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The Truman Show - Let's nitpick.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 5/22/15 at 10:24 pm
1. What would the show do during Truman's teenage years when he was masturbating furiously?
2. Let's be real. No way they go into the detail like actually having a patient setup for surgery (amputation). The cost of having actors do thousands and thousands of scenes they would never need would add up.
Great movie. One of my favorites ever. Don't want to take away from that.
2. Let's be real. No way they go into the detail like actually having a patient setup for surgery (amputation). The cost of having actors do thousands and thousands of scenes they would never need would add up.
Great movie. One of my favorites ever. Don't want to take away from that.
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Posted on 5/22/15 at 10:34 pm to SwaggerCopter
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1. What would the show do during Truman's teenage years when he was masturbating furiously?
Same thing theybdid when he and his wife boned....panned away and played some music
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2. Let's be real. No way they go into the detail like actually having a patient setup for surgery (amputation). The cost of having actors do thousands and thousands of scenes they would never need would add up.
1. The entire world watched the show...money would never be an issue.
2. The actors were not just acting that out in case truman showed up. The director knew where he was at all times. truman goes to hospital...actors set up in surgery.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 10:39 pm to SwaggerCopter
Better question is what happens to Truman after he leaves
He's gotta be in a cabin somewhere with a long arse beard just living by himself for the rest of his days
He's gotta be in a cabin somewhere with a long arse beard just living by himself for the rest of his days
Posted on 5/22/15 at 10:40 pm to wildtigercat93
Nah. The girl comes to him for sure.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 10:45 pm to SwaggerCopter
there's no way he stays that well adjusted whenever he comes to the real world, dude would be all kinds of fricked in the head
Posted on 5/22/15 at 11:06 pm to wildtigercat93
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Better question is what happens to Truman after he leaves
He's gotta be in a cabin somewhere with a long arse beard just living by himself for the rest of his days
He's rich beyond the dreams of avarice, man. If ever a person could sue for a giant piece of a multi-billion dollar pie that was "The Truman Show" and all its merchandise, Truman would absolutely be able to. And as the most popular man in the world, what jury would rule against him? Truman would have enough to buy the entire set and rent it out to millionaires looking for the perfect gated community.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 11:15 pm to randomways
Sure, but he's gotta be frickin pycho
You don't just walk away from finding out your entire life was a lie. Not to mention the media converge that would still be all over him after he got out, and even with that disappearing eventually, when you go 30 years and find out that the whole worlds been watching your every move, do you every really believe that you aren't just in another tv show? Dude would be a paranoid skitzo easily, thus the cabin and long beard to try and be "secluded"
You don't just walk away from finding out your entire life was a lie. Not to mention the media converge that would still be all over him after he got out, and even with that disappearing eventually, when you go 30 years and find out that the whole worlds been watching your every move, do you every really believe that you aren't just in another tv show? Dude would be a paranoid skitzo easily, thus the cabin and long beard to try and be "secluded"
Posted on 5/22/15 at 11:19 pm to wildtigercat93
With that kind of money, he wouldn't be a psycho. He'd be a "character." A character with a Douglas Quaid-level schizoid embolism, sure, but that's why God invented marijuana.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 1:04 am to wildtigercat93
Watched it for the first time last night. After years and years of hearing how great it was, I was a bit let down. I can easily see how people love it though.
How serious is it supposed to be? I think I was too hard on it because I took it too seriously.
How serious is it supposed to be? I think I was too hard on it because I took it too seriously.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 1:16 am to ReauxlTide222
I always think of it as a more light hearted version of the Matrix.
However, the point of the movie is dead serious.
However, the point of the movie is dead serious.
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Posted on 5/23/15 at 1:32 am to TejasHorn
I feel like it should have been, idk, darker. The idea of the show is horrifying to me. But half to the movie was really lighthearted and goofy. And the single most interesting thing about the movie was what the hell is this guy gonna be like when he figures all of this out? But we'll never know. I guess 5 hour movies are looked down upon
Posted on 5/23/15 at 1:43 am to ReauxlTide222
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Watched it for the first time last night. After years and years of hearing how great it was, I was a bit let down. I can easily see how people love it though.
How serious is it supposed to be? I think I was too hard on it because I took it too seriously.
This is pre-Eternal Sunshine Jim Carrey. Aside from a possibly-misguided attempt at dark humor in "The Cable Guy," Jim Carrey wasn't doing anything that was supposed to be that serious at the time. They cast him for a reason -- there were oodles of ridiculous situations, opportunities for a bit of slapstick, and a nebbish everyman persona to hold it all together. It's not "Ace Ventura." Rather, it's about on par with "Bruce Almighty" or "Liar, Liar," a comedy that nevertheless has some serious undercurrents.
It certainly serves as a social critique. But the story itself is as much a comedy as a drama. More, really, given that everything that happens outside of the Truman world is pretty much pure satire. It's not supposed to be a prediction of how things would work in the real world but an over-the-top situation that makes a pointed but not overly serious commentary on the trajectory of modern media and celebrity culture.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 7:40 am to randomways
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a possibly-misguided attempt at dark humor in "The Cable Guy,"
What? The Cable Guy is probably his most revered work to date. It nailed it's genre and is a great tight-knit movie. Many consider it Carrey's best movie from that suite of movies in his career for this reason.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:13 am to ReauxlTide222
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And the single most interesting thing about the movie was what the hell is this guy gonna be like when he figures all of this out?
Yes it is interesting but in the same way Darth Vader's origin WAS interesting. It's fun to speculate about but if some greedy piece of shite decided to make an actual movie about it then it would ruin it.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:14 am to wildtigercat93
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He's gotta be in a cabin somewhere with a long arse beard just living by himself for the rest of his days
Probably somewhere around the Finger Lakes
Posted on 5/23/15 at 11:47 am to Pectus
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What? The Cable Guy is probably his most revered work to date. It nailed it's genre and is a great tight-knit movie. Many consider it Carrey's best movie from that suite of movies in his career for this reason.
Yep. Easily my favorite Carrey movie.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 12:49 pm to wildtigercat93
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Better question is what happens to Truman after he leaves
He's gotta be in a cabin somewhere with a long arse beard just living by himself for the rest of his days
Great movie. I demand a sequel.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 5:58 pm to Pectus
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What? The Cable Guy is probably his most revered work to date. It nailed it's genre and is a great tight-knit movie. Many consider it Carrey's best movie from that suite of movies in his career for this reason.
Really? I'm honestly puzzled. Maybe time has led to a re-examination and re-evaluation, because it was widely panned, and, imho, rightly so back then. Of course, I haven't watched it since I was much younger, so....
Posted on 5/23/15 at 7:05 pm to randomways
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Really? I'm honestly puzzled. Maybe time has led to a re-examination and re-evaluation, because it was widely panned, and, imho, rightly so back then. Of course, I haven't watched it since I was much younger, so....
Yeah, I remember it getting shite on from many directions. Watching it now, I don't feel it was competely deserved, but I could definitely see people back then suffering from Jim Carrey fatigue. A similar thing happened with Will Ferrell recently.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:01 pm to LucasP
Hell' the director trying to wreck his boat, that's not a crime?
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