Liebe Amerikaner, are you finally allowed to see this?

[uwe]

I did. It's a great flic.

[exiledarchangel]

I love you Jim Carrey.

[Dave W]

I can't get it to play right now, but if it has Jim Carrey in it, I won't be watching it.

Now that he's split from the crazy woman who spreads lies about autism and vaccines, maybe he'll shut up about that.

[Barklessdog]

The role actually seems to fit him. Good choice for his career.

[uwe]

I have reservations about most of Carrey's acting too, but he does well in this movie, playing the role of a flamboyant gay man with a brilliant mind and an ability to deceive everyone very credibly. Ewan McGregor's role of "the wife" in the gay relationship is great too, he portrays how a woman acts and feels in a relationship with someone (s)he loves, but can't really control note-perfect. The film is a mix of Brokeback Mountain (but more life-affirming), Catch me if you can (but more tragic and less plodding) and Raising Arizona Junior (but more deep). See it.

Uwe

PS: As for the real Steve Russell: 144 years of high security prison and solitary confinement is OTT IMHO even for a compulsive fraudster, impostor and prison escapee. The guy needs a therapy and a closely supervised probation more like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Jay_Russell

[eb2]

Hey, he was playing hide the salami with Jenny McCarthy for a year.  I would have been swayed too.  He is a decent actor.  I tend to find his comedy too over the top.  Being a Canuck he is sadly more Red Green than Kids In The Hall.

[Barklessdog]

I enjoyed his Charlie Kaufman & Sunshine of the eternal heart?

[Chaser001]

That was on in the Netherlands when I was over there during the summer.  The previews looked really funny.  I thought about going to see it.  I had no idea it hadn't played in the U.S. until I read this thread.

[Muzikman7]

Some actors I can watch doing almost anything because I enjoy watching them work, but I never liked Jim Carrey's acting. There is a movie with him starring (I don't rember which) and at the end the various actors talked about working on the film, one of his co-stars said something to the effect that Jim had a tendency to over act and step on the others lines. I agree.

[Highlander]

I enjoyed Bruce Almighty...

[Pilgrim]

I'm good with Jim Carrey, but to me Will Farrell is just about unwatchable.  Something about his brand of idiocy just rubs me wrong.

And I'm no Adam Sandler fan, although I did enjoy Happy Gilmore.

[Chaser001]

I've liked most of the Jim Carrey movies I've seen, and think this one might be good, too.

[gweimer]

Some actors I can watch doing almost anything because I enjoy watching them work, but I never liked Jim Carrey's acting. There is a movie with him starring (I don't rember which) and at the end the various actors talked about working on the film, one of his co-stars said something to the effect that Jim had a tendency to over act and step on the others lines. I agree.

Probably Liar, Liar.  He was actually decent in that film.  In the outtakes, there's a shot where Swoosie Kurtz is in his face, and just blurts out, "blatant over-actor!".  The whole set, including Carrey goes into hysterics.

I generally don't like Carrey much, but I have found him good in certain roles.  I liked The Mask, Ace Ventura and The Grinch (yeah, sue me).  He seems better as a fictional character than an actual actor.  I *hated* him in The Man In The Moon.

[Highlander]

...  I *hated* him in The Man In The Moon.

Andy Kaufman was a person most people either loathed or hated... one million green bottles, standing on a wall, for real, at a show, was a bit to left-field over in the next State for most folks... I have never seen the movie but I'm told it was a very truthful portrayal of Kaufman's life, so...

[gweimer]

Yeah, Kaufmann was a love/hate thing, too.  I thought, as is Carrey, he was better in a character role than being himself.  I thought he was funny in Taxi, even when the Tony Rome thing came in.  The episode where he's about to tell Alex all the things that are core to his life, and then flips back to Latka is pretty funny.  As far as his stand-up stuff, the funniest thing I ever saw him do was on the old Dick Van Dyke variety show.  Lip synching to an old Annette Funicello record was about as funny as he ever got in my book.