For Your Consideration

This is the best scene in the film. She is train wreck after not getting nominated; the take out, wine bottles, awful make up, etc.

I love Christopher Guest

R2 Me too. What I love about Guest is that he does not have to be the center of attention on his own projects. He let's other shine!

Thanks to me!

My own favorite scene in the movie. Jennifer Coolidge's big line, which she ab-libbed, is brilliant (it's a part very much like her later part in n "The White Lotus"--she's the narcissistic, idiotic, rich producer of the film).

I love all the movies by Christopher Guest.

Everybody seems to love Best in Show but I like A Mighty Wind best.

Guest always knew how to use his cast well. Jennifer Coolidge is best in short bursts and Catherine O'Harahs' crazy/desperate mania is perfect.

Also, being married to that exhausting (supporting) Oscar winner can't be easy.

LOVE Jennifer Coolidge in Best in Show

"We both love.... Soup!"

Brilliant.

Everything Christopher Guest and his regular ensemble did was brilliant.

Who is your Guest favorite?

Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show.

I think I can! I think I can!

I think I can! I think I can!

As good as it was, For Your Consideration was, in my opinion, the weakest of Guest’s movies. Wasn’t that his last mockumentory?

The best part of the movie for me was the visual of the glammed-up, lip enhanced, Catherine O’Hara character on the talk show circuit promoting her Oscar chances.

I liked the Charlie Rose parody when the host just keeping talking and talking, while Bob Balaban and Michael McKean just look at each other.

Love the title of the movie within the movie……. Home For Purim.

[quote]Wasn’t that his last mockumentory?

No he did one called Mascots in 2016 for Netflix. Many of the usual players are involved but Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara are conspicuously absent and without their talent the final product feels very off. Parker Posey gets a lot more to do which is always welcome but overall it’s a weak retread of the previous mockumentaries.

I did see an interview with Levy promoting Schitt’s Creek where someone asked about his involvement with Guest and Levy said he had gotten tired of the mockumentary format and wanted to try something different but Guest wasn’t interested so presumably that’s why he didn’t do Mascots and went to Schitt’s Creek instead. He and O’Hara definitely made the right choice

"We both love talking ... and not talking."

At R5, Bob Balaban is the guy on the far left. He's also hilarious as the music director in "Waiting for Guffman."

Best in Show is one of my favorite movies of all time, yet none of the other Guest mockumentaries have captured that same magic for me. I know they’re well regarded, so I’m not sure why I can’t connect with them? For Your Consideration bored me to tears.

R13, I totally agree. For me WAITING FOR GUFFMAN is the greatest of them and BEST IN SHOW the laugh-out-loud funniest. A MIGHTY WIND goes for a different tone and makes it work; FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION much less so, to my taste.

In order of quality from best to worst, is Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman, and then A Mighty Wind, imo.

Fred Willard was amazing in BIS.

The improvisation can be hit and miss, but it works best in BIS.

Wasn’t Fred Willard playing a Joe Garagiola-like character in Best in Show?

Waiting for Guffman is my favorite. I've seen Best in Show and just don't think it's that funny except for this performance of "Terrier Style."

Parker Posey also deserves recognition

[quote]At [R5], Bob Balaban is the guy on the far left. He's also hilarious as the music director in "Waiting for Guffman."

DLers undoubtedly remember him better as the guy who gives Jon Voight a blowjob in "Midnight Cowboy."

Whenever I hear or read something about "Hacks," for some reason I immediately think of Marilyn Hack.

R26 Please, have class!

DLers remember him from Gosford Park

No, from Seinfield.