Will Ferrell c/d?

I say classic, strictly for Anchorman.

D

i love anchorman, like it feels sort of momentous, but i feel he'll never really get to that level again. all the other films he's in have a few mildly amusing bits but anchorman is just conceptually really great and the gags are better as a result.

people talking about anchorman as being some conceptually perfect solitary moment of glory in the career of Will Ferrell make me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

d

zany comedy movies like anchorman make me feel nauseous

he's classic in lots of things, anchorman is probably the peak though

The thing about Will Ferrell is that he is hilarious 100% of the time, even in movies that are terrible

he's great in anchorman i just find the film and the supporting cast pretty lax compared to a lot of other stuff he's been in. I feel like you could shrink it to a half-hour and not miss much.

he's fuckin hilarious imo

(c)

xxp

alternatively, you could extend most of the scenes it for for another half hour each and it would be awesome

cameo in The Wedding Crashers is incredible.

looking over his imdb his film choices are pretty dang hit or miss (even if he's usually the most entertaining thing in a movie), I might think Anchorman is really overrated but I'd still take it over Blades Of Glory, Stranger Than Fiction, Semi-Pro, Land Of The Lost...

ya he's done some real turkeys no doubt

I really liked "Stranger Than Fiction" but that is the type of film I will really enjoy regardless of whether it's any good or not

Mugatu in Zoolander, all-time

and on eastbound and down he's classic. I can feel it in my plums.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVcniAcWg0Q

never saw that soccer movie that got extra forgotten after the criterion collection rehyped the first Kicking & Screaming

Stranger Than Fiction had a great cast but the script/direction was just too I Can't Believe It's Not A Charlie Kaufman Movie! for me.

or more accurately, Not Another Charlie Kauffman Movie.

totes

...nobody's mentioned Step Brothers yet?

undisputed, that's why

like most of his stuff, that soccer movie is prety dumb but has some funny gags

step brothers i thought was very funny.
i think talladega nights was conceptually superior to anchorman, and funnier.

Shake N' Bake

talladega nights is def my favorite ferrell/mckay joint.

Step Brothers is fucking incredible

step brothers sleepwalking scene was great.

he was also pretty great (in a lower-key way) on that bear gryllis special

Anchorman is probably more absurd, but yeah...it just feels like a warm-up for Talladega Nights to me.

die hard was just a warm up for die hard 2 wtf?

xxpost -- You can tell he's all 'What...why am I here?'

Step Brothers is fucking incredible

― MC Tramp Stamp (HI DERE), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 14:41 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

talladega nights is def my favorite ferrell/mckay joint.

― da croupier, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:41 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

seriously? that's a real low point for me. step brothers tho is genius

^^

semi-pro was wack too

yeah im a not a fan of talladega nights at all. i actually like semi-pro better than that.

Step Brothers > Talladega Nights > Anchorman

i just think talladega nights has great ensemble work, anchorman feels really sloppy and hit-or-miss in comparison. step brothers I enjoyed but I dunno if I was looking for the ur-manchild movie in the first place.

actually semi-pro is the absolute nadir. totally lifeless. TN is the least of his best, if that makes sense

did people like the other guys?

which guys

I still haven't seen it.

Mugatu in Zoolander, all-time

^ I feel like more attention needs to be drawn to this, for it is gospel.

i liked 'the other guys'

more than 'talladega', not as much as the other two mckay films

kind of feel that ferrell isn't the funniest thing in 'step bros' (adam scott) or 'the other guys' (mark wahlberg) tho

wahlberg and ferrell had great chemistry and there were some sweet set pieces but the plot was distracting and Ferrell kinda reverted into shouty guy out of character sometimes. Could totally see The Other Guys being a warm up for The Other Guys 2.

havent seen other guys. his bush impersonations were always great.

the plot was distracting

haha yeah

it was kind of like an actual movie

an actual clumsy ass buddy cop movie with a weak climax

steve coogan's performance was damn unpretty imo

DON'T PRESS THE ENTER KEY!!!!!

xps Yeah, I will forever thank him for introducing "strategery" into the lexicon.

i hear it was fun live but watching his bush thing on hbo got old fast

i seriously can't understand why Steve Coogan refuses to be charismatic in American movies

the problem with doing send-ups of tired genres like buddy cop movies is you actually have to subscribe to the conventions that you're spoofing

wtf coogan pwns in hamlet 2 u crazy

i cant back that up

"Hmmm, I'll be playing a clueless ott drama teacher in this one...maybe I should drop my Peter O'Toole voice"

man

coogan

in 'the trip'

is just so good.

