XPost: rec.arts.animation, rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-16 15:36:19 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   > On 16 Oct 2025 02:39:29 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan   
   > ) wrote:   
   >> In article <10cpd9s$1urn$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >> Your Name   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> A Jetson's live-action movie was likely to be awful (although   
   >>> The>>Flinstones live-action movies are probably the   
   >>> few>>animated-to-live-action movies that actually get close to being   
   >>> any>>good!) ... but, with the abysmal Jim Carrey in the lead role,   
   >>> this>>live-action "The Jetsons" movie is 1000% guaranteed to be   
   >>> utter>>garbage.  :-\   
   >>   
   >> Jim Carrey is 63.  That's way too old to play a guy with an elemntary   
   >> school kid.   
   >   
   > Apparently, the concept of "makeup" escapes you.   
      
   These days it's more often CGI / "de-aging" software.   
      
      
      
   > And also, perhaps, that of "acting".   
      
   Well, it *is* Jim Carrey ... he *can't* act. All he ever does is pull   
   silly rubber-faces and shout a lot.  :-\   
      
      
      
      
   > Part of the magic of movies is seeing actors (successfully) playing   
   > characters you would never expect them to be able to.   
   >   
   > Although I would agree it is easier to do this the other way around:   
   > young actor, old character -- as in /Scrooge/, for example.   
   >   
   > And, anyway, he could be a 63-year-old with a grade-school grandson.   
   > You may be ignoring the way stories can change as the film is   
   > developed.   
      
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