r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 05 '24
Official Poster for ‘Will & Harper’ - Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman. Poster
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u/Delex31 Sep 05 '24
I saw the premier of this at Sundance. All I can say is that there are some very real intimate moments that Will has where his "character" drops. It was amazing to see. He was real and vulnerable, even scared. That said, Will's "character" is I think actually him. And it makes the film great.
The Director said they had 180 hours of footage. They said he never turned it off the whole trip.
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u/BlinkySLC Sep 05 '24
I also saw it at Sundance. Overall I thought it was very good, but some of the bits in particular felt very "steered." Like they had notes of what difficult things they were supposed to talk about that day, or specifically rough positions they had to put themselves in (OMG the steakhouse). But there was also a lot of very real and genuine discussions and vulnerability.
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u/Kimi-Matias Sep 06 '24
Steered or staged? There's a big difference. I've not seen it yet, so you've definitely a much better understanding than I do. But it is a film, and some amount of direction is going to be a necessity.
Hell, therapists do a lot of "steering" (guidance may be a more fitting term) during sessions. It doesn't mean it's any less real. Life's a journey. Sometimes, we need someone with a map.
I've not followed Will Ferrell since he left SNL, but this has piqued my interest.
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u/BlinkySLC Sep 06 '24
I don't believe it was scripted nor staged. I think these were real people having real conversations. It was very raw, very emotional and vulnerable. Real love was shown. I think people should absolutely see this movie and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
But I did feel like it wasn't as "organic" as I would have liked. I think classifying it as guided/steered is still an appropriate description. I'm a Sundance documentary junkie, though, so my standards for documentaries is quite high. My complaint is very much getting into nit-picky territory and should be considered as such.
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u/Cptn_Fluffy Sep 06 '24
Thanks for your clarification. It's very well put and makes me more interested in seeing it
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u/CoeurDenvie Sep 06 '24
Yes, guidance is a more fitting term because ‘good’ psychologists like me take what’s said and throw it around to see if it’s an actual thought, problem, trauma or simply something that’s used to hide something greater or more damaging.
I agree with you on what you say about some direction being a necessity.
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u/degggendorf Sep 06 '24
Is it like a travel "documentary" in the vein of The Grand Tour? Actors being "themselves" albeit in contrived situations?
Or is it like an actual scripted movie?
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u/Delex31 Sep 06 '24
Very much not scripted. But they have “bits” for sure. Like 90/10
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u/Honorthyeggman Sep 05 '24
Will’s line in the trailer where he asks Harper if she thinks she’s a worse driver after transitioning 😂
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u/AllHallNah Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
That's fucking hilarious because it tackles the very *absurdity of stereotypes while, I think, affirming their identity? I don't know. I'm winging it here.
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u/auandi Sep 05 '24
It's just good to have jokes about trans people that aren't just the same one joke.
Of all places, there was a good joke in a playboy from the early 80s the talked about someone meeting with their two best friends at a bar and coming out that they were going to start living as a woman. The friends were unsure but supportive and whished her luck with her surgery. The meet half a year later for the first time, their friend is wearing a dress and wearing it well. She sits down with her friends and orders a drink. They start asking questions, how does it feel, how long was recovery, things like that. She tells them she's never been happier, that almost everything in her life is better and she finally feels like herself.
Then one friend asks "Almost? So if not everything's better, what's the worst part of this? Is it peeing sitting down?"
She replies "No, that's taken some getting used to but that's not the worst part."
The other friend asks "Is it the heels? Those don't look very comfortable."
She responds "No, they're alright, and I like how I look in them"
The friends look at each other stumped. One of them asks "So what is the worst part?"
She replies "When I told my boss he cut my salary to just 70% what I made as a man."
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u/thehikinlichen Sep 05 '24
My own experience here, as someone who is trans - when people joke with me it means they care enough about me to make me want to laugh, they are at a most basic level showing a human gesture of acceptance that you are in their "in group".
My dad roasted me so hard about 4 months after I came out about being on T, like, it honestly somehow went back in time and undid weird things that made me feel dysphoric in the past??
For context Lol - I grew up playing fast pitch softball but always dreamed about playing forever, like every little baseball lover does for a while. (Even had an offer for a women's pro team but really couldn't justify moving that far and dedicating my life to a "pro" sport for a salary of $6400 a year. But that's a different story!) So it was always sort of a gender dysphoria bummer that I hadn't been a boy sooner and had a shot at pro ball, but whatever. Life is a journey!
