"You might wanna put on your trunks, 'cause you'll be channel surfing in no time": Three reasons as to why I think "The Cable Guy" is one of Jim Carrey's best films.

You know what I really don't like? People who give a lot of shit to actors who play a role that we, the audience, have gotten comfortable with, and now see them playing a totally different performance, receive a lot of grievances for it. I understand, that change may be good or bad, but why are we so conservative when it comes to situations like that? I've never liked being conservative, which is why sometimes I'm so self-destructive, but in the end remaining conservative, or playing it safe, is just downright annoying. One example is this; I hate staying at hotels that give me that "being right at home" feeling. Excuse me Embassy Suites, I left my home so I would not have that "at home" experience. 

Usually we think that acting isn't that much of a job because all they're doing is talking in front of a camera, but in reality it's a lot more than that. Actors really put themselves out to deliver a great performance, all in the name of entertainment. One actor/director is Jackie Chan, who has literally risked his body and life by engaging in life-threatening stunts, all in the sake of our own entertainment, so when we give shit to actors for their performance, if it was at least any good, it's just a slap to the face. A certain actor who has had to deal with our criticisms for a specific role is Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy at first as Ernie "Chip" Douglas, then changes to Larry Tate and then finishing it by naming himself "Ricky" Ricardo of the TV show I Love Lucy.

One main reason I have in mind is because of Jim Carrey's performance as an antagonist. I really enjoy majority of Jim Carrey's movies because he is an amazing actor. Unlike most other comedians, Jim Carrey can actually star in serious dramatic films as well but when have you caught a movie where he perfectly plays the villain?

But then again, isn't he already insane?

Please, answer me that. Honestly, when have you seen Jim Carrey actually play a psychopathic character? We never see him play an honest mentally deranged role? I mean, we've watched him play his cooky, moronic self as the antagonist in Batman Forever, the Riddler, but it just wasn't right. In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but he fucking sucked as the Riddler. You, Jim Carrey fanatics can blow me for all I care, but that was not the Riddler, the criminal mastermind we all know and love from Batman: The Animated Series or even the comic books. Truthfully, he reminded me of the campy Riddler portrayed by Frank Gorshin, but the problem is that those Batman series were funny, while this was supposed to be an action movie... it was meant for kids so go figure. Also, that was just watching Ace Ventura dye his hair orange-red and wear a green jumpsuit. I can admit, I enjoyed it as a child, but when I watch those Batman movies without Michael Keaton, I feel like slapping Warner Bros. for making such horrible movies. If he could've portrayed the real Riddler, not that joke Schumacher made him play, he could've been a great villain.

Another reason why I believe this movie is one of Jim Carrey's best is because of the amazing cast that was involved working in this movie. Various of actors played an incredible part in the movie such as protagonist Matthew Broderick, Jack Black, Leslie Mann, Owen Wilson and of course Ben Stiller. This cast works great throughout the movie and even helps the flow of it because there really isn't much of a back-story to them but unlike most side-characters that you know nothing of them, it's pretty much given away. Ben Stiller's characters especially as twin brothers Sam and Stan Sweet. He's not really a main character, but is a part of a publicized trial of the murder of his twin brother. I really like his connection to the movie because everybody is involved into watching this murder trial that even the cable guy states "I hope they fry this bastard", or something like it.

One last reason as to why this is one of Jim Carrey's best is because... hell, it's Jim Carrey! Is there really another reason? Well... yes, there could be many more reasons but I'm not going to spend my entire time writing about it being that I'm limited (not really, I'm just lazy). Let me continue, it's Jim Carrey! Come on, he's proved countless of times that he can do really good comedy and drama movies so think about it. In reality, it's not that it's him, but the transition of characters that he did from Ace or the Mask but this adjustment fit real well for the movie. Why it got bad reviews is beyond me because this performance demonstrated an improvement of his career but it obviously backfired which it really shouldn't have.

To end it all, we have yet to see, Jim Carrey, play a good villain in a movie. This here, will be the closest we can get to see him take on the role of a great villain and yet act like himself and be funny to an extent. Don't mention The Number 23 I swear 'cause now that was a horrible movie! If you really want to see him in a bad movie, go that way, but don't drag me with you. Anyway, that's all I have to say for the moment. If you'd like to continue talking about it or mention a good or bad quality of the movie just mention it in the comments below.

Thanks for reading!

P.S.

I'm uploading an album by Fifteen right now! It should be done in ten minutes and I'll be back here to post them in an instant!

The "Nolanized" Bane.

To pop my blog's cherry by posting an actual post, let me converse with you about the viral news that struck like lightning this morning to Christopher Nolan's Batman universe. Finally, an image of Tom Hardy as Bane in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises has been released!

People were in shock!

