It's surprising how good Ace Ventura Pet Detective is.

I was young when it came out and we'd all repeat lines from the movie like "Do not go in there," etc. but I don't know if I saw it when it first came out because I was in elementary school. I saw the second Ace Ventura and didn't like it so much. But I watched the first one for maybe the first time though I remember watching it before but it was such a long time ago. I love watching these gems from my childhood especially when it turns out to be a genuinely good movie.While what I remembered was Jim Carrey just acting really silly, he actually was a good detective and the movie put together a convincing scenario about a missing animal with high stakes, and the plot itself wasn't actually silly. I'm a Bama fan and we've been cursed with shitty kickers for a long time, and as a fan I'm just pissed off at how they miss easy field goals, but this movie made me think about what it's like for them. Obviously in college it's not as high stakes as the NFL but these kids do have to give up their dreams when they perform so poorly. Must be absolutely devastating being responsible for a Super Bowl loss. But then it's like, yeah we've had these holders position the ball wrong and that is actually why the kick goes wrong. So while it really was Marino's fault of course the crowd is going to squarely blame the kicker.I can imagine how that would really drive the person insane, all that misplaced hatred they feel, but also feeling that it's cheap to blame the holder for a bad kick even though it could be true. I don't watch many sports movies, but Ace Ventura was a really compelling sports movie. Better to focus on the legion of losers in the world than the select few winners.and of course the physical comedy of Jim Carrey is in a league of his own. LMAO it's hard to make me laugh because I have a peculiar sense of humor and movies like Naked Gun just seem stupid to me when it's just a series of stale jokes, but Carrey's comedy is fresh, new, even though the movie's old. That scene in the mental hospital where he acted out a play in slow motion had me cracking up, and then he acted out the scene being rewinded just perfectly lmao and I was laughing the whole time. Not many movies can make me laugh this hard.Damn Carrey was on fire back in the 90s. Ace Ventura is definitely at the same level as The Mask. Are there any other of his movies from that time that shined like that? via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2ZaDACD