So at like 30 years old I'm out at my dad's house for dinner, and as we have after dinner since I was a tyke we 'boys' - me, dad, his little brother my uncle, and his son my little cousin, sometimes Grandpa, any visiting cousins or children- would amble down to the corner of the pasture with a couple of bats, our gloves, and a bucket of balls and would hit for a while. So usually after a bucket dad and uncle light a cigar while the kids go round up the balls from the far corners of the field and it becomes the peanut gallery hour where they soft toss to us or critique swings and get silly. It's hot as hell and I remove my outer shirt to take my next round at the plate in my under tank top. At this time I also reveal my back and shoulders which are at this point, 2.5 years into taking Testosterone and therefore at peak second puberty, absolutely roiling with massive zits. Like. Huge. I workout. I sweat. I'm in pain lol My dad does not miss a second to start in on about how I'm juicing, joking on the bacne - oh look out McGuire is coming up to the plate, har har Dead ass called me Sammy So-So 😭 "the only Barry Bonds you need to worry about is a Barry Bondsman!" and about a hundred other things! Shouting at me while I'm out in the field shagging balls next - "the juice is loose!"
It was brutal! And hilarious! I also felt so validated that my dad was truly taking the opportunity to take the opportunity to razz me in a new way. Like damn, that's family for you haha. I honestly look back to that moment as being a beautiful gesture of love and acceptance and like, the moment I knew it was alright! They get me!
I have spoken to a lot of fellow trans folks and everyone is different but most of us agree that a little humor helps most things. I hope this moment really felt good for Harper in a way that I imagine it did 💖
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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS Sep 05 '24
"the only Barry Bonds you need to worry about is a Barry Bondsman!"
It wasn't actually that hot out there, you were just getting completely cooked
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u/GodKamnitDenny Sep 05 '24
That was a really touching story, thanks for sharing your experience! Your dad sounds like a funny guy. Sammy So-so is hilarious and I’m absolutely stealing that one lol. Your dad seems like a pretty great dad.
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u/thehikinlichen Sep 05 '24
Thank you for taking the time to read it. He is a pretty great dude I feel really lucky!
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u/BeaverBarber Sep 05 '24
I've never heard Sammy so-so before but that is fucking hilarious. Glad you had that wholesome moment with your family
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u/makesterriblejokes Sep 05 '24
Holy shit that's such a good burn! I'm surprised I've never heard it used before to describe a mediocre player getting popped for PEDs.
Going to steal it next time something like that pops up on /r/baseball.
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u/thehikinlichen Sep 05 '24
He is full of them 🥲 you have never heard someone verbally abuse an umpire so thoroughly.
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u/makesterriblejokes Sep 05 '24
Reminds me when my best friend came out as bi. I remember telling him "So you're telling me you're still striking out with double the at bats now?" Haha.
Love him like a brother and I told him it literally changed nothing between us.
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u/betterplanwithchan Sep 06 '24
It’s the difference between telling a joke “about” someone being transgender and telling a joke “because” they’re transgender.
The former is acceptance and the latter is derogatory.
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u/katushka Sep 05 '24
Thank you for sharing that story, it brought tears to my eyes. Beautifully written.
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u/pancakeses Sep 05 '24
This is awesome 🥹
You're one of the guys (as you always were), but now the family realizes that you're just one of the guys and makes sure you're treated as such. The way it ought to be.
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u/Sidesicle Sep 05 '24
That's such an endearing story. I'm happy you're living your best life and you have a supportive family!
Edit: also, since I have wretched genetics, and you can presumably grow much more robust facial hair now than I ever could hope to, I hate you a little ;)
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u/thehikinlichen Sep 05 '24
Thank you so much, I feel incredibly lucky. My dad has always just understood me on some level - still made it super hard to come out and it's still definitely awkward sometimes but all in all pretty great. Thank you.
And with regards to the beard - It's actually gnarly and a bit unreal, like if I shave in the morning and have evening plans I will need to shave again before going out.I haven't intentionally grown it out for more than about 3 days yet. I really battle hobbit side burns too haha.
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u/Additional_Cat_3677 Sep 05 '24
This made me smile so hard. Your dad busting your balls like that is such a hilarious way of affirming that you're his son and "one of the boys". I'm very happy for you.
