John C. Reilly stole Will Ferrell's career - a Walk Hard thread

Jack White playing Bruce Campbell playing Elvis?

i knew this would be a morbius thread.

this doesn't sound very interesting

hahaha Jack White as Elvis? Paul Rudd as John Lennon?? this looks AWESOME. xpost

Don't know how good it'll be overall but I love the roasting of biopic conventions in the trailer, especially "Give him a minute son, Dewey Cox needs to think about his whole life before he plays," and Lennon going "With meditation there's no limit to what we can imagine."

I like Jake Kasdan, at least based on Zero Effect, Orange County was lame and I never saw The TV Set.

i am seeing this soon and i am stoked for it.

is he the son of lawrence?

xpost

yup

all is forgiven, morbius

preview was terrible

liking this movie might depend on how much you're entertained by stuff like this.

Come on Hitler, I'll buy you a glass of lemonade.

I hate biopics. almost as much as sports movies.

wow, can anyone even remember 'the aviator'? was there a single scene that stayed in the mind for more than a couple days?

yeah, the one where his room is full of jars of his own pee and covered in tape or whatever

i didn't want that memory.

cate blanchett scrubbed up nicely, but otherwise ech.

I hate biopics. almost as much as sports movies.

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, November 1, 2007 6:44 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

THEN PERHAPS YOU MIGHT LIKE A MOVIE THAT IS MAKING FUN OF BIOPICS

huh

Anyways, preview is not very good but unlike the sourpusses on this thread I will remain optimistic because it is a genre ripe for parody and I like a lot of the people involved. Thanks.

pre-empted as a critique of the Musician Horseshit Biopic by I'm Not There

previews are for shit, almost universally. anything with a plot: they tell you the fucking plot. comedies give you (watered down versions of) the most obvious jokes.

good point morbs: no-one has ever spoofed the musician biopic before.

i though the preview was funny

pre-empted as a critique of the Musician Horseshit Biopic by I'm Not There

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, November 1, 2007 6:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Who gives a shit?

(serious question)

im sure the existence of im not there will make the jokes in this goofy comedy much less funny.

ha xp

maybe I'm juvenile for laughing at "It doesn't say Cox unless I say it tastes like Cox!"

i thought the patrick duffy & elvis scenes were hilarious

one thing that i kinda lliek about this movie is that they're casting all the "famous people" roles rather than forrest gumping it or making up composite characters.

You can just say "Across the Universing it"

this looks fucking awesome. john c reilly kicks ass.
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for your health!

how can this fail?

http://cache.defamer.com/assets/resources/2007/11/dewey-cox-thr.jpg

this looks funny to me.

one thing that i kinda lliek about this movie is that they're casting all the "famous people" roles rather than forrest gumping it or making up composite characters.

-- s1ocki, Thursday, November 1, 2007 6:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

otm. paul rudd as john lennon!

I'd be more excited about this if I hadn't seen the TV Set, but I'm really psyched to see John C. Reilly go for this.

this is really fucking funny.

How funny we talkin? Funniest of the year kind of funny?

fucking end-of-year-lists mentality!

I'm looking forward to this more than anything else from Apatoworld this year.

this just sorta looks like a wayans brother movie to me so far...i hope im wrong.

no, they're not releasing Musician Biography Movie until next summer.

it includes a great spoof of 'dont look back'.

i really really want to see this so bad

Fully stoked! And John C. Reilly can actually act whereas Will Farrell is an embarrassment solid through.

the first ten minutes of the film shown here for free!!

http://movies.ign.com/articles/840/840333p1.html

"Dewey, I've been halved!"

That clip definitely reaffirms what a dull director Jake Kasdan can be and that the film is too high-concept to offer the kind of non-stop riffing "from the folks that brought you Knocked Up And Superbad" implies, but I laughed enough that I'll definitely still be checking it out.

I love biopic parodies. I've been wanting to do one about Abe Lincoln forever!

"Young Abraham Gironomo Lincoln, born to a family of poor immigrant grape-squashers in Illinois wine country, heads off to battle in the Civil War and comes home a war hero. Emboldened by his newfound celebrity, he starts on a campaign for the White House, running against John Wilkes Booth, an actor-turned politician. Musical score by The Aphex Twins."

basically my mind was warped by Yahoo Serious at a very young age

clarity!

