More like This Is Not Funny.

What's the appeal? I haven't laughed once during the movie.

>>212597828 (OP)
You kinda have to be a boomer to enjoy it.

>>212597828 (OP)
Let me guess, you like rap don't you?

>>212597878
I'm 33 years old boomer.
>>212597903
It's my least favorite music genre.

helps to like 80s rock and not be a kid

>>212597828 (OP)

I mean, it's a slow burn like all of Guest's work. But it unfolds and unfurls over multiple viewings. To the point where some of the lines will eventually stick with you for the rest of your life.

I didn't really get it the first time either. Though, I was 13 years old...
I've since watched it about a dozen more times over the years. Absolute classic.

>>212597965
>helps to like 80s rock
I like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Scorpions and Deep Purple, but I couldn't care less about this movie.

>>212598065
Alright I guess I'll rewatch it later this year when 4k UHD is out.

>>212598104
it appropriately parodies bands like Motley Crue, Kiss, AC/DC, Aerosmith and more. You don't have to love that mainstream type of rock to see the humor, I like it because theres not a single comedy remotely like it

Them progressively doing smaller and smaller shows, until they're doing some kind of children's part right after a puppet show is hilarious.

My wife beautiful angel Fran Drescher is in it.

>>212598194

I think the music itself is where the bulk of the comedy lies. The songs are genuinely good, with lyrics that are obviously written for comedy, but still almost come off like real genuine 1980s glam rock. Even them going back through the eras, doing a bratty 60s garage rock song "Gimme Some Money" is just so fucking funny to me.

Shit like them trying (and failing) to harmonize "Heartbreak Hotel" over Elvis' grave...

Nigel's beautiful piano piece being revealed as "Lick My Love Pump". It's just hilarious, man.

Armadillos in their trousers..

These are some of the greatest improv comics of all time, who can all play instruments exceptionally well. You have goddamn Harry Shearer (who went on to voice half of Springfield), playing the hell out of his bass and stuffing a cucumber down his pants. Brilliant, brilliant stuff.

I like the idea that all their drummers explode. Their current drummer even explodes at the end of the film.

I feel like if you aren't a musician, this movie wouldn't make you laugh much. You can still enjoy this movie but if you are a musician and especially a musician that has played in a band this movie just hits.

>>212597828 (OP)
Shit sandwhich

>>212598541
>"Gimme Some Money"

You can slip that song onto an oldies radio station and no one would notice or question it. It really sounds like a song from that era. But it also shows that the band is just trend following and want fame and wealth rather than are genuinely in it for the art. Satire and exaggeration fo rock stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-BYzaDwNoE

>>212597828 (OP)
It wasn't made with zoomer humor. Guess you'll just have to learn to deal with with having an awful sense of humor and wonder why people find other things funny. Sorry for your loss

>>212598665
this

>>212598541
Their songs are spot on parodies of real songs and shows the creators are genuine fans of 60's to 80s rock songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJlyapt6OY

but wouldn't the band members be REALLY pushing it and be really old in this universe? I like the idea of them changing genres and just follow whatever's popular, and i think bands like Jefferson Starship basically did just that.

This would be like John Lenon and Paul McCarthy going full heavy metal in 1982.

just a daft improv comedy thing. they were told how a scene would start and end, and basically just rambled in-character.

i don't think it's laugh-out-loud funny but it's oddly comfy. and it IS a good parody of the larger-than-life bands (and biopics) at the time.

>>212598853
>bass player hides a cucumber in his pants to fool everyone that he has a massive dick
Comedy gold.
>>212598665
>Shit sandwhich
Lmao 11/10 am I right?

So this is boomer humor? Dicks and shit? Truly exquisite stuff.

>>212598955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec4jGEgzkJs

>giant review that lambasts the band from top to bottom
>"that's nitpicking isn't it?"

>>212597828 (OP)
zoomer moment

>it... uh... doesn't hold up, it was a product of its time
amazing zoomer film criticism, please keep making great threads like this

>>212598928
You never hear queen?

>>212598358
>>212598654
>>212598955
walk hard did it better
watch the director's cut if you haven't already

Much funnier movies from the 1980's:
1. Repo Man
2. Raising Arizona
3. Brazil
4. After Hours
5. The Naked Gun
6. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
7. Beverly Hills Cop
Each and every one of these are better in terms of comedy and the jokes and the way they were made.

Fuck, even The Blues Brothers shits on This is Spinal Tap.

So shove your zoomer buzzword up your ass.

The authorities said best leave it unsolved, really

Listen, we'd love to sit around and chat, but we've got to sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo.

