A Mighty Wind

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i want to go see this today. did any of you see it? what did you think? what do you think of christopher guest and his fake documentaries?

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

i think that this is the first guest film that was lame. his other work is much funnier."waiting for guffman" is his best so far.if you haven't seen "spinal tap" check that one out because it's a classic.guest didn't direct it(rob reiner did.),but he did write + play alead character.

― issac holguin (sirus), Thursday, 15 January 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

My first reaction to the film was that it wasn't as funny as his previous mockumetaries. Part of the problem is, I think, that the songs written by the various groups aren't that bad. In fact, there was a Mighty Wind concert held here in NYC a few months back which was a sold-out success.

There's also a bit of a mean spirit to the film. Listening to the commentary on the DVD (Guest and Eugene Levy) you hear the complete scorn they have for folk music and folk fans. Oh well.

However, on repeated viewings, I actually find myself liking the film more and more.

Fred Willard is hysterical (as always) and so is Ed Begley as the Yiddish speaking Swede. Brilliant.

― BabyBuddha, Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Listening to the commentary on the DVD (Guest and Eugene Levy) you hear the complete scorn they have for folk music and folk fans. Oh well.

I haven't heard the DVD commentary, but this seems strange, since I thought the reason they wanted to do this film is because both actually DID play folk music in the 60s (and Guest was part of the Greenwich Village scene).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't listen to jaymc, chaki. The Yiddish bit is funny. ;)

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Did I say that on the ILE thread?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You said it was a "sour note".

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think maybe it felt too scripted to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That's interesting considering that (according to Guest) this was the least scripted of all the films.

Somehow though, the film just doesn't fully come together like Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman did.

― BabyBuddha, Friday, 16 January 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I think maybe it felt too scripted to me.

Yes Jaymc, I see what you mean but I thought it was so funny because it was like his character had prepared all of those Yiddish phrases in advance to ingratiate himself with the Bob Balaban character. It was indeed as if he had been rehearsing them all day.

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm, I'll buy that. I need to see this again, actually. I almost rented it the other night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 January 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I was really impressed with the interplay between the Folksmen and Fred Willard was great. But of all of his films this is the one that dug the least deep. The other films did a tremendous job of creating fleshed-out characters and then letting us enjoy them all interacting with each other. This time there was very little of that friction. I mean Parker Posey was basically just THERE. This movie just didn't feel like it was even fully-formed.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

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― insurance auto (nb I am an utter, complete knobhead), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

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