Every Jim Carrey Movie Ever

Jim Carrey is my favorite actor and NOT because of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think I dubbed him my favorite actor after seeing The Truman Show many many years ago. After his appearance on Inside the Actor's Studio, I've decided to watch every Jim Carrey movie ever. This is something I plan on doing with Keanu Reeves in the future also.

Here is a list of movies I will be watching:

Copper Mountain

Once Bitten

Peggy Sue Got Married

The Dead Pool

Earth Girls Are Easy

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

The Mask

Dumb and Dumber

Batman Forever

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

The Cable Guy

Liar Liar

Simon Birch

Man on the Moon

Me, Myself & Irene

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Bruce Almighty

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Number 23

Horton Hears a Who!

Yes Man

A Christmas Carol

I Love You Phillip Morris

Fun With Dick and Jane

The Truman Show

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Originally I decided to only watch movies where he is the primary or secondary character but I said fuck it, I'll watch all of them just so I can say I watched them.

There are a few movies I left out of the list:

Finders Keeps

Pink Cadillac

The Majestic

Since I'm one of the only people in this country that loves movies and doesn't have a Netflix account, I have to somehow rent Finders Keepers and Pink Cadillac. The others I was able to obtain via the information super highway.

As for The Majestic, I JUST watched it at the end of November so it's still pretty fresh in my mind.

I think I'm going to try and write something about them. This is a promise I may not be able to keep. I have very little desire to write anything that's not in screenplay form.

Movies for the week of 10/17/10 to 10/23/10

Today is Monday and here are my movies for the week of 10/17/10 to 10/23/10. I found myself not watching many movies this week. 

Catfish (2010)

This movie received so much hype. I honestly hadn’t even heard of it until the 2 brothers appeared on Ellen a few days before it was released. I didn’t even bother looking at the trailer. I know a bunch of people were trying to tell me about it without spoiling the end. I couldn’t help but compare this movie to talhotblond. Both movies basically have the same premise of a budding relationship that occurs online. But both movies are made completely different. Catfish follows the characters and talhotblond is telling the story after the fact. I ended up giving both movies the same score but I think I like talhotblond a lot more. It had a better more interesting story. LOL the internet! 6 out of 10

Movies for the week of 10/10/10 to 10/16/10

Today is Monday and it’s been a great week in movies for me. Here are my movies for the week of 10/10/10 to 10/16/10

Future By Design (2006)

I can’t even begin to really explain this little documentary. It’s deeper than it seems. Future by Design is about Jacque Fresco this futurist and engineer who designs these crazy and amazing things. He has these fantastic ideas that are all on such a grand scale. There is no doubt that, with the proper funding, many of these concepts can be pulled off. He has patented and created many inventions but his true passions seem to lie in these ultra-modern modes of transportation and living. What I love is that he was asked to invent a method of viewing 3D without glasses in the 60s and he did. But when you moved your head, the image became blurry. The studio wanted him to fix the problem. He said he could if he was funded. They said make it first and we’ll fund you more. So, it was never made. I just sit back and wonder how different movies would be if he did indeed invent it. And then, there's the Venus Project. I watched Zeitgeist2 last week and mentioned the Venus Project. I’d only heard about The Venus Project in passing before watching that movie. Jacque Fresco, leader of the Venus Project, is interviewed in Zeitgeist 2. At the time, I had Future by Design at the ready and had no idea he’d be interviewed in Zeitgeist 2 so that was a HUGE coincidence. I can’t even begin to explain what the Venus Project is and its Wikipedia page does it no justice. His designs are awesome, his theories are awesome, and the idea of these self-sustaining cities is awesome.  8.5 out of 10

Movies for the week of 10/3/10 to 10/9/10

Hello world today is movie Monday and these are the movies I’ve seen for the week of October 3^rd to October 9^th 2010.

