>Isn't this basically a Being John Malcovich knockoff
Similar surrealist type of film.
Close enough in style that I thought it could be the same writer.
I liked the film though.
Maggie Gyllenhaal came off as attractive and sweet in the film.
>she does in most films >no one agrees with me 🙁
Maggie routinely plays sexually degenerate women, or women with psychological issues.
In this she’s playing an overly generous baker, who’s frustrated at an IRS accountant for being audited.
It’s a different type of role, and she played it well.
>it was obviously a talentless imitator
There are plenty of Hollywood writers that write “similar” scripts, both in terms of style, as well as plot.
After ‘Pulp Fiction’ came out, every dark violent film was being called a Tarantino knock off, even when the films really weren’t “Tarantino” in style.
There was also Roger Avery, who literally collaborated on some of the Tarantino films with the story or script, and his films were being labelled as “Tarantino like”.
‘Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead’ was called a Tarantino knock off, even though it’s a different type of film, that is nothing like Tarantino’s style.
As for ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, it was written after Charlie Kaufman’s early films were,
and some of Kaufman’s early scripts had supposedly been passed around a lot in Hollywood,
But it also reminds me to an extent of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ which far predates the Kaufman scripts.
Other similar types of books and screenplays have been written in the past.
Maybe the writer or the producer who commissioned the script read the Kaufman scripts and wanted to make something similar,
Maybe they read the scripts and thought this type of surrealist film might become the new thing, like jumping on the Film noir, 1980s over the top action film, or capeshit genre.
Will Farrell getting fricked out of his dream role by Adam McKay and John C Reilly for that 70s LA Lakers TV show was funnier than anything he's done in his career.
>will Farrell finds out that Adam McKay (director of Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, frequent collaborator of Farrell's) is making a show about the Lakers in the 70s >will gets hyped as one of his heroes was Jerry Buss, the coach of the Lakers during this period >Will is also a SUPERFAN of the team as well >finds out Michael Shannon would be getting the role and is fine with it at first >Shannon drops the role due to scheduling >Farrell tells McKay how much he wants the role >McKay goes straight to Reilly, and offers the role, which he immediately accepts >Reilly has 0 clue that Farrell was interested in the part >Reilly CALLS Farrell telling him that he got the part, as this is the first real role for John in quite some time, and he was excited to let Farrell know >Will is pissed off at McKay for doing this and calls him directly afterwards >They have a huge fight and basically break up their working relationship >McKay admits he fricked up but also says that Farrell "took it as a way deeper hurt than I ever imagined" >Farrell still has not forgiven McKay and it's unlikely he ever will
Stanger than Fiction is the kind of movie that someone who never took an english class after freshman year of highschool would think is deep. Big whoop, he pushes a kid on a bike out of the way of a bus, and that's supposed to be this enormous artistic achievement?
has 0 clue that Farrell was interested in the part
CALLS Farrell telling him that he got the part, as this is the first real role for John in quite some time, and he was excited to let Farrell know
Damn that's rough
I gotta call bs on Reily unless he wasn't paying attention to Will taking about Lakers non stop. Maybe he thought will turned it down but man why not run it by him first?
>will Farrell finds out that Adam McKay (director of Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, frequent collaborator of Farrell's) is making a show about the Lakers in the 70s >will gets hyped as one of his heroes was Jerry Buss, the coach of the Lakers during this period >Will is also a SUPERFAN of the team as well >finds out Michael Shannon would be getting the role and is fine with it at first >Shannon drops the role due to scheduling >Farrell tells McKay how much he wants the role >McKay goes straight to Reilly, and offers the role, which he immediately accepts >Reilly has 0 clue that Farrell was interested in the part >Reilly CALLS Farrell telling him that he got the part, as this is the first real role for John in quite some time, and he was excited to let Farrell know >Will is pissed off at McKay for doing this and calls him directly afterwards >They have a huge fight and basically break up their working relationship >McKay admits he fricked up but also says that Farrell "took it as a way deeper hurt than I ever imagined" >Farrell still has not forgiven McKay and it's unlikely he ever will
>Will Farrell getting fricked out of his dream role by Adam McKay and John C Reilly
Reilly was a better fit. That's not get fricked out that's called "not being a good fit for the role". Can't believe he's so bitter about it, what a gay.
