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Posted: March 12 2011 at 14:18
Logan wrote:
Moogtron III wrote:
I do like Jim Carrey, didn't like him first, but his way of acting grew on me.
I like especially Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar and The Truman Show.
Robin Williams, I used to like him - not so much anymore these days. I do like him in Awakenings, but that was a more serious role.
I despised Jim Carrey until I saw the Truman Show, which I loved. And then Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind really won me over. A good director can get good perfomances out of him if they reel him in. No doubt his acting has improved over the years. Oh, and I liked the Majestic.
When I was biggest on Rowan Atkinson back in the the early 90s, I liked to draw cartoons with Jim Carrey being stupid unfunny and Rowan Atkinson pwning him.
I also lost interest in Robin Williams. I was never that big an appreciator, though I would tune into Mork and Mindy, and liked various movies he was in.
Williams did play in some interesting, ground breaking movies, like in the one he died and got into a heaven made out of paint etc., and the one where he played a child that had progeria, and looked like a middle aged man already at his 8th birthday. Still, it's a matter of taste I suppose, I lost interest. And with Jim Carrey, vice versa. I didn't see his other movies you mentioned.
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Posted: March 12 2011 at 11:24
Moogtron III wrote:
I do like Jim Carrey, didn't like him first, but his way of acting grew on me.
I like especially Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar and The Truman Show.
Robin Williams, I used to like him - not so much anymore these days. I do like him in Awakenings, but that was a more serious role.
I despised Jim Carrey until I saw the Truman Show, which I loved. And then Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind really won me over. A good director can get good perfomances out of him if they reel him in. No doubt his acting has improved over the years. Oh, and I liked the Majestic.
When I was biggest on Rowan Atkinson back in the the early 90s, I liked to draw cartoons with Jim Carrey being stupid unfunny and Rowan Atkinson pwning him.
I also lost interest in Robin Williams. I was never that big an appreciator, though I would tune into Mork and Mindy, and liked various movies he was in.
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 16:18
I used to like Carrey growing up - Dumb and Dumber, the Mask, Ace Ventura. Didn't like Bruce Almight though, so I probably wouldn't watch them now.
Never saw a whole lot of Robin Williams, but I remember liking him in Jumanji as a kid.
Basted on movies by each of them I've seen that I think I'd actually still like - Robin was in Aladdin, Jim Carrey in The Truman Show. So, equal I guess. XD
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 15:34
Robin's early stand up work and his Mork and Mindy stuff was pretty good. His style was based on improv and he was very quick. The movie Good morning Vietnam captured that side of him very well when he did his radio routines. I loved watching Robin and Johnathon Winters working together. It just seems though these guys lose their edge and then become unfunny by playing it too safe over time. As for Jim Carrey I find some of his stuff good and some of it very annoying. His one style of acting gets old.
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:35
True MOM, true. I still think that Williams is better than Carrey, at least is a more likable person. The other one´s entire act is based on moving his mouth and jaw and eyes and making stupid noises and voices. Only Dane cook is as bad.
Damn I think ROBBIE Williams might be better than Carrey...
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:21
Catcher10 wrote:
manofmystery wrote:
Jim Carey hasn't been really funny since Dumb and Dumber
Robin Williams has never been funny
The choice is neither
Really? You don't get it.......never heard of Jonathan Winters, Rich Little, Don Rickles...Robin is much more of an improv comedian than a funny actor. I think Jim tried it but knew it would not make him a millionaire.....improv is old school but done right its friggin hilarious. "Patch Adams" was a great movie and still Robin was able to do improv comedy in it...
Nanu-nanu wins it by light years....
The entirety of Robin Williams stand up is doing terrible accents and impressions and saying the F word every other word. He improvises, which is fine, if you have the ability to come up with something funny to say, which he never does. For some reason people find yelling in goofy voices and streaming profanity funny, in and of itself, and hence "comedians" like Robin Williams become huge. Style over substance, Dane Cook without the joke stealing.
Don't get me wrong, I see nothing wrong with profanity (its silly the value we give certain words) but you really need something to go with it.
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 11:30
manofmystery wrote:
Jim Carey hasn't been really funny since Dumb and Dumber
Robin Williams has never been funny
The choice is neither
Really? You don't get it.......never heard of Jonathan Winters, Rich Little, Don Rickles...Robin is much more of an improv comedian than a funny actor. I think Jim tried it but knew it would not make him a millionaire.....improv is old school but done right its friggin hilarious. "Patch Adams" was a great movie and still Robin was able to do improv comedy in it...
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 11:19
Snow Dog wrote:
What a load of tosh. The Mask one of the worst movies ever? You lie. Simply put. It isn't.
It´s really horrible. Carrey´s only movies I can stand without having stomach problems are Truman Show, Man on the Moon and... well, that´s about it.
I love slapstick (Leslie Nielsen type), love stand-up, love Seinfeld-type comedy, but can´t stand comedy based on faces and voices and annoyance like Carrey´s.
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