John C. Reilly stole Will Ferrell's career - a Walk Hard thread

this is really fucking funny.

How funny we talkin? Funniest of the year kind of funny?

fucking end-of-year-lists mentality!

I'm looking forward to this more than anything else from Apatoworld this year.

this just sorta looks like a wayans brother movie to me so far...i hope im wrong.

no, they're not releasing Musician Biography Movie until next summer.

it includes a great spoof of 'dont look back'.

i really really want to see this so bad

Fully stoked! And John C. Reilly can actually act whereas Will Farrell is an embarrassment solid through.

the first ten minutes of the film shown here for free!!

http://movies.ign.com/articles/840/840333p1.html

"Dewey, I've been halved!"

That clip definitely reaffirms what a dull director Jake Kasdan can be and that the film is too high-concept to offer the kind of non-stop riffing "from the folks that brought you Knocked Up And Superbad" implies, but I laughed enough that I'll definitely still be checking it out.

I love biopic parodies. I've been wanting to do one about Abe Lincoln forever!

"Young Abraham Gironomo Lincoln, born to a family of poor immigrant grape-squashers in Illinois wine country, heads off to battle in the Civil War and comes home a war hero. Emboldened by his newfound celebrity, he starts on a campaign for the White House, running against John Wilkes Booth, an actor-turned politician. Musical score by The Aphex Twins."

basically my mind was warped by Yahoo Serious at a very young age

clarity!

"this is a particularly bad case of getting cut in half"

Will Ferrell was really good in STranger Than Fiction. dude can be funny he just picks bad material.

uh?

sorry I should have italicized what I was responding to:

Fully stoked! And John C. Reilly can actually act whereas Will Farrell is an embarrassment solid through.

This is not heresy and I shall not recant.

you don't have to....I will never watch Anchorman again

so is this funny?

His interview on Fresh Air was really good; they played bits of the songs which sounded excellent.

it's a treat

in my dreams you're blowing me...........kisses

So seeing this over the weekend.

that whole song is at once incredibly obvious and rofflicious. like most of the movie. jenna f is great.

i'm gonna beat off........ all my demons

i remembera few months before i saw the trailer for this, i thought, "WHERE is john c. reilly's lead role in a movie?! LONG OVERDUE" then... i saw this!

funny facts: i thought jack black was giovani ribisi. i also thought frankie muniz was fred savage in a time warp.

this is a pile of shit DO NOT SEE IT

the first ten minutes of the film shown here for free!!

How can I get those ten minutes of my life back?

if you thought the first ten were bad...

movie is 1997 snl unfunny

plus glib, reactionary, hates music

"The film is a saggy, oddly mean-spirited takeoff of "Walk the Line."" - strgn

I would consider this a plus.

movie is 1997 snl unfunny

Jim Breuer unfunny? Srsly?

Sometime I think there is nothing worse in life than Jim Breur.

I consider myself blessed, I don't recognize that name at all.

Jim Breuer is like nails on a chalkboard for me.

i remembera few months before i saw the trailer for this, i thought, "WHERE is john c. reilly's lead role in a movie?! LONG OVERDUE" then... i saw this!

Did no one else but me see this?

Good cast! I don't think I even heard of it.

this was incredibly uneven, though there were a lot of funny parts.

****POSSIBLE SPOILERS for you weenies***

First third and last ten minutes of this are great, but it sags HEAVILY in the middle. From right after Dewey discovers cocaine and meets Darlene right up till the rap video with the Walk Hard sample, total snore, lots of VERY unfunny bits. But the 35 minutes of this that are good make it worth seeing. Especially

***OK, this is a BIG SPOILER!!!!!! BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE*****

the WTF cameo by....GHOSTFACE!!!

No shit.

Getting tired of seeing he same eight comedic actors in every goddam movie, by the way. Jack Black, please take a vacation fer crissakes. Freaks and Geeks was great and Superbad definitely very good, but is Apatow gonna just, like, recycle the same five actors in every movie now?

'the film is more funny ha-ha than LOL' - New York Times

wait what?

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My fav supporting cast bit is John Michael Higgins as the engineer when they record "Walk Hard", his performance as he's dressing down JCR slays me so hard.

This is one of those where I have to actively try not to rewatch it too often in order to not spoil it.

goddammit this is a dark fucking period!!

every time I see this movie I end up singing Dewey's rendition of 'That's Amore' for a day or two afterward

I also say glate lecold a lot in my head

^^^^same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g_xaVNY9P4

Beatles!! Stop fighting here in India!!

the ending montage where a bunch of moments that weren’t in the movie, including jack black as elvis waving a switchblade at dewey

This will rule

This Friday I'm joined by @kalebhorton and @AlanSiegelLA to talk about the only biopic that matters: WALK HARD. *Tim Meadows voice* Trust me, you do want part of this shit. Until then, you can find all 30 episodes at the link below.

👇👇👇https://t.co/l4ac6wSrYj pic.twitter.com/ANVPZdPtje

— Soundtracker Podcast (@Soundtracker_) March 23, 2022

Listening to this now having finally read the Ringer piece. I rewatched this this weekend and have been marginally obsessed all over again. I really do need to see the director’s cut.

Can we agree that the real tragedy of this movie is that Glen Campbell never recorded a version of Beautiful Ride (as he stood on the precipice of death)?

Slightly off topic but thread title hits a bit different now given the fallout between Ferrell and McKay's split up over Reilly's casting in the Lakers show.

garbled that but you know what I mean

Was thinking the same.

Show is a bit of a trashfire but Reilly is gr8 in that.

Officially over this take, true even tho it may be

Hard to think of a single film released in my lifetime that has caused more artistic devastation than Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Every conventional biopic released since has been accidentally hilarious because of it

— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) April 24, 2023

the wrong kid died