Sure, but you've gotta admit that Will telling Adam how badly he wants the role, then Adam not even giving him a chance and going straight to John, is pretty fricked.
I'd honestly just call Robin Williams an actor without the comedic qualifier. He has multiple very good dramatic movies.
>The Fisher King >Awakenings >One Hour Photo >Dead Poets Society >Good Will Hunting
etc etc. He also had an extremely good episode of Law and Order SVU playing the villain.
He wasn't a guy where you would laugh at the idea of him doing anything serious.
I'd honestly just call Robin Williams an actor without the comedic qualifier. He has multiple very good dramatic movies.
>The Fisher King >Awakenings >One Hour Photo >Dead Poets Society >Good Will Hunting
etc etc. He also had an extremely good episode of Law and Order SVU playing the villain.
He wasn't a guy where you would laugh at the idea of him doing anything serious.
williams went to julliard and had a knack for mastering accents. his teachers told him to leave after a year or two because he was just too good to stick around
Stanger than Fiction is the kind of movie that someone who never took an english class after freshman year of highschool would think is deep. Big whoop, he pushes a kid on a bike out of the way of a bus, and that's supposed to be this enormous artistic achievement?
>Big whoop, he pushes a kid on a bike out of the way of a bus, and that's supposed to be this enormous artistic achievement?
I think it's more noticeable when someone like Jim Carrey or any other wacky comedian does serious movies, Bill Murray's comedy always came from him being a sarcastic butthole like everyone from that SNL era
Jim Carrey going from Ace Ventura to Eternal Sunshine is something, Bill Murray basically playing himself in Lost in Translation is not that big of a deal
My thought is that in order to be good at comedy you have to be a good actor, because you need to be able to be very precise with your performance to make the comedy work. The trick is finding what your range is. Robin Williams was really good at playing tragic misfits, Jim Carrey is great at manic but loveable types, Adam Sandler is great at playing earnest people with a really short temper.
Kristen Wiig isn't ugly she's just plain. But the benefit of plain is that even though she'll never reach the highs beauty like prime Jennifer Connelly or Angelina Jolie or whichever actress you can think of, she'll also never have the crashing low of becoming some shrivelled vegan skeleton or plastic surgery freak like so many other actresses. Kristen Wiig is prime wife material because she will always look like that, even in her 70s and 80s (barring some giant bout of weight gain or something) the kind of woman who you look at over the table at dinner and think "yeah, she's still the same woman I married 50 years ago."
can anyone recommend Leslie Nielsen villain kino
his performance in creepshow was so entertaining, we should have gotten an american version of Man Bites Dog with him, or eatleast that type of role
I'm a troony and I like this. It's possible to tastefully make us the punchline of a joke.
A lot of people here don't seem to understand that we can tell when something is said or done maliciously. You're very bad at hiding your disgust or hatred behind thinly veiled jokes.
cranston was a struggling actor who found his break in comedy, before that he was dubbing japanese shows, other two actually came up writing their own material
jason alexander was the star of a long hit sitcom but he doesn't consider himself a comedic actor
cranston did a bunch of random stuff before getting mitm, odenkirk and mckean both had their own sketch duos they wrote for
he's complained that the show damaged him as an actor
>"When the DVDs came up, we were being asked to provide new services," he said. "We had no problem with the DVDs being released, but then they said, 'We want you to perform new services. We want to do interviews and create additional footage and additional material.' Why would we do that? They said, 'Because of the legacy of the show.'
>"Well, the character of George is not a millstone around my neck but I had to turn to my former bosses and say, 'I'm not invested in the longevity of the show. The longevity of the show actually is a detriment to me right now. It keeps me from getting certain kind of work. You have not made me a participant in the life of this show, therefore I am not inclined to give you these services.'
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He's a great actor and I love George but Jason Alexander really comes off like a c**t every single time I see him just be himself.
I see the blue suit and the title and i think is that Punch drunk love (which is good). but no it's something else and like they thought that was the formula to copy lol
Great movie apart from Dusty Hoffman, frick that guy is a shit actor, every scene in this he is eating, as if that can distract from his bottomless dearth of talent.
