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― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

'Love that fanny..'

― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

If this isn't ILX's new favorite film by the end of the summer I will jump naked off the Bay Bridge.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

aw, i thought this was going to be a chance to talk about anchormen in general, listing our favorites and stuff. sigh.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember Colette, a thread is whatever you make it....

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Lord I've tried the best I can
I've asked everybody in Kazakhstan
But I still don't understand
Bob Wilson - anchorman

I've been to Kent, Gwent and Senegal
I've even been to look for Jim Rosenthal,
Found him on his knees by the Wailing Wall,
crying Bob Wilson, anchorman.

It's cold and lI'm hungry and I'm Dundalk
I've got no bus fare, I gotta walk
It's raining soup and I've got a fork
Where be my Camper van?

I marvel at the things we find beneath the ground
That man can go faster than the speed of sound
But I still can't get my head around
Bob Wilson - anchorman

I'd like to meet Stephenson the engineer
I'd like to meet Faraday and buy him a beer
And I'd love to meet the one who had the bright idea (of)
Bob Wilson - anchorman

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

He's got no eyes you know, Bob Wilson.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought this was about DOuglas from those butter ads

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

or indeed

http://espn.go.com/media/pg2/2002/0301/photo/kent_i.gif

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.papermag.com/magazine/mag_03/mag_apr03/beautiful_people/images/cooper.jpg

swoon.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit Boyler beat me to it

― chris (chris), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Let the record reflect the fact that I typed them out myself, and relied not on google or someone else. This thread is the only part of the interweb with those song lyrics. Welcome, googling HMHB fans.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

This was very funny!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It was pretty good, but it wasn't nearly as funny as I'd hoped it would be.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i laughed so hard i got a cramp during the sex panther bit.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

leah, my jaws hurt from laughing so hard. i don't really remember any of it now though.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"it smells like bigfoot's dick!"

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought some of the subtle humor about the 70's was good. Although right now, all I can remember of it was where the newsguys were walking and littering.... funny because it's true!

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

this film had subtle humor?

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It was pretty good, but it wasn't nearly as funny as I'd hoped it would be.

I'm not alone!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It could have been funnier - Steve Carrell is capable of much more than the character he played .. But I don't think Will Ferrell is too funny usually.. Seems like he can only deliver his lines one way ..

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"it smells like bigfoot's dick!"

YES!

Also "Go back to your home on WHORE ISLAND!".

This film made being a comedian seem like a really good idea!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"BY THE BEARD OF ODIN!"

"gun show"

"whale vagina"

"San Diago"

the whole milk=bad idea moment

trident!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I am quitting my job to become a professional comedian and get my union card.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

'yogging'

― HKM, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(partial) List of scenes from the trailer that don't appear in the film:

"my wife's probably going to get the kids" "fantastic"

"you know, stories, leads?"

"love that tushie!"

"You took a bullet for me!" "And I would not do so again"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Entire "You're on the air" sequence moved into the titles.

"Ron Burgundy is down, and it is BAD"

"I'd like to be a female anchor." "And I'd like to be King of Australia. Seriously, you sound like an insane person."

Hitchhiking with beard and guitar.

"Take me. Take me right now"

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest there'll be a lot of extras on the DVD.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I threw a trident and killed him

Yeah I saw that!

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

you might want to lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw this last night. I had pain and tears and cramps. Best stupid film I've seen since Zoolander and it's so so so much funnier. "Tits McGee" and "You're a big hooker and I'm going to slap you in public" were two of my highlights.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 2 October 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The DVD should be a treat. My appreciation of it will likely grow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely someone can get their hands on a pirate copy sooner? I am going to do some digging.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The "punted" your dog scene had me in tears that shouldn't have been cried but were anyway.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It is truly, truly wonderful!

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It is Father Ted the movie. Sort of.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that's heady praise. I can see the conceptual connection but even so, I can't go that far.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I can kind of see that, even though I like the show better. I think the movie will be much improved on dvd.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew OTM.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

So, so, so funny.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man. I've now seen the trailer for this twice and it was UNBEARABLE...even more so the second time. Bleah.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest there'll be a lot of extras on the DVD.

Well, funny you should mention that.

