Will Ferrell c/d?

I say classic, strictly for Anchorman.

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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.

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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

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