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Jim Carrey's GRINCH face!
Alright folks. I've seen John Barrymore twist his face into MR HYDE in my life. I've seen Quint in the morning. But I ain't ever seen anything approaching facial contortions quite like this before. Jim Carrey was on the TODAY SHOW yesterday and gave the world this 'glimpse' of what the GRINCH looks like. Now... go take a look at that ol poster... add fur, green and you've got it... kind of... I tell you, if Jim throws himself into the Grinch role like he did into Andy Kaufman... we might very well have one of the classic screen embodiments. I can not wait to see what all he does in this film. Here ya go... compliments of 'The Bloodhound'!!!!
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Just so all of you know, Owen Glieberman (my choice as worst mainstream critic in the business-- Ex: gave GoodFellas a "D") picked Man on the Moon as the year's best film, so let's call it a three-star very good. I'm kind of pulling for Jimbo at the Golden Globes, and it's possible that he'll snag an Oscar nom after that, but I really hope this site doesn't fill up with a bunch of people actually wanting him to walk away with the gold. It's one think to do an UNCANNY imitation of a real-life person, but it's another thing to expose the soul of the character of the person. I don't know if DeNiro was anything at all like the real Jake LaMotta, but that was one hell of an acting job. So let's not all stroke Carrey off too hard for just looking and sounding like AK. I haven't seen the film yet, I'm just giving an early "storm watch".
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Hes perfect for the Grinch.....
but he would be even more perfect as the joker if they ever make the Batman Year One Move. Just look at him....
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It's so real it's almost...creepy. It's begining to look a lot like Grinch-mas.
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Wow. That really knocks my socks off. I thought ever since I heard Carey was going to do the Grinch that no other actor could possibly pull it off. Now I'm sure that Jim Carey IS The Grinch for this film and it should really be something... Can't wait to see Man On The Moon tomorrow.
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What are the chances that Jim Carrey could get a second award in a row. After his Oscar win as Kaufman, who knows how much adulation he'll receive now.
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Thats all just -7 degrees,damn.
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Yes sir... that is something else.
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Dec 22, 1999 4:41:13 AM CST
JIM CARREY DOING JACK NICHOLSON DOING THE JOKER DOING THE GRINCH
by iwant2citall
AND YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE IT!
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Jim Carrey's worth every dollar he's paid. Or every other dollar, at least.
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This is a publicity shot from the new Phil Cool biopic. Jim Carrey is to star as the Lancastrian born former funny man
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Sorry to burst your bubble, Bruce, but The Joker is not featured in Year One. Anyway, there
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Once again Hollywood remakes a work that was highly satisfying the first time around. How are they going to compete with the voice talent from the original production? As G.E.C. pointed out, is this a backstory film? So we throw in a few more clever tricks snatching prezzies and driving the sleigh. (Maybe Ford could sponsor the sleigh. It would be a great product tie-in if the sleigh were derived from the Excursion platform!) Perhaps in a few years we'll get the Carrey interpretation of Rick in "Casablanca". A little CGI would do wonders for the airport sequences! Ugh! Bah, humbug!
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On the NBC News program last night, Now and Again, they had a segment on Carrey, and he did his Jack Nicolson impression, which was dead on, and the face looked very much like his Grinch face, except he did something different with his mouth. Anyway..the man is out of control, he really absorbs his characters...I am sure the Grinch will be great...man, is it me, or has the general public really not given him enough credit as an actor? I mean, there are all those who think he his funny, in an Adam Sandler kind of way...sure, he cracks us up, but can Sandler "act"...anyway...Carrey has so far done it all...lets hioe he doesn't get snubbed again this year. Fly Carreyman! Fly!
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Wendy, give me the bat. Give me the bat. Give me the bat, Wendy. Wendy,... WENDY.... gimme the bat. Gimme the bat!
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Don't forget, TWISTER made his 10 Best List in 1996.
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Fuck the oscars and fuck the golden domes. Who gives a rat's ass? You guys are all playing into that shit! NOBODY CARES! They give THEMSELVES these awards to make them feel important.
The real punchline is what the fans think of them..period.
Jim has a talent that is all but gone from hollywood, he is a comedic genuis, and I hope he NEVER gets an award, otherwise he will be following Robin Willaims' lame career.
And Kkrack, you can't compare him to Lon Chaney Sr. that's an insult. First, they are seperated by almost 100 years, next, 90% of all of Lon's work is gone, we only have a handfull of his films.( luckly the two most important ones) But I bet we would drop our jaw if they ever found TOWER OF LONDON. -
"RUBBER-FACED FARTSMITH AMERICA'S SWEETHEART"
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I have no delusions. I wasn
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Does anyone else wonder if Jim Carrey is setting himself up for a Johnathon Winter-esque breakdown? The stories of how he didnt lapse from the Andy character the whole time he was filming? I just pray that we dont hear stories of Jim and running naked down sunset boulevard, carrying a chicken, screaming "You can't see california without Marlon Brando's eyes!" Then again, that might be funny.....
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CARREY. SHADYAC. "IMAGINING NATHAN." OSCAR.
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I saw that segment on the Today show and thought it was great.
But, can you imagine him doing an entire movie making that face? Didn't his Mom tell him that his face would freeze like that? -
Dec 22, 1999 11:46:18 AM CST
WHY couldnt they have used his voice and made this animated???
by mckracken
ok thats a Jim Carry face, unfortunatly I've seen him do it on "In Living Color" too! I'm not that impressed with Carrey anymore. I'd be more impressed if they used Jim Carrey as the VOICE only of the Grinch...and make it animated... --McK
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...feeling slow and old? It's okay, just DONT PULL MY POSTS BECAUSE OF IT!
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I beg to differ with Man-0-War. Doesn't anybody remember The Mask. Mr. Carrey isn't the boy wonder everyone claims, as he was not able to contort his jaw to drop to the floor (that was digitally enhanced), or able to let his tongue roll out like a red carpet (digital enhancement as well). And I believe his teeth were fake as well. And as far as the Joker goes. Bruce Campbell has that role down pat; if there are to be made any further Batman movies; which should be pulled from WB's evil grip.
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Dumb-asses @ Univeral Publicity should've beaten this over Carrey's head - DO NOT GIVE AWAY YOUR GRINCH FACE. Ok, so we know what he looks like without the makeup. Big deal, right? WRONG! They've shown 1/2 of his character. That's like showing the cast model of GODZILLA or the jaws from JAWS before either film is released to the theaters. The public is PAYING to see what Carrey looks like as the Grinch, and now, he's killed the surprise. Carrey, you're an idiot. And Universal continues to astound me. I hope Ron Howard kicks their ass again for their dreadful mismanagement of Jim Carrey. Stupid fools. I hope GRINCH takes a dive.
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Dec 22, 1999 1:52:50 PM CST
I didn't know even Jim Carrey could stretch his skin like that..
by the kid
And I think we have ourselves a real life Grinch. Now, Howard, I do believe that you are the perfecy guy to direct this, but if you screw it up with a lame-ass backstory script, I WILL BREAK DOWN YOUR DOOR AND CUT OFF YOUR FUCKING BALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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blah.. I'm sorry but the photo does nothing for me. It's nothing we haven't seen Carrey do before... big deal, whoop dee do. The Grinch isn't a stretch. And I like Greg Kinnear's Nicholson impersonations better.
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First off, I think the lost film Scott is referring to is LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT. Secondly, I'm cynical about Carrey, and I don't give a rat's ass about (MAD)MAN IN THE MOON. But his facial transformation into his version of the Grinch was one of the most startling things I've seen on the tube in a long time.
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It's a Ron Howard film, and will be as soulless and sterile as everything else he makes. Jim could pull a monkey out of his ass and have IT do the Grinch face, and it wouldn't matter one whit.
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-Rolling Stone
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Why I
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I am inclined to agree with you on this. Personally, I wonder whether Gliberman is evaluating a movie based on entertainment value or whether he's writing an essay for an AP english class. Sometimes I can't even understand what the hell he is saying. If my english level isn't up to snap with Gliberman's, well then I suck. However, as a critic, you should be able to make your reviews clear and concise and get to the damn point! I don't read reviews because I want to study them! I read them because I wanna know whether the movies are good or bad.
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Just my opinion.
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Does anyone out there know anything about Carrey's GOD OF COOKERY remake? I will ask this question every time a Carrey article appears on AICN! Stephen Chow is at the top of my Asian Movie God Pantheon!! (Others include Ching Siu Tung and Hayao Miyazaki.)
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EVERYONE knows how much Tim Curry looks like the Grinch. I mean, they freakin' did a match cut with his face with that of the Grinch's in Home Alone 2, and his face matched it better than Carrey's. Sure Carrey is a fine actor, but Curry is a better one in my opinion, and looks and sounds exactly the same! It will be a good movie, but not as top notch as if Tim were the main man...err Grinch. Of course "No one in suburbia knows who he is, and we need to make more than Wild Wild West so we can afford to buy our children toys that cost $5,000 more than this year, so let's put in the biggest box-office draw actor name around to ensure it, blah, blah, blah..."
