XPost: rec.arts.animation, rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:23:31 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   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".   
   >   
   >Well, it *is* Jim Carrey ... he *can't* act. All he ever does is pull    
   >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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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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