>>212597828 (OP)
>My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
>I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

>>212597933
>I'm 33
The disconnect comes from your lack of exposure to, well, anything. You don't find the comedy in Spinal Tap funny because it's drawing from the absurdities of life, which you haven't experienced despite your age.

I only just realised thats Chuck from BCS.
Im such a retard. Such chicanery

>>212599347
A lot of empty and baseless assumptions in your post.

>>212598194
>4k UHD
kek. HDfags are a spiritually raped people. lossless 480p is all you need.

>>212599452
>lossless 480p
this is also a bloat
just read a wiki summary

>>212597828 (OP)
Zoomers and Millennials may need to just resort to watching physical comedy. Something like the 3 stooges since every other type of comedy is either offensive or they just don't get it due to being from the wrong generation it was written for.

>>212599452
trvke
>>212599505
>removing the visuals from a visual medium
ngmi

A cigarette? That you can LEGALLY BUY IN SHOPS?!

>>212599606
>removing the visuals from a visual medium
Your imagination is on such basic level that you simply can't visualize the movie after reading the Plot section on Wikipedia?
ngmi

>>212599405
You're not giving me much to work with. You did not make any statements about the film. You stated that you did not laugh which paints you as a dull individual, try providing actual criticism of the writing and the execution of the comedic bits if you wish to be taken seriously.

>>212599725
debate this >>212599227

more quirky than funny, but I liked it

>>212599227
where the fuck are you supposed to laugh while watching Brazil

>>212599724
I can, but I do such a better job than the film I'd no longer be consuming the film but my own imagination, so I'd rather just imagine my own story from scratch in that case.

>>212597828 (OP)

Fuck Rob Reiner.

>>212599331

The song is funny on so many levels. Three bass guitars, the lyrics... Timeless classic.

>>212598976
Thats nitpicking isn't it?

>>212599811
Is this bait?
It's literally a fucking satire movie making fun of bureaucracy mostly.
>Care for a little necrophilia?
>This is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt.
>What is this mess? An empty desk is an efficient desk.

Do you enjoy Christopher Guest's other films?

Because they all have a very similar feel. There are plenty of jokes, but a lot of it does blossom when you start quoting lines later with your friends.

>>212599763
That's just a list of films with an unsubstantiated claim that they're better.

>>212599541
spinal tap was huge with millennials because they grew up in a time when rock bands still existed

>>212599950
more clever and humorous than haha funny.
you can't say that This is Spinal Tap is not funny and then bring Brazil as an example of funnier comedies.
(I like both)

>>212598665
you can't print that.

>>212600113
do zoomers not have rock bands? when did this happen?

>>212600072
>no argument
I accept your concession.

>>212600147
Band music's been dead since the late 2000s or something.

>>212600147
The death of radio circa 2010 was the death of the band. Now its all rappers and pop stars.

>>212600032
i know creatively this shouldn't matter, but i can't ignore that he's this posh prick.

>>212600147
zoomers can't afford instruments

I feel a modern one with singer-songwriter emo rappers would be good.

>recurring joke with them od'ing or dying through accident or being shot
>the same kind of pompus attitude with songs about sex or drugs

>>212600147
>do zoomers not have rock bands? when did this happen?

Hip Hop and pop singing production models showed that "bands" are not needed. You either sample something else, or you have an in-house band produce backing bits, or usually just something electronic. The creative team is now the singer and producer.

This allows for faster production and output, and more likelihood that the there isn't going to be a messy break up.

>>212600147
>do zoomers not have rock bands?
There's Muse, Arctic Monkeys, The Black Angels, 65daysofstatic, Kasabian, Maybeshewill.

>>212600312
>The Black Angels, 65daysofstatic, Kasabian, Maybeshewill
No one knows these
>Muse, Arctic Monkeys
Millennial bands still making music doesnt count. zoomers dont listen to them

>>212600312
>they have bands from literally 25 years ago
so that would be "no" then

>>212600162
Anon, I'm gonna help you out. Telling us how you feel about a movie, without EXPLAINING what led to this conclusion, does not tell us anything other than that you're capable of disliking a movie. Why do you think it's unfunny? We don't know, because you won't tell us. Is it the writing? The actor performances? Your possible unfamiliarity with or lack of interest in the subject matter? All you're providing is circular logic.

>>212600401
Kasabian were pretty big in England in the 00s and the Black Angels first album was decently well known because of gta 5 and true detective, but calling them zoomer bands is pretty wild

Hilarious, then i got into a band and it got even more funny.
But what is even more comedic is the Metallica's Somekind of Monster documentary, that shit is This is Spinal Tap without the characters, its unbelievable they actually released that.

