The Rob Reiner films that are quoted TO THE POINT OF EXHAUSTION: This is Spinal Tap v The Princess Bride

It seems like I can't have a conversation with a stranger without one of these films being quoted. And then the person getting MAD at me for not recognizing a fairly arcane Princess Bride quote (and then me secretly feeling like I **should** have recognized it because I grew up Mormon). Why aren't people quoting Wallace Shawn in My Dinner With Andre with the same alacrity?

I voted Spinal Tap because it's funnier! I've seen The Princess Bride dozens of times but the love story never did anything for me. I guess I don't have a heart!

One of my high school exes has a cousin married to Wallace Shawn

Still on good term with said ex

Voted Spinal Tap

Tap.

spinal tap because its r rating put it far off the radar of all brass instrument playing zoobies.

oh to live in a world where people quoted wallace shawn hissing/seething with rage in 'vanya on 42nd street'.

easily spinal tap; i like the princess bride but i wouldn't mind at all if it and all memory of it totally ceased to exist

But this poll goes to eleven

I'll have what she's having!

You can't handle the truth!

Chopper...sic balls.

Have a good time all the time.

Here lies David St. Hubbins, and why not?

(Tap. By a million jillion miles.)

Have to note I ALMOST voted for the completely totally wholly wrong choice in this match-up owing to the fact that the titles are in the opposite order between the title and the poll options.

I would've died.

this is one of the funniest things I have ever seen and it still makes me laugh until I cry

http://youtu.be/_Zdyo4vJuCU

spinal tap owns, princess bride sux

"I'm just as god made me."

The arrival of any important package at my house is usually announced with, "David, 'Smell the Glove' is here!"

Tap.

yeah this isn't even close. Bride has a few chuckles, Tap is nonstop laffs

Tap definitely, though I may have to give this some thought because:

My irl wedding was performed by at the office of the Nevada Commissioner of Marriages by a gentleman who wore not 1 but 2 hearing aids and had a speech impediment so pronounced as to cause the entire ceremony to resemble that of Peter Cook's in the Princess Bride. He literally said 'mawwiage' what felt like 300 times in those few short minutes and we all tried very very hard not to die of laughter

that makes the movie 100% funnier to me now having lived through that
but I have a feeling this will still be Tap

Yeah, Princess Bride is okay, I guess, but Tap is all-time.

Tap.

spinal tap because its r rating put it far off the radar of all brass instrument playing zoobies.

hahahaha! otm!

I guess this site isn't full of WHOLESOME PEOPLE who are the target kult of PBride

I got reallly tired of people saying 'up to eleven' for a while but it's eased off

PB has some good parts and is enjoyable but I've known too many people who were really into it and quoted it so much that it put me off it in general. Sort of.

While on a Wallace Shawn topic, I love the American Splendor where Harvey meets him and realizes he can't ride celebrity coattail off him

http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww172/RWBoyd_2009/Pekar002.jpg

'pb' is kind of unbearably cutesy but it is narrated by peter falk, which goes a long way toward making anything tolerable.

I have a feeling that for most ilxors, their attitudes toward these two movies will devolve entirely from their enthusiasms and anxieties during adolescence, when (probably) they first saw them.

Spinal Tap is just a very long string of sharply satiric gags and skits about rock bands, but rock bands are at the very center of existance for most adolescents and satire is the ne plus ultra of adolescent humor, so ST ought to win this in crushing fashion.

PB sustains itself artfully from start to finish with hardly a lull. However, it is too whimsical and its humor is too gentle to appeal to most teenagers None of its jokes are likely to inspire you to blow cola through your nose. I like it better than ST bcz it stands up to repeat viewing better for me. Not you, me.

However, it is too whimsical and its humor is too gentle to appeal to most teenagers

you've got to be kidding me

Jokes about perfect breasts, clearly teens wouldn't find it appealing.

i voted spinal tap because billy crystal has fewer lines in spinal tap than in princess bride

When did you guys first watch PB?

I didn't see PB til I was at least 18, maybe older. I enjoyed it, and I do watch it if it's on TV...but Spinal Tap I guess speaks to me more idk

love both but voted tap pretty easily. curious what if any other reiner flicks would've gotten votes if this had been a full reiner poll - stand by me probably, maybe when harry met sally i guess, pretty sure someone here would've actually voted for north, maybe some weirdo votes for one of the sorkins. kind've weird that of those three 70s sitcom stars turned movie directors ron howard is the one who pulled away from the pack.

xpost lol at pb not appealing to teenagers. lol at pb not appealing primarily to teenagers for that matter.

I first saw The Princess Bride in high school, probably age 16

It was a widely popular movie, especially among the girls I was hitting on

love story between nigel and david in spinal tap way more touching and nuanced and believable than love story between wesley and the princess in princess bride i think

especially among the girls I was hitting on

ah! I see my idiocy now. i was thinking mainly in terms of teenaged boys, bcz males are such a big contingent of ilxors, esp ilm. pardon craved.

my first post to this thread was going to be "movies teenaged boys endlessly quote vs movies teenaged girls endlessly quote" and then ILX women started posting "SPINAL TAP" and I was all "huh maybe I am underselling the cross gender appeal of Spinal Tap"

'movies teenaged girls endlessly quote'
Clueless also feat Wallace SHawn

spinal tap is one of the best movies about failure ever made imo

this thread would have zero suspense even if we hadn't answered the question pretty decisively 6 months ago:

how im gonna make up something universal, doesnt even make any sense: IT"S THE TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS RESULTS THREAD

#2 - 1351 pts - 35 votes - 4 first place: spinal tap
#83 - 285 pts - 13 votes - 0 first place: Princess Bride

hmm, i for one was biting my nails waiting for what someone might say about wallace shawn next.