There are going to be three different DVD versions, all released end of December. One is just a straight up full screen disc with these extras:

Outrageous Bloopers and Outtakes
Over 15 Minutes of Side Splitting Deleted Scenes
Bill Kurtis Interviewing Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy Biography-An A&E Special
Ron Burgundy's MTV Music Award Interviews
Afternoon Delight Music Video
Behind-The-Scenes of Afternoon Delight Music Video
ESPN Audition

The second one has the unrated cut of the movie, ten more minutes added (but would that just be the 15 minutes or so of the deleted scenes mentioned above?) and all them bonus features plus.

The THIRD one, however -- that could be the winner. It's a giftset that contains the unrated extended cut w/all features...

*PLUS* a full new film, Wake Up Ron Burgundy, on a separate disc. Not much is known about this except that it's outtakes and side things from all the Anchorman footage straight up -- allegedly the original cut of the film was something like 4 hours -- and so this is probably going to be something like the alternate Spinal Tap footage on that DVD, something where it's the parallel take on the story or the like.

I've been thinking about this film more and more, I suspect getting the DVD will be a good thing indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, one other technical note about the DVD:

English, Aramaic, French and Spanish subtitles and language tracks

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

aramaic! haha

i wonder if the super-extended version will include the SLA plot that was cut out!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking awesome! I'm definitely going to spring for that third DVD.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

The DVDs are out and available -- Amazon listings here if you're so inclined.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

haha aramaic!

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Passion of the Ron would have been a fine movie (Ron leads the disciples to Pleasuretown, no crucifixion necessary)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i have just ordered the super-duper version from amerika. psyched out of my mind.

i'm just going to throw this one out there. if you don't like it, send it right back...

― henry miller, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow I must rewatch this.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

'That went up a notch.'

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been saying "Go back to your home on WHORE ISLAND" all week, it's quite freeing.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm ron burgundy?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i just ordered the super duper version from america also.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

my mother (god bless her) bought this for me without realizing that it won't play in my flatmate's player. can i do something to the machine to make it non-region specific? everyone says that it's possible, but no one actually knows how to do it.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i think there are codes you can punch in with your remote.

i've seen internet sites about it, though i've never done it myself.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren -- google the make of your dvd player + the word 'hack' and you shd come up trumps.

eg "'DVD 225V' hack"

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

sweet!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"You pooped in the refridgerator? AND ate an entire wheel of cheese? I'm not even mad; that's amazing!"

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Still great. Last night I sat and argued with Alex in SF's girlfriend about why it is so good. I might even buy it too!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to the bazillion extras - I did like how the movie was cut to include as much funny at the expense of some of the plot - "let's buy new suits!" - they don't but it puts them outside for the fight scene etc.

There's bits that I don't think are that good (the jazz flute bit, the fight itself, a lot of the ending) but it's still funnier than anything else I've seen for a long, long time. I'm piss bored of all these semi-comedy things (Tenenbaums I'm looking at YOU) that seem to have flooded the market for a while. It was refreshing to see something that was pretty much a straight ahead laffer.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It's golden. Definitely the new Zoolander in my head.

― Baxter, Friend to Bears, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

not that great but better than anyone i know seems to think

― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Baxter, you are my gentleman. I'll take you to foggy London-town.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, i agree with the new 'zoolander' notion.

i overdosed on Zoolander early in 2004. 5 times a week for 3 weeks.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

a few funny parts, but largely an awful movie

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

no Yancey

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i was in tears during the prank calls, i must admit tho

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

prank calls always funny, apparently the extra movie with the deluxe 'back to the gold soundz' edition features chuck d prominently

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i need to see this

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was kinda crummy. I liked the "yazz flute" scene however as well as others already mentioned. I wanna see Wake Up Ron Burgundy.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

even while incredibly incredibly stoned, I think I only genuinely laughed at this four times. Most of them were Steve Carrel's bits ("I ate your chocolate squirrel"

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The editing was kinda off.. especially noticeable during the confontation scenes with the rival news crew. Same w/Jack Black and the dog. The timing just seems off. They really leaned on Ferrell to carry all the jokes. It's like they didn't even bother pacing things to be funny, or thinking up funny inserts.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I laughed when I saw this in the theater, and I laughed even more last night when I watched the DVD. It is a good movie that doesn't give a good god damn about "consistency" or "pacing" or any of your outdated rockist notions.

