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

lol @ this:

Has he got the longevity and sustainability that Will Ferrell has?

VeronaInTheClub is joking, right?

We didn't watch the director's cut but the theatrical version wasn't as funny as I hoped it would be. Also Kristin Wiig totally kicked Jenna Fischer's ass in the funny stakes.

where were the jokes in this movie

o man, do we have a thread about the Ferrell/Reilly stepbrother LOLfest?

jenna fischer was hot in this but then again she's basically hot in everything kinda like how that lady from law and order criminal intent was hot in what about bob

Tim Meadows was the best thing about this movie. Dude could use a break of his own, to make up for The Ladies Man and all.

Overall it was only OK, and a bit too mean spirited in times when it should have been lighthearted. I thought Apotow and co. did a fantastic job with the music itself, and also the skewering of the various rock trends throughout the decades. If for nothing else, the film is worth seeing solely for the LSD/Brian Wilson sequence.

Yeah I realise that was quite an inchorent post. I want to believe Ferrell can come back and my heart does but my mind is like; yeah unlikely.

where were the jokes in this movie

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:12 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

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THERE IS NO HANGOVER.

This gave me some much-needed weekend lols.

also the Brian Wilson period. "This song is... not good."

"I think that goat sings on this record more than I do."

I fucking LOVED this movie.

i didn't but that Brian Wilson parody part is v. funny!

I found this to be a long unfocused mess with a few high-quality lols.

I think this might be the funniest movie of the dECADE!

i can't really argue that it's a mess but i love it so much.

running, and crap, joke with friends is to shout "the wrong kid died" if Jim Belushi comes on the television.

there is no John C. Reilly thread so I'll just say this here

Cyrus was a really annoying movie

lol @ this thread's title

running, and crap, joke with friends is to shout "the wrong kid died" if Jim Belushi comes on the television.

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:11 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

every time i watch Justified i just want Raylan's dad to say it

Interviewed about music. Good story:

I was at some charity event. One of these big Oscar party type of things. And I think it was a party that Elton John throws for AIDS research or whatever, and it’s one of those parties where you go in and it’s super stressful because literally any time you bump into someone it’s Tom Cruise, or Tom Hanks, or Kirk Douglas, one of those type of parties.

Yeah, one of those types of parties.
People think, oh, you’re famous, so those are your type of people. But I really don’t feel like those are my type of people. I feel like an imposter in the room whenever I’m at anything like that, or ceremonies, or whatever. Those things stress me out. But we were invited so I went with my wife, and we walk in and we’re starving because we’d already been to a few other things before we had gotten there. So we’re like, “Let’s just get some food, and not freak out and try to talk to every single person we see. Let’s just get food, calm down, eat, and see if we know anyone here.” So we get big plates of food, and we’re looking for somewhere to sit. Everywhere was full, but we spotted two spots.

So we go and sit down and I slide over with my big plate of food and my wife sits next to me and I take a big bite of prime rib, and I turn, and I’m literally shoulder to shoulder with Elton John. He’s like, *adopts British Elton John voice*, “Oh, you’ve decided to sit down next to me with your plate of food.” And I was like, “Oh, FUCK! God damnit. This is not how I wanted this to go!” But I was starving, and it was like, what’s more awkward? Getting up with a plate of food and walking away? Or just trying to just calmly eat your food and at some point mid-plate full, I said something like, “I’m a huge fan.” And he was just like, “Oh, well, of course.” Like, yeah, that’s obvious, every single person says that to me almost every day.

this movie is pretty clearly the best thing Apatow ever touched, thank christ he didn't direct it

I thought you were reviving this because of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpQBxSD1l9E

iiiijjjj thoroughly OTM

I also liked that all of the Beatles went uncredited

people who don't like ths movie are dumb and also wrong

it's like if Spinal Tap was made without jokes

I'm gonna beat off
All my demons

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?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:27 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

v hot c.2007 take

is judd apatow still alive?

Has Reilly even been in any other Apatow films?

he produces the Ferrell/McKay movies

Every time The Martian is on cable and we end up watching the back 70 minutes or so, I end up thinking they should've used this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2Va7ruWgg

This is, of course, brilliant:

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/5/29/18642513/walk-hard-dewey-cox-oral-history-john-c-reilly-music-biopic-jake-kasdan-judd-apatow

reinforces the general sense I get that Eddie Vedder is a mensch

Kasdan: He’s not doing a bit. He’s finding the emotional truth of what he’s playing. Even if what he’s playing is crazy. And that’s his great gift.

yeah this is the magic of john c reilly right here

That was a pretty good read. I wished they'd talked about the Beatles scene because that really killed me. It was strange to have a major studio produce a movie that was such an acute parody. If you had a system where you rated movies based on how good you expected them to be vs. how good they actually were, I think this would be my highest rated movie ever.

I have avoided this film up to now but this thread has me convinced.

I saw Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time recently and was expecting it to be dumb as hell, but still couldnt believe how much of it seemed to be deleted/alternate scenes from Walk Hard. Observation in the article about how everyone who enters a room in these movies is immediately a major character is hilariously spot on. In Bohemian I laughed particularly hard at the dad character, like his entrance is literally him walking through a door wearing a suit after a long hard day of 'business' and immediately telling his son to give up his dreams. Everything is so absurdly rushed and compressed.

I know Walk Hard bombed but some part of me still hoped it had maybe contributed to that genre dying out, cant believe we are going to be subjected to yet another cycle of these horrible films.

it's time for dewey cox 2: harder

Dewhemian Coxhody

*Dewey Cox rumble*

"Mama...just killed a guy."

on rewatch, the funniest scene was the Dewey/dad duel. Raymond J Barry is a treasure

fitting that he eventually went on to play the shittiest southern daddy in tv, arlo givens

this movie is a solid 7.5

On a scale of 6? Agreed!

lol otm

Dewey, I'm cut in half pretty bad

I found this to be a long unfocused mess with a few high-quality lols.

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:02 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

revise this a little bit, this is very good. underrated

The oral history gave me so much more appreciation for the care that went into this

I'm sure I mentioned this above, but I went into hysterics in the movie theater such that I was surprised no one shushed me