I think Fellowship is the best adaption of the three LotR movies and I still love it so much.

All day. Reilly’s first 20-ish movies were serious roles where yes, he could flex his comedic muscles (e.g. Boogie Nights) but they were far from the Talledega Nights / Step Brothers vibe. Casualties of War, Days of Thunder, River Wild, Dolores Claiborne, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Thin Red Line, Magnolia, Perfect…

Yeah but Shakespeare in Love was an actually good movie, which puts it ahead of Crash and A Beautiful Mind. If anything winning Best Picture was the worst thing that could have happened to SiL’s long-term reputation, had it been merely nominated & Gwyneth Paltrow won Best Actress it’d probably be remembered very…

I’ll be That Guy: Fellowship of the Ring should be #1. Ghost World, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Amores Perros, Mulholland Dr. and a lot of other movies on this list are five star classics (I’ll also be That Guy and say that In the Mood for Love bored me senseless), but 20 years and probably 200 viewings later I can…

I’m not usually one to argue with listicles, that most subjective of pop culture criticism, but I would place Fellowship easily within the top 10 on this list.

Only if that context is: we are having a relationship-ending conversation right now.

You know how people said that Donald Trump was a poor person’s idea of a rich person? Adam McKay’s movies are a stupid person’s idea of smart movies.

Comedian Mike Birbiglia has a great bit where the punchline he keeps coming back to is: “And what I should have said was...nothing.”

“Then when he calls to patch things up, the does so by telling Ferrell that he, McKay, is the real aggrieved party here.”

And now he’s taking a private conflict public to try to position himself as the wronged party.

Just via his movies, it had appeared to me that McKay had crawled up his own ass and bought into his own bullshit as a creator. Apparently he’s done that as a person too. I’m sure Ferrell’s not the greatest guy in the world, but wow does McKay sound like the absolute worst.

I was one hundred percent thinking “Will Ferrell is being an overwrought dork in this spat,” until this line. Truly amazing how people can’t help but tell on themselves.

“Sure, I broke your heart and stole your dreams. But remember when you took the last strawberry donut after I’d specifically asked it to be left for me? You remember that?!”

qualified apologies with accusations thrown in - is Adam McKay related to my mother?

Will Ferrell has been known to be a dick to people so I normally would not be 100% on his side.. But like Jesus McKay. Dude is your friend and really wants a role and he has to find out from media that you hired his other best friend? Come on, thats not “business stuff” and you have to be a psycho to not realize why…

If I was a a casting director and had to choose between Ferrell and Riley to play Jerry Buss, I’d pick Riley. He’s a much more versatile performer, is better at drama, and even somewhat resembles the man.

He really should’ve known this would be how it played out because the exact same thing happened in Talledegha Nights when Reilly marries Ricky Bobby’s wife.

McKay comes off as the asshole across the board in this one. Sure, it was his right not to cast Ferrell as Jerry Buss. I even think that was the right call, given the total lack of physical resemblance between the two. But yikes McKay shit the bed from there on out.

Yep. You can’t make amends and burn bridges at the same time.

Sounds like a good strategy. I’m going to try that next time I’m fighting with my husband.

“I’m sorry, but” sure sounds like a great way to have handled this