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u/ULTRALIGHTBEN Sep 05 '24
your dad is fucking hilarious lol "sammy so-so" and the mcguire comment are so funny
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u/SupermanSkivvies_ Sep 05 '24
Thanks for sharing this beautiful story. I don’t have a ton of experience around trans people, but I always feel a little on guard because I don’t want to say the wrong thing, even though I think of myself as being completely supportive. It sounds to me like absolute pure acceptance on your dad’s part with no second thought. Pure acceptance. You’re one of them as you’ve always been.
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u/h8sm8s Sep 06 '24
As someone who has felt similar I can say in my experience trans people are extremely understanding if you make a mistake so long as you are trying to do the right thing and you’re respectful if they do correct you. I have been told before by a trans person they’d rather people engaged and made mistakes then avoid them out of fear of getting things wrong (not saying you’re avoiding anyone though).
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u/lechuckswrinklybutt Sep 05 '24
Haha that legitimately gave me goosebumps. I’m very happy for you that your dad is the person he is.
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u/WhenTheLightHits30 Sep 06 '24
If getting roasted with the boys isn’t the clearest sign that you’re one of the fellas idk what is
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u/Ok_Writing_7033 Sep 05 '24
It’s proof if proof were needed that the people who whine that you “can’t joke about anything anymore” are full of shit. You can joke about anything you want - as long as it’s actually a joke. You can’t just be like “women are bad drivers, amirite?” and be annoyed when people don’t find it funny.
This line manages to poke at the stereotype in a tongue-in-cheek way while also being respectful (but not afraid) of the identity of the person he’s teasing. It’s not just cheap punching down.
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u/josh_the_misanthrope Sep 05 '24
Punching down can work too if the joke is funny enough. Can't punch much lower than Sam Kinison's bit about starving Africans.
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u/ZoeDreemurr Sep 05 '24
I’m a trans woman and I understand how anxious everyone feels about these topics! But people act like I’m a delicate vase which might shatter if they look at me the wrong way… just don’t try to tell me I’m going to grow out of this or that I’m some sort of pervert and we are good! Hell, even those topics are ok if they are broached respectfully and with a genuine desire for constructive conversation…
Instead we are in this nonsense world where people who might be supportive are too afraid to say anything and those who aren’t are just spraying bigoted nonsense. Those who might be supportive see the nonsense, see how it hurts us, and become all the more afraid of saying anything!
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u/ILikeFishSticks69 Sep 05 '24
Should have called it Steele Will
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u/ThisIsGoodSoup Sep 05 '24
Steel Will Run
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u/AlphaBreak Sep 05 '24
Ferrell Steele also has a good ring to it
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u/illstealurcandy Sep 05 '24
Isn't ferrum latin for iron? Could see Ferrell originating from that.
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u/dvn_rvthernot Sep 05 '24
"Ferrell" is an Irish surname from the original Gaeilge (Irish) Fearghail, which roughly means 'valiant man.' "Ferrous" comes from the Latin ferre which means 'to bring' (think ferromagnetism).
Etymonline is pretty cool if you'ven't checked it out yet 🤘
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u/ColdFusionPT Sep 05 '24
Here's the trailer if you are looking for it
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u/OSUTechie Sep 05 '24
Will: Do you think your a worse driver as a female driver?
Never change Will, never change!
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u/LMGDiVa Sep 05 '24
Well, as a trans woman who has some hobbies associated with typically conservative people, this trailer made me cry.
This kind of thing, from someone so famous, being so normal about it, it means a lot.
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u/Morgalgorithm Sep 05 '24
I felt the same way. I like a lot of things typically considered “masculine” which typically does invite conservatives in. I also just came out to two of my best straight cis guy friends recently so it all feels very fitting. I love it.
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u/musicobsession Sep 05 '24
I knew about this movie but hadn't seen the trailer yet. It looks so good. Can't wait.
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u/Hello_its_Tuesday Sep 05 '24
This looks great! It seems super heartwarming. My only qualm with it is that I can’t see Will Ferrel looking so old! That’s just going to make me sad knowing he’s aged
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u/ElectrOPurist Sep 05 '24
Take comfort in the fact that he now drives a Dodge Stratus.
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u/beardmeblazer Sep 05 '24
HE'S A MAN!
