The Other Guys (Adam McKay) [Archive]

Dukefrukem

03-29-2010, 04:22 PM

I loved Step Brothers, I thought Talladega Nights was OK, and liked Anchorman.

But Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg?? YES! thank god John C. Reilly isn't in this one.

Watch the Animated One Sheet. This looks funny (http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/other-guys-motion-poster.html).

Henry Gale

03-29-2010, 08:51 PM

Um... John C. Reilly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mark Wahlberg

But I'll still look forward to this. Who knows, maybe broad comedy is something Wahlberg is good at.

Sycophant

03-30-2010, 07:21 PM

Mark Whalberg displayed an uncanny knack for comedy in his I Heart Huckabees performance. Adam McKay made my favorite American comedy-comedy of the aughts. Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Coogan, and Dwayne "HOLY FUCK I'VE GOT ROCKING EYEBROWS" Johnson are also in the cast.

I'm pretty excited about this thing.

Sycophant

03-30-2010, 07:22 PM

Also, animated one-sheet WTF.

Sven

03-30-2010, 08:07 PM

I Heart Mark Wahlberg. He's one of my favorites, I think. Not necessarily thespiatically, but I love his presence. The way he carries himself. It puts me at ease. Funny bit there.

Henry Gale

03-30-2010, 09:16 PM

Ok, despite my overall indifference to I♥H, you've reminded me that it's probably the thing I've most enjoyed him in. In terms of more serious stuff... I guess he wasn't distracting in Four Brothers.

Also, I was surprised to see that this is the first of McKay's films that he didn't write with Ferrell. Not that everything he does has to be with him to have the same sort of loose, improv-friendly sort of script (often centering around a guy with the initials "RB"), it'll just be interesting to see how things may be noticeably different, especially with mostly non-comedians in major roles.

Boner M

03-31-2010, 01:30 PM

Um... John C. Reilly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mark Wahlberg
Yeah, jesus, what the fuck Duke.

Dukefrukem

03-31-2010, 01:50 PM

Yeah, jesus, what the fuck Duke.

I'm more annoyed with Reilly than Tracy Morgan.

Watashi

04-09-2010, 06:07 PM

Trailer (http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/09/the-other-guys-teaser-trailer/)

Looks like an Adam McKay version of Hot Fuzz.

It looks so awesome.

Dukefrukem

04-09-2010, 06:21 PM

BWHAHHAHAHAHAHA!

Yes!

hey it's ethan

04-09-2010, 09:34 PM

"The movie industry is completely irresponsible in the way they portray explosions!"

number8

04-10-2010, 02:52 AM

Hot Fuzz > This > Cop Out.

B-side

04-18-2010, 12:49 PM

That looks terrible.

Dukefrukem

04-18-2010, 08:41 PM

your face looks terrible

megladon8

04-18-2010, 10:18 PM

your face looks terrible

If you want people to like and respect you as a poster, saying things like this is a bit of a conflict of interests.

Dukefrukem

04-18-2010, 10:25 PM

jesus meg i was kidding...

fuck it. im done here.

Ezee E

04-19-2010, 03:12 AM

jesus meg i was kidding...

fuck it. im done here.
No you're not. Although, I thought it was apparent you were being sarcastic, even without adding a smiley.

Boner M

04-19-2010, 03:35 PM

I consider myself a Ferrell fan/apologist, but this trailer's pushing it.

MadMan

04-19-2010, 05:52 PM

Yeah this looks quite funny. And I Heart Huckabees proved that Wahlberg could do comedy. This movie's cast, plus the fact I'm a fan of Ferrell, means I'm in.

Kurosawa Fan

04-19-2010, 09:21 PM

I consider myself a Ferrell fan/apologist, but this trailer's pushing it.

Your face is pushing it.

Too soon?

eternity

04-26-2010, 03:42 AM

Yeah this looks quite funny. And I Heart Huckabees proved that Wahlberg could do comedy. This movie's cast, plus the fact I'm a fan of Ferrell, means I'm in.

Your face is in.