The ending was so fricking dumb >Will Ferrell's character gets hit by a bus >a piece of his wristwatch gets lodged in just to right spot to stop arterial bleeding and the doctor can save his life
Prefer the one where he is an alcoholic
which one? also kek at
"one of the comedies of the year"
yes, Everything Must Go is great
winter passing is decent too, woody harrelson is in it I think
that movie was boring and pointless as frick
>all the peoples last names are famous artists
Pretentious bullshit.
I feel like this movie was a rejected early 00s Jim Carrey movie
Jim Carrey made a serious movie in 2001. It wasn’t too bad.
I enjoyed this when it came out. Might watch it a second time one day. Didn't knock my socks off but it was reasonably heartfelt and tender
Isn't this basically a Being John Malcovich knockoff
idk I've never seen Being John Malcovich
Main character heard voices in his head and does crazy things
i dont think that happens in the will ferrel movie but its been a long time since Ive seen it
It is. The british b***h is narrating his life and only he can hear it.
no
>Isn't this basically a Being John Malcovich knockoff
Similar surrealist type of film.
Close enough in style that I thought it could be the same writer.
I liked the film though.
Maggie Gyllenhaal came off as attractive and sweet in the film.
>Maggie Gyllenhaal came off as attractive and sweet in the film.
she does in most films
no one agrees with me 🙁
I thought she was cute as hell when she was younger, but she hit the wall p hard. Shame about her flap jack breasts tho.
>she does in most films
>no one agrees with me 🙁
Maggie routinely plays sexually degenerate women, or women with psychological issues.
In this she’s playing an overly generous baker, who’s frustrated at an IRS accountant for being audited.
It’s a different type of role, and she played it well.
>Close enough in style that I thought it could be the same writer.
it was obviously a talentless imitator
>it was obviously a talentless imitator
There are plenty of Hollywood writers that write “similar” scripts, both in terms of style, as well as plot.
After ‘Pulp Fiction’ came out, every dark violent film was being called a Tarantino knock off, even when the films really weren’t “Tarantino” in style.
There was also Roger Avery, who literally collaborated on some of the Tarantino films with the story or script, and his films were being labelled as “Tarantino like”.
‘Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead’ was called a Tarantino knock off, even though it’s a different type of film, that is nothing like Tarantino’s style.
As for ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, it was written after Charlie Kaufman’s early films were,
and some of Kaufman’s early scripts had supposedly been passed around a lot in Hollywood,
But it also reminds me to an extent of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ which far predates the Kaufman scripts.
Other similar types of books and screenplays have been written in the past.
Maybe the writer or the producer who commissioned the script read the Kaufman scripts and wanted to make something similar,
Maybe they read the scripts and thought this type of surrealist film might become the new thing, like jumping on the Film noir, 1980s over the top action film, or capeshit genre.
>Maggie Gyllenhaal came off as attractive
That’s a real achievement.
>love interest is played by Maggie Gylenhall
kek
Everything Must Go is a serious movie and proved that Ferrell actually has some acting chops, but no one really knows that movie exists but me.
>Everything Must Go
>google it
frick this is the movie I meant to post I fricked up
t. OP
It's a pretty decent flick. Allegedly that Hispanic flick is pretty good too according to spics, but I'm not Mexican so I didn't get it.
and of course we're all like "torrents are forever!"
what did anon mean by this
uncut gems sucked
probably that "everything must go" is kinda hard to find on torrents, at least in the sense of "download and watch right now"
Will Farrell getting fricked out of his dream role by Adam McKay and John C Reilly for that 70s LA Lakers TV show was funnier than anything he's done in his career.
quick run down ?
>will Farrell finds out that Adam McKay (director of Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, frequent collaborator of Farrell's) is making a show about the Lakers in the 70s
>will gets hyped as one of his heroes was Jerry Buss, the coach of the Lakers during this period
>Will is also a SUPERFAN of the team as well
>finds out Michael Shannon would be getting the role and is fine with it at first
>Shannon drops the role due to scheduling
>Farrell tells McKay how much he wants the role
>McKay goes straight to Reilly, and offers the role, which he immediately accepts
>Reilly has 0 clue that Farrell was interested in the part
>Reilly CALLS Farrell telling him that he got the part, as this is the first real role for John in quite some time, and he was excited to let Farrell know
>Will is pissed off at McKay for doing this and calls him directly afterwards
>They have a huge fight and basically break up their working relationship
>McKay admits he fricked up but also says that Farrell "took it as a way deeper hurt than I ever imagined"
>Farrell still has not forgiven McKay and it's unlikely he ever will
damn that sucks. did Reilly do a good job ?
yeah Reilly killed that role, way better than what Will would've done IMO he fit the character better
jesus McKay did Will DIRTY! I feel like John was a better pick anyways lmaoooo
Will Farrell fricking sucks. Thank god.