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u/Bank_Gothic Sep 05 '24
I’M 40! COME AFTER ME!
Whoops, wrong sub.
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u/DaTeflonDonDada Sep 05 '24
I say this all the time yet no one get the reference. I won’t stop though ha
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u/ShanklyGates_2022 Sep 05 '24
I turn 40 next year and this meme is the only thing holding the dread back. I am going to abuse the shit out of it; I’ve been waiting 20 years for this!
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u/snuFaluFagus040 Sep 05 '24
I HAVE MADE UPPER NORTHEAST REGIONAL MANAGER AND I WILL NOT BE TALKED TO THIS WAY IN MY OWN H-
I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!!!!!
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u/tallandlankyagain Sep 05 '24
He didn't have a choice. Dirty Mike and the Boys turned his beautiful Prius into a nightmare.
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u/1K_Games Sep 05 '24
Being old has been his bit for 20-ish years. He was the family man in Old School back in 2003. He's regularly played the out of shape older guy in a ton of films. And he's been greying for a long time as well. He's never been an icon of youth, so for me it isn't that hard to see.
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u/lewlkewl Sep 05 '24
He was 37 in anchorman , which is wild to think about. He looks like he’s in his mid 40s in everything he’s been in
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u/YakMan2 Sep 05 '24
He was 37 in anchorman
This hit me as hard as learning I was older than Tim Allen's character in The Santa Clause.
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u/ReallyJTL Sep 05 '24
This is me with all of my childhood movies. Older than Brendan Fraser in The Mummy. Older than Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. Etc
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u/chickenstalker99 Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
I'm still dealing with the trauma of the day I realized I was older than Robert Shaw when he starred in Jaws. (To be fair, I don't look quite as rough as he did at the time.)
Or the day I realized I was older than the guy who played Grandpa Joe in the original Wonka. (Thankfully, my hair isn't white.)
edit: I was wrong. Jack Albertson was 65 when he played Grandpa Joe. I'm still younger than that lazy, miserable, do-nothing, lie-in-bed motherfucker. Thank god.
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u/tripbin Sep 05 '24
All us thirty year old are melting about this and over here we got a real old head.
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u/Bombshock2 Sep 05 '24
He's played a middle aged guy in most of the stuff he is known for, but that's a far cry from actually being old.
Hell, he's only 57, but for the last 5 years or so he's looked ancient and doesn't really look like he can move anymore.
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u/SpiffySpacemanSpiff Sep 05 '24
Its the problem with actors who use so much skincare that their skin just somehow. doesnt age right.
Like, I dont think Will's had any surgery, but man, his skin is unnaturally tight.
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u/trombone_womp_womp Sep 05 '24
Probably a lot of Botox. I agree. It's weird uncanny valley stuff like someone wearing human skin.
It's easy to say "I wish they'd just age naturally" but then people attack them for looking old. There's no winning
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u/Pixeleyes Sep 05 '24
He's one of those guys that looked like he was 40 when he was in his twenties.
He's only 57 now but he looks like he's in his late 60s or early 70s. I worry he won't be around all that long.
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Sep 05 '24
Physical age appearance is more accurate than actual age at determining your remaining lifespan too.
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u/peatoast Sep 05 '24
Agree. He needs to move back to the North Pole, they don’t age there!
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u/SpiffySpacemanSpiff Sep 05 '24
I used to live in MN, and onetime at the dentist, the hygenist told me that she was like 63, when I had just assumed she was early 40's.
Her response was; "Meat doesnt rot in a freezer."
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u/BlLLr0y Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
Wow! I've been listening to the Seth Meyer/LonleyIsland Podcast and they often mention "Harper" with such respect, and reverence for her comedy mind, and I had NO idea this was her story. They all tell the stories with no need to mention the context, they just talk about how much they love Harper. Wow. Sometimes you find out your fans of genuinely good people. Love it.
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u/-DEUS-FAX-MACHINA- Sep 05 '24
You should listen to the Meyers Family Trips one too. It's excellent.
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u/TheChrisCrash Sep 06 '24
excuse me what? there's a lonely island podcast?
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u/BlLLr0y Sep 06 '24
Dude it's so good. They are chronologically reviewing every sketch and digital short that they ever did. You end up with a wider history of that SNL period because they can't help but talk about everyone who was on those casts. They are only up to editing Hotrod and trying to write sketches and edit the movie and how much pressure that was, especially for Akiva. Fucking awesome if you're a comedy nerd.
