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

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

I’ve rewatched this movie twice this year. It’s amazing how they successful nail and skewer so many music biopic cliches while still pulling off some of the emotional notes those cliches try to hit! The songs strike a balance between straight-up goofing on artists and repurposing musical styles to the point where they might be real songs — and you realize how silly some of the cultural touchstones they’re evoking are when put out of context.

One Eye Open is otm that somehow Bohemian Rhapsody came out years later and somehow managed to use all the same cliches again, but in an insanely sanitized way because it’s a family movie

Watched it this week and kept thinking about how absolutely terrible it would have been with Will Ferrell in place of Reilly.

One of the good things about this movie is Ferrell's lack of involvement in it.

Dewey, I'm cut in half pretty bad

― lumen (esby), Saturday, July 11, 2020 7:01 AM (two weeks ago)

fake liverpool accent "great record, great record" is now a permanent part of my vocabulary to the point where i must come across as a right weirdo to people who havent seen it (most people)

Watched it this week and kept thinking about how absolutely terrible it would have been with Will Ferrell in place of Reilly.

absolutely. the supporting cast + cameos are all game and funny (I particularly appreciate Vedder's straight-faced RRHF speech) but it's impossible for me to imagine anyone but JCR killing it like that

one of my very favorite lines comes early, when he's at the talent show, watching the tap dancing girl or whatever: "How are we gonna top that?!"

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