# Anchorman. Right, so that sucked. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653 "2005-01-14T02:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/1 "2005-01-14T02:32:01Z")
Someone told me that “Anchorman” would change my mind about Will Ferrell. I wanted to like it. I _tried_. It blew. I doubt if I so much as chuckled once. I’d like that 90 or so minutes back, please. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/2 "2005-01-14T02:38:29Z")
I’m with you regarding Farrell. I haven’t seen the movie (and I won’t) but in all the times I’ve seen him on SNL and other things I’ve never so much as cracked a smile. Humor involves more than willingness to act like a fool. It has to be, you know…funny! ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/3 "2005-01-14T02:44:23Z")
I liked it. I am even laughing right now thinking about jazz flute and “you’re a dirty whore who hangs out with pirates.” I would say even more but I know that I’m all alone in my love of Will Ferrell. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/4 "2005-01-14T02:48:31Z")
> [@pokey](#): > > I liked it. I am even laughing right now thinking about jazz flute and “you’re a dirty whore who hangs out with pirates.” I would say even more but I know that I’m all alone in my love of Will Ferrell. Not true. I think he was hilarious on SNL, as well as in **Zoolander** and his brief appearance in **Austin Powers**. I haven’t seen\*\* Anchorman\*\* yet, but I want too. Of course, that doesn’t mean all his movies will be brilliant Night at the Roxbury but I am curious as to how he’ll handle Darrin in the **Bewitched** movie. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/5 "2005-01-14T02:49:43Z")
I don’t normally like Will Ferrell, but I did enjoy this movie. Most of that, of course, had to do with the supporting cast. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/6 "2005-01-14T02:56:08Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I’d like that 90 or so minutes back, please. If you figure out how to get that time back, let me know, so I can put in my order too. It was awful, bordering on _There’s Something About Mary_ awful. Don’t think I’ll ever be watching _Elf_. ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/7 "2005-01-14T03:03:05Z")
I thought it was hilarious. I was actually in stitches for a good chunk of the movie. Of course, it helped that I was seeing it with a friend of mine (things always seem funnier when you watch it with someone else). I agree though, the jazz flute scene really cracked me up, especially since I play the flute. During the part where he blows flames out the end I turned to my friend (who was already laughing) and said, “Don’t you wish I could do that?” He just lost it 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/8 "2005-01-14T03:05:22Z")
I got about four genuine good laughs out of the movie – about normal for what was probably a two-star movie. However, Will Farrell provided none of them. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/9 "2005-01-14T03:24:58Z")
I generally like him, but I didn’t particularly like this movie. The guy who did the weather had a few good lines. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/10 "2005-01-14T03:29:24Z")
I thought the movie was hilarious. In fact, there were moments when I saw it in the theater that I thought I was going to piss my pants, I was laughing so hard. Guess you just have to like that kind of humor. I know plenty of people who think the kind of British humor of Black Adder is the funniest thing ever, but it rarely evokes more than a smile from me. I never found the Three Stooges or Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy to be all that funny, either, but I know people who are reduced to tears from laughing at them. Different strokes for different folks, I say. **Anchorman** is my kind of comedy. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/11 "2005-01-14T03:29:59Z")
I liked it, but I’m quite the Ferrell whore. His distant third best movie behind Zoolander and Old School. If you can’t at least laugh at Ferrell in his SNL Blue Oyster Cult and Goulet skits, I’d suspect you lack a soul. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/12 "2005-01-14T03:33:28Z")
It sucked. I was embarassed for the actors. He was good in _Old School_ and everyone says he was great in \*Elf \*(I haven’t seen it), but Anchorman was a terrible movie all around. And I can tell good acting in a bad movie, too, but you won’t find it there. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/13 "2005-01-14T03:36:21Z")
I don’t know who everyone is, but Elf is a pile of shit. One of the two sole enjoyable parts of the movie (" Did you hear that!?!?") was used up in the trailor, the other being whoever the female lead was. Uber yummy in the girl next door sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/14 "2005-01-14T04:02:39Z")
Elf is the only one of his movies I’ve seen. It was sweet and funny, with a few scenes that were hilarious – particularly one with a really short guy in a board room. I think it has the makings of a classic Christmas movie. Maybe the fact that I watched it right after watching Bad Santa helped. What a pile o’ s\*\*\* that was. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/15 "2005-01-14T04:09:08Z")
Oh man, it **seriously** sucked. There may have been one or two laughs in the whole thing for me, but most of the time, I was just checking my watch to see how much was left. At least I only saw it at the local $1 theater. Any more than a buck and I would have called the police to report a mugging. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/16 "2005-01-14T04:35:14Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Elf is the only one of his movies I’ve seen. It was sweet and funny, with a few scenes that were hilarious – particularly one with a really short guy in a board room. I think it has the makings of a classic Christmas movie. > > Maybe the fact that I watched it right after watching Bad Santa helped. What a pile o’ s\*\*\* that was. That’s fucking bizzarre, as I was pleasantly surprised at how good Bad Santa was. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/17 "2005-01-14T04:40:18Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Maybe the fact that I watched it right after watching Bad Santa helped. What a pile o’ s\*\*\* that was. Looooved **Bad Santa** :D. **Elf** was okay, but not as entertaining as I had hoped from the rave reviews ( by the way **BabaBooey** the female lead is the quite cute Zooey Deschanel, who, among other roles, played the sister in **Almost Famous** ). As **Cuckoorex** noted, different strokes and all that. Will Ferrel generally does little for me and just as another example the only time I have ever liked Jim Carrey outside of early **In Living Color** episodes was in **Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind**. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/18 "2005-01-14T04:44:53Z")
I thought \*\*Anchorman[/b[ was hilarious. I do think it helps that the person I watched it with thought it was funny, also . THere is some sort of weird symbiotic thing when two people start laughing. I loved the scene with Ferrel’s emotional breakdown in the phonebooth. “The bad man punted Baxter!..I’m in a glass box of emottion!” De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum as they say ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/19 "2005-01-14T05:01:31Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > …the only time I have ever liked Jim Carrey outside of early **In Living Color** episodes was in **Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind**. > > - Tamerlane I know what you mean. If it weren’t for In Living Color, I’d be of the opinion that Carrey has no talent whatsoever. (Oddly enough, however, guys like Carrey, Jerry Lewis and Robin Williams [who, though frenetic, is genuinely talented] often make excellent dramatic actors.) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653/20 "2005-01-14T05:08:25Z")
I loved **Anchorman**. Had me in stitches. Different strokes and all. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchorman-right-so-that-sucked/284653.md?page=2)