I love The Truman Show. Let me rephrase that. I LOVE The Truman Show. I have now decided that it is one of my all-time favorite movies, and that the obsessive-compulsive demons that live in my head must now create a list of my all-time favorite movies.
So, um, let’s see… The Lord of the Rings, the Star Wars trilogies (yes, trilogies plural; I like the prequels), The Matrix movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, Spider-Man, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure…
must… stop… ocd…
Back to Truman: it desperately needs a new DVD release with an anamorphic video transfer–and a lightsaber scene. Do you hear me, Paramount? Do you?
The actual movie is good in and of itself, and would be fine with just the premise and some average Joe Actor, but Jim Carrey brings a life to it that I don’t think any other actor could. He’s just so good and likeable and bloody amazing. I watched The Cable Guy a few nights ago, and the talent and range this guy possesses is astounding.
Also of note is the astounding number of “s”s the word “possesses” possesses. Maybe it’s possessed. But I digress. Oh, what a mess. I kill me.
Seriously, It makes me want to go watch the other Carrey movies in my collection: The Majestic, Dumb and Dumber, and The Grinch. It makes me want to go to Wal-mart right this minute and buy Batman Forever, which as a bonus contains appearances by Tommy Lee Jones and Drew Barrymore.
But it’s 3 in the morning, and I’m sure my wife would notice if I started yelling “I’m Batman!” in the middle of the night.