This Is Spinal Tap

the Jazz · Post by **the Jazz** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:23 pm

The DVD has a funny menu sequence... haven't gotten to the special features (if there are any, I assume so)... I'm working on it bit by bit in the media center at school when I have nothing to do between classes.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:30 pm

There's a HILARIOUS bit in the extra scenes. Definitely gotta check it out.

Big Bottom is one of my favorite songs ever.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:04 pm

nice poll. really, what other choice could you possibly need?

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:06 pm

I have a friend who has otherwise fine taste in film, but she abhorred Spinal Tap so much, she made her friends watch it during "Bad Movie Night."

I don't know why I hang out with her.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:28 pm

Duh.

She's cute.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:43 pm

Also a big fan of Best in Show and A Mighty Wind (haven't seen Waiting for Guffman)- Michael McKean and Christopher Guest are champions.

The scene in Best in Show where Harlan Pepper names nuts always cracks me up.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:15 am

My favourite scenes in 'Best in Show' are any with Fred Willard and Jim Piddock as the commentator. That fantastic bit about getting jockies to ride the dogs around the ring, or "I went to one of those obedience places once... it was all going well until they spilled hot candle wax on my private parts."

As for Tap, every time I watch it, I come away with a new favourite line. I saw it again a couple of weeks ago, for the first time in a year so, and the whole interview about album reviews is currently making me smile. "Shit sandwich" indeed.

J$

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:42 pm

Ours go to 11.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

the Jazz · Post by **the Jazz** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:34 pm

Best In Show was great, but what's interesting is that after it was over (saw it at the theater initially) I walked away with a creepy disturbed feeling. It had a very small almost-not-there sort of aftertaste feeling that was not at all funny. Anyone else know what I mean?

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:43 pm

Way back in the "Too Goth to Rock" fight, Ken's Super Duper Band'n'Stuff (who pulled second, if my memory serves me right?) had a line from Spinal Tap. "You'd have toask yourself, 'How much blacker could this be?' and the answer would be 'none.'"

Gramparsons, a few weeks later, during the "Sunny Again" fight, reviewed Shark Tornado's song with something to the effect of "I really wanted this to be bad, so I could say 'Two words: "Shit tornado."' But unfortuately, it's really good."

He then proceeded to review Silver Rush as "Shit rush."

A couple weeks later, I saw This is Spinal Tap for the first time, and I laughed all the harder for it.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:36 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:Also a big fan of Best in Show and A Mighty Wind (haven't seen Waiting for Guffman)- Michael McKean and Christopher Guest are champions.

The best part in Guffman is the "My Dinner With Andre" action figures.

mkilly wrote:I have a friend who has otherwise fine taste in film, but she abhorred Spinal Tap so much, she made her friends watch it during "Bad Movie Night."

I don't know why I hang out with her.

I dated a girl recently who'd never seen Star Wars (she was 26). It went nowhere and we quit seeing each other after a few dates. On the last one, this factoid came up and everything became clear. It takes a certain kind of person to spend not one minute of a quarter century watching Star Wars.

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:07 pm

"Don't touch it!! Don't even look at it!!!!" Nigel showing his guitar collection.

Christopher Guest - Genius

john m · Post by **john m** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:41 pm

c hack wrote:The best part in Guffman is the "My Dinner With Andre" action figures.

Also, the Remains of the Day lunchbox.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:00 am

the Jazz wrote:Best In Show was great, but what's interesting is that after it was over (saw it at the theater initially) I walked away with a creepy disturbed feeling. It had a very small almost-not-there sort of aftertaste feeling that was not at all funny. Anyone else know what I mean?

Sounds like they served you a dodgy choc-top

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:25 am

the Jazz wrote:Best In Show was great, but what's interesting is that after it was over (saw it at the theater initially) I walked away with a creepy disturbed feeling. It had a very small almost-not-there sort of aftertaste feeling that was not at all funny. Anyone else know what I mean?

I think that what you indentify is what makes it so special, and different from the all-out laugh-getter that is Tap. Nowhere in the script specifically, or tonally, are these people made out to be anything but loveable buffoons, but afterwards it strikes you how dismal their lives are that this is what they spend all year living for.

Because few (none?) of the character stories have satisfying resolutions (even the winning couple blow all their prize money on recording that awful awful album for dogs) you are left facing this gaping hole, where these characters we have become fond of are suddenly exposed as even less than just buffoons. I mean Tap get a whole new market to rock out in at the end of the film. What does anyone from Best in Show get?

Whether or not that is intentional is debatable. I like to think that the inclusion of Ed Begley's character as an outsider/observer suggests that it is.

And I know this is film criticism of the most ridiculous kind, seeing as it's a 'just' a comedy. But you did ask

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:26 am

john m wrote:
c hack wrote:The best part in Guffman is the "My Dinner With Andre" action figures.
Also, the Remains of the Day lunchbox.

heh. I was going to say that too and then I saw that you posted it.

john m · Post by **john m** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:24 pm

That's a good story.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:10 pm

john m wrote:
c hack wrote:The best part in Guffman is the "My Dinner With Andre" action figures.
Also, the Remains of the Day lunchbox.

Yeah, I'd kill for a Remains of the Day lunchbox.

Ogreasy! · Post by **Ogreasy!** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:45 pm

Yeah, all these movies are amazing.
"Our amps got Eleven!"

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:40 am

I made an '11' joke in class one day, and only the 40 year old teacher got it.

Poor children of the future haven't seen Spinal Tap.

As for the Star Wars chick... Dude, how can you not have seen Star Wars if you're 26?! I'm one of 'today's generation' and I've seen all of the original series. Then I saw the prequels and I had a crush on Jar-Jar. I blame my age at the time. And possibly something in the popcorn I had.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:29 pm

john m wrote:
c hack wrote:The best part in Guffman is the "My Dinner With Andre" action figures.
Also, the Remains of the Day lunchbox.

i've never seen this movie. is the remains of the day it is referring to the band?

john m · Post by **john m** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:34 am

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107943/

This Is Spinal Tap

What grade would you give this movie?

This Is Spinal Tap