(not yours, particularly, tracer, just in general)

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a good movie that doesn't give a good god damn about "consistency" or "pacing" or any of your outdated rockist notions.

But if yer fave bands had no sense of pacing one couldn't dance properly to them! And we would cry. (Wouldn't we?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned what is dancing "properly," how does one dance to yr fave bands, why are you crying, what the hell are you talking about, etc.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

er Haibun, pacing isn't some extra feature appreciated by the cognoscenti, "mmm nice rolling r's in her diction; excellent pacing!" No. Pacing is what makes funny things funny. In movies the comedic pace is usually created through the particular timing of reaction shots although very very occasionally actually created by the actors/director themselves during one long shot - and those are usually the real doozies. Yeah the movie is funny, and I laughed a lot too. But there were some great set-pieces and situations that got thrown away because of the bad editing. My opinion of course, YMMV, and up your nose with a rubber hose. Also I never said anything about consistency. I actually thought it was extremely consistent: Ferrell was funny, everyone else was just waiting to get edited.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Dancing improperly = my general flailing. It's not a sight one should see.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

up your nose with a rubber hose

OMG I'm arguing with Vinnie Barbarino WTF

Tracer I hear ya but I disagree, I am bored as shit with "traditional" notions of comedy pacing in movies, I love it when jokes tumble all over the place, this one did it for me BECAUSE there was no formula like (set-up) + (pause) + (jokey joke!) + (reaction shot) = (teh haha). "Set-pieces" and "situations" got completely subverted here, to me; I felt like they were going for "what would a regular Hollywood 'comedy' do, okay, let's do whatever that isn't." But that's all subjective innit, you have a right to your opinions too and I have to remember that, respect, love, winkies.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

also what is YMMV, looks like some kind of Biblical abbreviation

― Epstein's Mother (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Your mileage may vary. Alternate, YHWH's Motherfuckin' MONSTROUS VENGEANCE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

so let's re-define YMMV as that

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah it's so opposite from regular Hollywood comedy, Haibun. Male chauvanist meets his brainy match, sparks fly, but because of a Rosebud-type scenario (the dog) he loses it all, wanders the streets an outcast (the exact same scene appears in Elf), only to be called in at the last minute to save the station, which he does, with a grace that redeems him not only in the eyes of his boss and coworkers but to his sweetie as well!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, you win, Tracer. You are absolutely right: the dog is
Rosebud (from that splendid Hollywood comedy Citizen Kane), Elf was a typical Hollywood comedy too, the main Elf-like character really saves the station because of his superior reporting grace (not the fact that his talking dog has gone on a months-long vision quest and converses with a fucking Kodiak bear, no that had nothing to do with it), many Hollywood comedies feature animated sex scenes where the characters ride unicorns and when male chauvinist main character says "What a glorious rainbow!" his "brainy match" always yells "Do me on it!", yep absolutely how could I have been so blind fuckin-A call me Stevie Wonder.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Um spoiler alert in last post sorry. Also sorry for whole post.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 15 January 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked how the movie just gave up on being a praody of news and 70's culture and just cut loose.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 January 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the time that approach doesn't work (such as in the Austin Powers movies) but for some reason it worked in Anchorman, at least for me.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 January 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

there's definitely some problems with anchorman, like the should've-been-funny-but-not throwdown w/the other news teams (tim robbins' look is pretty awesome there though), but still... still... it is very hi-larious.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 16 January 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

got the DVD today

why do so many people think this is such a dud? (i just checked the IMDB board for this movie - not something i'm ever doing again).

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

warning: Wake Up Ron Bergundy is fucking awful. It is surprising how many people got cut from the movie tho - Chuck D included.

― Juan, the Magic Don (jingleberries), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I rented this last night. The first 1/2 half was rather dull and predictable but starting with the news-man throw down scene, which I thought was fucking hilarious, the movie turned into a total classic. Fucking TOM ROBBINS chopping dude's arm off while smoking that pipe was the funniest goddamn thing - HE PWNED THAT MOTHERFUCKING MOVIE!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It would have been much funnier if it were Tom Robbins who did that. And then a can of soup and a sock would have walked off with the arm.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought the pacing was fine, wtf! It doens't matter ifit's a 'regular Hollywood comedy' or not, a) because duuuuuh there's not such thing, b) because there'd be nothing wrong with that if there were, as long as it 'works', which 'Anchorman' definitely does. 'Dodgeball' is more polished, but lacks... Ferrell, basically.