>>212600131
>more clever and humorous than haha funny.
'haha funny' doesn't really apply to This is Spinal Tap either
I barely chuckled a few times and that's it.

>>212600032
>Do you enjoy Christopher Guest's other films?
This was my first one where he was also a writer, I haven't seen a single movie directed by him to be honest.
But I've seen him in stuff like A Few Good Men, Little Shop of Horrors and The Princess Bride.

Seems like his type of humor just is not my cup of tea.

>>212597828 (OP)
If Stonehenge didn't make you piss and shit your pants with laughter, you have no soul

>>212600406
Anyone born past 2001 is a zoomer in my book.

>>212600781
You are a retard. Zoomers start in 1995 or 1997 depending on who you ask. So zoomer bands would start around 2010 when zoomers are first becoming teens. Any bands before then would be from previous generations, unless you think babies are in bands.

>>212600781
none of the people in the bands you mentioned was born later than the 80s

>>212600760
>a designer made a model of Stonehenge according to the measurements written on a napkin
>the band expected it to be a 1:1 in size to the real one so they could use it for a stage decoration
Wow, this is some high IQ humor right here.

>>212600984
I mean, the joke is really them using the prop anyways... and having midgets dancing around it

>>212600909
>So zoomer bands would start around 2010 when zoomers are first becoming teens.
what are you on about? do you think people only start listening music once the puberty hits?
I've been blasting my cassettes in the 90's since like 5 y.o.

>>212601081
A zoomer band is a band made of zoomers retard. Just because a zoomer listens to the Beatles doesn't make them a zoomer band.

>>212600955
We were naming music bands which peaked past like 9/11 so an average zoomer would be listening them, not the ones literally made by zoomers.

>>212600984
>this is some high IQ humor right here
please give example of high IQ humor

>>212598955
Them getting lost on the way to the stage gets funnier every time I watch it

Maybe zoomers should just watch "ow, my balls" type comedy and pass on comedy not written for them.

>>212601220
the oldest zoomer was 4yo when 9/11 happened, you fucking retard

>>212598358
>I like it because theres not a single comedy remotely like it

There's this, a Norwegian movie that mocks late 90s boybands. I think it's hilarious and better than Spinal Tap.

>>212597828 (OP)
its a movie made to satirise the entire rock n roll lifestyle and everything around it. If you grew up around musicians and wannabes trying to make it, this movie is hysterical.

If you're some zoomer or sheltered millennial who never hung out with bands irl, much of the humour is lost on you. You literally cannot relate to the movies themes and jokes.

>>212601228
Young Frankenstein for example, a true classic, came out like a decade earlier than This is Spinal Tap, so you can't use your retarded zoomer argument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wchqfLA5d0
A much more clever movie.

>>212597828 (OP)
pic related might be more your speed

>>212598446
alot of things where in her too kek.

>>212599209
30+ years later? who cares. I liked that film aswell, but it was just a comedy really. The MC guy can really sing good though he was impressive.

>>212599227
>Fuck, even The Blues Brothers shits on This is Spinal Tap.
you say that almost like the Blues Brothers isn't a 9.9/10 classic "must see before you die" film?

>>212601236
>Them getting lost on the way to the stage
haha the band members are so silly, they can't find the way hahaha somebody stop me I'm dying of laughter

>>212597828 (OP)
I think it's genuinely one of the funniest films ever made, but to each their own.
I'm just not sure about the sequel. They'd have to really nail down the current state of the music industry before commenting on it. Obviously they need to do a "reunion tour" type thing with the classic songs, but there needs to be some element where the current guard is pushing back against them. Like forcing them to use Autotune in the studio, doing a feature with some retarded mumble rapper, etc. Just not entirely confident this can be done in a truly laugh-out-loud funny way. Especially with like 70+ year old men at the helm.

>>212598104
Condolences on having shit taste.

>>212599950
It's not a laughing kind of humor, anon.

>>212599541
Millennials liked spinal tap. A lot of their shitty mumble bumble humor comes from that movie though they suck and it isn’t funny

I've noticed some people find set ups and punchlines funny, while others find subtlety/situations/reactions funny. It the Tap is in the ladder category.

>>212597828 (OP)
As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.

>>212601532
>30+ years later?
22 years technically
and yeah, john c reilly is talented, never understood why the movie bombed and ended his potential career as a leading man

>>212597933
>I'm 33 years old boomer.
you have to be a literal boomer to enjoy it, not a fucking buzzword boomer. you didnt grow up with it or the era, so you cant understand it. not everything is for everyone.

