Monday, October 10, 2011

Movie Review Monday #21: Christopher Guest is a Genius

Okay, Christopher Guest is a Genius is not a movie title, but if it was, I'll bet tons of people would go see it because it's so true. I love Christopher Guest. His work is quirky, original, and strangely relatable. Jeff and I just rewatched Best in Show, so I thought I'd write about my top three favorite Guest films and a quick list of reasons I love them:


1. Waiting for Guffman. I love: the intensity brought to every aspect of the delightfully terrible production of "Red, White, and Blaine," Parker Posey at the DQ, Corky St. Clair's haircut and backwards jeans and his dancing and "I'm just going to bite my pillow, is what I'm going to do," Parker Posey saying "whoaaa" as she tips over while doing the splits, the "Midnight at the Oasis" audition, the crazy dude with the alien conspiracy theory, Bonnie's wonderful pantsuit, and "This Bulging River," which, inexplicably, ended up on the deleted scenes.
2. A Mighty Wind. I love: that there are about ten people singing "A Mighty Wind" and no one attempts harmony, the sweet relationship between Mitch and Mickey, Fred Willard's catch phrase "Wha' Happened," the guy who passionately sings "Ave Maria" in the concert hall, the ridiculous cult that Jane Lynch's character leads (WINC), and "Thank God for the model trains. If they didn't have the model trains they wouldn't have gotten the idea for the big trains."3. Best in Show. I love: Parker Posey in braces, Fred Willard's obnoxious dog show commentary, Parker Posey intensely trying to find a bumble bee dog toy, Eugene Levy's two left feet, Parker Posey freaking out because she thinks her dog is freaking out (it's not), Jane Lynch super smugly telling Eugene Levy that she shows a dog named Rhapsody in White, Parker Posey, and Jennifer Coolidge explaining that she has so much in common with her thousand year-old husband.

"We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about."
In conclusion, I realize that this post won't be very interesting if you haven't seen these films, so you should go watch them and then read this. Six claws up - that's two for each film.

4 comments:

  1. I was going to comment with one of my favorite quotes from Guffman, but I can't because literally every line of that movie is my favorite. How many times did we watch that movie in the C-Lo? So. Many. Times.

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  2. yep. this post was really hard to write because i love most of the moments in all three of these films.

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  3. "I ... do ... indeed ... have ... TALENT!"

    If you listen to the Guffman commentary, Christopher says "Bulging River" had to be cut because it was 7 minutes long. I don't know any fan of the movie that wouldn't have sat through it, LOL.

    Just bought myself a copy of Best in Show to complete my collection. Pistachio and macadamia nuts for everyone!

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  4. Out of these three I have only seen Best in Show, but it is the most funny movie I've ever seen. If the other two are as good as that one, I will have to watch them very soon! Thanks for posting!

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