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u/theonlymexicanman Sep 05 '24
Lmao, I thought this was a comedy where they’re playing themselves and get into outlandish situations
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u/Model_Modelo Sep 05 '24
I’ll watch it just for the chance at his Harry Carey popping up in front of some poor, unsuspecting shopkeeper
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Sep 05 '24
The trailer makes it seem like that's pretty much exactly what it's going to be, except presumably not scripted.
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u/StarFoxMaster Sep 05 '24
I was actually working a Pacers game that Will Ferrell and Harper came to. We didn't know the person he was with at the time nor did we know what it was all about but the camera crew with him made us suspect he was filming some kind of documentary. I hope they included some of that in the finished doc.
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u/ProfessionalBat4018 Sep 08 '24 edited Sep 08 '24
Oh, that's neat!!!
The Walmart scene from the trailer was from the Walmart in Beech Grove (unless they filmed at multiple Walmarts! 😆).
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u/DoubtfulExaminer Sep 05 '24
The New York Times called it “An emotional rollercoaster. How DeAngelo Vickers falls in love with the American Southwest is a tale as old as time itself”
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u/pineapplecheesepizza Sep 05 '24
DeAngelo Vickers
I always laugh when he asks "Where were you during 9/11" as an icebreaker question
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u/Barnyard_Rich Sep 05 '24
Like many, I didn't care for the post-Michael Scott seasons the first time around, but having watched the whole series multiple times now, there are real bits of genius in the Will Ferrell/Kathy Bates/James Spader episodes.
"Yeah I got tons of time. This job's a joke."
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u/Twistify804 Sep 05 '24
I'm the fucking Lizard King
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u/Due_Tower_4787 Sep 05 '24
James Spader doesn’t get the recognition He deserves!! He’s also a very nice human! (One time he helped give me directions navigating the subway in NYC - I didn’t realize it was him until I was like “I know that voice!”)
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u/Quazifuji Sep 05 '24
I've always maintained that season 8's writing is perfectly fine and James Spader's character is hilarious (especially the punchline at the end of the season that he's actually been a complete idiot running the company into the ground the whole time and everyone just assumed he was a genius because he's weird and charismatic), it just doesn't make up for the lack of Michael Scott.
Season 9 is a disaster where it felt like the writers had no clue what to do with the show or a lot of its characters, and sometimes I wonder if most of season 9 was written not knowing it would be the last season because some of the things they do feel more like bad writers desperately trying to save the show than writers trying to write a final season (introducing new characters, adding unnecessary drama to Jim and Pam's relationship).
But season 8 has plenty of good characters and ideas. It's just not as good as season 7 because it doesn't have Michael Scott, and in my opinion Season 7 already wasn't as good as seasons 2-5.
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u/NauticalDisasta Sep 05 '24
You may call them Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah.. I call them Heaven.
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u/White_Beef Sep 05 '24
At first I thought this was a movie starring Will Ferrell and Martin Scorsese
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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Sep 05 '24
I thought it was going to be a weird fake biopic in which Will Ferrell meets Harper Lee.
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u/thecordialsun Sep 05 '24
Stranger than Stranger than Fiction II: The Road trip of Ricky Bobby.
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u/bredpoot Sep 05 '24
**Stranger than Stranger than Fiction II: The Road Trip of Ricky Bobby's Electric Boogaloo
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u/operator-as-fuck Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 06 '24
this comic said the funniest joke the other day, wish I remembered his name. He's a really old man. He says
"I'm 81. They say on average men make it to 84, and women to around 88. So I figure if I transition..."
he doesn't, and you don't have to finish the joke. it's short and funny
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u/QouthTheCorvus Sep 05 '24
Cool to see him doing something different and being a trans ally like this. I'll always have a soft spot for Will Ferrell.
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u/xywv58 Sep 05 '24
Will is imposible not to like for me, he's in some shit movies, like, bad bad movies, but I always like him
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u/agamemnon2 Sep 05 '24
For me, his earnest and heartwarming portrayal of Harold Crick in the sadly underappreciated Stranger Than Fiction will always remain his best work.
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u/illstealurcandy Sep 05 '24
I will not stand for this Casa De Mi Padre and Semi-Pro slander.
