― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 January 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 3 January 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.thenewchristyminstrels.com/Discography/6302%20-%20In%20Person.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 January 2004 06:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 January 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 06:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 January 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
Okay, I'm putting it on the stereo RIGHT NOW.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 3 January 2004 06:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 January 2004 07:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 3 January 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 4 January 2004 05:34 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
Yes, that's it, I don't like the look of Ed Begley's face.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago) link
― pete s, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Tom May (Tom May), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 February 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 February 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link
Did you see a different edit?
Nothing to add to Tom May's assessment; a small joy in three-part harmony.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 5 February 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago) link
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).
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 February 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 5 February 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago) link
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..
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 February 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
the best song isn't even in the movie! mitch and mickey's "when you're next to me":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8NGYoyRR6U
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 28 July 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I recently enjoyed this film
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 28 July 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The naches that I'm feeling right now... 'cause your dad was like mishpoche to me. When I heard I got these ticket to the Folksmen, I let out a geshreeyeh, and I'm running with my friend... running around like a vilde chaye, right into the theater, in the front row! So we've got the schpilkes, 'cause we're sittin' right there... and it's a mitzvah, what your dad did, and I want to try to give that back to you. Okeinhoreh, I say, and God bless him.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
To say 'classic' is probably a reach, but it's a lovely movie for anyone who lived through the period or can appreciate the affection the makers obviously had for the characters and the music. The songs are spot-on parodies. They save it each time it starts to sag.
The final 3 minutes felt tacked on and was trying too hard to avoid triteness. They would have been better off to embrace the trite with a big, smooshy bear hug.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
The Shur-Flo song at the end makes for the most bittersweet lols I can think of. That is my favorite scene in the movie. I think this one included a lot more 'OUCH' with the funnnies than the other ones...
― Abbott, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"ohhhh that's great! i mean without model trains how would they have come up with the idea for the big trains?"
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
This was on ITV last night, saw it for the first time.
Yeah.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I've sometimes started crying at the end of this movie, when Mitch leaves without telling anyone.
― Ponies are horse children (Abbott), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it's great, it's my favourite guest movie and one of my favourites of the decade full stop.
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 12 April 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that's an oddly affecting scene abbott. eugene's portrayal is a little too realistic
― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Monday, 12 April 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
> This was on ITV last night
and was 15 minutes later than the advertised time so the tivo didn't record the end. arse.
― koogs, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, I set mine to run for 1 hr 30 mins based on the scheduled time and a bit, and it shut during the credits.
So, if there were any funny/extra bits, didn't see them.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Harry Shearer is doing his Smithers voice in this, it's a bit distracting.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
probably on record above but <3 this so much
― k¸ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
this is Fred Willard's finest hour.
― Sun Tea (Pillbox), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
"This flame, like all flames, represents the light and darkness. It also represents the uncertainty of life and its delicacy. It also represents a penis."
― Abbbottt, Thursday, 19 August 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"This is not an occult science. This is not one of those crazy systems of divination and astrology. That stuff's hooey, and you've got to have a screw loose to go in for that sort of thing. Our beliefs are fairly commonplace and simple to understand. Humankind is simply materialized color operating on the 49th vibration. You would make that conclusion walking down the street or going to the store."
― Abbbottt, Thursday, 19 August 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 Jane Lynch, the only thing that made Glee bearable
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 August 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The Eugene Levy character just makes me feel like killing myself.
― “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I said on a Doctor Who thread, but there's an interview with Tom Baker from a local news programme on the Revenge of the Cybermen disc (an edited version has been on another disc before) and damn if that isn't Eugene Levy's performance, right there.
― Hey Jabulani! Pope of four four two. (aldo), Thursday, 19 August 2010 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link