# A Mighty Wind

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mighty-wind/161262>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 14, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mighty-wind/161262 "2003-03-14T04:48:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mighty-wind/161262/1 "2003-03-14T04:48:53Z")

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They were showing the trailer for [the new Christopher Guest movie](http://amightywindonline.warnerbros.com/) before _Adaptation_ the other night, and I was caught unawares. I hadn’t heard anything about it. I was laughing all through the trailer, but mostly because I kept remembering _Spinal Tap_ and _Best in Show_ – the trailer itself didn’t strike me as all that funny. Still, can’t be all bad, can it? It’s got **everybody**!

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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mighty-wind/161262/2 "2003-03-14T17:22:38Z")

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I’m looking forward to it – Guest and Levy have developed a reperatory company for these films and all of the actors are really on the ball. I’m sure I’ll think the movie is great and I’ll like it even better when I get it on DVD. What I’d really love is to be on the crew for these things – according to Guest they shoot about 60 hours of film over the course of a week and then he slices it to ~90 minutes. Can you imagine how hectic and exciting the filming process would be?

–Cliffy