can't wait to see it again.

do you need a sack to breathe into?

the problem with doing send-ups of tired genres like buddy cop movies is you actually have to subscribe to the conventions that you're spoofing

― george pimpton (s1ocki), Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

im easy i guess, but i was lmaoing through the rock/samuel l jackson scenes and think they shd have kept 'em in the film

^ yeah the weakness of the other guys seemed more an issue of McKay being lazy than that they had to have a boring climax involving a dude at a computer

I've curious about Step Brothers but, to be honest, I've been scared away by the promo poster on the office wall for more than two years.

Love the bar scene in Talladega Nights: "We keep that in there for profilin' purposes, like Seal and the Pet Shop Boys." No reason the unrated version should have been three hours long.

the last two years must have been harrowing for you

srsly tho

check it out

When Step Brothers came out, I had just about reached my Will Ferrell saturation point. I saw it anyway, and it ended up being my favorite of all the McKay films despite my Will Ferrell fatigue. Watching him and John C. Reilly just bounce lines to each other, with almost every joke scoring, was kind of amazing.

i think JOhn C deserves his own thread.

It's in my queue. Whew - only 95 minutes.

Step Brothers > Anchorman > cameos in various things > Old School > everything else

Several years ago I used to *really despise* Will Ferrell, largely because of dudes quoting Old School around me all the time (really did not like that movie). Plus every one of his TV appearances that I saw seemed to be him just running around in shorty shorts and falling over a lot. Then I eventually started laughing at his stuff but feeling guilty about doing it. Now, I am generally at peace with the guy. Just to finish this post with some more questionable taste, the movie of his I am most curious about is Land of the Lost.

i was disappointed

but it's not his worst film

completely weird -- sort of a kids' film but with danny mcbride making crude comments about the lovely anna friel

the great thing about step brothers is tehres no fuckin race cars or big props or dominos ads, it's just all riffin

old school really gets better and better with age. it's a real video movie

I liked him as the meth-head term paper writer guy in Undeclared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAmEa6GwO3o

the great thing about step brothers is tehres no fuckin race cars or big props or dominos ads, it's just all riffin

fair enough if you don't find nascar or product placement jokes funny, but I'm pretty sure the boat and the bunkbed and the drum kit qualify as "big props" as much as anything in talladega

I'm kind of a sucker for Will Ferrell, I can't help but find him funny even when whatever he's in sucks. Step Bros and Anchorman are clearly all-time amazing though.

The second he's on camera I start to chuckle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQYVRr0EYBA

TN was profoundly unfunny to me for some reason but in general WF is classic

It's funny that at one point pre-movies he was sort of seen as this Phil Hartman figure on SNL, becuz he was older and did reliable support work. Dude's ability to suggest insanity with his eyes while pretending to be totally reasonable is among The Best Things Evr.

It's funny that at one point pre-movies he was sort of seen as this Phil Hartman figure on SNL, becuz he was older and did reliable support work.

I don't remember this? He wasn't really older than the rest of the cast, was he? At least not as much as Hartman was? Question mark?

fair enough if you don't find nascar or product placement jokes funny, but I'm pretty sure the boat and the bunkbed and the drum kit qualify as "big props" as much as anything in talladega

― da croupier, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:39 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

i guess i mean high-concept stuff like sports movie set pieces

Will Ferrell c/d?

Can't get with the binary. A+ potential, B- execution

I'd echo what someone said upthread in that i went into Step Brothers with low expectations and it ended up being my favourite McKay/Ferrell movie. I don't think i ever get tired of Ferrell and John C. Reilly as a comedic duo.

Further evidence for Ferrell's classic status - Elf

which is his best impersonation? james lipton is standing out in my memory right now

I don't remember this? He wasn't really older than the rest of the cast, was he? At least not as much as Hartman was? Question mark?