Macauly did the same reaction when he saw Michael Jackson for the first time

People cried!

I know Dawson, I feel you man... I feel you! We understand each other!

And of course, guys worldwide jizzed all over their girlfriends with joy!

I know I would but unfortunately my girlfriend doesn't approve of such acts so I had to do it on a napkin

As a Batman fan, I know I could sleep at night safely knowing that Christopher Nolan has pleased and filled my spank-bank once more, but unfortunately it's going to be the last time he will be directing a Batman movie. On a fun note, although he won't direct another one, rumors say that he will be writing the next movie's script that will lead to a Justice League movie. Avenger's rip-off anyone? Such a Dreamworks vs. Pixar thing to do.

But to tell you the truth, I am slightly disappointed. Now, I know you'll be saying "But dude, you're still gonna watch the movie," of course I am! However, a single drag isn't a calamity folks! See, I'm a bit bitter as a result of the image that was released of Tom Hardy portraying Bane because of the mask. Everyone knows that Bane's mask is the staple of Bane other than "I WILL BRRRREAK YOU!" I mean, come on! Who doesn't love a guy who dresses up as heavy-duty, dominatrix gimp? I am very upset, and due to that, I had a pretty well pre-conception of how Bane's appearance would be which is as demonstrated:

The image on the right is the way Bane is animated in the comic books. Now, I am completely aware that movie directors and costume designers can't make a comic book character completely real without having to use CGI and in this case, Christopher Nolan is trying to make everything as real as it can possibly can... no CGI. Being that situation, I can understand how this brings complications, but that's not the case. You don't have to make the character look as that abortion that Joel Schumacher wiped his ass with in Batman & Robin as an excuse to call it Bane. You don't have to do that, but can you at least keep the mask? Recent images have demonstrated Tom Hardy to be very muscular and bulky so you can witness it yourself that he's clearly done his homework but now he's not the problem... the costume is the problem. I only hope that the costume keeps increasing to be fearsome, 'cause from what was released this morning I have to say... he just looks ridiculous, not menacing.

This next image is Tom Hardy on what happens to be, the Bane costume? If that's the Bane costume, I can't wait to see how Catwoman looks like... it better just be bra, that's all I can say. Now, we're too early in the production of the film to actually say this is the final incorporation of Bane's attire, but fanboys, come on! This is really stupid to make a big deal out of. If you thought that this post about Bane was supposed to be all about this image... well it sort of is, but it's for you to just shut the fuck up! Now not entirely to shut you up, I'm only going to analyze this image. 

To start it off, the mask sucks! First of all, he looks like a modern Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs and all he needs left is little tiny binoculars in his eyes and dreadlocks and he'll look like Kabal from Mortal Kombat. I really hope Christopher Nolan adds a few touches later into the film because this looks a bit dull. Maybe, just maybe, this is an image of him in the prison Peña Dura, thus the image actually just being an early form of Bane. If you look at it closely, he has marks down his spine. If they're Tom Hardy's actual scars then I may be wrong, but they could be marks from the tubes pumping the venom serum. If you keep looking even closer at his legs (I wish I had a way to zoom in on an image), he seems to be wearing a faded out black, close gray, and white pants. This brings my theory of him still being in prison to be true (I hope). Other than that, I just don't like the mask and I'm going to wait for more images to be released.

Ryan Reynolds, you should be ashamed of yourself! Learn from Tom Hardy!

 

Now like I said, they're trying to keep their distance far away from CGI as possible so I'm pretty sure that Tom Hardy will have to eat more fats and proteins and continue hitting the Bowflex to keep his body heavy but I know that they'll give him boots in the end to make him taller. Long-story short (you're probably telling yourself "after an hour of reading later, dick!"), I am still very excited for The Dark Knight Rises because Bane is one of my favorite villains. I do happen to own the Knightfall series so I hope that they try to at least use those series as an influence.


In conclusion, I know that Nolan will give all of his heart and cojones (I mean of course, that's what you get when you make a deal with the Devil to be a great director) to get this movie to be the best it can and with this cast of course he will! What, we got Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway. There's even rumors that Dr. Hugo Strange will be involved in this as well so our loads over our girlfriends will be even stickier. I'd say, leave your comments on what you think but unfortunately, nobody has yet to subscribe or follow or whatever the fuck you wanna call it but I'll let you know... there will be severe consequences to hate-comments.

I..... WIIIILLLLL

Thanks for reading!

P.S.:

If we survive the destruction of the world tomorrow May 21st, 2011, then stay tuned for my next posts! I want to share my views on the Fright Night re-make; talk about the current state of Nickelodeon television; a few video games that have tickled my fancy (and other things); The Amazing Spider-Man movie and I also want to hold some opinions on A.F.I.; and share some music from Fifteen, Propagandhi, Against Me and Mineral!