I feel really lucky to have done so. I’ve never seen the movie before. It was so good. The audience literally laughed the entire way though, and it wasn’t the normal synchronized laughing at normal movie punchlines. I found myself laughing out loud several times during the movie alone! I saw it here at a special theater in Copenhagen, which was really good. I wasn’t expecting much when I came in, but when I came out I had that really nice feeling of having laughed for a while. Really a good stress relief.
My favorite moments by far were the dressing room scene where he tries to fold the small bread
“Well if you go on folding it then…” After being showed the proper way to make that sandwich.
And of course, “Don’t even point at it.”
“Can I look at it?”
“No, you’ve looked at it enough”
And then “stumpy” the drummer for the Thamesmen. Oh god, that was hilarious. “Gimme some money”
Ever have the chance to see it on the big screen?
But I was surprised at the low quality of the film. I was expecting some kind of restored film, actually. It was part of the mockumentary theme of this particular cinema. Which I knew about it before hand because I’d have like to seen a few more this month.
I saw Spinal Tap on the big screen when it first came out. That was when I swore my everlasting, undying love for Rob Reiner. I still love that movie. Sometimes, when I’m looking at something that seems like the same old shit in more impressive packaging, I’ll say “Yes, but it goes to 11. That’s one louder”
So many good lines, this one often gets overlooked- by Mr. Bentley, no less:
Ian: Yes. I’ll tell you what you can do. OK? This - twisted old fruit here - tells me that you have fucked up my reservations.
Smitty: I’m just as God made me, sir.
Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled…
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn’t worry about it though, it’s not a big college town.
And the part where the two of them are trying to remember (and sing) one of the old songs from their childhood is hilariously cringeworthy.
I bought Spinal Tap on DVD. I liked when Nigel played a beautiful melodic new piece of music on the piano. When asked it was named he said “Suck My Love Pump.”
I heard the Spinal Tap song “Gimme Some Money” on a TV commercial the other day. I was so surprised to hear it, I completely failed to notice what the ad was for.
I thought the Ian guy was great too. He was perfect for the part of a skeezy manager who wasn’t afraid to be somehwat unethical in his job. He looks exactly like the guy who’d carry around a cricket bat for such purpose. Plus he had that scar on his eye.
" It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black. " That line slayed me…
I watched this movie for the first time in the theater when it first came out. It was me and a friend and about 8 other people scattered throughout the theater. There were only 2 people laughing. It felt a bit odd.
Ah yes…this came out in my sophomore year of high school. My friends and I were full-blown, headbanging, wristband-wearing, long-haired metalheads. I still remember the first time we heard the commercial on the radio, and hearing that tagline – [metal voice]Heavy Metal Just Got A Hernia!"[/metal voice].
Problem was, we though it was an ad for a new band. We had no idea it was a movie. Then when we found out it was for a movie, we had no idea it was a joke.
Seriously – it probably wasn’t until around the “You really can’t dust for vomit” bit that I had any inkling I was watching anything other than a serious doumentary about a seriously fucked-up band.
This is one of the most brilliant movies of all time. A few more of the great scenes were the getting lost back stage and getting trapped in the pod. I believe both these scenes were based on real life incidents.
All of the actors played their own instruments. They’re a lot better than many metal bands.
Saw it in the theatre when it was first released, it may even have been opening night.
I’d seen Spinal Tap as the guest band on Saturday Night Live, plus a couple of interviews, all of which were done completely in character. “This can’t be for real”, “No, it is, they’re serious!”, “No, this can’t be for real”, etc., was the running commentary throughout those appearances.
When I realized it was all for a movie, I had to see it. Now I own it and have made several unexperienced people watch it.
It’s a great movie, with more great lines than you can shake a stick at. “But it goes to 11” pops up nearly daily, and “I have a technical question” almost as often.
Congrats on your chance to experience the Tap bigscreen!
I watched part of some heavy-metal documentary on VH1 a while back. The bands all loved Spinal Tap and said much of it, particularly those two parts, were totally true-to-life.
Even better, it’s them in character 25 years later, as they’re looking back on this documentary of their lives and talking about it from that perspective.
Nigel Tufnel: “In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people… the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing…”
