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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 8, 2018 16:18:49 GMT
Why was this film shunned upon its release?
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Post by sdrew13163 on Apr 8, 2018 19:03:58 GMT
Not sure. I actually find it to be pretty funny.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 8, 2018 19:12:53 GMT
Not sure. I actually find it to be pretty funny. Maybe its dark and sometimes mean spirited nature. Look at the scene when Carrey assaults Owen Wilson. |
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Post by sdrew13163 on Apr 8, 2018 19:24:56 GMT
Not sure. I actually find it to be pretty funny. Maybe its dark and sometimes mean spirited nature. Look at the scene when Carrey assaults Owen Wilson. Well I hate Owen Wilson so I liked that part quite a bit. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 8, 2018 19:30:38 GMT
Maybe its dark and sometimes mean spirited nature. Look at the scene when Carrey assaults Owen Wilson. Well I hate Owen Wilson so I liked that part quite a bit. "Right into the turnbuckle! That's gotta hurt, Gene!" |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 19:33:16 GMT
Because it's not very good and people probably didn't react to a darker Carrey performance. They were expecting The Mask again. It might be a bit of a sleeper/cult hit though.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Apr 8, 2018 19:47:01 GMT
Columbia paying Jim Carrey $20 million, and they got nothing close to what his previous movies got (not counting Batman Forever). I wonder if someone at that studio realized the material wasn't exactly the same as Ace Ventura/The Mask/Dumb and Dumber, and they were sorta taking a risk.
I loved Cable Guy, knowing Carrey could pull of the likes of Fire Marshall Bill on "In Living Color". |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 20:51:05 GMT
Well I hate Owen Wilson so I liked that part quite a bit. "Right into the turnbuckle! That's gotta hurt, Gene!" "Salt peanuts, salt peanuts." |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Apr 8, 2018 21:45:24 GMT
I actually don't mind this movie.
Plus, it has one of my all-time favourite karaoke scenes.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 8, 2018 23:14:15 GMT
Carrey was A-listing as a straight comedy shooter, mostly of his own brand no less, & The Cable Guy was genuinely not that.
Worst of all, it was marketed hard as a Jim Carrey comedy first.
It's a decent movie, it just got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Apr 8, 2018 23:36:45 GMT
Why was this film shunned upon its release? It was muck darker and better than Carreys previous hits, people were not ready for it yet. Its his best and a top 5 comedy of all time for sure. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 9, 2018 12:22:29 GMT
It's already been covered several times in this thread but yeah, it was just darker than Carrey's previous work so people didn't know what to make of it. It's one of my all time favorite comedies and I think it's aged better than his other stuff.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 9, 2018 13:23:17 GMT
It's already been covered several times in this thread but yeah, it was just darker than Carrey's previous work so people didn't know what to make of it. It's one of my all time favorite comedies and I think it's aged better than his other stuff. Oh my God! Oh my God! My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Asian gang or something... There was this guy, he looked Asian... and he was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... Asian. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 9, 2018 13:27:26 GMT
It's already been covered several times in this thread but yeah, it was just darker than Carrey's previous work so people didn't know what to make of it. It's one of my all time favorite comedies and I think it's aged better than his other stuff. Oh my God! Oh my God! My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Asian gang or something... There was this guy, he looked Asian... and he was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... Asian. I still quote that line to this day. I love everything about that movie. The Stan/Sam background subplot, the basketball scene, Carrey's walk as he enters the restaurant in that insane disguise, scramby eggs, all of it. |
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 9, 2018 17:17:34 GMT
I haven't seen it in years but I remember that karaoke scene. Pretty hilarious. He definitely channeled Grace Slick perfectly...
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Post by jcush on Apr 9, 2018 18:17:01 GMT
I guess people just don't like Scramby Eggs.
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Post by darkpast on Jun 15, 2021 3:51:53 GMT
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 15, 2021 3:57:05 GMT
Because it was marketed basically as "Ace Ventura 3", so that's what people went into it expecting. Instead they got a much darker movie more akin to Scorsese's The King of Comedy with Carrey playing a mentally-ill creep. It wasn't the movie people expected or wanted to see Carrey in at the time so there was a backlash against it.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jun 15, 2021 6:52:31 GMT
His best film
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jun 15, 2021 11:09:16 GMT
I think it's great. An against type role from Jim Carrey, a dark comedy that we hadn't seen from him before. The whole Sam and Stan Sweet bit was hilarious and an obvious send up to the OJ Simpson trial.
Overall, it's a well made comedy movie. Ben Stiller should direct more often
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