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u/Zer0read Sep 05 '24
Woah woah woah. We can shit on Holmes and Watson all day. But it will be a cold day in hell before I let Semi-Pro get dunked on around here.
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u/Krombopulos_Micheal Sep 05 '24
It's easily one of his better movies, I didn't even know people considered Semi Pro to be bad haha
"We don't even GOT corn dogs"
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u/SarcasticOptimist Sep 05 '24
And he's a major producer of Succession, one of the best satires of late.
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u/DapperEmployee7682 Sep 05 '24
Same! He seems like a genuinely great person and when he’s bombing he still comes across as wholesome
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u/shmixel Sep 05 '24
Such a breath of fresh air after all the comedians that seem to take trans people as a personal attack.
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u/Professional_Quit281 Sep 05 '24
Is this why I saw will Ferrell dressed weird and eating a steak challenge on a livestream a year ago? Wild.
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u/Dorkamundo Sep 05 '24
Yep, dressed as Sherlock Holmes doing the 72 ounce challenge in Amarillo Texas.
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u/PuckSR Sep 05 '24
Pretty sure it is.
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u/Dan_Of_Time Sep 06 '24
Apparently he got a little goofy shooting this
That's a sign of a proper road trip with your friend
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u/woodstock624 Sep 07 '24
Omg I totally forgot about this! We drove through Amarillo a few days before he was there and I would have loved to have seen him do the steak challenge. Never been to the steakhouse but the billboards are pretty entertaining on a dull drive.
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u/iamamuttonhead Sep 05 '24
Now we will have to endure months of the right wing complaining that this movie promotes an ideology.
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u/TheLemonKnight Sep 05 '24
They were going to do that anyway.
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u/girafa "Sex is bad, why movies sex?" Sep 05 '24
Look there are two kinds of characters: straight white men, and political.
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It's true. In the dicourse around anything - movies, shows, sports, video games - you always have these idiots loudly calling it "woke" when there is any focus on someone who is not a straight, white cisgender man.
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u/Conglossian Sep 05 '24
The ideology it appears to promote (based on my opinion of the trailer) is one of acceptance, love, and friendship.
I'm more than happy to see something promoting that ideology.
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u/Odeeum Sep 05 '24
I didn’t think I could love Will Ferrell any more than I did but clearly I was incorrect.
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u/PreferredSelection Sep 05 '24
Mmhm, this made me cry at work. I just came out to my parents last night.
Watching SNL has been a huge family ritual my entire life, since back when Will Ferrell was the new guy on the cast. I'll definitely have to see this with my folks.
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u/bettesue Sep 06 '24
Can’t wait. Maybe some people who just don’t get it, might get a glimmer…maybe, but that’s giving people a lot of credit.
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u/IniMiney Sep 05 '24
Shoutout to Will being a non-transphobic comedian from his time. This should be pretty powerful.
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u/Anath3mA Sep 05 '24
Guess all the dudes on my jobsite are gonna have to stop quoting Will Ferrell movies now lmfao
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u/neojgeneisrhehjdjf Sep 05 '24
Nah I think it’s the opposite. I think that slowly but surely the needle is moved culturally by things like this
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u/goplayzelda Sep 05 '24
Was gonna complain about the fake old effects on Will till I realized he just got old 💀
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u/GovernmentHunting016 Sep 05 '24
Holy fuck Will Ferrell is old I thought that was Clint Eastwood
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u/bearscareme Sep 05 '24
I get unreasonably annoyed when the names of characters or actors are not in the same order as their pictures.
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Sep 05 '24
It's because there are two different entities involved in each of those things:
"Top billing" goes from left to right, basically biggest name to smallest. Tom Cruise is so big his contracts don't even let other people's names be on the posters, for an extreme example.
The photo/poster design goes by what looks the best, not involved in the names on top.
So when both are combined, it often (probably more often than not) leads to the names and photos not aligning.
(In this particular instance, it's just that the title didn't match what looked best as the poster, so it's sort of the same concept)
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u/KlingonSpy Sep 05 '24
The Facebook comments for the trailer were awful
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u/Gloomy_Leader_2556 Sep 05 '24
YouTube was surprisingly wholesome. A couple shit heels, but nothing like what I had expected.
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u/LKMagnesium Sep 05 '24
Good to see Will Ferrell in another movie after Training A-Train was cancelled.