"'pb' is kind of unbearably cutesy but it is narrated by peter falk, which goes a long way toward making anything tolerable."

Nothing about Peter Falk is tolerable.

i think all the options are pretty easily concievable (xpost)

http://www.stfan.com/img/GrandNagusZek.jpg
My name is Horatio Alger. You killed my father!

x-post - WOAH WOAH WOAH! Falk rules.

"I'm not left handed either" >>> The rest of Princess Bride = The rest of Spinal Tap >>> "This one goes to 11" and it's over-quoting.

But yeah, I know, it's ILX.

don't think I could recognize more than 3 lines from Princess Bride

but how many times have you heard those three

and are they wallace shawn lines

maybe this is because I didn't see it until right at the end of high school but Princess Bride is actively grating

wouldn't have believed anyone could actually hate peter falk but yeah, i know, it's ilx.

Tap. Saw them both in the theater (Tap was my first R-rated movie) and many times thereafter.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Exciting, this computer magic!

Also, the "This goes to 11" may be as tired, but it sets a real precedent in pop culture for those kind of jokes, where the humor is in the character not being clever enough to think of anything to say. Reminds me a LOT of what Homer did constantly on the Simpsons. Surely that kind of humor has been around for a while, but i can't really think of another, earlier, popular usage of it.

did not know quoting PB was a thing

Oh God ive never actually heard this real song. What a great tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyWo6Y-i-U0

It's the 60s tune from that scene where they all sit around in the hotel room and listen to it on the oldies station.

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

I would LOVE to play this in a cover band.

the princess bride is one of those rare movies whose source material is substantially better

That's what I love about Tap's pastiches; they're not derivative of specific songs, and can't even be easily traced to a single source/band. I mean, "Flower People" kinda seems vaguely Moody Bluesish, but only because McKean kind of sounds like Justin Hayward.

"Anybody want a peanut?" ha ha ha I love Princess Bride. Tap, though

Is "I drink your milkshake!" the new "Dingo ate my baby!" and which one is better?

"I just sucked 5 years of your LIFE away" has run through my mind on a constant loop for like 20+ years but I don't think I run around quoting it. (But generally I don't quote anything. I find it kind of irritating when people communicate that way.)

Still going with Tap because it's funnier even if PB is permanently ingrained in my head thanks to 8th grade friend who made me watch it 500x because she was a sap.

"Anybody want a peanut?"

the powerpuff girls reference to this cracked me up

fuck Spinal Tap. the first in a long line of people taking a shit on Hawkwind

Hawkwind? naah

Quo, Sabbath, Jon Lord on bass, it.

Voting Princess Bride because "I want my father back you son of a bitch" is a great moment for what is in essence a kids film.

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ST ought to win this in crushing fashion

Closer than I expected, but not even close.

One of my fave Spinal Tap gags is buried in the credits, when DiBergi asks if the band's white, male fan base means it may be a little racist:

David St. Hubbins: We say, "Love your brother." We don't say it really, but...
Nigel Tufnel: We don't literally say it.
David St. Hubbins: No, we don't say it.
Nigel Tufnel: We don't really, literally mean it.
David St. Hubbins: No, we don't believe it either, but...
Nigel Tufnel: But we're not racists.
David St. Hubbins: But that message should be clear, anyway.
Nigel Tufnel: We're anything but racists.

What's wrong with being racy?

Last year, Harry Shearer filed a $125 million lawsuit against Vivendi, the French movie distributor that owns the rights to 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, for paying Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Rob Reiner less than $200 in revenue from the film over a 30-year period. Guest, McKean, and Reiner joined the lawsuit in March, and together they’re demanding $400 million in damages due to what Shearer calls “Hollywood accounting,” or the common practice of studios masking profits — particularly from things like merchandising, music, and home video — from creators and writers.

Shearer is not new to bringing his demands for fair pay into the public realm — see his Simpsons contract negotiations in 2015 — so it makes sense, then, that he’s become the official spokesman for the Spinal Tap lawsuit as seen in his Rolling Stone op-ed earlier this month as well as a great in-depth piece at Bloomberg Businessweek last week:

“There is almost an overwhelming asymmetry that faces the creative artist,” he says. “You get told over and over again, ‘Well, it’s just a little cult picture, it doesn’t mean anything.’ And you internalize it. We love what we do, and they know it. And that is a rusty bayonet that we’ve handed them to insert in our innards whenever they want.”

http://splitsider.com/2017/04/harry-shearer-on-his-spinal-tap-lawsuit-and-hollywood-greed-we-love-what-we-do-and-they-know-it/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-20/this-is-spinal-tap-s-400-million-lawsuit

You wrote for the Smothers Brothers, worked with The Committee, were part of a groundbreaking sitcom, directed one of the funniest films of all time, and you end up here. https://t.co/fkiiF0UIFl

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 18, 2018

who gives a shit

I do not think rt-ing Perrin means what you think it means.

is that from a George Will column?

if he'd directed Superman III Brad would give a shit

i don't give a shit about richard lester's thoughts about russian hacking either