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Can someone explain Steve Carell to me?
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 04, 2006, 02:58:16 pm ---Will Ferrell looks to me like he's trying too hard, even when he's not even moving.
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Ooh. GOOD call. (And not at all in an endearing, Jack-ish way, either.)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 04, 2006, 02:58:16 pm ---Among the legion of movies I haven't seen is The Wedding Singer. How was Adam Sandler in that, I'm wonderin'?
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I haven't seen it either. But I've heard that of all the typical Adam Sandlerish movies, that's his best one.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 04, 2006, 01:59:36 pm ---Steve Carell's character is so annoying and buffoonish and insensitive and clueless and self-centered and un-PC and unwittingly sexist and racist and cowardly and obnoxious and, yes, smug that you laugh at him. Not with him, at him. ... Carell's character is basically repulsive. Yet there's also this tiny little grain of dorky vulnerability and well-meaningness that makes you not entirely hate him.
In last night's show, for example, I loved when he was giving the filmmakers (for those who haven't seen it, the premise of the show is that it's a documentary being filmed by an unseen camera guy and interviewer) a know-it-allish tour around Manhattan, boasting about what a great city it is and how at home he feels there, and every single thing he said about the city was incorrect.
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See, somebody that fatuous, I just want to slap. I might pity him a little bit. ... I hope. I also don't care for that documentary premise, but that's another issue altogether.
--- Quote ---I like all the other characters, too. I'm always sad when it's over.
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Tell you what, that tall guy with the shaggy blond Dutch-boy haircut and the biggish nose, he's kinda cute.
--- Quote ---(I like Earl, too -- the two shows complement each other really well.)
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Earl? He's kinda foxy. ... ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 04, 2006, 03:29:35 pm ---Tell you what, that tall guy with the shaggy blond Dutch-boy haircut and the biggish nose, he's kinda cute.
Earl? He's kinda foxy. ... ;D
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Agreed on both.
delalluvia:
Yeah, I don't get him either.
I watched his show once and squirmed so much, I was shocked to realize I was bored. Same thing happened when I happened to catch 'Scrubs' by mistake. I sat there thinking "People think they're funny? This show has been on for years!' I didn't think they were funny or even decent actors at all. It was painful to watch.
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