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the fact that pacing is seemingly more important than content, style and delivery. but it must be admitted ferrell is an aquired taste- his turn in zoolander had me cold until my third viewing.

― d.arraghmac, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

well, in practice you can't separate pacing from content from style from delivery.

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

in practice i'm more worried about stretching first so i don't cramp. but i disagree.well, except that style and delivery are the same thing, obviously.

consider owen wilson- his style/delivery transcends the crappy (or at least basically unfunny) content he has to work with a lot of the time. see buddy movies/owen wilson

― d.arraghmac, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But he writes most of that crappy content!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

you are making a disticntion between 'script' and 'film' that's based on literary prejudice. a film is not a recital of a pre-existing text. if the delivery is good, the 'content' is good. what is content, other than what is implied by the film itself? 'content' is NOT somthing (eg the script) which is then 'interpreted' and 'made into' a film.

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

TIM ROBBINS PEOPLE!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, people, this movie kind of sucked hardcore. The anchorman fight was pretty funny and "Go back to your home on WHORE ISLAND" was a pretty funny line and the dude from the Daily Show was hysterical but seriously wtf. The Pleasure Island sequence was like the absolute worst thing I've seen on film in 6 months!

― Allyzay Highlights The Fallacy of Radiohead (allyzay), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pretty bad when a comedy's only funny parts to me are the simplest and most mean-spirited gags. The things I got out of Anchorman are Jack Black saying "Well now this is happening" before drop-kicking a small dog off a bridge and Tim Robbins as Art Garfunkel nonchalantly maiming a person who has their back turned while smoking a pipe.

The first 45-50 minutes are trash. Tracer spot on concerning the timing of 95% of the gags. The blooper reel at the end has better comedic timing. I checked to make sure and indeed, Adam McKay has never directed before, and indeed, he has been LIVE FROM NEW YORK for a billion years. That may explain why the whole film felt like about 35 different sketches spliced together in vaguely chronological order. Wet Hot American Summer did that better, and The Ladies' Man was a much better SNL-sponsored 70s send-up than Anchorman by a long shot. I could be biased, though, because I am also black with a giant dongus and have sex all the time.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 31 January 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I was with you up until the last bit there.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah the kicking the dog off the bridge was pretty funny but I kind of hated it that they brought the fucking dog back.

― Allyzay Highlights The Fallacy of Radiohead (allyzay), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a kick out of this movie (on a plane, tho, which is always different), but Tom's definitely right about Wet Hot American Summer -- same kind of WTF gags, much richer. I found the fight embarrassingly unfunny. In retrospect I can't remember what, specifically, I found funny about this film, but there was certainly something that got me, as the flight attendant kept asking me if I wanted a Sprite and I kept giggling at her.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was mainly those jokes that kind of hover between deadpan and really not, like the string of reactions to that super-cologne.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i turned this off after half an hour last night, the only things i laughed at were the cologne jokes and "im ron burgundy?" - is the rest as hard a slog?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it gets better.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the jazz flute bit was the breaking point.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

THE DOG TALKS TO THE BEAR. HOW DO YOU PEOPLE NOT SEE HOW THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER? THE DOG. TALKS. TO THE BEAR.

― adam (adam), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think our definitions of "funniest thing ever" are in opposition, is the problem here.

― Allyzay Highlights The Fallacy of Radiohead (allyzay), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, i liked the line about pooping in the fridge and eating an entire cheese wheel too. "i'm not even mad - that's amazing."

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the dog talking wasn't funny at all. i didn't even crack a smile. the jazz flute thing was embarrassing. thank you ally and tom for agreeing with me.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what I'd do if I woke up and my world was so grey and lifeless that I couldn't find the dog-talking-to-the-bear scene to be funny.

― adam (adam), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The dog talking to the bear was hilarious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

this movie is a lot funnier in retrospect, maybe i'd like it more if i watched it again. i thought it was okay, i guess, esp. the fight scene, and dog talking to bear, yeah. (i went in expecting to hate it because i had to see "old school" waaaaaaaay too many times in my common room last year, and now hate that).