"this is a particularly bad case of getting cut in half"

Will Ferrell was really good in STranger Than Fiction. dude can be funny he just picks bad material.

uh?

sorry I should have italicized what I was responding to:

Fully stoked! And John C. Reilly can actually act whereas Will Farrell is an embarrassment solid through.

This is not heresy and I shall not recant.

you don't have to....I will never watch Anchorman again

so is this funny?

His interview on Fresh Air was really good; they played bits of the songs which sounded excellent.

it's a treat

in my dreams you're blowing me...........kisses

So seeing this over the weekend.

that whole song is at once incredibly obvious and rofflicious. like most of the movie. jenna f is great.

i'm gonna beat off........ all my demons

i remembera few months before i saw the trailer for this, i thought, "WHERE is john c. reilly's lead role in a movie?! LONG OVERDUE" then... i saw this!

funny facts: i thought jack black was giovani ribisi. i also thought frankie muniz was fred savage in a time warp.

this is a pile of shit DO NOT SEE IT

the first ten minutes of the film shown here for free!!

How can I get those ten minutes of my life back?

if you thought the first ten were bad...

movie is 1997 snl unfunny

plus glib, reactionary, hates music

"The film is a saggy, oddly mean-spirited takeoff of "Walk the Line."" - strgn

I would consider this a plus.

movie is 1997 snl unfunny

Jim Breuer unfunny? Srsly?

Sometime I think there is nothing worse in life than Jim Breur.

I consider myself blessed, I don't recognize that name at all.

Jim Breuer is like nails on a chalkboard for me.

i remembera few months before i saw the trailer for this, i thought, "WHERE is john c. reilly's lead role in a movie?! LONG OVERDUE" then... i saw this!

Did no one else but me see this?

Good cast! I don't think I even heard of it.

this was incredibly uneven, though there were a lot of funny parts.

****POSSIBLE SPOILERS for you weenies***

First third and last ten minutes of this are great, but it sags HEAVILY in the middle. From right after Dewey discovers cocaine and meets Darlene right up till the rap video with the Walk Hard sample, total snore, lots of VERY unfunny bits. But the 35 minutes of this that are good make it worth seeing. Especially

***OK, this is a BIG SPOILER!!!!!! BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE*****

the WTF cameo by....GHOSTFACE!!!

No shit.

Getting tired of seeing he same eight comedic actors in every goddam movie, by the way. Jack Black, please take a vacation fer crissakes. Freaks and Geeks was great and Superbad definitely very good, but is Apatow gonna just, like, recycle the same five actors in every movie now?

'the film is more funny ha-ha than LOL' - New York Times

wait what?

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saying it "hates music" is a bit like saying 'airplane!' "hates commercial aviation".

The Dylan bit, or at least the song "Royal Jelly", is fucking great.

the music is great in this!

Those album covers should have been in the movie

This movie was great. Tim Meadows is surprisingly good.

lol, tanked

NATIONAL TREASURE OWNS!

Sorry NATIONAL TREASURE II: THE PRESIDENT HAVE HIDDEN STUFF EVERYWHERE AND NICK CAGE FINDS IT OWNS!

there's some funny stuff in this movie but a lot of it isn't very funny. and the songs aren't funny at all...i mean let's duet is okay but i was expecting some more jokes from that one.

the dylan nonsense song was pretty hilare.

i loved it.

aww shit this was such a fucking stinker. there were some laughs (everything with tim meadows). but you know it was SO FUCKING LAZY. the tunes were actually pretty bad-ass (except for the last song).

lol, tanked

-- omar little, Monday, December 24, 2007 11:40 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

4 MILL??????????????????????????????????????WWWWWWWWTTTTTTFFFFFFF????????

this was hilarious. i haven't laughed this hard at a movie in a while.

based on weekend box office, mods please retitle thread "John C. Reilly did not steal Will Ferrell's career"

dylan song was awes btw

COAGULATED PUMPKIN BREAD

"this is such a dark fucking period"

Haven't seen the movie yet, but this is pretty funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNeOyax79k

haha

this was incredibly uneven, though there were a lot of funny parts.

