Friday
05Sep2008
Movie Trailer - Jim Carrey's 'Yes Man'
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 10:01AM
I didn't care for the first trailer for
Jim Carrey's
Yes
Man. True, a lot of that is because I don't care for Jim Carrey. Nothing worse
than a guy who used to succeed when he tried to be funny but now only tries
harder to be funny and doesn't succeed.
Pay no attention to the date at the end of the trailer
(unless you live in Australia). If you're in the states, the release date for
Yes Man is
December 19th.
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Reader Comments (7)
I'd say the last good Jim Carrey comedy (comedy/drama?) was Eternal Sunshine, which was 4 years ago; Truman Show wasn't meant to be a comedy (maybe a drama with a bit a melancholy or something)...and oh yes Zooey D should be a bigger star (can we exchange her level of fame w/Kate Hudson somehow?)! ;P
Ok, did you see Zooey Deschanel in that Sci-Fi Channel original movie/mini-series Tin Man? She was freakin' awful. Not that it was a great piece of cinema...but she was so dead, monotone (and not just in voice). I've never been that impressed with her anyway, but she's always been an acceptable little indy queen. But man...was she ever horrible in Tin Man.
Her presence in Yes Man....not a draw for me.
The problem is they're not really looking for a Zooey type like they were three or four years ago. She's the pretty offbeat girl, but those roles are all for teenagers now. I didn't see Tin Man, but I heard it was lousy. I think she's good, but her limitations are pretty pronounced. She's not terribly versatile.
I wouldn't say Eternal Sunshine was a comedy, not a "Jim Carrey" comedy. Neither is The Truman Show, really, but it's got more of him in it than Sunshine.
Agreed....she's not versatile. And when she's cast in something that fit's her limitations, she's good. Possibly playing the re-vamped Dorothy was too much of a stretch for her. And she is cute. Just not made for roles that involve high drama.
Her father's a brilliant cinematographer, though, if that helps.
She may have her limitations (I don't know if we need her in mainstream duds like The Happening ;( ), but that can be said by too many mainstream actresses these days (like one about to co-star w/Dane Cook, just saying)...
I only have one Jim Carrey movie in my personal collection of DVD's and it is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Great peice of celluloid, that.