MadMan

04-26-2010, 08:22 AM

Your face is in.I'm not sure this makes any sense. But okay :P

number8

08-06-2010, 09:28 PM

Dunno if there's even still an interest for this, but here's my review (http://www.justpressplay.net/movie-reviews/40-reviews/6827-the-other-guys.html). I guess.

Sycophant

08-06-2010, 09:33 PM

I'm more interested in seeing this than Inception. It's top priority for me.

Remind me how you liked the other Ferrell-McKay collabs, 8?

Henry Gale

08-07-2010, 06:47 AM

I thought this was absolutely hilarious. I haven't seen Anchorman in full since theatres, but I'd say this is the best Ferrell/McKay one next to that.

Steve Coogan needs to start playing better characters in big American comedies though. Most of the stuff involving him -- like, you know, the actual plot -- kinda brings the movie down and doesn't mesh well with the comedy, especially in the last quarter. Also, even though it's to be expected from all the improv-y stuff they and Apatow have done in recent years, it's definitely one of those "lots of stuff in the trailers that aren't in the movie" deals with even some great stuff from the Comic-Con reel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9lPdOTTuPE) left out.

But still, even with whatever things I could pick at it for, I loved it. Definitely the funniest movie so far this year.

***½

Watashi

08-07-2010, 07:19 AM

This wasn't good.

Step Brothers is so much better than this.

Watashi

08-07-2010, 07:23 AM

I'm more interested in seeing this than Inception. It's top priority for me.

Remind me how you liked the other Ferrell-McKay collabs, 8?
I love all three prior McKay films, but this is just... not funny. Visually, it captures the 70's buddy cop aesthetics perfectly, but a lot of the running jokes and supporting cast fall flat (Keaton sticks out being the most wasted). I miss the random off-the-wall humor from McKay's previous films. This really needed to be rated R.

Sxottlan

08-07-2010, 08:49 AM

I'd agree that this is the funniest film I've seen so far this year.

There are a number of times when there are noticeable lulls in the laughs. They're pretty brief lulls, but they're persistent. Also, the look of the film is really washed out in a number of spots.

However, the rest of this is gold. A big improvement on Step Brothers, which at this point I hope was an aberration. I was spoiled by Ian Pugh's review about what happened about 20 minutes in, but it's still hilarious and audacious when it does happen. The absolute bizarre stuff out of left field is back and there's a number of very memorable one-liners.

Such as..."I feel like we're riding in a vagina."
"We found your Prius. It was voting for Ralph Nader."
"We were going to do a Chechynian Dora the Explorer. It went horribly wrong."

Fezzik

08-07-2010, 02:25 PM

This wasn't good.

Step Brothers is so much better than this.

That seals it for me, then. I couldn't even finish Step Brothers. I won't be seeing this, I guess.

A big improvement on Step Brothers, which at this point I hope was an aberration.

Uh...wait.

I'm so confused.

:P

eternity

08-07-2010, 08:12 PM

Dammit.

Milky Joe

08-07-2010, 10:09 PM

Tim Heidecker says it's good, so I'm keeping the faith.

Watashi

08-08-2010, 05:50 AM

This movie has the weirdest end credits ever.

B-side

08-08-2010, 05:54 AM

Tim Heidecker says it's good, so I'm keeping the faith.

An unfunny person says a terrible-looking movie is good. Makes sense.

Derek

08-08-2010, 06:16 AM

An unfunny person says a terrible-looking movie is good. Makes sense.

Psh, go moisten your fence.

B-side

08-08-2010, 06:18 AM

Psh, go moisten your fence.

I don't even know what that means, but I'm gonna assume it's a fat joke and chastise you appropriately.

Derek

08-08-2010, 06:21 AM

I don't even know what that means, but I'm gonna assume it's a fat joke and chastise you appropriately.

It's a suggestion of what you can do with all the free time you have while waiting for your T'ird to return to you.

http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/12276000/ngbbs46159cace73d4.jpg

B-side

08-08-2010, 06:23 AM

It's a suggestion of what you can do with all the free time you have while waiting for your T'ird to return to you.

http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/12276000/ngbbs46159cace73d4.jpg

I'm not into scatological humor.

