Anchorman (2004)

[Scott]

ANCHORMAN (2004) - Just rented this and have been wanting to see this film starring Will Farrell for a while now. The humor was so stupid that I couldn't help but like it. Which was your favorites scene?

1. The news team street brawl
2. The dog on the bridge
3. Cat poo meal at the lounge
4. Flute playing at the lounge
5. Other



Post Edited (10-02-05 20:18)

[Ash]

The best scenes are when Burgandy & Corningstone trade insults.

"Ron Burgundy: You are a smelly pirate hooker!
Veronica Corningstone: You look like a blueberry!
Ron Burgundy: Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island!
Veronica Corningstone: Well you... have bad hair!"

or...

Ron Burgundy: [to Veronica after the news has just gone off the air] You've got a dirty whorish mouth.

Ron Burgundy: I'm gonna punch you in the ovary, that's what I'm gonna do. A straight shot. Right to the babymaker.

Ron Burgundy: [to Veronica Corningstone as the news has just gone off the air] You're a real hooker. I'm gonna slap you in public.

Ron Burgundy: [to Veronica Corningstone] I'm gonna shoot you with a BB gun when you're not looking. Yep, back of the head.

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Ron Burgundy: I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.
Veronica Corningstone: Really.
Ron Burgundy: People know me.
Veronica Corningstone: Well, I'm very happy for you.
Ron Burgundy: I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

or...

Ron Burgundy: Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.
Veronica Corningstone: No, there's no way that's correct.
Ron Burgundy: I'm sorry, I was trying to impress you. I don't know what it means. I'll be honest, I don't think anyone knows what it means anymore. Scholars maintain that the translation was lost hundreds of years ago.

Or any dialogue by Brick:

(after the big brawl with the other anchormen from rival TV stations)
Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast!
Champ Kind: It jumped up a notch!
Ron Burgundy: It did, didn't it?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart!
Ron Burgundy: I saw that! Brick killed a guy! Did you throw a trident?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident!
Ron Burgundy: Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.

or....

Brian Fantana: That was one crazy party. I am hung over.
Champ Kind: I woke up on the floor of some Japanese family's living room, and they would NOT stop screaming!
Brick Tamland: I ate a big, red candle.


Brick Tamland: I pooped a hammer.

I love this movie....It's loaded with hilarious dialogue!
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Post Edited (09-13-05 04:25)

[dean]

This movie has attained 'classic' status amongst my  friends and I.  Almost every situation we come into can somehow be turned into an Anchorman, or at least, Will Ferrel quote.

"I want to be on you"

"I love lamp"

"Scotch in my belly"

"LOUD NOISES!!!"

or all the dvd extras, such as dialogue between Corningstone and Burgundy after the news show is finishing:

"I'm going to punch you in the ovaries, right in the baby maker"

Or the song, "Afternoon Delight" and the video clip on the dvd.

His lines at the start are great as well:

"Good Afternoon, mmmm... I'm legendary anchorman Ron Burgundy, sitting here in my aquajet 9000, enjoying my usual meal of steak, waffles, french fries and of course scotch."



Man I love this movie, and if any of you say otherwise, I will fight you, that's no lie.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Dean, I thought Anchorman sucked!


J/K

I rented it when it first came out and it was decently funny.  It wasn't as great as I kept reading but was certainly worth watching.  I was going to throw out some Brick quotes as the others have but Dean beat me to my favorite:

"I Love Lamp"

[SaintMort]

I really was let down by this movie by the time I rented it. I thought Brick was funny and there was a few good moments and an occasional quote that I liked but for the most part I attribute to the film to make me not think Will Farrel was that great.

[AndyC]

I think what really made this movie work for me was that I didn't expect much from it. I thought it looked like it had potential, but was most likely going to be stupid. I was pleasantly surprised.

I think it also helps to be old enough to remember the time before the internet and the cable news networks, when the local newscast was the top source of information. Everyone watched the 6 o'clock news, and the local news team, led by the good-looking anchor, were treated as real celebrities within the area they covered. And the stations did promote them as almost heroic figures. Anchorman is a dead-on parody.



Post Edited (09-13-05 20:41)

[Ozzymandias]

The film makers went back and researched the openings to local newscast from that era. I remember a station in Oklahoma City had an opening just like that ( I also believe their sports guy wore a cowboy hat).

There was also an underlining idea of the characters being like a) superheros and b) children. It worked someway.

Also the argument over the raitings is realistic to a T. Everyone interprets the raitngs differently.

The effect this movie has had on people in the industry: I was watching the local news one night here in Springfield and the anchor accidently called a female reporter "Tits" on the air.

[Shadowphile]

Anchorman was not funny, except perhaps for the multi-newscrew (news crew, not new screw) brawl.  

Will Farrell is over rated as an actor and as a comedian.  I sat there dumbfounded watching a fully grown adult laugh hysterically during the scene where Farrell was making an ass of himself while in the phone booth after Baxter got punted.  It wasn't funny.  It was stupid.

Christina Applegate, however is maturing into a wonderful actress and she is definitely not all that hard on the eyes.  she's come a long way from Married With Children

[zombie no.one]

I thought the first 1/2 hour was great, then it became too silly in a "airplane" kind of way but. there's some great one liners in it though.

[dean]

depressed crack addict wrote:

> I thought the first 1/2 hour was great, then it became too
> silly in a "airplane" kind of way but. there's some great one
> liners in it though.
>

Hmmm... that's what I liked about it: Silly one-liners, and really stupid situations.  oh and Shadowphile, I will fight you, trident and all...

But then again, some people have much more mature humour than I do, so I guess I understand...

[Flangepart]

The streets will run red, with Burgandy blood!

[Shadowphile]

I prefer the streets running with a decnt claret myself.



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shall we agree to disagree?  I've got a few movies i love that everyone else I know can't understand.