I'm not saying he was literally Phil Hartman, just that they got compared for some reasons that feel really superficial now that Will is captain crazypants of the uss frat pack

oh cool, I thought you were saying he was literally Phil Hartman

Scarily enough this was posted on the Phil Hartman thread a while back:

How much time does Will Ferrell have before he dies a tragic early death?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, September 7, 2005 4:42 PM

Forgot about Elf. Classic.

anchorman is an obv classic & ill watch p much any of his zany retard comedies except step bros. which is loathsome & semi-pro which is trash but dudes wld also be 'c' for the supporting roles - undeclared, zoolander, wedding crashers, dick! all amazing

totally forgot he was in dick

Oh damn, I'd forgotten about Dick. Not the movie (I love the movie), but it had slipped my mind that Ferrell was in it. He and Bruce McCulloch were a riot.

dude apparently played "roommate from hell #1" on an episode of Living Single, sadly does not appear to be on YouTube

i quote his scene from austin powers a lot.
i can't believe you just shot me

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/988/988712/25-funniest-will-ferrell-characters-20090601003750677.jpg

HAHA YES!

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/08_heidi-klum-will-ferrell_09.jpg

Elf. Classic for all time.

Loved Anchorman, Talladega, Step Brothers. And I'm going out on a limb by saying I actually kind of liked "Land of The Lost". It wasn't hilarious, and it wasn't perfect, but it was pretty funny. And they ripped tons of moments/scenery from the original first episode, was pretty nerdy in a way imo

There is nothing funnier in the history of the world than this moment right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyCfRHumHU

sort of cheating but snl is the best thing he's ever done

then you have 'anchorman' & 'old school' on the next level

the thing about 'anchorman' is that brick tambland & champ kind are two of the most unfunny characters in comedy history, but will ferrell is such a force in that film that it doesn't matter

'blades of glory' is being underrated here imo, and i've never seen 'semi pro'

john c reilly in comedies is like the epitome of strained to me & is just totally awful -- i'm willing to believe that maybe i underrated 'step brothers' since everyone thinks it's a classic here, but seriously if you dig 'talladega nights' you need to evaluate yourself

oh, fuck 'elf'! 'elf' is so, so funny. much better than any of his later stuff

francisco thats fun to say.

Step Brothers is my go-to movie if when I am in need of some funny.

i don't think reilly is terrible. he's pretty funny in the generally shit 'cyrus' too. but he was overpromoted.

how

brick tamland is awesome and I will fite you Jordan

CHAMP KIND LOVES YOUR MUSK

god both those characters are so retarded i can't even believe anyone would defend them

i prob dug ashley schaeffer more than anything ferrell has done in a few years

Darraghmac rightly mentioned this upthread so from the Bear Grylls thread:

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...if you can find his episode with will ferrell it's a must see- guy has no concept of humour, and ferrell doesn't seem to know what to do with him at times.

― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Sunday, December 20, 2009 5:35 PM (9 months ago)

ferrell manages the physical hardship side of things an order of magnitude better than bear handles being part of a zany adlib duo.

― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Sunday, December 20, 2009 5:52 PM (9 months ago)

http://www.youtube.com/v/_eEpdyPisfc&fs=1&hl=en

you'll find them in pieces on youtube if nothing else

― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Sunday, December 20, 2009 5:54 PM (9 months ago)

I saw a very strange Ferrell standup routine on the Leno Tonight Show that I haven't seen since.
He just seemed to be glowering at the audience the whole time, like a surlier Neil Hamburger.
The only references I found to it was that it was a "bad standup" character he was doing. Anyone know more about it?

I love lamp.

<3 u 2

One more unfuckwithable SNL impersonation: Harry Caray

lol Lamp <3

harry carray is prob his enduring character after GWB & ron burgandy

Robert Goulet! Unfuckwithable

nigggaaaz
http://halfemptyclothing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/51995191_9d815cba21_o.jpg

i was always partial to the dude w/ the tiny cell phone

sort of cheating but snl is the best thing he's ever done

Have you considered that you might think that b/c you were 12 years old in the middle of his SNL run?

(I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong, just curious.)

whatever snl is on when you are at that age is the best snl

that is quite possible -- on the other hand, a ton of those characters are still hilarious i think

ferrell is a weird and rare comedian who genuinely appears to have no desire to make the audience laugh,
which is an incredibly valuable asset on a show that is geared towards making performers mug for cheap laughs,
but also excruciating sometimes for the same reason.

having him and norm mcdonald on at the same time was a kind of cosmic alignment of SNL performers who just don't care.

'blades of glory' is being underrated here imo

triple word!

love Blades of Glory

also really love him as the cheerleader in SNL with Cheri O Teri

yes

also the weird jacuzzi couple

This is pretty lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd0ToNwccl4

omg the jacuzzi couple are great. the beard. the laugh. gold!

yes

also the weird jacuzzi couple

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:36 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuck yeah actually that's the funniest shit he ever did!

the one with christopher walken is the best

my LUHVAHHHHHHHHH

i love those bits!

he had some line like "our bellies were full with GOAT MEAT" that killed me

we made love in a brokedown subarUUU

HAHA!

i think those people were modeled after weird college professors or something.

Virginia: You see, Katherine, in our younger days [while Roger kisses Virginia's hands] we took a glorious trip to the Greek Islands

Roger: We rented a krypsona on the Isle of Santorini.

Walter: And I was there, too.

Catherine: [sarcastically] Really?

Roger: Oh, yes.

Virginia: [while Roger starts rubbing Virginia's shoulders] Yes, one day we returned to the Krypsona from the beach. Our bodies browned by the sun. And the locals had killed and roasted a goat and --

Roger: We filled our bellies with goat meat.

Virginia: Our hands greasy.

Walter: Mouths glistening.

Virginia: Yes, and --

Roger: Once again, our bodies sluggish with goat meat.

Catherine: Okay, all right, okay, do you think there's any way we could save this one until after dinner.

[the Clarvins laugh]

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/00/00tlovers.phtml

i love how they all ended with WF hurting his back and dropping the professor accent

yessss

Now, I'd been begging her to try sinshi shinshi for months. She'd refused on the grounds that it was unclean. Finally, she was willing to accept her lover's body in places no one had ever trespassed. Specifically, the ear canal.

http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TVahkffhhBv9da/HUMwoUMS0zciQO

blades of glory would be a whole lot better if Jon Heder had nothing to do with it. The Will A vs. Will F on-land ice skate chase is classic

aw cmon j heder is great in that. his holier-than-thou 'good for you' when ferrel tells him he's etting help for his sex addiction is ticket money alone

his goldilocks hair is pretty hilarious on its own

I love Amy Poehler & Will Arnett's Marilyn/JFK skating outfits. Best ever.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/61332/saturday-night-live-wade-blasingame

love Ferrell and I cut a lot of slack fr the dudes sub-classic stuff but oh man, fuck a J Heder in a Blade of Glory.. total laugh killer through and through

i find it doesn't even matter what he's saying, it's just something about the shape and proportions of his face that mean i'm grinning like a goon whenever he's on screen. it was the same with Chevy Chase, but i think Will Ferrell might be even better at having a dumb face.

You fools better be right about Step Brothers.

it's the fucking catalina wine mixer of will ferrell movies

we are right.

Very right.

Now, I'd been begging her to try sinshi shinshi for months. She'd refused on the grounds that it was unclean. Finally, she was willing to accept her lover's body in places no one had ever trespassed. Specifically, the ear canal.

― thebingo2010 (chrisv2010), Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

lol. love how walken pronounces trespassed "tresspist" here.

Watching The Other Guys. Makes Armed and Dangerous (John Candy 80s film) look like Citizen Kane.

Ferrell POV

Elf
The Oblongs
Wes Blasingame sketch
Step Brothers
cameo in Wedding Crashers*

runner-up: Winter Passing

The Other Guys is patchy, but there's some really great stuff in it imo.

anchorman
bad doctor snl sketch
old school
zoolander
cowbell sketch

*TS: Ferrell's cameo at the end of Wedding Crashers vs. Ferrell's cameo at the end of The Goods

xp: yeah I loved the first twenty mins of Other Guys but the next 45 mins was almost completely unwatchable on p much every level...

(Yes I realize that The Goods is probably worse than The Other Guys)

every Adam McKay movie > non-cheerleader/Roxbury SNL sketches > movie cameos > starring roles in non-McKay movies > cheerleader/Roxbury sketches

I'm on board with that, except I'd switch the last two.

Roger: Once again, our bodies sluggish with goat meat.

Catherine: Okay, all right, okay, do you think there's any way we could save this one until after dinner.

[the Clarvins laugh]

― goole, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:47 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark

best part of this is when the laughing dies down and Roger just coldly says "NO" and continues with the story

i'm exaggerating a little bit about non-McKay movies -- Elf is good and Blades of Glory had its moments -- but i kind of feel like Will Ferrell is like Ben Stiller in that the movies they co-write are consistent but they're big enough that the end up take on a LOT of other projects as just actors that don't have the same kind of quality control.