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Was lucky enough to see Man in the Moon a couple days back. Sure hope AMPAS grants him at least a nomination for that, because it was an amazing high wire act. As for Grinch, wow. That's amazing, even without the makeup. Anybody who thinks that is easy should try something like that for about 5 minutes straight ... it's not. Recently, saw the Grinch posters. Very very cool. Was very surprised to be seeing posters with a release date of "November 2000." www.themachineisdead.com
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...stretch your mind back to a mundane film called "First Bite" starring Jim Carrey and Lauren Hutton. He was pulling that freaking face all the time. AS for the whole Batman thing, I love the idea of David Bowie (god, Bowie would be brilliant in a Sandman film as Lucifer) but remember Dave McKean's interpretation of the Joker in Arkham Asylum as a Marilyn Manson figure....no no no no no, I don't want that sucker in a film.....forget I said it
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Just saw "Man on the Moon", a film some will love/hate (I loved it), but onto further matters:
Mr. Gleiberman's reviews are sometimes off the fucking wall, however, I personnaly read film critic's reviews to see other's opinions on a film, not to see if the goddam thing is good. If Owen thinks "Twister" is one of the best films of 1996, that's his opinion and he's not trying to convince the world that it's true. In the past years, though, his reviews have been interesting ("Boogie Nights", a favorite of my own, was his choice for best of 97). Maybe someday the dickheads who post on this site will release that Harry and all the other folks in America who review films are not "evil" it they like a particular movie more than the general public. (Oh, and by the way, "Goodfellas" got a "B" grade from Gleiberman; get your fuckin facts straight) -
...I will never forgive Ol' Jim for quitting Stand-up! He is an amazing impressionist! One of, if not THE best. I know he will be godd in MOTM as well as The Grinch if only at re-creating the feel of the characters, but the big question I have for al of this is why??? Why make A movie out of one of the best animated specials ever. Certain things should always stay in their original medium; like Peanuts, would anyone ever want to see a live action Charlie Brown? Oh well we'll just see how this turns out, and I'll piss on it good when it does. (after Pisso does, and where did that lovable clown go to?)
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Jim is the man! I just saw MAN ON THE MOON today, and he was great. The movie on the whole is certainly above average but not as great. It is episodic and has some awkward transitions (Lynn?), but it moves fast and mixes drama and comedy well. I hope Carrey wins the Oscar. I know this is a cliche, but I forgot I was watching him instead of Andy. The last movie this happened in for me was Nolte in AFFLICTION. One thing I don't like is this method acting bullshit. Get a life! This stuff where he would only answer to Andy. In the words of Anthony Hopkins: "All of that is film school masturbation. You memorize your lines, you get up, and you act."
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Pain, what the hell are you talking about? " I personnaly read film critic's reviews to see other's opinions on a film, not to see if the goddam thing is good" What else in an opinion is worth reading about? They are opinions of what is "good" and "bad" about the film, technically, and artistically. Your statement is contradictory. And the next statement is idiotic: "...that's his opinion and he's not trying to convince the world that it's true." Well, yeah, that's what he is trying to do. At least to the readers of EW, which, granted are about 35% below the integrity of the world's average. That's why people become critics. So they can convey what they believe to be true to a readership. You could argue that critics who don't "grade" their reviews are more respectable because the article is simply to raise a discussion, at least within the mind of the reader (Janet Maslin, Village Voice critics). Now back to Glieberman: I did misremember his actual grade of GoodFellas, but let's look at what he did have problems with: >> "Instead, Scorsese takes the easy way out. It's not just Henry who's desensitized; the whole movie is desensitized. It shows us people being killed in bloody, awful ways, yet we're never asked to respond to the victims as human beings (as we were in, say, The
Godfather). And so we're "inside" the consciousness of a mobster only in a clinical, abstract way." > "Scorsese got deep inside the vicious antiheroes of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull. Here, it's almost as if he is concocting a schoolboy fantasy of remorseless evil. GoodFellas is brilliant surface moviemaking, but it's hollow at the center. The trouble with the movie is that Liotta's Henry has no inner life as a character." << Does anyone remember how he was coked out for half the film? How about the breakdown in the bedroom with Henry and his wife holding each other as their ship slowly sinks. The breakdown of the guy's life may not have been as defined as Michael Corleone's (which took 3 films), but by the end the awkwardness of his existence drives the point home. It's not glamorous, it's not cool, but it's not dangerous and illegal either. To compare this film with Taxi Driver or Raging Bull is stupid because those two were very much character studies, while this one was meant to be more all-encompassing. If it seems like mindless violence now, it's because this critic can't take a decade of violent filmmaking into account, which separates those films. Glieberman may be a decent writer, but that doesn't mean what he's saying has much merit. Hasn't Lisa Schwartzbaum been promoted to Senior Critic at EW? She's much better, and I've heard her name mentioned as a worthy successor to Maslin's soon-to-be-vacant post. Also Pain, you said: "Maybe someday the dickheads who post on this site will release that Harry and all the other folks in America who review films are not "evil" it they like a particular movie more than the general public." They're (bad critics) not evil but they don't deserve to have their opinions disseminated to the masses. My malice towards Owen goes way back. Every year (March issue) Premiere prints a chart of all the year's major releases, and what all the mainstream critics rated them. Go find any one of them in the 90's and you'll see how foolish Glieberman is. Or just read his reviews--read 'em and weep. -
I heard from a friend of a friend that Mrs. Geisel (aka Mrs. Seuss) kept a pretty firm hand on the script for this. From what I've read of her dealings with the mantainance of the Seuss world, this should mean that the script will be very much in the same vein of the existing Seuss works, so I'm not too worried about really lame devices for extending the plot to 1 1/2+ hrs. And... I've smoked some good bud, etc. in my day, but never anything like what Nixon's Nutcase (Nighthawk, sorry for the Freudian slip) apparently has. Can you hook us up?
