This Is Spinal Tap (1984)'s comments

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Melvelet

Actually their IMDb score goes up to 11 :D

http://i.imgur.com/FfIvwlv.jpg

9 years 1 month ago

frankqb

A fantastic comedy. The DVD commentary (as performed in character by the actors) is almost as hilarious as the film itself.

12 years 4 months ago

Show of hands. Who, when they first saw This Is Spinal Tap, thought it was a real documentary about a real band they'd never heard of? At least for a little while? At what point did you realize? I think that happened to me back in those days when maybe I didn't know all the actors on sight. Because the King of All Mockumentaries entirely nails the look and feel of what it is parodying, right down to the treatment of old video from the fictional band's previous incarnations and the way the live shows are filmed. A lot of the comedy percolates in the background and you might miss it on first watch (Spinal Pap, ha!), and I mean, the songs are bad, but no worse than what was on the radio in the early 1980s (or indeed, at any time in radio history). As Spinal Tap gets more and more humiliated, that it is a comedy (and not an accidental one) becomes more apparent, but it shows its heart by the end, so it works as a realistic story too. Still the mockumentary against which all others are measured.

3 years 11 months ago

bathkuyp

Real eyopener on spontaneously combustion

8 years 6 months ago

aliveli452

10/11

8 years 9 months ago

Rohit

"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*"

12 years 6 months ago

ClassicLady

I guess you had to be there. I felt like I was on the outside of a huge inside joke. Not very funny. I could see the mockery of certain types but it wasn't enough for me to rate this movie high at all.

9 years 5 months ago

NuclearPlanet

Good Film, not great, but good.

10 years 9 months ago

aussieflickfan

As a musician, I enjoy this film more. It is about ego, stupidity, creativity and bad management - just like the real music 'industry'. I will always be grateful it got made. I don't feel that way about too many others.

12 years 5 months ago

Dorothy Valens

"The question is how much more black could this album be, and the answer is...none, none more black"

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12 years 9 months ago

E-Pallazzo

One of the greatest comedies of all time. Great stuff.

13 years 2 months ago

Torgo

Great find, Melvelet! IMDb still has a 11-scale for this film and this film alone :D

2 years 1 month ago

utkuokur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion

2 years 9 months ago

Ondskap

Tuna. No bones.

Tried to watch this around a year ago, stopped after 3 minutes. After seeing this now, I really understand why it has it's status. Maybe not cryin out loud funny, but I enjoyed it, I really enjoyed it.

10 years 11 months ago

HyliaFischer

This one goes up to 11.

11 years 3 months ago