche right between comedy and outright campy porn. Truth is you're partly right...people are afraid to go to anything like that anymore lest they be labelled mysoginistic or, worse, a perv. But the other half of it is the economics of film these days. Remember, it costs so much to make and produce a feature that you can't appeal simply to one segment of the audience. That is, unless you want to go straight to video.
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But he wouldn't love me. "Come on. Say 'May the force be with you.'"
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Dumb and Dumberer
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Eternal Sunshine in your face, idiots.
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The only one of his "serious" pictures I can stand to watch is ETERNAL SUNSHINE, where he managed to iron out most of his annoying rubberface mannerisms. As for the rest, he's always just going to be "Jim Carrey mimicking a serious performance".
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE is a great movie, but it's great in spite of Jim Carrey, not because of him. I liked that movie a lot, but I'm not about to commend Carrey for (finally) behaving like a normal person in a serious role. He should be able to do that every fucking time. He's really got to start bringing more to the table for that to happen, though, and I don't see that happening. And, he seems to think people should be handing him awards for these zero-range 'performances' he turns in. The sad fact is, he's no Robert De Niro, no Al Pacino, no Jeff Bridges, no Denzel Washington, no Russell Crowe, no Sean Penn...he's not even a Robin Williams. He probably couldn't even sell a dumb action thriller like SPEED if he had to. And as much as he likes to compare himself to Jimmy Stewart, he can never be him, because he doesn't have an ounce of Stewart's *class*.
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And he sounds like stepinfetchit! And he looks like a rastarfarian! AND there's fart humor in a STAR WARS film! AND...there are lines like "Spinning's a good trick!" AND there is a USELESS Toy commercial of a "Pod Racing" sequence! AND Darth Vader BUILT C-3po! And it's STILL More plausible than the "Cloverfield Witch Project"!
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