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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Rate: 10
Viewed: 10/04, 10/04, 6/05, 2/06, 8/07, 2/10, 2/15, 3/17

Spinal
6/05: Ladies and gentlemen, direct from Hell, Spinal Tap!!

David St. Hubbins
"Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how—what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you."

"I envy us."

"I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object."

"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."

"Before I met Jeanine, my life was cosmically a shambles. I was using bits and pieces of whatever eastern philosophy would drift through my transom."

"Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation."

"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything."

"But you're not as confused as him, are you?"

Nigel Tufnel
"Well, I don't know, wh...wh...what are the hours?"

"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..."

"You can't really dust for vomit."

"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

"These go to eleven."

"We're not university material."

"It's a complete catastrophe."

"Eleven. Exactly. One louder."

Derek Smalls
"I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water"

"Hello, Cleveland! Hello, Cleveland!"

"Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do 'Stonehenge' tomorrow?"

Mick Shrimpton
"As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll."

Marty DiBergi
"This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day, too?'"

"Why don't you just make ten louder, make ten be the top number, and make that a little louder?"

All in all, This Is Spinal Tap is brilliant.

2/06: Genius is written all over This Is Spinal Tap.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer are brilliant. Many viewers thought the band was real, and they got fooled big time. That's how convincing these actors were.

All in all, to think of This Is Spinal Tap is to think of the timeless quotes and scenes.

8/07: This Is Spinal Tap remains one of the funniest, most quotable pictures of all time although the humor has lost a lot of punch due to repeated viewings.

Despite the fact that I probably have memorized at least 75% of the lines, I still can't get over how good the film is.

All in all, putting many rock and heavy metal bands to shame, This Is Spinal Tap is the best mockumentary ever.

2/10: This Is Spinal Tap still holds up to this day.

Michael McKean, once again, is brilliant; it's the way he delivered his lines in a dead-pan manner. Ditto for Christopher Guest. Taken from Wikipedia: "It became a common insult for a pretentious band to be told they were funnier than Spinal Tap."

All in all, This Is Spinal Tap goes to 11.

2/15: There will never be another This Is Spinal Tap.

3/17: This Is Spinal Tap is a classic.