>>212601532
>but it was just a comedy really.
its a lot more of a meta-comedy on biopics in general than just a straight up comedy. its very much over the top in the type of arcs and story beats that need to happen to further this bullshit madeup biopic, whilst also being a very nice musical journey from the 50s to today, with also a lot of meta humour not just regarding biopic movies, but music in general. it also really feels its lenght, because its so stuffed with content, you actually do feel like witnessing a lifetime, which i thought was neat. fucking amadeus doesnt feel as long and its like 3 hours long

This is one louder

>>212597828 (OP)
You probably think Beavis and Butthead is funny, don’t you?

>>212598104
None are 80's rock you dumb poser

>>212600523
>Why do you think it's unfunny? We don't know, because you won't tell us.
I provided quite a few examples in this very thread and presented a list of movies as a reference of what I find funny, even a youtube link but you've obviously ignored all that.

>Is it the writing? The actor performances?
Oh it's definitely the writing.
Only a simpleton would find a joke about a band member hiding a vegetable in his pants to be a funny one.
>DUDE HE'S FAKING HAVING A MASSIVE COCK BECAUSE HE'S INSECURE LMAO
Why was it covered in foil at all? To make it trigger a metal detector. This is poor writing, there's no reason to use the foil so the writer had to come up with this bullshit.
Spinal Tap is filled with such unfunny and shallow jokes

The acting is alright.
Btw Christopher Guest mogs Chuck in that regard 100%, he was the best actor in this movie.

>>212598665
They almost cracked after hearing that one

Listen, to what the flower people say
Ah-ahhh ahh ahh ahh

>>212603318
yes, I'm more of the 70's guy
but all of these were still massive the 80's so my point stands
inb4 you're like that retard who thinks a zoomer band has to be founded by zoomers

The movie was a friend simulator for boomers.

>>212597828 (OP)
Classic case of subtle comedy going over most people's heads.

>>212597828 (OP)
you really have to know rock music history and have an appreciation for it to really love this movie

>>212597828 (OP)
youre too much of a zoomer
dont waste your time, it wont be funny

>>212601236
>Them getting lost on the way to the stage gets funnier every time I watch it
Kek, same. Especially the bemused look on the janitor's face. The whole scene perfectly captures a special type of mundane banality we sometimes deal with in life.

>>212600617

Spinal Tap is really the only of his films where Christopher himself actually seems to take up the most screen real estate. Nigel Tufnel is clearly the goofiest and most vocal member of the band. In his subsequent films, he really takes a backseat to the ensemble cast.

Best in Show is honestly brilliant. But it's got very similar pacing, and that same improvised vibe. The cast is just unreal though. His movies really were a launching pad for a ton of comedians over the years.

>>212601735
I hope they get Sabrina involved.

Best in Show is the superior Christopher Guest movie.

>wanna know a little secret?
>they all jump

>>212597828 (OP)
But this goes to 11

WORKIN' ON A SEX FARM

>>212600147
there are many, many bands but they're not at the top of the music industry anymore.

>>212600760
>>212600984
And the designer was fucking Anjelica Huston of all people

>>212598104
>Led Zeppelin
trash taste

The actual Spinal Tap songs are just utterly dreadful, but spot on parodies of the king of hard rock songs of the 80s.

Sex Farm is soooo bad but so funny.

>>212597933
That makes you a millennial, you ignorant faggot. I'm early 40s and still a millennial. Gen X are mid 40s to 60, zoomers are fucking 23 now. Gen alpha are already as late as 16.

>>212597903
>>212598654
>>212600781
>>212597878
Not a musician, not a boomer, and I like rap(Wutang is forever!) and I thought this movie was hilarious. I heard the sequel special kinda thing is questionable though. Is it worth checking out?

>>212600147
I don't even know if they listen to music. I think it's just played AT them.

>>212600220
>walks around carrying a thousand dollar phone

>>212602034
>the Tap is in the ladder category
>ladder category
>ladder

>>212597828 (OP)
>teach drivers ed
>some kid always listening with headphones in
>have to get onto him a lot
>one day pull the WELL at least tell the class what you're listening too teacher move
>Alice in Chains
>pic related mfw some 15 year old zoomer says he is listening to 90's grunge

>>212600577
I was shocked watching that as well. It's hilarious, but it's Spinal Tap come to life. Actually so many of those moments got referenced in Metalocalypse later too, including the band therapist

>>212597828 (OP)
11/10 movie

>>212599304
Wanker