Re: [NEWS] Jim Carrey in talks to play live-action George Jetson

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:23:31 +1300, Your Name <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 2025-10-16 15:36:19 +0000, Paul S Person said:
>> On 16 Oct 2025 02:39:29 GMT, [email protected] (Ted Nolan
>> <tednolan>) wrote:
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>> Your Name  <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> A Jetson's live-action movie was likely to be awful (although=20
>>>> The>>Flinstones live-action movies are probably the=20
>>>> few>>animated-to-live-action movies that actually get close to being=
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>>>> any>>good!) ... but, with the abysmal Jim Carrey in the lead role,=20
>>>> this>>live-action "The Jetsons" movie is 1000% guaranteed to be=20
>>>> utter>>garbage.  :-\
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>>> Jim Carrey is 63.  That's way too old to play a guy with an elemntary
>>> school kid.
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>> Apparently, the concept of "makeup" escapes you.
>
>These days it's more often CGI / "de-aging" software.

Indeed.

As, IIRC, I will see applied to Dr Xavier in /X-Men 2/ in a few days.

Well, if that's the one showing the recruitment of Jean Grey. If not,
it will be in /X-Men: The Last Stand/.

>> And also, perhaps, that of "acting".
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>Well, it *is* Jim Carrey ... he *can't* act. All he ever does is pull=20
>silly rubber-faces and shout a lot.  :-\

Actually, I've seen several films in which he does more than that.

/A Series of Unfortunate Events/, where he is mostly unrecognizable.

/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind/ may be another.

/Man on the Moon/ works well for me. Of course, this may be a matter
of how a really great director can get something unexpected out of an
actor.

/The Dead Pool/ has him playing a rock star with the stereotypical
behavior.

Even films that approach what you are talking about, like the Pet
Detective films or /The Mask/, show more than just silly rubber-faces
and shouting.

OTOH, /How the Grinch Stole Christmas/ did not work for me. But then,
most versions of that story don't work for me.
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