Seth MacFarlane's Failed Film Career

Which of Seth MacFarlane's Movie attempts did you enjoy the most 🤔

fun fact: the part at Comic-Con where everybody was dressed up as pop culture characters and start fighting each other, there was one guy dressed up as Peter Griffin fighting a guy dressed up as a Chicken, of course referencing the chicken fight

If there’s one thing I can appreciate about the Ted films is the CGI on Ted himself. Despite being obviously animated, he looks so much like an actual teddy bear, I almost thought they used an actual doll and just animated the face.

The original Ted is the only rated R movie I got to see as a kid in theaters. I have no idea why but not only did my parents encourage me seeing it, but my grandmother and GREAT GRANDMOTHER actually WENT AND WATCHED IT WITH ME! As a kid seeing my 90 year old great grandmother dying laughing in the theater was a definite highlight.

I heard a talk by a visual effects guy whose company did half the animation for the Ted movie (the other half being done by the legendary Tippett Studios). He said out of the dozens of films he’d worked on Seth MacFarlane was by far the best Director he’d ever worked with. He knew EXACTLY what he wanted, did not waste their time with vague direction and showed enormous respect for the level of effort the animators put into the work. He spoke to everyone like an equal at all levels of production, just a genuinely nice person by all reports.

"There is no limit to what Seth MacFarlane can do. He’s a master at doing voices, he’s got a beautiful Frank-Sinatra singing voice, he’s awesome at the piano, he created some epic animated shows, and has great humor." - Lois Griffin

Not gonna lie, Liam Neeson buying Trix cereal was legit one of the funniest things I'd ever seen in a movie. Played it so straightforward. Laughed for several minutes.

The Orville is actually a really solid show. It doesn’t lean on the comedic aspect nearly as much as you would expect and is actually really engaging.

A Million Ways to Die in the West can best be described as “the movie where all the actors try except for Seth himself.”

I remember my grandma renting Ted for us and she was horrified. She still talked about it years later but called it “the little nasty bear movie” R.I.P. grandma 😔

I honestly kinda disagree about Ted's ending. The whole conflict was about Mark Wahlberg's character having to choose between completely leaving his childhood behind for the sake of his relationship and future, or choosing to remain an irresponsible man- child for the rest of his life. And I think the ending we got was pretty good, with all three characters learning and growing. Ted had to learn to let Wahlberg's character live his one life and accept that he was no longer his priority, Mila Kunis' character needed to learn that while her boyfriend did need to grow up to some extent, she shouldn't push him to the point where he's sacrificing his prior relationships for her sake and completely abandon who he is, and Wahlberg's character needed to learn that he needed to find a way to balance his friends and girlfriend because the nature of both relationships will change over time and he needs to change with them. It's not great, but I think it was pretty good.

I actually quite enjoyed A Million Ways to Die in the West and Ted. Never saw Ted 2, but I'd say Seth did pretty decently with his movies. I think Ted even had an academy award nomination for the opening song.

I'm surprised that Illumination's Sing wasn't mentioned especially after the Minions movie comment. Seth had a prominent role as Mike in the movie essentially playing a variation of Brian Griffin. He was notably missing in the sequel.

At least Seth will always have his role in the cinematic masterpiece Sing

The original Ted is a guilty pleasure comedy for me,I got a few laughs out of it and it had good effects and soundtrack, I cannot say the same for the sequel or a million ways to die in the west.

As an avid family guy fan you’re wrong. The first 3 seasons of family guy actually do have lots of heartfelt stories almost every episode ends with a wholesome family moment. I’d say up to about season 7-8 there’s still plenty of wholesome moments in the series but yeah after about season 10 they completely canned any serious storylines and the show just seems like the family all hate each other. This is likely cause Seth started moving on to other projects more commonly like his heavy focus on the Orville

The Orville is actually a really well made show that showcases seth macfarlane at his highest potential both comedically and character wise.

The Orville started off as a Star Trek parody , but then quickly evolved into a Star Trek spiritual successor . Just to clarify , it’s a great show !

The first Ted was a big thing back in the day, so many people quoting lines from the movie for months. I think it still holds up all these years later

I admit it. I liked A Million Ways To Die in The West. I liked the stoner energy of the characters verbalising what audiences think. It's almost like Seth can hear you say "man why is everyone so dirty?" which is a dynamic I don't think has been played with all that much. There is of course action comedies and horror comedies but not many take the time to stop and say "hang on, what is actually going on here? Why are we all like this?"