Pretty much. Some good laughs. Wouldn't need to see it again but I wouldn't mind hearing the songs (or at least a full version of the cover of Bowie's "Starman.")

you don't want no part of this shart

wait

"this is such a dark fucking period"

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:20 (Yesterday) Link

best bit

Wouldn't need to see it again but I wouldn't mind hearing the songs

Supposedly Reilly is doing a small-scale tour as Dewey Cox. Check your local listings.

I think my favorite line was "That was early Dewey, this is middle Dewey." The songs were OK but kind of the weak spot of the movie, most of them weren't very funny aside from "Let's Duet."

loved it. lazy funny comedy, just enough really good stuff to make it worthwhile. i look forward to seeing this again, but on teh w33d.

My favorite part was the first shot of the giraffe. I saw this all by myself and was LOLing like a psycho.

also the Brian Wilson period. "This song is... not good."

and all the flaccid penis, roffle.

that "backlash" thing was pretty great.

*clink* xp

ugh that 'backlash' thing felt longer than the actual movie, for so little payoff.

John C. Reilly + Will Ferrell:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/fa1420df1f

i thought this was funny. the brian wilson stuff and the dylan stuff was great.

saw it. fell asleep for 40% of it due to drinking halfa bottle of Devils Lair wine.

that 'green team' thing is shit. i lolled at 'backlash' though.

I haven't seen this yet either, but they played "Royal Jelly" on Fresh Air a couple weeks ago and I LOLed on the train like an idiot.

this is a pile of shit DO NOT SEE IT

I wish I had listened to this. There are a few good jokes but lots more jokes that fall flat and then are turned into tiresome running gags. Save it for DVD, if you must.

watched the 2-hour extended cut on dvd. liked it way better than the theatrical version. better paced and a lot of funny bits that shouldn't have been cut in the first place.

I dunno the fact that Disco Dewey got a whole era to himself didn't really work for me, there wasn't enough there to keep me interested. Though admittedly the same section feels much more rushed in theatrical.

Also: I CUT YOU IN HALF LIKE DEWEY COX

I laughed till I cried and then couldn't breathe toward the beginning, then had a 45 minute stretch there in the middle with nothing, then a smattering at the end.

You are WAAAY off man. I still believe Ferrell can come back, he's got it in him. John C. Reilly is just a pretender to the throne. Has he got the longevity and sustainability that Will Ferrell has? Anyway most people don't even know who this sucker is, viewers will go into Walk Hard expecting to see Will Ferrell and be quietly disappointed. I think Judd Apatow is playing them off against each other. The only person who could possibly match up Ferrell is Will Arnett but thats because he's got the quiet/loud/screaming thing down pat too.
Reilly is funny in his own right though, much respect. I will watch Walk Hard.

lol @ this:

Has he got the longevity and sustainability that Will Ferrell has?

VeronaInTheClub is joking, right?

We didn't watch the director's cut but the theatrical version wasn't as funny as I hoped it would be. Also Kristin Wiig totally kicked Jenna Fischer's ass in the funny stakes.

where were the jokes in this movie

o man, do we have a thread about the Ferrell/Reilly stepbrother LOLfest?

jenna fischer was hot in this but then again she's basically hot in everything kinda like how that lady from law and order criminal intent was hot in what about bob

Tim Meadows was the best thing about this movie. Dude could use a break of his own, to make up for The Ladies Man and all.

Overall it was only OK, and a bit too mean spirited in times when it should have been lighthearted. I thought Apotow and co. did a fantastic job with the music itself, and also the skewering of the various rock trends throughout the decades. If for nothing else, the film is worth seeing solely for the LSD/Brian Wilson sequence.

Yeah I realise that was quite an inchorent post. I want to believe Ferrell can come back and my heart does but my mind is like; yeah unlikely.

where were the jokes in this movie

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:12 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

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THERE IS NO HANGOVER.

This gave me some much-needed weekend lols.

also the Brian Wilson period. "This song is... not good."

