Yeah "Everyone Says I Love You" - I wasn't saying Carrey was in it, but that's an example of people trying to make "feel-good movies" and failing. Honestly, the film was entirely forgettable to me and the only good thing about it was Tim Roth who actually made me feel SOMETHING while watching it. I'm not saying it was a crappy movie. Just ... not worth going out to watch, let alone buy to put on my shelf. There are a lot of such movies - one-timers that most people could live without. No, you won't scream at the screen or roll your eyes when you watch it, but you won't remember or care to remember much about it. At the point in life where I had not seen it, I said, should I, or shouldn't I? In order to support the film musical and to see how the stars did, I saw it. But other than that, there is really no reason to see it - for me.
HOLDEN!! Your take from the trailers - EXACTLY!! I haven't seen it either and that's EXACTLY it! I didn't have the name of the supporting actors or their characters or anything. I think the trailer I saw I wasn' t paying attention for the first few seconds so I missed the screenwriter melodrama but other than that, yeah. And:
WARNING: "The Majestic" spoilers below
Also there seems a bit of tension as to the townspeople sort of feeling - especially the older folks - that the original hero might really be dead but they "need" a hero and sort of gently coax themselves and Carrey into believing in the lie in order to restore badly needed hope to the town. Loved that bit you added about the imposter-exposer, betraying girlfriend, and dog - tha is so true! goes to show ya how used up those Hollywood conventions are.
Also there seems a bit of tension as to the townspeople sort of feeling - especially the older folks - that the original hero might really be dead but they "need" a hero and sort of gently coax themselves and Carrey into believing in the lie in order to restore badly needed hope to the town. Loved that bit you added about the imposter-exposer, betraying girlfriend, and dog - tha is so true! goes to show ya how used up those Hollywood conventions are.
And yeah, that commercial was just bad. I didn't actually ever think Carrey would do something like that.
And it's not about me not wanting to give Carrey a chance - i actually loved Ace Ventura (1) to death, enjoyed The Mask, and enjoyed Liar,Liar. For "feel good" I feel Carrey's talents are not capable of "forgetting the funny" and so the best way for him to make such a movie is to do it as he did with The Mask. The Mask was outrageous, yes, but also - about the little guy with a big heart who's put upon, the everyman, who people identify with. There are other ways to explore this venue. As for dramatic - Truman Show was still off-funny cuz he just can't shake that part of him - unless he is outright crying the man is usually adding some dash of his natural humor because, I honestly think he's MADE of it and you can't remove a limb so you USE it.
More power to him for trying, at least, with a powerful story like Andy Kaufman's. I don't know, it just feels like he made fluff and in so doing, isn't helping anyone. There's no creativity The Majestic. There's nothing new. In his comedy, there's burning creativity and humor, there's genius and madness and freedom. In Man on the Moon, which I haven't even seen, I'd assume there's burning creativity and talent and genius, too. But at least it's not cheesy fluff.
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Holden: "wrong thing"? Aren't we talkin' about exposing some damn dirty commies? 
Or did I miss something?