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Alright, I saw the film today, which I thought was great by the way, but the thing that threw me was that some of the events and partakings in Andy's life were unheard of by me, and almost every biography and Kaufman special I have seen never mentions of these things. I won't speak of any of these things on this board, mainly because I respect that most of you (if not all of you) don't want to have the film-going experience ruined for you, so don't be afraid to read on. My question is, were the writers good friends with Kaufman? I only ask that because most of the stuff they crammed into that film was unknown to me, and there were several hints of Kaufman still being alive. If anybody knows about this, please tell me. Thanks!
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I'm the scurrying rodent of your memory, darting among the thorns and dusty scrubbrush of your consciousness. I'm the heaving, searing breath that strains the lungs of the littlest thought. I'm the glare of a tiny eye that turns to the sky and dulls over with death, while high above the Nighthawk soars, slave to his pounding instinct, looking for morsels, readying himself to dive into the abyss between the infinitely large and the infintely small.
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Soldier stay off the filter less unless you can afford state of the art gene therapy. I
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Jim Carrey has got every toddlers dream job! Who else gets paid that much for pulling the weirdest faces.
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Dec 23, 1999 4:11:34 PM CST
I herad that Jim Carrey's facial tricks saved The Mask about a m
by tall_boy
-cuz he could do somethings that they were planning to do in CGI but he was able to pull it off on his own. Don't ask me what those tricks were (I seriously doubt he could make his eyeballs pop out of his head) but its just a neat factoid anyway. It shows the guy *does* have tallent. (and yes, we all have to start somewhere ie. talking out of our butt cracks. Still even Carrey mocks that now and then. Shows he has a great sense of humor) And for all of his Kaufman-esque antics: I believe that in the sprit of Andy, he's just pulling a fast one on the public.
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Dec 23, 1999 9:07:21 PM CST
Sure he can make faces but does that make a good flick?
by cohen three 16
I'll admit Jim Carrey does have a way of twisting his face into different poses but for the role of something so ledgendary as the grinch I envisioned someone with a little more comic genius. When I first heard of Carreys involvement I was excited but after seeing that pic and realizing there wont be much acting involved I hope this doesnt turn into Ace Ventura Christmas Edition.
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I remeber watching that interview on NBC, and Jim saying that he was asked to "audition" for the part on the set of Man on the Moon. As we all know, Jim was not on the set of Man on the Moon, but Andy was. During the interview, Jim said that Andy "auditioned" for the part, not Jim, however, Jim got the role. So, in actuallity, that face was Andy's impersonation of Jim doing a "Grinch-like" face. Does this make sense to anyone?
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Since (if) Jim Carrey is looking for more substantial dramatic roles after doing the Grinch, anyone have any ideas what he's looking for/at? I'd suggest a book to adapt, but can't think of any Carrey is right for.
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I've always hoped to see Bill
Murray in a Seussian role. He's
got that look in his eye. But
Jim's makeup looks great so that's
that I guess.
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Jim Carry in my opinion was (until
recently) an incredibly underated actor. Man on The Moon is the first movie that allowed him some acting freedom. As much as I like the Truman Show the role of Truman didn't exactly call for much acting per say. As for the Grinch the face is dead on! Let's think for a second though...short book with barely enough plot to sustain a half an hour T.V special is going to be streched to feature lentgh. I smell Flinstones.
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