Stanger than Fiction is the kind of movie that someone who never took an english class after freshman year of highschool would think is deep. Big whoop, he pushes a kid on a bike out of the way of a bus, and that's supposed to be this enormous artistic achievement?
has 0 clue that Farrell was interested in the part
CALLS Farrell telling him that he got the part, as this is the first real role for John in quite some time, and he was excited to let Farrell know
Damn that's rough
I gotta call bs on Reily unless he wasn't paying attention to Will taking about Lakers non stop. Maybe he thought will turned it down but man why not run it by him first?
>Watch trailer
>They include Kareem filming Airplane
based
>I’m a big fan of the team so I should get the part by default
what an entitled piece of shit
Reilly is a much better actor. No surprise there at all
that sucks, ferrell x mckay was peak comedy kino
And it's a good thing cause John C Reilly was excellent.
>Will Farrell getting fricked out of his dream role by Adam McKay and John C Reilly
Reilly was a better fit. That's not get fricked out that's called "not being a good fit for the role". Can't believe he's so bitter about it, what a gay.
Sure, but you've gotta admit that Will telling Adam how badly he wants the role, then Adam not even giving him a chance and going straight to John, is pretty fricked.
Why not?
This is still a comedic role in a comedic movie.
This.
name?
Being There 1979
it works out most of the time, sometimes giving us truly great movies
>it works out most of the time
>sometimes
most of the time theyre okay, sometimes they are great.
I'd honestly just call Robin Williams an actor without the comedic qualifier. He has multiple very good dramatic movies.
>The Fisher King
>Awakenings
>One Hour Photo
>Dead Poets Society
>Good Will Hunting
etc etc. He also had an extremely good episode of Law and Order SVU playing the villain.
He wasn't a guy where you would laugh at the idea of him doing anything serious.
williams went to julliard and had a knack for mastering accents. his teachers told him to leave after a year or two because he was just too good to stick around
he's also great in Insomnia
>drowns kitty in river
Nother personal kid.
Thats an awful poster. They all looks photoshopped in and Will's head looks like it doesn't belong to the body
Tugg Speedman was an action star, not a comedian
full moron
>one of the comedies of the year
it certainly was
>it turns out great
for me its click
The best are these two and pic related, which wrecks me every single goddamn time.
one of my favourites
>Robin Williams
>Adam Sandler
It works out sometimes
Le Monke Ben Stiller has been in a few drama movies and he does pretty well.
Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my favourite movies.
>9/11 is le bad
>completely missing the point of the film
>completely missing the point of the film
see
>Big whoop, he pushes a kid on a bike out of the way of a bus, and that's supposed to be this enormous artistic achievement?
How does one relate to the other?
Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems though
This wasn’t really serious. It was a dramedy at worst
Steve Carell has been trying to do it for almost a decade now. Do you think he resents being known as the guy from The Office?
it's a hell of a lot better than being the 40 year old virgin for the rest of his career
YOU UNGRATEFUL APE
People loved his performance in the big short
it can work
that's a comedy movie you idiot
>Nobody's posted Lost in Translation yet
One of the first things that comes to mind
Bill Murray was way out of his comedy stage when this happened. This was when he was in fricking Wes Anderson movies.
>Anon doesn't know
Wes Anderson's early works with Bill Murray are comedies numbnuts.
Factually incorrect but nice try.
>Implying Life Aquatic, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore, and Royal Tenenbaums are not comedies
You're fricking moronic.
How can you be so sure? I don’t remember laughing.
The Life Aquatic was funny
Rushmore was hilarious idk how you can watch that without realizing its a comedy
the point still stands, bill murray was not a comedic actor at that point
>bill murray was not a comedic actor at that point
Anon your moronic shtick might have been funny the first time but now it's just annoying
Name a Wes Anderson movie that isn't a comedy
Prove that any of them were comedies.
You started with the claim that "fricking Wes Anderson movies" are outside of comedy so burden of proof is on you sweetie.
