Remember when you LOVED Jaime?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jamie Kennedy
grinningpixie — 16 years ago(May 22, 2009 01:59 AM)
When did he become a joke? To his fans I mean. I remember absolutely loving him in high school. I saw Scream and thought he was the funniest thing, when he died in the 2nd one I was pissed and then was way excited for his small cameo in part three. As were all my friends. I don't know when it became cool to bash on him but I still love him. Everyone is a critic. I think he is funny! I saw his comedy show on DVD. It wasn't my fave but people were laughing. I'd say he might need to fine tune his act (or just that one, he probably has since that was made) but it was still funny. I just had to say something because I remember loving him so much as a teen and in my early twenties but slowly he became the butt of so many jokes and reviews. Unfair IN MY OPINION
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HopfrogsJest — 16 years ago(December 16, 2009 02:20 AM)
Uhmnope. I've never found the man to be any more than marginally amusing, and even then only very rarely. I've seen him on TV and in movies. IMO, he's just not particularly funny or clever.
I really don't understand how this guy still works in show business. Maybe I'm just too spoiled by the "funny" comedians and "talented" actors I see in other shows to appreciate his particular appeal. -
loves_secret_domain — 15 years ago(February 11, 2011 04:35 PM)
I agree with this comment wholeheartedly. He's as amusing as the class clown in highschool who tripped over himself for a few laughs. What once was good for a chuckle eventually begins to feel like rubbing sandpaper on a raw wound with a little rocksalt thrown in. Over time what you heard or saw isn't at all funny, but like verbal abuse to the ears, and daggers dipped in tobasco sauce for the eyes.
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lurch1234-1 — 16 years ago(April 06, 2010 02:19 PM)
I never really cared for him one way or another. He wasn't terrible in
Son of the Mask
(the movie was piss awful, though). I enjoyed the Jamie Kennedy Experiment. I even liked him in
Scream
. THEN, he came out with a documentary so he could cry about nobody liking him. That was when I really started to dislike the guy.
In any job you are ever in, people are going to dislike you, they're going to want to beat the crap out of you, and they're going to want you to die. I experience it at my job, as I'm sure everybody on this thread has the same experiences. So, people on IMDb want him to die. So what? In any business, when you provide a product that many consider to be sub-par, people are going to gripe and complain. It's nothing against you personally it's just people being pissed off.
So, for him to feel like he's being treated unfairly when people suddenly don't like him after he churns out work that many seem to be sub-par, he's acting immaturely. I'm sorry, Jamie. You need to grow up.
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ToneeRhianRose — 15 years ago(April 17, 2010 09:11 PM)
I
still
love Jamie! He's cute & funny & seems like a really nice guy. I watch him every week on Ghost Whisperer & any time Malibu's Most Wanted & Kickin it Old Skool comes on I watch them as well as others (those are just my 2 faves). I've loved him since I 1st saw him in his JKX show.
Tonee
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DrinktheCoolaid — 15 years ago(August 20, 2010 01:27 PM)
I think it was around the time I saw footage of him hosting a gaming platform at E3 and he just bombed. The footage which you can watch on youtube is so embarassing to watch. The only joke he made was calling gamers a bunch of virgins and the rest was just akwardness. That performance should be on an episode of the Office.
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alesisqs61 — 15 years ago(November 07, 2010 12:04 AM)
I just saw his recent standup from the OC 2010 and it started pretty bad but ended up getting really funnybut not as funny as Janine Garafalobut he's still got talent, you can see it.
Is what Janine has over him is that she's funny just talking and he needs solid jokes to really shine. However, when he shines, he shines bright. Jennifer Love Hewitt likes himso I doubt he cares what normal peons think of him
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JesseJamesDean — 13 years ago(March 04, 2013 02:44 AM)
The first time I saw Kennedy was in Scream as well. Really liked his character and thought he pulled it off with great acting. Then I caught one of his stand up shows and was totally blown away at how unfunny it was, mainly old and stale material; I don't recall laughing at all. And after seeing the documentary "Heckler", I saw that I wasn't the only one that thought that way. For me, it basically boils down to Kennedy being a decent actor if given decent material to work with, but needs to quit standup. I remember in Heckler he asked people if they were experts in the fields in which they criticized him, well I'm not a comedian, but I do know what makes me laugh. Put the dude in movies similar to, "The Hangover", "White Castle", or films where a quirky, humorous, nerdy character is needed and he'll nail it. Just my 2 cents.
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Dan_Harkless — 12 years ago(April 19, 2013 12:37 PM)
I think that both Jamie Kennedy (see his Experiment) and Tom Green were amazing at crazy-character-based filmed improv prank comedy, but that neither has much range outside that. Would love to see more of that kind of thing from either or both of them, if someone would give them a platform, but I have no desire, for instance, to see another minute of Tom's stultifying and presumably cancelled home-based talk show.
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omgjayde — 12 years ago(June 12, 2013 03:48 AM)
I've always liked him. He is extremely kind and personable, and can be very charming in conversation.
I adored him when Scream came out, but let's keep in mind I was in like the 7th or 8th grade, and I have always had a thing for socially awkward nerds.
I thought films like MMW and KOS were funny in the same vein as the Wayans Brothers "White Chicks". Randomly humourous movies with exaggerated characters that most people qualify as guilty pleasure comedies.
Anytime I have been in a group setting where either of those movies were playing, people found them to be funny. However, altered states of mind were commonly present at the time of viewing. Haha.
I did like his character in Ghost Whisperer, but I would classify my absurd love of Ghost Whisperer to be one of my great shameful secrets.
I have seen his stand up in the past, but honestly can't remember my reaction to it either way, but seem to recall thinking by his disheveled appearance, he looked like he was either using recreational drugs or depressed. Just something about his energy seemed sad.
I still like him, however, I think he has a very down to earth quality which reminds me of guys that I have known in the past.
Forever the kind of goofy, kind of awkward, kind of socially unpredictable, kinetic guy that isn't always perceived the way he'd like to be.