Submitted by nathan99light t3_10qcxpo in movies
I just now discovered these films. This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Best in Show are great. A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots are meh. I love how the dialogue was improved and how they used the exact same cast for every film lol. I really like when directors do that honestly. It’s too bad Christopher Guest is retired because I would’ve been eagerly anticipating a new mockumentary film of his if one was in the works.
No hate on OP, who is just expressing a sincere appreciation for a new discovery (respect), but it does make me smile whenever I see a post that amounts to “hey, does anybody else like this hugely beloved film, or series, of which I was just previously unaware?”
Every day on reddit I read something that makes me feel older and older lol
Like when I saw people saying "Oh wow, did you know the teacher lady from Wednesday actually played the Wednesday character in some old movies?" re: Christina Ricci
I came here to make this comment
I love A Mighty Wind because as a music fan, I get all the references. They're actually quite brilliant. Eugene Levy's performance in that film as Mitch is phenomenal.
“A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow” is a legit beautiful song
I really enjoyed rewatching that movie after Schitt's Creek wrapped up. Levy and Catherine O'Hara really do work well together.
I still find it weird that people call these "Christopher Guest mockumentary films" when Rob Reiner directed and made the first and, arguably (I guess), best one of them.
Yeah, Rob Reiner put this whole mini genre together, including the cast that kept showing up in the later Guest movies. He deserves credit for that (and he's also hilarious acting in Spinal Tap).
His wife is still making amazing shit.
he's also the 5th baron haden-guest, and was a member of the house of lords in england, until his seat was abolished in 1999.
her nephew once sat on me until I apologized for asking if she was really a hermaphrodite
Those old films? No one knew who Chris Guest was or what he was doing. But his legacy remains. Hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge.
These go to eleven.
Don't forget his HBO series "Family Tree" with Chris O'Dowd.
You'll probably really like Schitt's Creek too. If you haven't watched it already.
there's also a sequel to spinal tap that came out in 1992(thereturn of spinal tap) and another one that's coming out in 2024(spinal tap 2).
edit- i do agree with your division of the films, re: which are great vs. which are meh.
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Some of my favourite comedies and very formative in my sense of humour. In high school I kind of did a lot of everything. I played most sports but I was also good with writing and acting. I was friends with some of the improv team and I ended up joining in grade 12 and we finished 2nd in the country. Those guys were the ones who introduced me to them and I still watch those movies 20 years later. By far the best improv you will see in Hollywood movies. Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy are absolute comedian legends. Their chemistry is as good as it gets.
yes
Posts that open with the phrase “ANYONE REMEMBER“ should be instapermabanned.
I really enjoyed "Waiting for Guffman" and "A Mighty Wind." I really struggled with "Best in Show" because the yuppie couple were so fucking awful that I wanted them to die just a few minutes after they first appeared. I know they're supposed to be horrible, but I couldn't find them funny in any way.
.."but i couldn't find them funny in any way"
sounds like some cuts might have come a little too close to the bone.
No. They're stupid, awful people who should not have pets because they're stupid, awful people. I don't derive any satisfaction laughing at stupid, awful people, but you go ahead if that makes you happy.
thou dost protest too much, me thinks.
You can try all you want, but you can't pick a fight with me. I've already told you that I don't suffer fools gladly, but if you're too stubborn to listen, then go ahead and continue vomiting your impotent rage into the void.
Understand also that you'll be doing it alone, and probably forever.
captainhowdy82 t1_j6p98ek wrote
Lol of course we remember these movies