Dreamgirls: smash hit?

Freelance Hack · Dec 8, 2006

Columbo said:

Freelance Hack said:

BYH said:

Murphy's not winning the Oscar. If the Academy can't get past Jim Carrey talking out his ass, it sure as hell won't give an Oscar to the guy who made "Norton my friend how would you like to fuck me up the ass?" part of the lexicon for anyone 35 or younger.

That, and Pluto Nash. And the transvestite thing. Not in that order.
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Mizzougrad96 said:

The difference with Carrey was that he was such an overnight success doing something that the Academy thought was beneath them with movies like Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber etc... People have said that the Academy has black-balled Tom Cruise because they don't like his antics and think that things have come too easy to him... I don't know if I believe that, even though I thought Cruise should have won twice, for Born on the 4th and Magnolia...

Murphy has made more than his share of bad movies, but he's paid his dues...

Carrey should have been nominated for Truman Show and Man in the Moon.
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Jim Carrey is a lot like Robin Williams in many ways.

Williams should have won for at least one of the following: Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society and/or The Fisher King. He didn't because he was a comic or at least perceived to be nothing but a comic. In fact, he was a very talented actor.

His award for God Will Hunting, while deserved, really was more of a career achievement.

Carrey should have won for The Truman Show or Man On The Moon. How he didn't win for the latter still is shocking because he became Andy Kaufmann in that film.
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No.... no.... no.....no

Jim Carrey did a dead-on mimic of Kaufman, but his name has never deserved to be within five zip codes of an Oscar nom.

Williams, despite his mugging attempts in some dramas, definitely deserved for GWH.

And Murphy deserved ... something... for the dinner scene The Nutty Professor.
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What Carrey did for Kaufmann was way better than the lisp Philip Seymour Hoffman added to his normal voice to become Capote. And yet, Hoffman walked away with an Oscar.

And if Murphy deserves an award for anything it was his barber shop scene in Coming to America. Saul would kick the ass of any of the women he played in The Nutty Professor.

Double J · Dec 8, 2006

Freelance Hack said:

Columbo said:

Freelance Hack said:

Jim Carrey is a lot like Robin Williams in many ways.

Williams should have won for at least one of the following: Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society and/or The Fisher King. He didn't because he was a comic or at least perceived to be nothing but a comic. In fact, he was a very talented actor.

His award for God Will Hunting, while deserved, really was more of a career achievement.

Carrey should have won for The Truman Show or Man On The Moon. How he didn't win for the latter still is shocking because he became Andy Kaufmann in that film.
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No.... no.... no.....no

Jim Carrey did a dead-on mimic of Kaufman, but his name has never deserved to be within five zip codes of an Oscar nom.

Williams, despite his mugging attempts in some dramas, definitely deserved for GWH.

And Murphy deserved ... something... for the dinner scene The Nutty Professor.
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What Carrey did for Kaufmann was way better than the lisp Philip Seymour Hoffman added to his normal voice to become Capote. And yet, Hoffman walked away with an Oscar.

And if Murphy deserves an award for anything it was his barber shop scene in Coming to America. Saul would kick the ass of any of the women he played in The Nutty Professor.
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But....but....Philip Seymour Hoffman has a BFA!! He is a CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ACTOR!!!!! :

imjustagirl2 · Dec 9, 2006

Fuck anyone who trashes PSH in Capote. That is NOT his normal speaking voice.

Plus, PSH is a big guy. How he played small in that movie impressed me.

RokSki · Dec 9, 2006

imjustagirl said:

Fuck anyone who trashes PSH in Capote. That is NOT his normal speaking voice.

Plus, PSH is a big guy. How he played small in that movie impressed me.
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Note to self: Playing small impresses IJAG.

imjustagirl2 · Dec 9, 2006

Playing small. Not being small.

dooley_womack1 · Dec 9, 2006

I've seen Jim Carrey do enough good drama (Maple Drive, Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine) to give him some credit for his chops. I haven't seen Man on the Moon, so I can't judge that one.

RokSki · Dec 9, 2006

imjustagirl said:

Playing small. Not being small.
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Touche, touche. These are things I write when the mood strikes me.

Columbo · Dec 9, 2006

dooley_womack1 said:

I've seen Jim Carrey do enough good drama (Maple Drive, Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine) to give him some credit for his chops. I haven't seen Man on the Moon, so I can't judge that one.
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He's awful and muggy.... every time.

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