"I think that goat sings on this record more than I do."

I fucking LOVED this movie.

i didn't but that Brian Wilson parody part is v. funny!

I found this to be a long unfocused mess with a few high-quality lols.

I think this might be the funniest movie of the dECADE!

i can't really argue that it's a mess but i love it so much.

running, and crap, joke with friends is to shout "the wrong kid died" if Jim Belushi comes on the television.

there is no John C. Reilly thread so I'll just say this here

Cyrus was a really annoying movie

lol @ this thread's title

running, and crap, joke with friends is to shout "the wrong kid died" if Jim Belushi comes on the television.

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:11 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

every time i watch Justified i just want Raylan's dad to say it

Interviewed about music. Good story:

I was at some charity event. One of these big Oscar party type of things. And I think it was a party that Elton John throws for AIDS research or whatever, and it’s one of those parties where you go in and it’s super stressful because literally any time you bump into someone it’s Tom Cruise, or Tom Hanks, or Kirk Douglas, one of those type of parties.

Yeah, one of those types of parties.
People think, oh, you’re famous, so those are your type of people. But I really don’t feel like those are my type of people. I feel like an imposter in the room whenever I’m at anything like that, or ceremonies, or whatever. Those things stress me out. But we were invited so I went with my wife, and we walk in and we’re starving because we’d already been to a few other things before we had gotten there. So we’re like, “Let’s just get some food, and not freak out and try to talk to every single person we see. Let’s just get food, calm down, eat, and see if we know anyone here.” So we get big plates of food, and we’re looking for somewhere to sit. Everywhere was full, but we spotted two spots.

So we go and sit down and I slide over with my big plate of food and my wife sits next to me and I take a big bite of prime rib, and I turn, and I’m literally shoulder to shoulder with Elton John. He’s like, *adopts British Elton John voice*, “Oh, you’ve decided to sit down next to me with your plate of food.” And I was like, “Oh, FUCK! God damnit. This is not how I wanted this to go!” But I was starving, and it was like, what’s more awkward? Getting up with a plate of food and walking away? Or just trying to just calmly eat your food and at some point mid-plate full, I said something like, “I’m a huge fan.” And he was just like, “Oh, well, of course.” Like, yeah, that’s obvious, every single person says that to me almost every day.

this movie is pretty clearly the best thing Apatow ever touched, thank christ he didn't direct it

I thought you were reviving this because of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpQBxSD1l9E

iiiijjjj thoroughly OTM

I also liked that all of the Beatles went uncredited

people who don't like ths movie are dumb and also wrong

it's like if Spinal Tap was made without jokes

I'm gonna beat off
All my demons

Freaks and Geeks was great and Superbad definitely very good, but is Apatow gonna just, like, recycle the same five actors in every movie now?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:27 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

v hot c.2007 take

is judd apatow still alive?

Has Reilly even been in any other Apatow films?

he produces the Ferrell/McKay movies

Every time The Martian is on cable and we end up watching the back 70 minutes or so, I end up thinking they should've used this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2Va7ruWgg

This is, of course, brilliant:

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/5/29/18642513/walk-hard-dewey-cox-oral-history-john-c-reilly-music-biopic-jake-kasdan-judd-apatow

reinforces the general sense I get that Eddie Vedder is a mensch

Kasdan: He’s not doing a bit. He’s finding the emotional truth of what he’s playing. Even if what he’s playing is crazy. And that’s his great gift.

yeah this is the magic of john c reilly right here

That was a pretty good read. I wished they'd talked about the Beatles scene because that really killed me. It was strange to have a major studio produce a movie that was such an acute parody. If you had a system where you rated movies based on how good you expected them to be vs. how good they actually were, I think this would be my highest rated movie ever.

I have avoided this film up to now but this thread has me convinced.

I saw Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time recently and was expecting it to be dumb as hell, but still couldnt believe how much of it seemed to be deleted/alternate scenes from Walk Hard. Observation in the article about how everyone who enters a room in these movies is immediately a major character is hilariously spot on. In Bohemian I laughed particularly hard at the dad character, like his entrance is literally him walking through a door wearing a suit after a long hard day of 'business' and immediately telling his son to give up his dreams. Everything is so absurdly rushed and compressed.

