A Mighty Wind

Satcho9 · February 19, 2003, 12:34:50 PM

Christopher Guests' next.....check out the trailer...funniness ensues..

http://amightywindonline.warnerbros.com/

Enjoy..

Pedro · February 19, 2003, 03:15:57 PM

Looks fucking great...Fred Willard seems to be the best performance, yet again...but Eugene Levy's Mitch character alone has me going as soon as possible.

Xixax · February 19, 2003, 04:52:27 PM

Christopher Guest has such a great thing going. Nobody is making good pseudo-improv comedy like him. He stands alone.

This looks to be the best movie yet from him. I can't WAIT to check this one out!

His cast of regulars is so killer. He needs a board of his own (ala PTA) just for us to all talk about how great each of his movies are.

Xixax · February 20, 2003, 12:31:54 PM

I can't stop watching this trailer. I am so pumped about this movie!

Satcho9 · February 20, 2003, 01:17:28 PM

This is the most I have watched a trailer since PDL and Kill Bill, go figure..

Ghostboy · April 08, 2003, 07:50:21 PM

I saw it last night, and loved it. It's the least laugh out loud funny of the three, but it's the most sentimental...and I mean that in a good way. It'll make you get teary eyed pretty heavily at one point. And it's really amazing when you consider that all of the actors wrote and performed the music themselves.

I really love this troupe...I hope Guest keeps getting them all together for a few more films. They're such a joy to watch.

ksmc · April 09, 2003, 12:53:18 AM

I saw it at South by Southwest. It was excellent, although it is my least favorite of Guest's three "mockumentaries." I think it was cool what Eugene Levy was trying with his character, but it got a bit on the annoying side. It definitely has the largest group of characters of all of his films, and I felt like you didn't get to know them as well as you did in his other flicks. I will see this many, many times though. Christopher Guest is probably the funniest man alive (with the exception of George W. Bush).

Ernie · April 09, 2003, 05:37:08 PM

Quote from: GhostboyIt'll make you get teary eyed pretty heavily at one point.

Really? That kinda weird...wouldn't have expected that.

I've been wanting to see this for awhile, ever since I heard of it. Love all the Guest movies.

Gold Trumpet · April 09, 2003, 06:55:20 PM

Chris Farley once said that if he ever wrote an auto biography, he would name it this title.

Well, no, but I imagine he might have.

~rougerum

Mesh · April 25, 2003, 03:47:05 PM

Quote from: GhostboyA. ...it's really amazing when you consider that all of the actors wrote and performed the music themselves.

B. I really love this troupe...I hope Guest keeps getting them all together for a few more films. They're such a joy to watch.

A. That is pretty cool....if it's true. You really think Parker Posey performed on an instrument? I don't think I do.

B. I actually think the troupe is one of the problems with film. Now that we've seen them do so many parodied characters, we kinda expect things from them: the whacked out neurotic Levy, the goofball Fred Willard. The troupe is watering down what was so great about Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman: namely, Christopher Guest's subtle genius in a character parody...

The Guest parodies have thusfar been a slow slide down the hill of quality, from Tap to Guffman to Best in Show to Mighty Wind. Still a decent comedy and worth seeing once, but the law of diminishing returns has really kicked in....

MacGuffin · May 05, 2003, 09:58:48 AM

Quote from: GhostboyIt's the least laugh out loud funny of the three

I concur. I was kinda disappointed. It seems the film included scenes that were just about a skit idea (the face lotion cream, etc.) that really had nothing related to the film as a whole and just didn't work. There were still some great laughs (the line about "Without model trains..."), but not enough Parker Posey!

MacGuffin · July 09, 2003, 05:39:13 AM

Warner is expected to release A Mighty Wind on September 23rd (SRP $27.95). The film will be presented in anamorphic widescreen video with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Extras will include audio commentary with director Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, biographies and discographies (with album art and lyrics) for The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers and Mitch & Mickey, Easter eggs, 15 additional scenes, the "live TV broadcast" of the concert in its entirety, TV appearances by The Folksmen and Mitch & Mickey and more.

Jeremy Blackman · July 09, 2003, 05:43:34 PM

You have to admit... the color religion was genious great stuff...

Ravi · July 09, 2003, 10:10:11 PM

Quote from: Jeremy BlackmanYou have to admit... the color religion was genious great stuff...

It was funny, but Guest should have shown more of it. He should have also developed that woman being a former porn star. Michael Hitchcock slapping Bob Balaban on the head was hilarious.

ono · September 17, 2003, 11:41:20 PM

I just saw A Mighty Wind a second time in a theatre Saturday night, with a packed house. It was such a great experience. Everyone there seemed to love it, and it made me love it even more than the first time. I think it's the best of Guest's work. I just love the third act. A Mighty Wind, the song, is one of the best I've heard in a movie. I love the sentimentality of this movie, especially when faced with the awful, mean-spiritedness of something as bad IMO as Best in Show.

I'm posting, though, primarily because The Folksmen from A Mighty Wind are on Conan tonight (so you'll see it on a rerun tomorrow on Comedy Central and next week late at night), along with Christina Ricci and Michael Rapaport.