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i know, didn't carrey promise that he would always do comedy?
i saw the theatrical trailer for this and yeah, it was all given away, which is why I didn't go see it.
it's really bad when in the commercial they show a blurb of Jim as if in an interview (maybe it's a clip) saying how he wanted to make a simple "feel-good" movie for America. Maybe it's tied to the Sept 11th thing but obviously they began work on this way beforehand. He's already given us The Truman Show, Liar,Liar - he's done plenty of "feel-good" and doesn't need to make any more.
Not that they're bad movies but he ... or maybe the ones he picks ... fall a bit short. It's not like his acting sucks even, it's just that ... he is not a presence that makes you forget he is funny. Even when he cries, looks depressed, or forlorn. You never forget that, cuz even in the Truman Show, without even TRYING he was funny, funnier, I'm sure, than the light touch of humor they wanted to add to the darker story beneath.
There's a weird overall cheesiness when he goes into the mode of "feel-good" movie. Like that movie, i forget what it's called, the one where the kids are in black and white and then everything goes to color? that recent one?
i think, to some extent, people are craving the innocence and purity of Hollywood films from 1920-1960 but we cannot recapture that with most modern actors or screenwriting now. The writers, actors, and directors are, of the majority, not capable of it, I don't think. Only the extremely talented could write such a film and make us buy it.
I think the only place that we come close is with film noir. We saw what WoodyAllen did to the musical - his attempt and it was like so much smoke - didn't capture much of anything and was an entirely useless visual experience. The film world cannot capture things like that anymore. The best place to see a musical now is on stage. ANd the best place to see the magic of a 1920s-1960's movie is to go to the video store and get an oldie.
I guess I just feel Hollywood can't do it, and when I see things like The Majestic... I know a kid would buy it. But no one else would. I don't, really. But I don't say they give up. Just that it's gonna take some evolution or change to ever be able to capture that kind of thing and sell it so we enjoy it and want to see it.