Derek

08-08-2010, 06:27 AM

I'm not into scatological humor.

No scat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygc_NZo6_HM).

Boner M

08-08-2010, 06:28 AM

Cinco commercials are the best.

Derek

08-08-2010, 06:30 AM

Cinco commercials are the best.

Yup. I think the Midi Organizer is my favorite unless Not Jackie Chan was also Cinco.

B-side

08-08-2010, 06:35 AM

No scat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygc_NZo6_HM).

I was being silly and playing off the name.

That was funny, though.

Winston*

08-08-2010, 06:42 AM

FsRFYJTwV3w

Boner M

08-08-2010, 06:45 AM

Stormare was the best thing to happen to T&E.

Milky Joe

08-08-2010, 06:55 AM

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Sxottlan

08-08-2010, 07:38 AM

"I'm a peacock. You gotta let me fly!"

megladon8

08-08-2010, 05:02 PM

This is still one of my favorites...

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Dukefrukem

08-09-2010, 12:08 AM

This was really really bad.

Dukefrukem

08-09-2010, 12:12 AM

This wasn't good.

Step Brothers is so much better than this.

This.

Dead & Messed Up

08-13-2010, 06:08 AM

I enjoyed the flick. Not amazing, and certainly not as riotously anarchic as McKay's previous films, but when it's funny, it's damn funny, and its broad swipe at corporate mismanagement is a nice break from cop movies about drug cartels.

Needed more Keaton.

Dukefrukem

08-13-2010, 11:36 AM

I barely remember a memorable funny scene... Maybe Ferrell's fish speech. Wahlberg and Ferrell do not mix well.

Sycophant

08-15-2010, 09:45 PM

Milky Joe

08-31-2010, 03:44 AM

This was pretty bad. In terms of 'out-of-nowhere deaths of top-billed stars in a funny action movie,' MacGruber has this beat by like a thousand times over. It also has it beat in all other terms.

Dead & Messed Up

09-01-2010, 12:04 AM

This was pretty bad. In terms of 'out-of-nowhere deaths of top-billed stars in a funny action movie,' MacGruber has this beat by like a thousand times over. It also has it beat in all other terms.

I'd agree. MacGruber is a better film, which is something I never expected to say.

Boner M

10-04-2010, 01:13 AM

Oh man, best mainstream comedy in eons. Thanks for lowering my expectations, match-cut.

Dukefrukem

10-05-2010, 12:17 PM

Oh man, best mainstream comedy in eons. Thanks for lowering my expectations, match-cut.

:frustrated:

transmogrifier

10-05-2010, 09:09 PM

:frustrated:

Says the guy who liked Step Brothers :)

Qrazy

10-15-2010, 04:52 AM

The opening of this movie was pretty much perfect.

The part where Jackson and Johnson jump to their deaths was soooooooo perfectly funny.

The third act was a bit weak. Some jokes worked better than others. It's not Talladega Nights, but I liked it a lot.

Very much agreed with your spoiler text. That was the highlight of the film for me.

I laughed through their entire funeral because of that jump.

The rest of the film had it's ups and downs but ultimately I enjoyed it.

Qrazy

10-16-2010, 04:58 PM

There goes my hero...

Adam

10-17-2010, 11:04 PM

Bah

Boner got my hopes up, but this was bad. To paraphrase Mike D'Angelo's feelings on late period Godard: Post-Anchorman McKay utilizes a mode of discourse that I find increasingly useless. It's like he and Ferrell would probably be hilarious to hang out with but, for whatever reason, that same sensibility just comes off tiring to me in their movies. Somebody at least tell these guys that talking louder doesn't = more funnier

Dukefrukem

10-17-2010, 11:28 PM

Ezee E

01-13-2011, 06:51 PM

Yeah, this is pretty weak, and I attribute most of it to Wahlberg. He's not one of McKay's comedy. Well, neither is Mendes. Seemed too forced, and well, not funny. Someone like Anne Hathaway could pull that off right.

Bummer.

The part with The Rock/SLJ is pretty good though. Too bad that's ten minutes in of a 2 hour movie.