The Cable Guy (1996)
A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences. (imdb)
Country: USA
Directed By: Ben Stiller
Written By: Lou Holtz Jr.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Jim Carrey, Jack Black, David Cross, George Segal, Leslie Mann, Andy Dick, Eric Roberts, Diane Baker
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1. Black Comedy (public: moderated by Dorkovsky - 26 stars)
2. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
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Carrey is impressively disturbing and disturbed with Broderick similarly convincing in his rejection of the unhinged Carrey.
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Carrey took a real risk playing such an unlikeable character at peak fame, which gave him the opportunity to tap into the darker undercurrents of his manic screen persona, fashioning an unusually aggressive but strangely sympathetic black comic turn as a lonely man whose tenuous grasp on reality was formed by parental neglect and media overload. While mass media critiques were common in the 90's, this stands out because the critique was snuck through the backdoor, and Carrey really goes for it.
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This is another classic with Jim Carey. This cable guy stalks a guy and he doesn't leave him alone. All sorts of funny things in this movie like. The password is Sex and the guy doesn't want to say that word in front of his parents. Or when he pretends it's Star trek and he's basically doing sound effects of when Kirk and Spock fought.
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While conceptually I'm on board with the idea of mining humor from playing a comedian's wacky act terrifyingly straight, this is way too unsubtle to successfully pull it off. In particular, the presentation of the "moral" at the climax made me audibly groan in displeasure. Only a few jokes land, the rest being indistinguishable from Carrey's normal antics.
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I've caught snippets of this film on cable, but never managed to watch all of it until now. The Cable Guy hinges itself on Carrey's performance as the unhinged titular character. For the most part, I quite enjoyed the constant movie references, slapstick and over-the-top faces, even if it dipped into annoying territory once in a while. Broderick works well as the sympathetic straight man. I particularly like Carrey diegetically humming a tune and the score delivering it. The ending felt rushed.
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Docked somewhat for a hellacious ending. I think Ben maybe got a bit carried away throughout...and the scenarist was similarly ambitious. So, although there are moments when the weird sense of menace evidently intended is conveyed, in the end it all seemed like way too freakin' much. Still, Broderick gets a lot of credit for doing what he could with a most thankless task indeed.
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