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAS is an apt comparison in that their both movies made by funny, talented people (although the Stella folks are, on average, much less funny than Ferrell and made a better movie) who didn't really try hard enough to make a funny (or particularly engaging) full length movie. I think their sketch/improv background is less a problem than being surrounded by people who find the same things funny and are happy to amuse themselves.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Monday, 31 January 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE YELLING!!"

I found this movie excruciatingly entertaining. Most of the funniest gags, I winced as much as laughed. I loved how FANTANA dude said his own name.

I don't think the kicking the dog off the bridge was as funny as Ron trying to call the station to tell them what happened. And then when FANTANA answered, he was like "what's wrong, Ron? WERE YOU RAPED?", like, out of nowhere. Or was that just in the outtakes?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of my favorite things though were the sight gags, ie Brick putting mayonnaise in the toaster, Brick standing with the grenade at arm's length screaming...um, actually, pretty much everything that had to do with Brick.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the outtake where Brick ends up doing the coverage of the panda birth, and says 'any minute now, a stork will arrive with a new baby panda - let me see if I can just get a look at the- NNNNGHHHHHHH! RRGNNNGHHGHHHHHH! I DON'T UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAAND!'

Also the There Is Another Burgundy one, even though it makes no sense.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like a Star Wars reference.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Honestly though, I think the roffle climax for me, personally, was SEX PANTHER.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

TIM ROBBINS, PEOPLE!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i laughed so hard at the whole sex panther and aftermath thing ("this is worse than the time a raccoon got stuck in the copier!").

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to watch this film right now.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

brick is the best thing in this. 'mmm. i just burnt my tongue.'

― NRQ, Monday, 21 February 2005 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It was very funny from the street brawl onwards. I spent a lot of time hoping the dog would be okay.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

enrique otm.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I think if you watch a film like this, and it bothers you that the dog came back... well, you are an enemy of fun.

The structure of this madcap comedy wasn't rigid enough! I found the story to be trite!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/images/main_promo/news/bbc_election_team_r_1.jpg

― N_RQ, Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.billions.com/artists/stephenm/images/malkmus.jpg ihttp://media.outnow.ch/Movies/Images/2004/Anchorman/dvd.film/09.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Wow, I was really surprised how much I liked this movie! About halfway through I realized, "This is fucking brilliant!" The random non-sensical humor reminded me a lot of Chris Elliot's "Get a Life".

Ron Burgundy: You dirtbags have been in third place for five years.
Frank Vitchard: Oh yeah? Well, you're about to be in... dead place

Champ Kind: What in the hell's diversity?
Ron Burgundy: Well, I could be wrong, but I believe uh, diversity is an old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era.

Brian Fantana: That was one crazy party. I am hung over.
Champ Kind: I woke up on the floor of some Japanesse family's living room, and they would NOT stop screaming!
Brick Tamland: I ate a big, red candle.

Veronica Corningstone: I told you that I wanted to be an anchor...
Ron Burgundy: I thought you were kidding! I thought it was a joke! I even wrote it down in my diary - Veronica had a very funny joke today. I laughed about it later that night!

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 9 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

yeah it was so funny. there's a real confidence to even the gags that on paper should be really lame, like say the aftershave scene, if they didn't drag it out to such extreme lengths it would be totally bland and unfunny but since they do it's actually hilarious, really bowls you over. I couldn't stop laughing and I seldom laugh out loud at tv/films, I usually just think "that's funny".

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 9 September 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

"yeah it was so funny. there's a real confidence to even the gags that on paper should be really lame, like say the aftershave scene, if they didn't drag it out to such extreme lengths it would be totally bland and unfunny but since they do it's actually hilarious, really bowls you over."

otm! its not clever-funny, its more funny in a sloppy, buncha-guys-goofing-off way.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 9 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I was totally shocked at how much i enjoyed this.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 9 September 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

"Oh, it's the deep burn! Oh, it's so deep! I can barely lift my arm cos I did so many. I don't know if you heard me counting, I did over a thousand!"

― g-kit (g-kit), Saturday, 10 September 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

Even remembering the lines while reading this thread is making me laugh. I just LOVE this film.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 10 September 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I liked this alot. I like that ROn is an ass but he is sort of an innocent ass. I was glad it was not a let down like Elf. After the moveie was ove I felt sad taht I could not hang out with those guys in real life.

