Why Does Will Ferrell Keep Making the Same Movie Over and Over?

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His career is sort of becoming an attempt to prove the law of diminishing returns, isn't it?

― J, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

For those who haven't seen it yet:

http://www.bladesofglorymovie.com/

trailer here: http://www.paramount.com/

― J, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

s'called "milking a formula"

pretty common practice in entertainment biz, apparently.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

Well, obviously. But why does Will Ferrell keep doing it?

― J, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

he is good at it!

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

go with what you know!

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

if it ain't broke...

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

when someone hands you funny lemons...

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

...make lots and lots of money!

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

then when they are sick of you play a creepy serial killer.

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah but you'd think maybe he'd avoid doing two-in-a-row minor sports comedies. Maybe throw "high school teacher" in between to keep us guessing. At this rate I anticipate either a curling or Olympic archery film by next winter.

― nabisco, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

i love when actors do horrible projects like this just for the dough and then go spend it all on something cool -- like an island in dubai, or starting their own philanthropic foundation...

― get bent, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

probably just a timing thing. production schedules, etc..i'm sure he has, like, ten movies in the can as we speak.

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

i should mention that i think blade of glory looks like it's gonna be very funny!

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I suspect he's going to play the American in the big-screen version of Chess.

― J, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

next movie apparently:

Jackie Moon (Ferrell), the owner-coach-player of the American Baketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh jesus

― J, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

after that:

Two spoiled guys (Ferrell and Reilly) become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched.

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

In what minor sport are they competing?

― nabisco, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

that one sounds funny!

― s1ocki, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

competitive stepbrothering!

― scott seward, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

Your search - competitive stepbrothering - did not match any documents.

― J, Saturday, 17 March 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

He did Stranger Than Fiction in between his two wacky sports movies.

― milo z, Saturday, 17 March 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

also can't begrudge a few shitty movies for the guy who gave us
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/dreamworks_skg/old_school/will_ferrell/old.jpg

― milo z, Saturday, 17 March 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

(Ha, yeah Milo, I was trying to get away with the "comedies" exception. I suppose Stranger than Fiction was a comedy, but obviously not a big Will Ferrell feature comedy type thing.)

― nabisco, Saturday, 17 March 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, i only hope that will ferrell buys an island!

i like that he keeps doing comedies like these. he should do 2 more of them, and then 2 more, until we can't believe he's still doing them, and then he does another and we're like did he just make another sports film? and then he does one about competitive shovelling in lithuania or bulldog wrestling in alberta. and at that point it's not funny in itself but retains residual funny, so it works despite the bad taste and discomfort it creates, and those things become funny too. it'd be like those family guy bits that go on and on and on. though possibly like an snl skit that goes on and on, except you're not watching it b/c why would you do that to yourself?

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 17 March 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

robyn i'm pretty drunk but that ruled

― gff, Saturday, 17 March 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

is will ferrell this generation's adam sandler?

― abanana, Saturday, 17 March 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

You guys don't actually think he's capable of making a different movie...

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 17 March 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

I don't actually [stike]think[/strike] hope he's capable of making a different movie...hatertz

― tremendoid, Saturday, 17 March 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

i blame this on the nu code

― tremendoid, Saturday, 17 March 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

:D
xpost to gff

i kind of liked stranger than fiction. i just like will ferrell, like how i like andy richter, but in a slightly different way (andy is prob a bit scarier). i never liked adam sandler all that much. andy and will would buy islands, adam would not, i bet. chris farley would've bought an island by now, rip.

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 17 March 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Well then.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 February 2008 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

what is the deal with charlie chaplin and this played out 'tramp' persona. sheesh.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 29 February 2008 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Shut up, Morbius.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 29 February 2008 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

nrq going to hell.

What's supposed to be funnier in the ad, the Afro or the booty shorts?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 29 February 2008 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

I laughed a lot. All the way through. But then he's one of those people who I just have to see and I laugh.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 29 February 2008 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

still think he should star in the movie version of pnin

― n/a, Friday, 29 February 2008 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

wf seems to always works better in smaller roles (cf guest spot on "Undeclared" or Mugatu (sp?) in Zoolander). I lol'd a bit at Ron Burgundy, but the NASCAR and the ice skating one were kinda lame, imo. Probably will not see this new oner of my own volition.

at any rate, he's (usually) better than sandler and bed stiller.

― will, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ben. Ben Stiller.

― will, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

The premise of this thread is so wrong, Blades of Glory was one of the best comedies of this decade.

― Tuomas, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

You misspelled Anchorman (although I definitely liked BoG more than Talladega Nights or the majority of his movies).

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't go that far but it was definitely much better than it seemed. anchorman was pretty bad, on the other hand. I agree that, on the whole, I see him more as a special guest than as a first role. he lacks something.

― AleXTC, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Tuomas.

― AleXTC, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

maybe he just wanted to go out in a Blades of Glory

― Hurting 2, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

semi-pro is fuckin awful

― s1ocki, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

lol hurting.

― s1ocki, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

is that supposed to be a pun?? i never noticed

― s1ocki, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

actually I just started wondering that after I made the joke

― Hurting 2, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

o_O

pretty sure the pun was intentional.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

wf seems to always works better in smaller roles

Yes! Did you guys see Starsky & Hutch? Pretty terrible movie but his part in it was great..."it's like a little bowl of oatmeal with a hole in it".

― nickalicious, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Woody Harrelson lookin' gooood for 46 (?), yoga must work.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 29 February 2008 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

arguments against WF in supporting roles: Winter Passing and The Producers. not crazy about his part in Wedding Crashers either.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

well he was supposed to be in confederacy of dunces

― cutty, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

a lot of people were supposed to be in confederacy of dunces, kid

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Belushi. Who else?

― will, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

wikipedia:
At various times, John Belushi, John Candy and Chris Farley were touted for the lead, leading many to ascribe a curse to the role.

― will, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

john goodman, too, right?

― mizzell, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, definitely Goodman too.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

wait a couple years and I'm sure someone will attach Jonah Goldberg to it.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

lol I mean Jonah Hill

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if Jonah Goldberg looks like Jonah Hill.

― Nicole, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

jonah hill is much more attractive

― TOMBOT, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

I just googled his picture...yeesh.

― Nicole, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Goldberg should start writing in the style of Ignatius J. Reilly.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

More, I mean.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 29 February 2008 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

fat guys always rumored to play either Babe Ruth or Ignatius Reilly

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Not Fatty Arbuckle.

― Aimless, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

was looking forward to david gordon green's Confederacy with p.s. hoffman a few years ago. that book is quickly turning into the 20th C. Don Quixote.

― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

And then there's this:

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 October 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Cameo in the NYT weddings section
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/12/20/fashion/weddings/20FULLER01/articleInline.jpg

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

Awww now I want a Will Ferrell cameo photo!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

after seeing it a million times on cable, i've grown to love blades of glory.

― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:58 (sixteen years ago)

ferrell turns bear repeated viewing better than a lot of comedic actors i think

― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:01 (sixteen years ago)

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