Will Ferrell's Greatest Movie Role?

[YellowSnow]

Has there been one of these for Sandler? I want to yell at people who vote for Happy Gilmore.

No. But we can put that one it the hopper.

 

[haie]

Has there been one of these for Sandler? I want to yell at people who vote for Happy Gilmore.

Sandler's recent humor is a long play joke that Netflix has given him all this money to make movies where he's trying his hardest to show the viewer how much he dgaf.

 

[PurpleThrobber]

Has there been one of these for Sandler? I want to yell at people who vote for Happy Gilmore.

Sandler's recent humor is a long play joke that Netflix has given him all this money to make movies where he's trying his hardest to show the viewer how much he dgaf.

I kind of like the basketball movie. Ant Edwards was a pretty good villain.

 

[WoolleyDoog]

Possibly unpopular opinion but I think Ferrell is kind of like a sixth man who comes off the bench and can score in a flurry type who got pushed up into being a #1. It's always kind of the same note and feels like a lot of his movies are SNL skits stretched out to 90 minutes. I would actually say Wedding Crashers because it was also unexpected when it first came out.

Kinda of agree. Kinda of disagree. I mean my favorite Will Ferrell character of all time of Ashley Schaefer which is clearly 6th man type stuff.
But he's been able to carry entire films like Anchorman, Elf, or Ricky Bobby, albeit with strong supporting casts.

Don't get me wrong though I like Farrell and Jack Black and I think both are more than good enough to carry movies, I just always feel like both are better as like being more cameo type guys. I never got Anchorman though and kind of seemed like to me like it was just a bunch of saying silly shit in silly ways to be quotable. It wasn't as bad but similar to when Dane Cook was big for like one year and girls really liked the silly way he said stuff.
Ashley Schaefer is amazing and Eastbound and Down is like all time good comedy stuff. I'm also much more of a Apatow style fan than the Old School, Wedding Crashers, Hangover genre.

 

[Fenderbender123]

He's pretty funny. Not gonna make any of my top 10 lists, but he makes me laugh more than most comedy actors.

 

[Pitchfork51]

He isn't funny. None of those movies are funny.

@haie I feel like you enjoy some more niche movies, right- i.e., stuff that didn't rake it in at the box office?
I mean, I get it that a lot of these movies are dumb at times, but the jokes and lines of these are the vernacular of our time.

Dark humor has been banned in Hollywood for some time now, so we're all stuck with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds which makes me skip comedy movies altogether.

Actually they've banned all humor now.

she hulk and Velma beg to differ bigot

 

[Pitchfork51]

Billy Madison is still hilarious every time

 

[Pitchfork51]

will ferrell had a thing going but it got stale then he leaned way into it.
Hence shit like step brothers

 

[huskyhooligan]

Elf is a classic. Netflix's show "The Movies that Made Us" or something to that effect had an episode about Elf, and how they filmed and weren't totally certain WF would be the right fit. At the time he was an SNL guy but really hadn't done many movies. They were a bit worried as Old School had come out a bit earlier and thought the raucous comedy would keep parents from bringing their kids to see Elf. Elf obviously put him on everyone's radar.

Though not really a Will Ferrell funny moment but from these movies this is still my favorite sequence (The Other Guys - Soup Kitchen):