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The Internet Movie Database normally allows users to rate films only up to ten stars, but specifically for Spinal Tap, the site allows users to rate the film eleven stars, referring to the "Up to eleven" scene. [56] On IGN, This Is Spinal Tap was the only DVD—and seemingly the only thing reviewed on IGN—to get 11 out of 10. [57]
The original "up to eleven" knobs in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap "Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel demonstrates a guitar amplifier whose volume knobs are marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club wrote: "No music mockumentary has really managed to reproduce This Is Spinal Tap's comic mojo, but Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping gets closer than most to that subgenre-defining comedy's mix of the dead-on and the over-the-top, even if it tends to go for quantity over quality." [31]
Though now considered a cult classic, it turns out that This Is Spinal Tap was not an easy movie to make.. The 1984 favorite, which stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob ...
Nigel Tufnel was born in Squatney, East London on 5 February 1948. He was given his first guitar, a Sunburst "Rhythm King", by his father at age six. His life changed when he met David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) who lived next door.
Michael McKean admits the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap will be “tragic.”. The Clue actor, 77, teased Spinal Tap II, the follow-up to the 1984 cult classic mockumentary about the titular ...
Spinal Tap is ready for their encore. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Rob Reiner, who appeared in the 1984 cult rock mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” were spotted filming the movie’s ...
It was announced in May 2022 that a sequel to This Is Spinal Tap was in development, with Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer reprising their roles and Reiner returning as director. [2] In November 2023, Reiner announced musicians Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks were set to make cameo appearances as ...