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

i would not advise a re-viewing of this film.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 11 February 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

You did it and you hurt inside?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 February 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Don't listen, I watched it twice the first night I ever saw it

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 11 February 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I saw this on a plane and expected to hate it*, but it was actually very funny. Of course, critical faculties are somewhat compromised on long haul flights, so it might really be crap.

*Because of Will Ferrell generally being an overrated piece of shit

― chap who would dare to be drunk on the internet (chap), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

The worst of the frat pack movies, not including Starsky & Hutch (haven't seen, not gonna). Worst lead actress, Will Ferrell's pretty awful, the writing wasn't funny.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:10 (twenty years ago)

i larfed nonstop and so did dr. vick

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

"It's pretty bad when a comedy's only funny parts to me are the simplest and most mean-spirited gags. The things I got out of Anchorman are Jack Black saying "Well now this is happening" before drop-kicking a small dog off a bridge and Tim Robbins as Art Garfunkel nonchalantly maiming a person who has their back turned while smoking a pipe."

TOMBOT otm - these are the two funniest gags in the movie. I watched it last night and laughed at some of it (Christina APplegate braining Farrell with a linotype machine) but it did seem weirdly forced and improvised and not all that well thought out.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

also is that a screengrab of a Steven Malkmus cameo upthread?!?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

This is an awfully long thread to say "God, what a stupid, boring piece of crap." But I see that I aam not the first person to think so. Oddly, a friend of mine who loves this hates "40 Year Old Virgin," which shows that taste is never a barrier to affection, I guess.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

40 Year Old Virgin is *miles* better than this (tho there were still a few things that irked me about it). Steve Carrell's bits in Anchorman were by and large pretty entertaining tho...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I saw Anchorman on a plane and thought it was a perfectly good plane film.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

My point exactly, Mo.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember if I said this before, but I saw this and Elf on the SAME FLIGHT.

What's crazy is that about 2/3 of both movies are exactly the same. Coddled oddball Will Ferrell leaves the safety of his situation and after wondering whether he'll ever be OK again finally finds a way to fit into a new and changing world.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 May 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

comedy vehicles in not narratively innovative SHOCK!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

elf is the funniest shit ever

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I demand we start a new board called "I Love Lamp".

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah s1ocki I know, but it really comes home seeing them in succession. It's like every Will Ferrell movie requires a wandering-the-streets-drunk-and-depressed montage.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

yeah!! but funny.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

although i find replay value to be completely unpredictable with all of the ferrell, vaughn, stiller etc stuff.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Wedding Crashers - excellent replay value
Zoolander - slightly less, still good
Old School - less still, but I'll stop and watch it on cable
Anchorman - not much
Dodgeball - none
Starsky & Hutch - I couldn't even watch it once, much less multiple times

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

wedding crashers - no
zoolander - no
old school - YES
anchorman - less than expected
dodgeball - dunno
starsky & hutch - saw it on tv last week, was strangely hypnotic

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

what about... ZERO EFFECT?? i saw it in the theater! (?????)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

thats really good for like bargain ramis/coens/something

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

LAUREL AND HARDY FILMS ARE ALL THE SAME

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:34 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1037314/U-S-newsreader-faces-jail-leaking-saucy-emails-anchorbabe.html

A veteran newsreader has been charged with hacking into his glamorous co-presenter's emails and leaking them to the press.

Larry Mendte, 51, is accused of trying to ruin Alycia Lane's career.

Insiders said Mendte and Miss Lane, 34, appeared friendly on camera, but actually loathed each other.

The older journalist was said to be jealous of Miss Lane's £400,000-a-year salary - £50,000 more than he was paid for their evening news bulletin on a station in Philadelphia.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr5JU_UDvNY

lol~

― goole, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

haha jesus what is with these two??

http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=13&num=14435

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx9JR9K70k

― goole, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

the opening is not very promising

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

this script got greenlighted? -_-

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

all of a sudden all the sketch comedy groups at my school make a lot more sense

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

i never found that liveblogging madcap comedy improved the experience but.....

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

it's kinda like doing something while the TV is on

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

it's kinda like using a dictaphone at a concert

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

it's not much like that is it?

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

I guess not. I did laugh at the erection bit.

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

i refuse to be a further part of your distracting yourself from one of the great performances of our time. good day to you.

