Wow. Like someone watched Being There and said but what if it was a horror movie.
So it appears theyâre doing Liar Liar, but not doing Devilâs Advocate, Jagged Edge, or Presumed Innocent.
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SighâŚ
Gross
I enjoy Liar Liar. Even if Jim Carreyâs character definitely lies while trying to keep his assistant from walking out when he yells, âI didnât understand the question!â The roast in the boardroom is quite entertaining. Iâm in for a Rewatchables of it, though as always that hinges on who the panel is.
Of course, as Jim Carrey movies go, it should be said that society as a whole owes an apology for not recognizing how great The Cable Guy was. Iâm left to assume that audiences everywhere staggered out of the theater muttering angrily about the total absence of poop jokes.
I definitely did not enjoy The Cable Guy when I saw it in theaters. But Iâm also not a huge Carrey guyâI didnât really like Ace Ventura and never had any desire to see the Mask. Looking at the Rotten Tomatoes site, the rankings seem about right. Wasnât he the highest-paid actor in Hollywood at one point? That seems nuts to me.
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Thatâs awesome.
For me, Liar Liar was the movie that solidified Jim Carreyâs potential as a dramatic actor. I felt like he did so much non-goofy stuff in it that it was easy to trust his performance in whatever he did next.
Made by Tom Shadyac, who also directed Jim Carreyâs breakout hit Ace Ventura.
But Tom Shadyac had a terrible bicycle accident circa 2007 that left him with post concussion syndrome and the realization that he had to make a drastic change in his life. He tells the story in his documentary I Am.
He sold all of his material possessions and dedicated his life instead to philanthropy and education. He taught for years at the University of Boulder Colorado. He still teaches at University of Memphis.
After a long long long drought, he returned to filmmaking aligned with his new ethics by coordinating with the Innocence Project to make Brian Banks (2018), a movie based on the true story of a high school football linebacker who was falsely accused of rape, convicted, sent to prison and upon his release, attempted to fulfill his dream of making the National Football League.
Ace Ventura to Liar Liar to Brian Banks actually makes a lot of sense as a character arc when you put them in that order 
Same. I loved Carrey on In Living Color, and his standup special was great. But Ace Ventura never made me laugh. Cable Guy was good.
LOL at Simon Birch.
Bar none, the biggest disappointment Iâve ever experienced in a movie theater. Probably my favorite novel, converted into absolute trash. I am legitimately angry right now just thinking about it.
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You wanna get nuts? Letâs get nuts.
He actually married (briefly) the redhead he was pointlessly pursuing in Dumb & Dumber!
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I havenât come close to seeing that whole list, but I would certainly rank his catalog differently.
As his comedies goâŚ
Great: Dumb and Dumber, The Cable Guy
Really Good: Liar Liar
Good: The Mask
Whatever: Grinch, Bruce Almighty
Pretty Bad: Ace Ventura 1
Abject Garbage: Ace Ventura 2, Me Myself & Irene, Fun with Dick and Jane
I donât really like most of his non-comedy work, except for Eternal Sunshine which was really good. I donât get the Truman Show hype, and I gave it a second watch just to see if I was wrong the first time. The Man on the Moon was just okay for me, even though I recognize that he performed well in it. Batman Forever was a miss.
I am not mystified at how big his star got for a time. I get it. I think heâs a really talented dude.
Reviews like that spared me from ever giving it a chance lol. You could argue that movie is the reason Joseph Mazzello didnât have a bigger career after Jurassic Park.
Fun with Dick & Jane slander ITT. This is secretly a Judd Apatow joint!!
The bank robbery scenes are hilarious.
Tea Leoni deserves an academy award for being married to David Duchovny at the time. Not her best work, which imo is actually Spanglish (2004) with Adam Sandler and Paz Vega and directed by James L Brooks.
Spanglish is an excellent food movie for fans of The Bear!!! You can tell Adam Sandler legit loves to make meals for people. Lots of long takes with him very casually working the kitchen.
The slander stands. Definitely agree on Spanglish though. Just in the last week or two I stopped to look up that delicious-looking fried egg sandwich he makes during the movie (and horrifyingly has to abandon right before eating in order to have a conversation or something) just to see if I could properly replicate it. Havenât actually gotten around to the âmaking itâ part though.
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Spanglish fans ITT!
I just remember Sean Fennessey hating this movie. I only now realized he actually posts brief reviews on Letterboxd, so thatâll be a fun rabbit hole to go down now that all of social media is dying.
For Spanglish:
I cannot recall another character as unsympathetically drawn as Tea Leoniâs Deborah Clasky. There are Bond villains with more humanity. Itâs just a bizarre choice in a movie with a lot of problems made by people who have done and know far better.
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Ever since the Rewatchables made a joke about the bully kids hanging out in convertibles, I see it everywhere now: Back to the Future, Stand By Me. Feels like there was another one.
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I need to rewatch Back to the Future so that I can properly listen to that Rewatchables. Havenât seen it since I was a kid. I remember I basically liked it, but I also remember I went around school pushing my hot take that Teen Wolf was better.
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Same, just watched it, enjoyed it more than I expected.
The Rewatchables said Zemeckis wanted to cut the Johnny B. Goode scene at the end, but test audiences said it was their favorite scene. I think it works so well for my generation because you just spent the last hour with kids from the 1950s (our parents), and you could really sense how much that sound might just blow their minds. When I was a kid growing up, 50s rock nâ roll was always around in the background, but it just felt old. Back to the Future kind of brought it to life for me.
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