The next idea for a lame-ass Will Ferrell sports movie...

I agree. It was a different kind of movie, more family-oriented, but it had some good laughs in there. The interactions with Ditka were good, I thought.

 

If anyone hasn't seen Ferrell in Everything Must Go, I recommend it. I wouldn't necessarily say it's full-on dark comedy, but it's close.

 

I'm a Ferrell fan, but not everything is great. His stuff can be very weird, so it's not always a guaranteed success.
But I like weird.
I love 'Semi-Pro' and I like 'Talladega Nights.'
'Blades of Glory' wasn't very good, but it had some funny bits.

As for the non-sports stuff, I love 'Step Brothers.'
And 'The Other Guys' is pretty funny.
I'm one of the only people who liked 'Casa de mi Padre.'

I have no interest in 'Elf' or 'Kicking and Screaming.' I'm not a family-movie person.

'Stranger than Fiction' was alright, and so was 'Everything Must Go.' Not great, but alright.

I was really disappointed in the IFC mini-series a few years ago.

 

Elf is my mom's favorite Christmas movie now. I think that's one of his best performances too - Family friendly enough, but just naughty enough to appeal to kids with the burping bits and what not. It's probably somewhat thankless to be good in a movie that shoots as broadly as that one.

The IFC series, do you mean Spoils of Babylon? He was really good in that as the narrator slash author who was getting wasted during the intro segments. Unfortunately though, he was way more interesting in those than the actual series was.

 

Ferrell was part of Elf, which is probably the best Christmas movie since the lamp was a major award. He gets a big pass for that one.

It was also directed by the guy who had a big hand in saving super hero movies.

 

There could have been a really great ABA movie but Semi-Pro was not it.

 

'Spoils of Babylon' - that was it. It was interesting. As I said, I like weird, so I give them a lot of credit for doing it.
Ferrell wasn't in it much, but I thought he was one of the creators.

 

I don't think it was intended to be a movie about the ABA. The ABA was a context for doing some strange, funny bits.
Creative intent is not a defense for making a bad movie. If you didn't like, you didn't like it. That's cool.
Personally, I liked it a lot and though it was funny. The fact that it was not an attempt to portray the ABA does not bother me in the least.

 

The facts of the ABA are better than any fiction that you could do on the league. Just imagine if Marvin Barnes had kept a diary. That said, Semi-Pro was a'ight.

 

My grandfather was a butcher, so "Meat comes first!" made me laugh really hard. Also, the way the nickname Juicebox gets delivered, as if it were the worst thing someone could be called, gets me.

 

I saw Talladega Nights the night before my wedding. Might have been the best decision I made that week.

 

I guess I'll make a TV analogy:
I've always been fond of 'Hogan's Heroes;' however, I have always accepted that it is not a real depiction of life in a German POW camp or of Allied intelligence operations.