Is Ricky Gervais becoming Jim Carrey? Posted by Gargleman

Gervais’ new movie, The Invention of Lying, is a bit gash, apparently. Even Empire magazine gave it just one star, and their reviewing scheme seems to be:

1*= Awful
2* = Any basically functional film
3* = The death of narrative cinema and quite possibly the worst two hours of your life.
4* = Good
5* = An overlong bloated remake that’ll have your arse sore by halfway through, but that we gave five stars to anyway because the effects were pretty and we like the director.

Just imagine – Empire think that The Invention of Lying is two whole stars worse than Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

How can it possibly be that bad? By that rationale, The Invention of Lying must be a little bit like having your nuts roasted over an open fire while watching all of your friends and family tortured in front of you by Simon Cowell dressed in a particularly revealing thong.

Or slightly less terrible than Liar Liar.

Which brings me back to my point.

High concept films where the concept breaks down almost immediately, which the star has to publicize by posing like a proper cunt on the poster, should be reserved for people who have already been really famous and rich and are willing to be in conceptual comedy wank because they’re getting tens of millions of dollars for selling their soul – i.e. people like Jim Carrey.

I doubt Gervais got the payday of the century for The Invention of Lying. But then, seeing as Gervais likes to remind us of how much he makes from you buying copies of The Office on DVD every time he’s on the telly, maybe I should think twice.

Who’s the real cunt? Is it me, writing this post on a blog read by nine people, or is it Gervais, with his millions earned by acting like a cunt all the time?

Yes, its me.

p.s. – for all of my Empire slating, they did point me to the best YouTube mashup trailer of all time:

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