Looks friggin amazing, the animation style is perfect for the book.
For those not familiar with Dick, a teaser:
Bob Arctor is a dealer of a lethally addictive drug called Substance D. Fred is the undercover narcotics agent assigned to tail and eventually arrest him. To do so, Fred has taken on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor…
hey now,
go easy. there are two big time box-office comedic dipshits who, in my mind, have earned exactly one free pass each (a commendation higher than the Oscar in some circles) because of their excellent work in movies that were not exactly the stuff of a July 4th weekend blockbuster release.
Adam Sandler for “Punch Drunk Love”.
Unfortunately he wasted no time in having that free pass revoked with his follow up work in everything from Mr Deeds to 50 First Dates to Spanglish to The Longest Yard. No, I haven’t seen any of them, nor do I think I need to in order to levy such a decision, punk-ass bitch.
-and-
Jim Carrey for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”.
Aside from the occasional instance where his otherwise obnoxious “talents” were wisely directed toward the role (regression into a little boy, etc), I actually (thankfully) forgot I was watching Jim Carrey up there.
To be fair, he, too, has long since had his free pass revoked in favor of a “Beat-Down Coupon” (redeemable at any time for one free beat-down), but I just needed to make a point:
Keanu has earned NO free passes. And quite to the contrary, he has amassed STACKS of beat-down coupons. Jeeezus, by the time the Matrix trilogy was over with, I had to go to 24-hour press just to be sure I printed enough of them. No matter how good this movie is, it probably won’t dig him out of the Keanu-sized hole in which he’s lived for decades (Point Break?!?!?!)
So before we go all cuckoo on Jim Carrey, let’s not forget what we’re dealing with here…
I loved “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, but mostly I loved it for the Charlie Kaufman script and Kate Winslet (and to a much lesser extent, the ELO song in the trailer); Jim Carrey’s part, honestly, could have been played by anyone with the capacity to mope deeply, i.e., even me.
I would like to submit the seen-by-no-one movie “The Gift” where he plays a abusive douchebag husband:
You could have me there, but I wouldn’t know it. Not because I didn’t see the movie, but rather because I did, and found Cate Blanchett so excruciatingly fetching that I couldn’t even tell you who else was in it. Two of my favorite things in the whole world are Cate Blanchett and Podunk, USA low-country, back-woods MILFs, so you can imagine the rapture it was for me to see Cate Blanchett’s portrayal of none other than a Podunk, USA low-country, back-woods MILF. Keanu could have played a cross-dressing dentist who rode a pig-drawn chariot around town and stacked chocolate donuts on his cock and I probably wouldn’t have remembered it. I say “probably” because there is always the chance that I would have been waiting for something to go down between Ms Blanchett and the pig. OK, bad example….
“Keanu could have played a cross-dressing dentist who rode a pig-drawn chariot around town and stacked chocolate donuts on his cock and I probably wouldn’t have remembered it.”
Also you must not have seen “CockStackers”, “CockStackers 2: Jelly Donut Junction”, and “Robert Rodriguez Presents: CockStacker Kids in 3-D”, because those were pretty memorable, let me tell you.
February 20th, 2006 at 4:39 am
In a word: “whoa”
Looks friggin amazing, the animation style is perfect for the book.
For those not familiar with Dick, a teaser:
Bob Arctor is a dealer of a lethally addictive drug called Substance D. Fred is the undercover narcotics agent assigned to tail and eventually arrest him. To do so, Fred has taken on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor…
I won’t spoil anymore.
February 20th, 2006 at 8:19 am
I’m just pleased that Jim Carrey is not involved.
February 20th, 2006 at 10:27 am
hey now,
go easy. there are two big time box-office comedic dipshits who, in my mind, have earned exactly one free pass each (a commendation higher than the Oscar in some circles) because of their excellent work in movies that were not exactly the stuff of a July 4th weekend blockbuster release.
Adam Sandler for “Punch Drunk Love”.
Unfortunately he wasted no time in having that free pass revoked with his follow up work in everything from Mr Deeds to 50 First Dates to Spanglish to The Longest Yard. No, I haven’t seen any of them, nor do I think I need to in order to levy such a decision, punk-ass bitch.
-and-
Jim Carrey for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”.
Aside from the occasional instance where his otherwise obnoxious “talents” were wisely directed toward the role (regression into a little boy, etc), I actually (thankfully) forgot I was watching Jim Carrey up there.
To be fair, he, too, has long since had his free pass revoked in favor of a “Beat-Down Coupon” (redeemable at any time for one free beat-down), but I just needed to make a point:
Keanu has earned NO free passes. And quite to the contrary, he has amassed STACKS of beat-down coupons. Jeeezus, by the time the Matrix trilogy was over with, I had to go to 24-hour press just to be sure I printed enough of them. No matter how good this movie is, it probably won’t dig him out of the Keanu-sized hole in which he’s lived for decades (Point Break?!?!?!)
So before we go all cuckoo on Jim Carrey, let’s not forget what we’re dealing with here…
February 20th, 2006 at 10:34 am
I loved “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, but mostly I loved it for the Charlie Kaufman script and Kate Winslet (and to a much lesser extent, the ELO song in the trailer); Jim Carrey’s part, honestly, could have been played by anyone with the capacity to mope deeply, i.e., even me.
I would like to submit the seen-by-no-one movie “The Gift” where he plays a abusive douchebag husband:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0219699/
…as perhaps Keanu’s free pass.
~jeff
February 20th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
You could have me there, but I wouldn’t know it. Not because I didn’t see the movie, but rather because I did, and found Cate Blanchett so excruciatingly fetching that I couldn’t even tell you who else was in it. Two of my favorite things in the whole world are Cate Blanchett and Podunk, USA low-country, back-woods MILFs, so you can imagine the rapture it was for me to see Cate Blanchett’s portrayal of none other than a Podunk, USA low-country, back-woods MILF. Keanu could have played a cross-dressing dentist who rode a pig-drawn chariot around town and stacked chocolate donuts on his cock and I probably wouldn’t have remembered it. I say “probably” because there is always the chance that I would have been waiting for something to go down between Ms Blanchett and the pig. OK, bad example….
February 20th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
“Keanu could have played a cross-dressing dentist who rode a pig-drawn chariot around town and stacked chocolate donuts on his cock and I probably wouldn’t have remembered it.”
Obviously you didn’t see “My Own Private Idaho.”
February 20th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Also you must not have seen “CockStackers”, “CockStackers 2: Jelly Donut Junction”, and “Robert Rodriguez Presents: CockStacker Kids in 3-D”, because those were pretty memorable, let me tell you.
~jeff