Jim Carrey denounces violence in Kick-Ass 2

[TigerClaw]

So Jim Carrey took to twitter to denounce the violence in the upcoming sequel to Kick-Ass and wont even support it no longer.
http://www.slashfilm.com/jim-carrey-cannot-support-violence-in-kick-ass-2-mark-millar-responds/

[The Stryker]

Good on him for standing by his morals.

[CyberCubed]

This movie is probably going to be terrible anyway.

[turtletoons81]

This movie is probably going to be terrible anyway.

i think so too since the look of the movie seems to follow more of the vol. 2 kick ass which is consider the worst vol in a comic ever mostly the nitorious rape scene by the motherfu**r

[Fourcylinder]

Just kinda seems like too little too late, considering he probably already got a paycheck.

[plastroncafe]

I was expecting his comments to be...well, not as well spoken as they were.
Good for him, I guess?

[ObiWanFan4life]

What can you expect from the director of Never Back Down.

[Candy Kappa]

Cannot support it, but totally get the paycheck. So, is he gonna donate the money away then?

[MikeandRaph87]

I respect him for his stance. Its just why not speak out against the self mutilation that his street magician character did in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone calling it magic?

[Jester]

Good on him for standing by his morals.
Yeah...like when he... you know... decided not to take the violent role.

[Peanut]

...and wont even support it no longer.

This made me laugh way harder than it should have.

[The Stryker]

Yeah...like when he... you know... decided not to take the violent role.


Because who ever heard of an unspeakable tragedy changing a person's views on something?

Crazy right?

[Jester]

Because who ever heard of an unspeakable tragedy changing a person's views on something?

Crazy right?
True, but blasting a movie that I'm sure provided a significant pay day seems ridiculous.
And here's hoping that that money went to "fight the good fight" because if it didn't his words are even more hollow.

EDIT: I guess what I'm saying is, if he believes this so strongly, he should have thought about it when he read the script. I mean this was before Sandy Hook....but after the July 20th Aurora theater shooting.

[Peanut]

One thing that should be noted is he didn't come out and put the movie on blast. He very simply said he'd feel wrong promoting it. I think those are two very different things.

[The Stryker]

Some things hit people differently.

You can't say that he can't be affected by one tragedy if he isn't affected by another.


One thing that should be noted is he didn't come out and put the movie on blast. He very simply said he'd feel wrong promoting it. I think those are two very different things.

This too. He even apologized for it.

[Shreddhead]

True, but blasting a movie that I'm sure provided a significant pay day seems ridiculous.
And here's hoping that that money went to "fight the good fight" because if it didn't his words are even more hollow.

EDIT: I guess what I'm saying is, if he believes this so strongly, he should have thought about it when he read the script. I mean this was before Sandy Hook....but after the July 20th Aurora theater shooting.

Im guessing the film depicts something a little closer to the Sandy Hook incident. The world has always been filled with terrible violence, but some events tend to hit closer to home, if you will.

[Hero]

Fair play.

[Bauer536]

My God. I'm tired of Carey making himself look like a fool. He's a good actor, and yet he bashes a film for its violence, and yet, he is playing one of the characters. Hypocrite. This is just like that Angus T. Jones "Don't watch Two and a Half Men" crap.:trolleye:

[Jester]

I...agree...with Bauer.

Oh lord....

[Bauer536]

I...agree...with Bauer.

Oh lord....

What do you mean, "Oh lord?" You didn't expect me to say that?:tconfuse:

[Jester]

No, it's just often I completely disagree with you.

[Bauer536]

No, it's just often I completely disagree with you.

Trust me. Everyone has their differences. But like I said, I've experienced this from Angus T. Jones' video. Sometimes, Hollywood is just filled with hypocrites. I'm surprised Carey didn't back down even if nothing happened at Newtown or the Cinemaplex in Nebraska. We still had VA Tech and Von Muar. He could've turned down the role to do something else.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

I'm wondering how closely the movie will follow the comics.

The comic depicted the villains shooting children. Fictional violence usually doesn't bother me if it has a point in the plot, but that scene made me stop reading the series because it was such cheap shock value. After the Sandy Hook shooting it would take a lot of nerve to leave something like that in the movie. I'm usually against censorship like that, but in this case it would be in really poor taste.

[Refractive Reflections]

True, but blasting a movie that I'm sure provided a significant pay day seems ridiculous.
And here's hoping that that money went to "fight the good fight" because if it didn't his words are even more hollow.

EDIT: I guess what I'm saying is, if he believes this so strongly, he should have thought about it when he read the script. I mean this was before Sandy Hook....but after the July 20th Aurora theater shooting.

I have to agree with Stryker here.
Sometimes tragedies, can affect people differently, based on the experiences of each person. So we can't really ask why the Aurora, Colorado shooting didn't affect Jim Carrey, but yet how could Sandy Hook? As Shreddhead pointed out, maybe there's a scene in the movie that parallels too close for toleration, in Jim Carrey's eyes.

In addition, Jim Carrey said that he played his role a month before Sandy Hook.

Carrey tweeted "I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to others involved with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart."


I would agree with your position Jester if Carrey was constantly condemning the film publicly to numerous media outlets, but here Jim Carrey merely tweeted why he's not promoting the film with the rest of the cast and crew (since the media would ask why because of his absence). So therefore I can't really say Carrey is hypocritical, but more or less distancing himself from it as he deals with his own evolving moral viewpoint. (Naturally, the entertainment news media and gossip sites are going to "blow up" this piece of information, making it much more vocal than what it actually is, to generate some form of attention.) So I'm not really concerned about where his paycheck is going from this film since he was a different person then, what would grab my attention is if he participated in movies with the same level of violence that paralleled the scenes he disliked in Kick-Ass 2.