They’re all just quirky dramas. What makes that shit a comedy?
This. Just because a movie has a few funny lines doesn't make it a comedy.
Island of Dogs
I think it's more noticeable when someone like Jim Carrey or any other wacky comedian does serious movies, Bill Murray's comedy always came from him being a sarcastic butthole like everyone from that SNL era
Jim Carrey going from Ace Ventura to Eternal Sunshine is something, Bill Murray basically playing himself in Lost in Translation is not that big of a deal
My thought is that in order to be good at comedy you have to be a good actor, because you need to be able to be very precise with your performance to make the comedy work. The trick is finding what your range is. Robin Williams was really good at playing tragic misfits, Jim Carrey is great at manic but loveable types, Adam Sandler is great at playing earnest people with a really short temper.
>bruh isnt growing up hard
>lets sit in an empty bathtub and have a brotherly heart to heart to fix our problems.
Fricking hate Jason Segel
>serious actor does comedy
>moggs everyone
Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Along Came Polly
I liked it
Kristen Wiig is so ugly
No way
Agreed. She has a unique face but she's not ugly.
definitely a unique face but she is ugly.
Kristen Wiig isn't ugly she's just plain. But the benefit of plain is that even though she'll never reach the highs beauty like prime Jennifer Connelly or Angelina Jolie or whichever actress you can think of, she'll also never have the crashing low of becoming some shrivelled vegan skeleton or plastic surgery freak like so many other actresses. Kristen Wiig is prime wife material because she will always look like that, even in her 70s and 80s (barring some giant bout of weight gain or something) the kind of woman who you look at over the table at dinner and think "yeah, she's still the same woman I married 50 years ago."
yes
What about serious actor who becomes comedic actor?
can anyone recommend Leslie Nielsen villain kino
his performance in creepshow was so entertaining, we should have gotten an american version of Man Bites Dog with him, or eatleast that type of role
that Columbo episode with him
He's not the villain in that.
*wins two oscars
I'm a troony and I like this. It's possible to tastefully make us the punchline of a joke.
A lot of people here don't seem to understand that we can tell when something is said or done maliciously. You're very bad at hiding your disgust or hatred behind thinly veiled jokes.
Bryan Crantson, Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKeen were all comedic actors before the shows.
cranston was a struggling actor who found his break in comedy, before that he was dubbing japanese shows, other two actually came up writing their own material
Cranston was the star of a long hit sitcom.
jason alexander was the star of a long hit sitcom but he doesn't consider himself a comedic actor
cranston did a bunch of random stuff before getting mitm, odenkirk and mckean both had their own sketch duos they wrote for
>he doesn't consider himself a comedic actor
he's complained that the show damaged him as an actor
>"When the DVDs came up, we were being asked to provide new services," he said. "We had no problem with the DVDs being released, but then they said, 'We want you to perform new services. We want to do interviews and create additional footage and additional material.' Why would we do that? They said, 'Because of the legacy of the show.'
>"Well, the character of George is not a millstone around my neck but I had to turn to my former bosses and say, 'I'm not invested in the longevity of the show. The longevity of the show actually is a detriment to me right now. It keeps me from getting certain kind of work. You have not made me a participant in the life of this show, therefore I am not inclined to give you these services.'
He's a great actor and I love George but Jason Alexander really comes off like a c**t every single time I see him just be himself.
Their serious scene still seemed comedic o me, very funny.
Woody Harrelson
Hugh Laurie
John Goodman
I see the blue suit and the title and i think is that Punch drunk love (which is good). but no it's something else and like they thought that was the formula to copy lol
Great movie apart from Dusty Hoffman, frick that guy is a shit actor, every scene in this he is eating, as if that can distract from his bottomless dearth of talent.
homosexuals ITT ignoring this kino
Alan Tudyk looks different
The ending was so fricking dumb
>Will Ferrell's character gets hit by a bus
>a piece of his wristwatch gets lodged in just to right spot to stop arterial bleeding and the doctor can save his life
Yes
That professor says this way before it happens
It's a bad ending
He needed to die for the story to be good.
What is Wills best comedy
ungrateful ape
Serious movie?
It's a comedy what the frick are you talking about
A watch is the hero
Have you even watched the trailer?
Does walter matthau count? Because him in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three