I know Walk Hard bombed but some part of me still hoped it had maybe contributed to that genre dying out, cant believe we are going to be subjected to yet another cycle of these horrible films.

it's time for dewey cox 2: harder

Dewhemian Coxhody

*Dewey Cox rumble*

"Mama...just killed a guy."

on rewatch, the funniest scene was the Dewey/dad duel. Raymond J Barry is a treasure

fitting that he eventually went on to play the shittiest southern daddy in tv, arlo givens

this movie is a solid 7.5

On a scale of 6? Agreed!

lol otm

Dewey, I'm cut in half pretty bad

I found this to be a long unfocused mess with a few high-quality lols.

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:02 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

revise this a little bit, this is very good. underrated

The oral history gave me so much more appreciation for the care that went into this

I'm sure I mentioned this above, but I went into hysterics in the movie theater such that I was surprised no one shushed me

I’ve rewatched this movie twice this year. It’s amazing how they successful nail and skewer so many music biopic cliches while still pulling off some of the emotional notes those cliches try to hit! The songs strike a balance between straight-up goofing on artists and repurposing musical styles to the point where they might be real songs — and you realize how silly some of the cultural touchstones they’re evoking are when put out of context.

One Eye Open is otm that somehow Bohemian Rhapsody came out years later and somehow managed to use all the same cliches again, but in an insanely sanitized way because it’s a family movie

Watched it this week and kept thinking about how absolutely terrible it would have been with Will Ferrell in place of Reilly.

One of the good things about this movie is Ferrell's lack of involvement in it.

Dewey, I'm cut in half pretty bad

― lumen (esby), Saturday, July 11, 2020 7:01 AM (two weeks ago)

fake liverpool accent "great record, great record" is now a permanent part of my vocabulary to the point where i must come across as a right weirdo to people who havent seen it (most people)

Watched it this week and kept thinking about how absolutely terrible it would have been with Will Ferrell in place of Reilly.

absolutely. the supporting cast + cameos are all game and funny (I particularly appreciate Vedder's straight-faced RRHF speech) but it's impossible for me to imagine anyone but JCR killing it like that

one of my very favorite lines comes early, when he's at the talent show, watching the tap dancing girl or whatever: "How are we gonna top that?!"

My fav supporting cast bit is John Michael Higgins as the engineer when they record "Walk Hard", his performance as he's dressing down JCR slays me so hard.

This is one of those where I have to actively try not to rewatch it too often in order to not spoil it.

goddammit this is a dark fucking period!!

every time I see this movie I end up singing Dewey's rendition of 'That's Amore' for a day or two afterward

I also say glate lecold a lot in my head

^^^^same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g_xaVNY9P4

Beatles!! Stop fighting here in India!!

the ending montage where a bunch of moments that weren’t in the movie, including jack black as elvis waving a switchblade at dewey

This will rule

This Friday I'm joined by @kalebhorton and @AlanSiegelLA to talk about the only biopic that matters: WALK HARD. *Tim Meadows voice* Trust me, you do want part of this shit. Until then, you can find all 30 episodes at the link below.

👇👇👇https://t.co/l4ac6wSrYj pic.twitter.com/ANVPZdPtje

— Soundtracker Podcast (@Soundtracker_) March 23, 2022

Listening to this now having finally read the Ringer piece. I rewatched this this weekend and have been marginally obsessed all over again. I really do need to see the director’s cut.

Can we agree that the real tragedy of this movie is that Glen Campbell never recorded a version of Beautiful Ride (as he stood on the precipice of death)?

Slightly off topic but thread title hits a bit different now given the fallout between Ferrell and McKay's split up over Reilly's casting in the Lakers show.

garbled that but you know what I mean

Was thinking the same.

Show is a bit of a trashfire but Reilly is gr8 in that.

Officially over this take, true even tho it may be

Hard to think of a single film released in my lifetime that has caused more artistic devastation than Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Every conventional biopic released since has been accidentally hilarious because of it

— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) April 24, 2023

the wrong kid died