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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.

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

Big Bottom is one of my favorite songs ever.

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

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.

Duh.

She's cute.

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.

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$

Ours go to 11.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

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?

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.

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.

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

Christopher Guest - Genius

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

Also, the Remains of the Day lunchbox.

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

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

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.

That's a good story.

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.

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

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.

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?