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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsJeez, doesn't anyone else find Will Farrell tedious, loud and boring...
I just don't get why he is seen as humorous.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Every thing I've seen him in, he reminds me of George W Bush.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Sometimes it can be funny, but generally, yes... Yes I do.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)more obnoxious than tedious & boring, though.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)JCMach1
(27,559 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)ask the eight-pound, six-ounce, newborn little baby Jesus to forgive you.
mokawanis
(4,442 posts)I've watched Anchorman and Talladega Nights several times, and I loved him on SNL. I'm honestly a little surprised everyone doesn't find him to be hilarious.
ok_cpu
(2,052 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)While Chase did some good comedy, he went in a direction I just couldn't stand. Farrell seems to have started from Chase's bottom level and dug down. I hate the promos for his movies and have never watched even a few minutes of any movie he's starred in.
The ads Farrell is doing are so bad I don't even know what he's trying to sell - as soon as they come on, I change the channel.
caraher
(6,278 posts)It's a demon-spawn of cross-promotion - Ferrell promotes a sequel to Anchorman (a movie with less to its premise to carry a single movie, let alone a sequel, too) by plugging Dodge vehicles in character.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Will Ferrell is just a reflection of that. I certainly would not go out of my way to watch one of his movies.
But then, like I said, modern comedy has largely died in my eyes.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)and for the same reasons I have never seen an Adam Sandler Rob Schneider movie. I can't stand to watch any of them.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Callalily
(14,890 posts)If I know he is is a film or sketch I make a point to ignore it.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)However, there are some roles for which tedious, loud and boring is right. (i.e. Ron Burgundy)
There are a lot of roles that are right for Jim Carrey's over-the-top mugging, too.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)...Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)He appeared to have zero inhibitions, and I found that funny. But once he left the show and then began showing up in every single movie being made, his shtick got old.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)But then again, SNL didn't realize that it would make one good skit and left it at that...
vanlassie
(5,676 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)The rest sucks.
trof
(54,256 posts)meh
Llewlladdwr
(2,165 posts)Kaleva
(36,312 posts)I liked him in "Step Brothers", "The Other Guys", " Megamind", "Talladega Nights", and "Casa de Mi Padre".
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)YMMV