I am not an American so i don't know about your unfunny sketch memories. Ferrel Ranking:

1. Step Brothers
2. Anchorman
3. Undeclared
4. Old School
5. Talladega Nights

Oh shit, Blades of Glory. Put that in somewhere between three and five in a sort of metaphysical sense

i forgot abt him on undeclared, that is also a+

overrated but still funny on snl. i like him in roles that played down the "will ferrell" character, such as in celebrity jeopardy, but the zany "walk around in a speedo" type skits were lost on me and even slightly uncomfortable to watch.

This year's Mark Twain Prize honoree.

i saw 'everything must go' -- it's kinda fun 2 think abt his character as frank the tank like 10 yrs later; it never really gets so dark where he isnt still mostly likeable will ferrell but it wasnt bad

shit i didnt know the kid was biggies son

Will Ferrell is Biggie's son? That man has range.

The world is better with Will Ferrell in it, even when his movies suck. He's the perfect straight man who never plays it straight. Also, like his sorta generational school (Stiller, Helms, Arnet) he's that curious brand of comic who's generally not-funny and modest when he's not on the clock, in an endearing way.

Plus this: http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/5lrs

he's that curious brand of comic who's generally not-funny and modest when he's not on the clock, in an endearing way.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, May 14, 2011 9:53 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't know what this means because i have never ever seen him in an interview or behind the scenes footage or anything where he wasn't still 'performing' or being kind of a character.

yeah i was about to say, i've never seen ferrell out of character. that's why it's so jarring when he does str8 dramatic roles. i still can't accept him in anything where he's meant to be like an earnest schlub

yeah even the semicomedic stuff like Stranger Than Fiction and Melinda & Melinda can be a little hard for me to watch. Winter Passing? ugh son.

Oh, I've seen and heard plenty of 'serious' interviews with him where he's not funny. Like this one from two days ago:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/will-ferrell,55950/

Here's a 2006 one, referenced in the above:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/magazine/12ferrell.html

Wherein Ferrell recounts adamantly refusing the make appearances as Bush at the behest of the real Bush, to avoid the inevitable photo op with a guy he did not support in any way.

yeah, i've seen print interviews where he's pretty sincere, but i mean i've seen him on camera just talking and not acting like he's in a sketch maybe 30 seconds in my entire life

this the funniest shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykuTKwbRwF0

I've never seen a starring vehicle of his til the new one, where he plays a dim, serial-fucking, Goldman Sachs-fellating, corrupt North Carolina congressman.

...who's a Democrat!

Giving it a half-star bonus for that.

looks terrible based off the trailers

it's the standard slobcom stuff in political dress

there's a good bit where Ferrell is asked to recite The Lord's Prayer at a debate and Jason Sudeikis signals it in charades.

http://youtu.be/Ok6dXmFaYq8

er,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6dXmFaYq8

Currently acting as a Staples Center usher by the name of Ted Vagina at the Suns/Lakers game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svV1CU9iS2s

watching "daddy's home". excruciating. it's one of those movies where the main character is put through an elaborate wringer of humiliation. i don't understand how people watch this stuff.

I don't know why Will Ferrell still does mostly shitty movies. Dude's gotta be rollin' in it by now, why not just be funny in actual funny things?

he should post garbage on ilx

Yeah, that's the purest way to squander one's creative energies.

Is this movie any good? I thought this scene was pretty funny and I didn't even know the movie existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKx6dZJByp8

i thought it was a letdown and i'm not much of a WF fan (though 75% of Stepbrothers is all time)

I was kinda excited to see that there's going to be a Sherlock Holmes movie with Ferrell and Reilly as Holmes and Watson but then I saw it's from the director of Get Hard so nah.

If Ferrell didn't put out a decent movie every couple of years to right the ship, his cinematic track record would look like Sandler's.

ooof. harsh.

But fair! I actually am a pretty big fan of Will Ferrell, but dude's in a lot of shitty movies. It's baffling because I'd assume he's comfortable enough financially and successful enough as a box office draw that he could pretty much do any movie he wanted (that fit within his wheelhouse, anyway).

I think most actors feel the need to keep working, even in shitty movies. Unless you are an acknowledged superstar like Streep or Pitt, not getting parts is seen as stepping into oblivion.

i never saw this but i appreciate its existence

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/A_Deadly_Adoption_Poster.jpg

yeah i really like knowing it's out there / got made