Zeitgeist 2: Addendum (2008)

 To those unfamiliar with The Zeitgeist Movement or The Venus Project, both focus on the need for sociological and economical change in America. The movies, Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist 2: Addendum, help propel the awareness by informing its audience of the atrocities set forth by their government. I saw the original back in 2007 and liked how it focuses on the many myths in history that have brought about the story of Jesus and I also liked it’s talks on the Federal Reserve. However, I didn’t like the whole section on how 9/11 was an inside job and the supposed formation of the North American Union (which was cut in a later version).  Zeitgeist 2 picks up where the first one left off going into more about the Federal Reserve and the over saturation of the government. Like its predecessor, it gives a wealth of information that should leave the viewer wanting to do a bit of their own research. I liked it and it is informative but some of the information is questionable and should be taken with a grain of salt. 7 out of 10

The Game (1997)

I love David Fincher and after seeing The Social Network, I wanted to see The Game because it’s the only Fincher movie I’ve never seen. It’s a great movie with an awesome story about a man who becomes involved in a giant game. While watching it, something clicked. I realized that I HAD seen the movie already as a kid. I was able to name every event that was going to happen next which disappointed me. The movie wasn’t disappointing. There are enough twists and turns to keep me interested but this movie is just ok to me. It’s not my favorite Fincher movie. 6.5 out of 10

Amphetamine (2010)

I hate watching independent gay movies because most of them suck. But I hadn’t seen a gay movie in a while so I took this time to watch a couple. I watched Amphetamine because I liked  Permanent Residence also written and directed by Scud (who has an awesome pseudonym). Like Permanent Residence, Amphetamine is about 2 gay guys living in China. Permanent Residence had this charm to it while Amphetamine had this charm with a bit of chaos mixed in. The story was whatever. It was sweet but the actors really make the characters unlikable. The redeeming factors of Scud’s movies are that they’re well shot and show these beautiful urban Chinese landscapes. 5.5 out of 10

American Psycho (2000)

Psychotic Christian Bale. Enough said. Jason took the liberty of writing a review for me. I didn’t ask but I didn’t object either. Jason seems to think I lack the confidence to write a movie review but that’s not the case. 7.5 out of 10

The Curiosity of Chance (2006)

Again, I felt like watching a gay movie despite their history of crap. This movie had teenagers, drama, and European accents. All things I love. This movie is in English and is about an American boy but takes place in Belgium. The acting isn’t the best and the story was a bit predictable but Chance, the main character, was such a likeable character and with his group of silly friends, they made this movie was fun. 7 out of 10

Monsters (2010)

I was THIS close to writing up a decent review for Monsters but I’m much better writing why I hate something then why I like something. Monsters was made on a $15,000 budget! After watching this movie, that fact blew my mind. Director and writer Gareth Edwards is a genius in my eyes. It doesn't have the highest production but it looks like it could maybe cost at least a million dollars. This movie is a monster movie but it's more of a “realistic” monster movie.  It has a “mumblecore” feel meaning with its shaky cam, super low budget, realistic dialog, and beautiful composition.  I really liked that this wasn't some over the top monster movie. It was about as minimal as a monster movie could get. This movie makes me want to make movies MORE now than I ever have before. I think people are taking the movie’s “message” a bit too far in the reviews though. This is a must see! 8.5 out of 10

Crazy Love (2007)

Crazy Love is a documentary about a guy who blinds a woman by throwing acid in her face and then marrying her years later. This is a very average documentary shown with interviews and pictures but the story is crazy. I like movies about crazy people. And, even more so, I like documentaries about crazy people. 7 out of 10

Quiet City (2007)

I think I have a love/hate relationship with mumblecore movies. They’re usually a bit pretentious, full of hipsters and annoying dialog. But, at the same time, they’re beautifully shot, the dialog is real, and the situations a very real. The problem I seem to have with many of the mumblecore movies I’ve seen is that they are so real that they’re fake. It’s like the dialog and the acting becomes so realistic that it goes right back to being manufactured. That may not make a lot of sense. But it’s how I see it. I like minimalism and simplicity and that’s why I love mumblecore. But it just seems like so many mumblecore movies are trying so hard to be hip and with it and I hate that. This movie was just another mumblecore movie. I only watched it because I liked the description for it. It wasn’t until I started watching it that I realized it was mumblecore.  4.5 out of 10