a mighty wind c/d

i think fred willard is hilarious, but he's so over the top that guest was wise to only put a little bit of him in the film. too much would be too much. and we'll always have the dvd outtakes for that stuff.

we really oughta move this to I Love Film! there's not enough traffic there.

*raises hand*

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Other stuff I really really loved: the little "short-films" wink, Harry Shearer going into the Spanish Civil War history, the scene where the guy asked to take off his sweater and he got lectured about how he "wasn't ready yet", the smack-on-top-of-the-head, and Parker Posey being too corny to not be funny.

And I swear, at the rate Fred Willard keeps getting funnier in each Guest film he's in, I'm seriously gonna explode a testicle in whatever comes next. His suggestion to The New Main Street SIngers on what they should do on the show cracked my shit up!

I may just dig out that New Christy Minstrels album I have in my closet...let's see...sweet jesus, does a band really need six guitars and three banjos?! It's like acoustic Branca. And they all are holding them up at greater-than-45-degree angles.

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Okay, I'm putting it on the stereo RIGHT NOW.

Plus Parker Posey (who usually gets on my nerves) makes a ridiculously hot folk singer. Just...ridiculous.

I have never seen Guffman, nor do I know anything about it, but I will make sure to seek it out.

I enjoyed A Mighty Wind a lot while not thinking it was the funniest of that type of film. The fact that the music was really nice and that the people's stories were interesting in and of themselves helped a lot.

Yes, that's it, I don't like the look of Ed Begley's face.

The briefer performances were largely wonderful; as all say, Willard... Begley Jr... Bob Balaban the adorable Marty Di Bergi-esque New Yorker, neurotic and wonderful like prime Woody Allen. I loved it that in many ways he carried over apsects of his performance in "Gosford Park" (a tremendous film that).
Parker Posey; absurd and inexplicably very sexy, yes! ;)

I think overall I feel very charitable towards any defects and the small scale nature of it (compared with "Tap" it seemed so), as well, it entertained & amused constantly.

The scene with the ex-porn star describing her career with a wink and a smile was one of my favourite scenes, mostly because I recognise the sort of smiley-smiley character that's been accurately hit there.

There's quite a bit in the trailer that didn't turn up in the film. "I don't.. remember much.." "I love Mitch.. but (whistles)" "Excuse me, I must be full"

As with Best in Show, there are extra clips on the website.

Another vote for Mitch:fool Mickey:cool.

Although the pivotal song is quite good, I really loved the title song. It's a pretty obvious hark back to hippie/Dylan folk as agent of social change, but it's really really good at it.

Did you see a different edit?

Nothing to add to Tom May's assessment; a small joy in three-part harmony.

What were PP's lines? The only other Main Street Singer I can remember apart from the Bohners is the one whose father was an Original Main Street singer, and I only remember that from the trailer (I'm aware she had at least one scene that started with that line, but I'm blanking on what it was).

Okay, I'll go away now. The only other thing I can think of is that Guest and McKean occasionally aren't as funny as they think (or are whimsical where they could have been funny), but I could watch Harry Shearer all day.

Hey, maybe I'll go do that..