this was incredibly uneven, though there were a lot of funny parts.
Pretty much. Some good laughs. Wouldn't need to see it again but I wouldn't mind hearing the songs (or at least a full version of the cover of Bowie's "Starman.")
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't want no part of this shart
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
wait
"this is such a dark fucking period"
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:20 (Yesterday) Link
best bit
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 27 December 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Wouldn't need to see it again but I wouldn't mind hearing the songs
Supposedly Reilly is doing a small-scale tour as Dewey Cox. Check your local listings.
― j.lu, Thursday, 27 December 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I think my favorite line was "That was early Dewey, this is middle Dewey." The songs were OK but kind of the weak spot of the movie, most of them weren't very funny aside from "Let's Duet."
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 27 December 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
loved it. lazy funny comedy, just enough really good stuff to make it worthwhile. i look forward to seeing this again, but on teh w33d.
My favorite part was the first shot of the giraffe. I saw this all by myself and was LOLing like a psycho.
― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 30 December 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
also the Brian Wilson period. "This song is... not good."
― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 30 December 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
and all the flaccid penis, roffle.
― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 30 December 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
that "backlash" thing was pretty great.
― da croupier, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
*clink* xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 30 December 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh that 'backlash' thing felt longer than the actual movie, for so little payoff.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 30 December 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
John C. Reilly + Will Ferrell: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/fa1420df1f
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought this was funny. the brian wilson stuff and the dylan stuff was great.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
saw it. fell asleep for 40% of it due to drinking halfa bottle of Devils Lair wine.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
that 'green team' thing is shit. i lolled at 'backlash' though.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 4 January 2008 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't seen this yet either, but they played "Royal Jelly" on Fresh Air a couple weeks ago and I LOLed on the train like an idiot.
― kenan, Friday, 4 January 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
this is a pile of shit DO NOT SEE IT
I wish I had listened to this. There are a few good jokes but lots more jokes that fall flat and then are turned into tiresome running gags. Save it for DVD, if you must.
― o. nate, Monday, 14 January 2008 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
watched the 2-hour extended cut on dvd. liked it way better than the theatrical version. better paced and a lot of funny bits that shouldn't have been cut in the first place.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 22 May 2008 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno the fact that Disco Dewey got a whole era to himself didn't really work for me, there wasn't enough there to keep me interested. Though admittedly the same section feels much more rushed in theatrical.
Also: I CUT YOU IN HALF LIKE DEWEY COX
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I laughed till I cried and then couldn't breathe toward the beginning, then had a 45 minute stretch there in the middle with nothing, then a smattering at the end.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 29 May 2008 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
You are WAAAY off man. I still believe Ferrell can come back, he's got it in him. John C. Reilly is just a pretender to the throne. Has he got the longevity and sustainability that Will Ferrell has? Anyway most people don't even know who this sucker is, viewers will go into Walk Hard expecting to see Will Ferrell and be quietly disappointed. I think Judd Apatow is playing them off against each other. The only person who could possibly match up Ferrell is Will Arnett but thats because he's got the quiet/loud/screaming thing down pat too. Reilly is funny in his own right though, much respect. I will watch Walk Hard.
― VeronaInTheClub, Thursday, 29 May 2008 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ this:
Has he got the longevity and sustainability that Will Ferrell has?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 29 May 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 29 May 2008 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
where were the jokes in this movie
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 29 May 2008 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
o man, do we have a thread about the Ferrell/Reilly stepbrother LOLfest?
― milo z, Thursday, 29 May 2008 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 22 June 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Pillbox, Sunday, 22 June 2008 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― VeronaInTheClub, Sunday, 22 June 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:12 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
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― banriquit, Sunday, 22 June 2008 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
THERE IS NO HANGOVER.
― Abbott loves her turtle (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
This gave me some much-needed weekend lols.
"I think that goat sings on this record more than I do."
I fucking LOVED this movie.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 27 June 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't but that Brian Wilson parody part is v. funny!
― Ludo, Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 27 June 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this might be the funniest movie of the dECADE!
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't really argue that it's a mess but i love it so much.
― matt h. (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 27 June 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
there is no John C. Reilly thread so I'll just say this here
Cyrus was a really annoying movie
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ this thread's title
― some dude, Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― some dude, Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
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.
― That's So (Eazy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
this movie is pretty clearly the best thing Apatow ever touched, thank christ he didn't direct it
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
I thought you were reviving this because of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpQBxSD1l9E
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 06:00 (eight years ago) link
iiiijjjj thoroughly OTM
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 May 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
I also liked that all of the Beatles went uncredited
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 May 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
people who don't like ths movie are dumb and also wrong
― qualx, Sunday, 22 May 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
it's like if Spinal Tap was made without jokes
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
I'm gonna beat offAll my demons
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link