Okay, Now You’re Talkin’ Above My Head: the John C. Reilly Poll

Yeah, this might be one of the hardest polls yet, as I love him in pretty much every movie I've seen him in. Although you've made it a little easier by excluding most of his appearances as Dr. Steve Brule.

Letterboxd tells me I've seen 19 of his films, a significant number of which I don't recall him in (Georgia, State of Grace, Gilbert Grape). He's kind of the same always, which in his case is fine. Hilarious in, eg, Cedar Rapids, an otherwise unremarkable slob comedy.

i might actually have to vote for walk hard in this, there's just something about the way he phrases "how about i buy you a crow that can talk"

something named Entertainment supposedly played Sundance last week

this is the new one from Rick Alverson, who did The Comedy. pretty much the American movie I'm most excited about this year

anyway this is tough. he lights up the otherwise awful Chicago for sure.

voting walk hard as the best performance and movie

Was stuck between talledega and magnolia before I remembered Terri. Criminally ignored film.

It must have been--not even sure if it got an opening here. Thought it was very nice.

He's always unmistakably himself, but also quite versatile: the broad comedy (sorry to say I haven't yet watched Dewey Cox or Ricky Bobby--have both on the shelf), song-and-dance guy (I barely remember Chicago), slovenly middle-aged slob (kind of a Bill Murray role in Terri), and also really sweet, gentle characters in Magnolia, Cyrus, and The Good Girl--he's got that Philip Seymor Hoffman side to him. He's got to be one of the best supporting actors of the past 25 years.

As much as I love Reed Rothchild, and am filled with joy just thinking about how proud he is when he says "His partner's name is Chest Rockwell," I voted for Magnolia. The flashy performances got all the attention, but I think that's his film.

Hard Eight by a country mile.

i'm always happy to see john c. reilly - he's got such an amazing face. there's a lot of great performances in this list but voting for walk hard. it's not often he plays a lead role and he's fantastic in it.

he would be such a perfect ben grimm / the thing in a fantastic four movie.

i will never see Walk Hard -- i know musical biopics are crappola, see

did any film ever surface of the broadway production he did with ps hoffman of True West? they swapped roles every 2 nights, i bet it was amazing.

step brothers FTW

^^^

feel like this dude is underrated, he is kind of "always the same" I guess but he employs that across a pretty broad range of material and I'm always glad to see him on-screen

most recent thing I saw him in was Carnage, he was reliably funny/ridiculous. Has anyone else seen Cyrus? Not actually a good film, but this initial scene with Jonah Hill always cracks me up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMBPwTNT-iM

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_93unXXVg2rU/TBelbaNgOwI/AAAAAAAAKzY/i69vXnDnAjA/s1600/112652778.gif

nope gr80, it appears the only TV/film versions of True West are the '84 PBS one with Malkovich & Sinise, and another one in 2002 w/ Bruce Willis.

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

nope gr80, it appears the only TV/film versions of /True West/ are the '84 PBS one with Malkovich & Sinise, and another one in 2002 w/ Bruce Willis.

the malkovich/sinise one is one of my favorite things ever, srsly it's on youtube everyone go watch it now

A certain quotient of dumb jokes in Walk Hard do not take anything away from Reilly as parody music performer. Who else has taken on classic Dylan gibberish the way he does? Love the way "Ed Sullivan" stands there respectfully. I also like when his band invents, and then rejects, punk rock.

Walk Hard and/or Step Brothers for me

voting walk hard as the best performance and movie

― qualx, Sunday, February 1, 2015 3:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.npr.org/event/music/383550901/john-c-reilly-friends-tiny-desk-concert

^^^better than I expected

Hard Eight

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voted magnolia just because in such a huge cast, he starts the film my least favorite character and finishes it my most favorite

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Gtfo

He's fantastic in Magnolia.

He's okay in a thankless role in a shitty film

Evidently many people disagree (with at least the first two parts of that sentence).

"thankless role in shitty PTA film overshadows his actual payout" is probably an accurate reflection for John C Reilly, sadly.

This may have turned up your Facebook feed, and maybe somebody's posted it here too (couldn't find a thread for impersonators). I think the Reilly is brilliant here, also Matthew McConaughey and the five-second rule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFXTxQPV79w

kinda shocked it's taken him this long to appear in a Western. but I guess not many get made these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2unSfHMftU

am I the only one that saw the Sisters Brothers? weird little movie, neither as broadly comic nor intensely dramatic, sort of somewhere in the middle, with a very meandering shaggy-dog sort of plot. I didn't even notice Rutger Hauer (granted he doesn't actually do anything). Gyllenhaal's affected upper class accent is consistently ridiculous.