Will Ferrell's Greatest Movie Role?
Will Ferrell's Greatest Movie Role? 26 votes
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He isn't funny. None of those movies are funny.
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Talladega Nights - Ricky Bobby
He sucked hind tit at the Tom Brady roast.
Ricky Bobby makes me chuckle but you could have put Danny McBride or Walton Goggins in the role and got the same movie.
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Old School - Frank the Tank
@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.
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The Other Guys - Detective Allen "Gator" Gamble
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The Other Guys - Detective Allen "Gator" Gamble
He's the king of the first 20 minutes are hilarious and the last 70 suck
Picked this because Walhburg
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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.
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Step Brothers - Brennan Huff
Actually they've banned all humor now.
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Elf - Buddy
Zoolander is the funniest of those movies. He is probably best as Ron Burgundy.
But Buddy the elf is his greatest movie role.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
George Dubya Bush in "You're Welcome America."
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Old School - Frank the Tank
Riddle me this @haie - what's your Mt Rushmore of greatest comedies? I might try and do a poll for the greatest dark comedies of all time.
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The Other Guys - Detective Allen "Gator" Gamble
Ironically Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool is awesome dark comedy
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Step Brothers - Brennan Huff
That is some dark shit man…
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About 20 minutes of super troopers 2, about 15inites of Burn After Reading, a few jokes from Silicon Valley. Drawing a blank after those..
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I don't hate his Deadpool stuff, but it doesn't make me laugh and the comic book shit has contributed to killing the genres that I really love.
He doesn't lean into the hooker and blow stuff that he should because he's a family guy now.
Same vibe as Gosling moving away from Drive. They don't need to give into it to still be stars.
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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.
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The Other Guys - Detective Allen "Gator" Gamble
I feel the same way about Jack Black.
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Old School - Frank the Tank
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.
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I can't pick one. He has made me laugh maybe five times ever. The only time I find him funny at all is when he's pretending to be serious.
Someone made a comparison to Jack Black. I'm on board with that. He's not funny either.
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Zoolander - Jacobim Mugatu
Has there been one of these for Sandler? I want to yell at people who vote for Happy Gilmore.
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Old School - Frank the Tank
No. But we can put that one it the hopper.
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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.
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Talladega Nights - Ricky Bobby
I kind of like the basketball movie. Ant Edwards was a pretty good villain.
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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.
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Anchorman - Ron Burgundy
He's pretty funny. Not gonna make any of my top 10 lists, but he makes me laugh more than most comedy actors.
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Zoolander - Jacobim Mugatu
she hulk and Velma beg to differ bigot
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Zoolander - Jacobim Mugatu
Billy Madison is still hilarious every time
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Zoolander - Jacobim Mugatu
will ferrell had a thing going but it got stale then he leaned way into it.
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Elf - Buddy
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):
