# New Guest/Levy movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314 "2003-04-17T14:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/1 "2003-04-17T14:36:35Z")
If you liked/loved \*\*Best in Show \*\* or **Waiting for Guffman** [size=1] Which I still haven’t seen \*\* then you will be excited to learn that Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy are at it again with a new movie: [Mighty Wind](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/16/review.mighty.wind/index.html) I can’t wait. I hope it plays near me. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/2 "2003-04-17T14:43:10Z")
Would love for someone on this board to review this movie - I have read reviews of it in the big media. Pretty well received. However, I love folk music; did not stop listening after the 60s revival. What I want to know is: does the movie mercilessly make fun of folkies? Would I enjoy the movie at all if I love the music it’s poking fun of? ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/3 "2003-04-17T15:07:32Z")
[Huge Christopher Guest fan checking in] I can’t wait to see **A Mighty Wind**! > [@](#): > > What I want to know is: does the movie mercilessly make fun of folkies? Probably not any more than **Waiting For Guffman** did for community theater. 😉 Guest believes that the basis of comedy is people not doing things well. He mocks the individuals, not necessarily the medium. > [@](#): > > "A Mighty Wind "features both folk music and public television. Three washed-up groups gather for a reunion concert: the forgotten Folksmen (Guest, McKean and Shearer), former sweethearts Mitch and Mickey (Levy and Catherine O’Hara) and the relentlessly peppy New Main Street Singers (with Higgins, Lynch and Parker Posey). The characters include worshippers of the color spectrum and a female star of porn movies with Not-So-Tiny Tim. McKean, Levy, Guest, Shearer, O’Hara…O, it’s going to be great! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/4 "2003-04-17T15:40:07Z")
I can’t wait too. Of course it has to come out now when we have church about every night for Easter week. :mad: I love Guest and Levy’s stuff though. The ‘busy bee’ scenes in Best In Show were probably the hardest my wife and I have ever laughed while watching a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/5 "2003-04-17T16:25:59Z")
You can see the trailer [here](http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/a_mighty_wind/). I love the bit with the Folksmen talking about how one of their records was produced with a flaw: no hole in the center. “But if you punched a hole in 'em, you’d have a good time.” ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/6 "2003-04-17T16:44:54Z")
My husband and I saw a couple of things about this movie this weekend (I think). We LOVED **Best In Show**!! We’ll prolly wait until it comes out on video, though (oweing $4000 to the IRS SUCKS!) ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/7 "2003-04-17T17:19:17Z")
Can’t wait to see this one. **well he’s back** , you’ll probably like the movie even more if you’re into the subject. I was a theatre major in college and my friends and I all practically have _Waiting for Guffman_ memorized. It’s even funnier because we recognize all the little stuff that really happens. It’s funny because it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/8 "2003-04-17T19:07:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*If you liked/loved **Best in Show \*\* or Waiting for Guffman…which I still haven’t seen…** Surely you jest! (Been waiting to use that line on you.) Hie thee to a video shop this weekend and rent! To be honest, I am going to wait until **A Mighty Wind** is on DVD…far more fun to watch these films with a bunch of friends, some drinks and our running commentary! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/9 "2003-04-17T19:17:26Z")
Church every nite for a week? Jesus Christ! * * * Jesus was in a coma. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/10 "2003-04-17T22:01:50Z")
This is bound to be great. And, of course, the Folksmen = Spinal Tap in sweaters. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-guest-levy-movie/169314/11 "2003-04-18T05:40:21Z")
The only thing I disliked about the movie was that the audience was laughing so hard from the first joke, and then the characters make another joke, but I wouldn’t be able to hear that one over the laughter. Also it was a little short. But overall, this movie was pretty darn good.