RUTLES v BAD NEWS v SPINAL TAP v STILL CRAZY
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RUTLES v BAD NEWS v SPINAL TAP v STILL CRAZY
...phew!! What a choice really surprised we've never done this before according to Search function
Pick a film, share your reason(s)
Pick a film, share your reason(s)
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I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot.
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I get more laughs out of Terry and June than I do Spinal Tap.
The Rutles has some achingly funny lines - I love it.
Still Crazy is a very good film but the humour is compromised a bit by concessions to plot. Some gooey sentimentality too.
Haven't seen Bad News for many years but it has to be better than Tap.
The Rutles has some achingly funny lines - I love it.
Still Crazy is a very good film but the humour is compromised a bit by concessions to plot. Some gooey sentimentality too.
Haven't seen Bad News for many years but it has to be better than Tap.
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Haven't seen Bad News, but Tap is definitely funnier than the Rutles or Still Crazy!
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DADDY-O wrote:
The Rutles has some achingly funny lines - I love it.
Les Garçons de la Plage.
...any others? I don't recall that many laugh out loud moments, TBH (haven't seen it all for 20 years).
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Only seen the Rutles and Spinal Tap, but love 'em both. Spinal Tap is class all the way - from the songs to the movie to the performances after, it all works for me.
I need to see Still Crazy.
Bad News either looks awful, or that clip doesn't really reveal anything about it. Not sure which.
I need to see Still Crazy.
Bad News either looks awful, or that clip doesn't really reveal anything about it. Not sure which.
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:{ wrote:DADDY-O wrote:
The Rutles has some achingly funny lines - I love it.
Les Garçons de la Plage.
...any others? I don't recall that laugh out loud moments, TBH (haven't seen it all for 20 years).
'wearing swimming trunks in the bath 'cos he didn't want to look down on the unemployed' is the one I always remember.
I think that's one of the funniest lines in anything ever, actually.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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A lot of misses too, no?
Belushi, Dan A?
Belushi, Dan A?
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:{ wrote:A lot of misses too, no?
Belushi, Dan A?
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Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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Their manager?!
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...to be fair, their drummer trying to sing was quite good
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What sister site?
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http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php#c2
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Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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You laughed loudly at Leggy Mountbatten?
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:{ wrote:You laughed loudly at Leggy Mountbatten?
Yeah!
It's funnier than "I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot.", or "May I start by saying how thrilled we are to have you here, we are such fans of your music, and all of your records. I am not speaking of yours personally, but the whole genre of the rock and roll." !
It's the same sort of "humour" you get in Alan Partridge - dopey people saying dopey things. 'Wings were the band the Beatles could have become', that kind of thing. Not exactly hilarious.
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Spinal Tap is just innately funnier.
Just stupid things like their LP names - Clam Caravan and Smell The Glove. It's perfect. I haven't a clue why they're funny, they just are. Even the bits that didn't make the final cut are excellent.
ST is also more authentic. There's nothing worse or less funny than an actor pretending to play bass, it just looks hammy.
I remember being fascinated by The Rutles and trying to spot what they were parodying, but it wasn't that funny. Kudos to Neil Innes for the tunes though - Noel is forever in his debt.
Bad News was OK, but it was really just a one- (or two-) off Ade Edmondson fantasy fulfilment TV project (that needed a few more good laughs). Miles ahead of any other TV comedy at the time, but not in the same league as Tap. And I expect Edmondson would probably agree.
Never seen Still Crazy but I suspect there would be beaucoup jambon.
Just stupid things like their LP names - Clam Caravan and Smell The Glove. It's perfect. I haven't a clue why they're funny, they just are. Even the bits that didn't make the final cut are excellent.
ST is also more authentic. There's nothing worse or less funny than an actor pretending to play bass, it just looks hammy.
I remember being fascinated by The Rutles and trying to spot what they were parodying, but it wasn't that funny. Kudos to Neil Innes for the tunes though - Noel is forever in his debt.
Bad News was OK, but it was really just a one- (or two-) off Ade Edmondson fantasy fulfilment TV project (that needed a few more good laughs). Miles ahead of any other TV comedy at the time, but not in the same league as Tap. And I expect Edmondson would probably agree.
Never seen Still Crazy but I suspect there would be beaucoup jambon.
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ST is also more authentic. There's nothing worse or less funny than an actor pretending to play bass it just looks hammy.
So McKean, Shearer and Guest are all playing their basses live on "Big Bottom", then?