Posted by BrianLynch at client-151-198-146-20.bellatlantic.net on December 23, 1999 at 01:29:58:
In Reply to: Milos and Jim could suck my dick posted by Malcolm Load on December 22, 1999 at 23:48:56:
I think the only thing wrong with Carrey playing Kaufman is that he's a more famous face than the person he's impersonating, so it's hard for the audience to see anyone else but Ace Ventura. That said, I don't think anyone else could have pulled it off as sweetly as Mr. Carrey. It's just that if this were his first film I wouldn't have been going, "dude, that's THE CABLE GUY" the whole time.
And was it me or did it bother anyone else that Carrey and Pig Vomit (the dude from PRIVATE PARTS who played Bob Zmuda in MOON) were so physically different from each other, yet they could "seamlessly" interchange themselves as the same character? At least the real Kaufman and Zmuda had the same body type. But maybe that's nit-picking.
It was an extremely entertaining movie that actually gave some insight into the guy's head. He didn't know what was funny to people, he just knew what made HIM laugh. Speaking as someone who loves him the comedy, it was fun to watch a guy make himself laugh (and sometime nobody else) while the whole world watched, confused as Denise Richards when she hit upon a really big word in the TAIL LIGHTS FADE script.
Malcolm, I usually totally agree with your movie reviews ("I don't care what the critics say, WILD WILD WEST kicked MUCH MUCH ASS, eh!") but I gotta veer off from your opinion here. If you want the real Kaufman, you can still go rent his shite (or watch it on TV, God knows it's been playing a bit too much lately on cable, and I've seen all of it, sadly). And I don't think that anyone that watched the movie would call Carrey's performance "cuddly". 'Cept for you, and I'm hoping cuddly has an altogether different definition in Canada.
"Everybody involved in this film should be ashamed."
Now you're just being silly. But still so very sexy.