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

haha. I see upthread people see it as the new zoolander - I didn't really like zoolander either. currently thinking about whether this or meet the parents ranked higher on the film poll

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

the coronado bridge is not really the coronado bridge, it's some bridge in long beach. also, the san diego zoo isn't really the san diego zoo, it's some worthless LA zoo.

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

okay 2x2 rubiks cube is a good sight gag

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

the coronado bridge is not really the coronado bridge, it's some bridge in long beach.

Well, the long shots are real, at least.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 February 2010 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Sequel is happening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=MrNA7RjU91I

― Number None, Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

A fine thing!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

i've been thinking the terrible people in my life have been low on material

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:27 (fourteen years ago)

how is that other sorta sequel 'Wake Up Ron Burgundy' that they made out of the deleted scenes/cut footage? anyone catch that?

oh and can i just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdtSkqYT6U8

― piscesx, Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:50 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

lol hueg etc

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mtntp62j34bjpg/original.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

We have trailer, sorta.

http://gawker.com/5912001/the-anchorman-2-teaser-trailer-will-rock-your-world

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

can't believe they're releasing a sequel to this shit trash movie

― 乒乓, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:30 (twelve years ago)

Will ferrell is looking mad old in all those dodge spots. Also yeah this movie kind of blew.

― sleepingbag, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:33 (twelve years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/52957-heres-ron-burgundy-riding-a-tandem-bicycle-in-amsterdam-with-daft-punk/

cool story

Sequel looks horrible

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 11 November 2013 06:33 (twelve years ago)

Ferrell is roughly as funny as cancer

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 06:34 (twelve years ago)

http://www.jerriblank.com/201_cancer.mp3

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:30 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Had some moments.

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 January 2014 14:42 (twelve years ago)

haha wow

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 9 January 2014 14:47 (twelve years ago)

Yeah.

Overall, there was no need to make this movie.

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:25 (twelve years ago)

the first anchorman man movie came out when i was in seventh grade and for the entire year all anyone at my school did was reference jokes from it. now, no one has even seen this movie and although i was aware that it was being made hadn't even realized it was in theatres. why is it so bad?

― flopson, Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:34 (twelve years ago)

How anybody imagined this would be any good at all is seriously confusing me

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:39 (twelve years ago)

"Let's all get perms!"

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 11:52 (twelve years ago)

^^^
Movie needed more random ass shit like that, fewer lessons/narrative

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 11:52 (twelve years ago)

Seriously they should have thrown plot entirely out the window and gone full dada, skits everywhere. This somehow felt more straight laced than the first movie.

A+ though:

-all Carrel/Wiig shit
-awkward/dumb racial dynamics
-a smattering of random one liners

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 12:07 (twelve years ago)

Cameos sucked except g. Kin near and h. Ford

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 12:07 (twelve years ago)

Oh stuff with the son was good, applegate was a treat, cable news shit had some teeth

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 12:09 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

this was rife with problems but I really laughed through nearly the whole thing. after the first 15 minutes I was afraid it was gonna be a composite of everything I didn't like about the first one but it got really good after that. all those Raymond posts are otm really

― frogbs, Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:23 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

what the hell?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/movies/anchorman-2-returns-call-it-2.html?hpw&rref=movies

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:33 (twelve years ago)

like the scenes in those movies haven't always been replaceable?

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:41 (twelve years ago)

right but a theatrical release?

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:50 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

blecch

― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 March 2014 14:07 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

tried to figure out why the first Anchorman was so hilarious at first, and so aggravating to me on repeat views. settled on the fact that the unexpectedness/randomness of the jokes do a lot of the work (as evidenced upthread, pacing is often ignored), and once the surprise element wears off, there's not much left. Contrasting with some of my favorite comedies where they stay as funny on later viewings.

ie the strength of the movie on its first viewing is its universe having no set boundaries, so ridiculous shit like a newsanchor violent, medieval newsanchor brawl can break out randomly. and then said ridiculous factor crescendos to where you start anticipating how far they'll go. too many of the jokes were funny for purely that reason? I mean the bear/dog shit was funny on its own right IMO but some of the other jokes I found myself mostly laughing cos it was a non-sequitur or completely out of left field, and then when the novelty wore off, just wasn't funny.

Not that it's all that way. I still say "This burrito is good but it...is...filling" in Ferrell voice if I'm at taco bell with friends, i mean.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:43 (eleven years ago)

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