Robin Williams and Jim Carrey are two perfect examples of actors with variety. Actors who are willing to try something new. Williams did it with Dead Poets society, and Carrey did it with The Truman Show, two excellent films. There are other examples, but recently Will Ferrell has gone into that territory, and done very well.
Ferrell has had good times(Anchorman) and bad(Land of the Lost), but people under estimate him as an actor. A lot of people probably didn't see Stranger than Fiction. Well, I did, and it was awesome, and until Ferrell's latest, Everything must go, it was his best performance.
Ferrell plays a guy who is having the worst three days of his life. He's recently been let go from his job, his wife left him, threw all of his stuff out, changed the locks, his car has been taken back, with items in it, and he has to live outside of his house. But he has to move everything off of the property, including himself, in three days, otherwise he goes to jail.
Ferrell's performance is absolutely terrific, and I would say that he should get an Oscar nod. But one great performance can't support a movie, especially one that is so down in the dumps you don't know whether to kill yourself or just turn it off.
I don't leave or stop watching movies. I just don't. And Everything must go isn't that bad that you have to turn it off. It's just so depressing. From start to finish, and it never really redeems itself either. It just sits there, depressing you for an hour and a half.
Even the moments that are supposed to be happy end up turning out, well, not very well. And the whole time you feel depressed, until the twist, which makes the film pointless. I just found the film to be a big disappointment in the conclusion.
So, in short, I didn't like the film. But Ferrell deserves all of the credit. Without him, Everything must go could've been a disaster. I know a lot of critics liked it and that everybody will disagree with me, but its my opinion and i'm sticking by it. Overall: Great performance, bad movie.
C+
Ferrell has had good times(Anchorman) and bad(Land of the Lost), but people under estimate him as an actor. A lot of people probably didn't see Stranger than Fiction. Well, I did, and it was awesome, and until Ferrell's latest, Everything must go, it was his best performance.
Ferrell plays a guy who is having the worst three days of his life. He's recently been let go from his job, his wife left him, threw all of his stuff out, changed the locks, his car has been taken back, with items in it, and he has to live outside of his house. But he has to move everything off of the property, including himself, in three days, otherwise he goes to jail.
Ferrell's performance is absolutely terrific, and I would say that he should get an Oscar nod. But one great performance can't support a movie, especially one that is so down in the dumps you don't know whether to kill yourself or just turn it off.
I don't leave or stop watching movies. I just don't. And Everything must go isn't that bad that you have to turn it off. It's just so depressing. From start to finish, and it never really redeems itself either. It just sits there, depressing you for an hour and a half.
Even the moments that are supposed to be happy end up turning out, well, not very well. And the whole time you feel depressed, until the twist, which makes the film pointless. I just found the film to be a big disappointment in the conclusion.
So, in short, I didn't like the film. But Ferrell deserves all of the credit. Without him, Everything must go could've been a disaster. I know a lot of critics liked it and that everybody will disagree with me, but its my opinion and i'm sticking by it. Overall: Great performance, bad movie.
C+