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"The Cable Guy" ---A Comedy Classic that the Critics Hated
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| December 25, 2008
| PJ-Comix
Posted on 12/25/2008 11:17:04 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Love The Cable Guy. It was actually the film that made me give Jim Carrey a second look. I hated the Ace Ventura/Mask slapstick stuff. Cable Guy was darker, edgier and made the audience palpably uncomfortable.
Right up there with my all-time favorite black comedy: Neighbors with Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi. Another film that was panned by critics and audiences, but still has developed a loyal cult following.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:41:41 AM PST
by
RepoGirl
("I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Sea beams glittering at the Tannhauser Gate.")
To: EGPWS
Remember the bathroom fight done to the tune of Dizzy Gillespi bebop music?
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:41:54 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
To: PJ-Comix
Thats right - I forgot about the prologue.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:44:30 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: aruanan
Even the sub-plot with the Menendez bros. type trial was hilarious. Plus it worked in perfect at the end.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:45:33 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
To: Krankor
“You’ve got honey in your voice tonight, Raul”.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:45:39 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: RabidBartender
I liked Matthew Broderick in Lion King and in LadyHawk (minus the cheesy ‘80s syntesizer music).
To: PJ-Comix
Remember the bathroom fight done to the tune of Dizzy Gillespi bebop music? I don't recall.
I'll have to watch it again. : - D
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:51:40 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: RepoGirl
Here's the
VIDEO of Jim Carrey performing "Somebody To Love." BEST karaoke performance ever!!!
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:56:44 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:58:21 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: PJ-Comix
I loved it. Jim Carrey should have been nominated. He threw himself into that great role and I do not think I wll ever recover from watching the Kareoki night song.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:03:05 PM PST
by
Niuhuru
(I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
To: PJ-Comix
ZOMG. This is freakin’ GENIUS.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:05:50 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Xenalyte
Ah Xenalyte! Have you seen "The Cable Guy?" I know you will LOVE the medieval restaurant fight scene done to the tune of Star Trek danger music. Watch the
VIDEO.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:09:20 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
To: PJ-Comix
"We need an amulance over by the scaaa-fol-diiing..."
The shots of the party guests are just genius. Love the old man throwing punches.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:09:23 PM PST
by
RepoGirl
("I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Sea beams glittering at the Tannhauser Gate.")
To: PJ-Comix
This might have been a classic with a more subtle comedian like Michael Keaton. Carrey is over-the-top to the point of pain. Same goes for “Liar, Liar”.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:18:38 PM PST
by
Dionysius
(Jingoism is no vice.)
To: PJ-Comix
Never.
But it’s the VERY FIRST THING I will do on my week off, starting tomorrow.
Trust.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:20:38 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: PJ-Comix
To: olereporter
expert, voted Dumb and Dumber the funniest movie of all time. Cant see it. I would have voted for Airplane, but what do I know? Movies are a personal taste and you like what you like.
________________
I would vote for Animal House or the military movie Andy Griffin and Don Knots played in.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:22:03 PM PST
by
Radl
(rtr)
To: Xenalyte
Check out this
VIDEO which has several hilarious scenes from "The Cable Guy" concluding with the basketball scene. I just now laughed to tears watching the latter scene.
BTW, since you are into Renaissance festival stuff, I'm surprised you never saw this movie before since it has a great part in the medieval theme restaurant.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:24:44 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
To: ovrtaxt
I agree about Raising Arizona. Its outrageous, over -the- top hilarity for most of it was also deftly anchored in a real and serious thesis on “baby love” and the desire of people to have children, which made the last few minutes, narrated by Nic Cage as he envisions the life he and Holly Hunter might have had, tremendously moving. Just sublime. By far the best few minutes the Coen brothers ever committed to film. But of course, only to be undercut by the VERY last moment of the film, where he says.....”but maybe it was Utah”.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:28:37 PM PST
by
supremedoctrine
("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
To: PJ-Comix
I have never seen the movie but loved that clip.
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posted on
12/25/2008 1:12:35 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair! Star Wreck In The Pirkinning......)
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