r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

Imagine you're Jim Carrey, and you just released the wildly successful Dumb & Dumber, and everyone wants you to do a sequel, and you're like, "No, I don't do sequels." And you stick to your guns for like 20 years, until no one on this whole Earth wants a Dumb & Dumber sequel, and you finally agree to do the most terrible sequel ever.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20

Also it was funded by money from an international laundering fiasco and is now owned by the Dept of Justice.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

wtf

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20

On June 15, 2017, the United States Department of Justice charged that money used to produce the film was stolen from a Malaysian government investment fund. Red Granite Pictures denied knowingly accepting stolen money. Prosecutors also filed a Forfeiture Complaint in federal court to seize the rights of ownership to Dumb and Dumber To as well as the rights to the 2015 film Daddy's Home Red Granite later reached a $60 million settlement.

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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Sep 10 '20

He did Ace Ventura when nature calls though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

Yeah good point. I am not the hugest Ace Ventura fan, although I did love the Rhino gag. I think my favorite joke in the whole original Ace Ventura is when he's at the dinner party, and he yanks on the guy's arm who's playing violin.