Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are The Other Guys

[Rock Sexton]

It cost $100 M to make and it earned $170 M worldwide ($119 M domestic)

That's a damn shame. I blame the advertising. I remembered watching the commercials and having absolutely no interest in seeing the movie, so I didn't. It wasn't until about a year ago that I finally watched it and seriously it's one of my favorite comedies of all time.

There's just an orgy of quotable lines and little exchanges in the movie. Some of it is slightly high brow, but I appreciate the diversity. And when I come back and bust your ass, we're lockin' David Ershon in the Federal Reserve!!!! LMFAO. Mark and Will are perfect together ..... oh and can't forget Keaton. The little eccentricities about him and how he delivers lines make's him absolutely hysterical. The jab about bi-sexual DJ's going to NYU med school was effin' brilliant.

I could go on and on and on. The rest of the cast rounded out perfectly, with a hilarious performance from Daman Wayans Jr. "At the crime scene, El-Oh-El" hahaha .... or the "Hey Bilbo Baggins where are your shoes?" As you can see I could quote this movie for days. I really hope they do a sequel. We need more Dirty Mike and the Boys. The extended version of that scene still leaves me in tears. McKay and Ferrell really have a flare for the most random humor.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Watched this again last night and have to agree with Rock in that it's one of my favorite comedies of all time, maybe even top 5.

I've never looked into it before but after skimming IMDB I've realized that his association with McKay is probably the main reason I've found Ferrell so tolerable over the years. This, Anchorman and Talladega Nights are all solid gold and I don't think it's a coincidence that all three were co-written by both men. Step Brothers was also quite good but nowhere near the level of the others imo.

I was also surprised to learn that Walk Hard didn't involve McKay. That film feels very similar to the above mentioned ones to me.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

McKay's lack of involvement feels obvious with Walk Hard. It feels like it was trying too hard to be funny and to be like McKay while managing to get even dumber than McKay's movies, but not in a good way, personally.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

McKay's lack of involvement feels obvious with Walk Hard. It feels like it was trying too hard to be funny and to be like McKay while managing to get even dumber than McKay's movies, but not in a good way, personally.

I can understand that even though I love Cox. It is a fair bit more absurd than the others. John Reilly is a big part of what makes it work for me.

 

[Drizzle]

To this day, the "Aim for the bushes" scene is one of the hardest I've laughed at a movie in a theater.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

To this day, the "Aim for the bushes" scene is one of the hardest I've laughed at a movie in a theater.

I wish I had seen this in a packed theater. I bet that was a lot of fun.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I saw it in a packed theater too, and all of us were going "What bushes?" and maybe expecting something else to happen, but when they went "splat!" and died, the whole theater died laughing.

 

[MadVillainy]

I still quote this movie. Next to the first Anchorman it's probably the movie i quote the most in my everyday life.

I love this movie. Really wish we wouldve gotten/would get a sequel

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Spoiler

No, I don't like you. I think you're a fake cop. The sound of your piss hitting the urinal, it sounds feminine. If you were in the wild, I would attack you, even if you weren't in my food chain. I would go out of my way to attack you. If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out in the middle of the ocean and freaking eat you and then I'd bang your tuna girlfriend.

OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.

How you gonna do that?

We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get some more oxygen, and stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You're outgunned and out-manned.

[pause]

Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope.