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Watching Spinal Tap for the first time ....
Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:38 pm
when that miniature stonehenge was lowered to the stage - well, that's comedy of the type we simply don't get to experience anymore.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 5:00 am to GoldenDawg
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when that miniature stonehenge was lowered to the stage - well, that's comedy of the type we simply don't get to experience anymore.
As I get older, I'm more a fan of that subdued sort of humor. Yeah, the Apatow and Frat Pack comedies are the ones you laugh the hardest and loudest at, but you never want to go back and watch them over and over like the Big Lebowski or Bubba Ho-Tep.
I think This Is Spinal Tap pretty well invented the mockumentary genre, as well. I remember reading that a lot of people didn't get it, and were confused that a more well-known band wasn't chosen to follow around, because they'd never seen or heard of a movie like this.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 9:07 am to GoldenDawg
Truly one of the great scenes in movie history. Michael McKean's expression as he watches it come down from the rafters is priceless.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 11:03 am to GoldenDawg
Watched it with one of my buddies back in the day and he didn't get it at all. I was rolling, though. Makes me really question his character.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 2:01 pm to GoldenDawg
David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
Ian Faith: I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it.
Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.
Ian Faith: I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it.
Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 7:45 pm to GoldenDawg
Their commentary on the DVD, in character, is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
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