This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

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This is a favorite movie of my husband's. We watched this together about a month ago (me for the first time). I got such a kick out of this film. My husband, being a long time heavy metal fan himself, told me that he couldn't understand what was so funny about this movie when it first came out. He didn't realize at the time that it was making fun of the performers and thought it was pretty cool.

According to Wikipedia, the movie also cut a little too close to home for some musicians. Eddie Van Halen has said that when he first saw the film, everyone else in the room with him laughed as he failed to see the humor in the film. "Everything in that movie had happened to me," Van Halen said. When Dokken's George Lynch saw the movie he is said to have exclaimed, "That's us! How'd they make a movie about us?"

In 2002 the United States Library of Congress deemed the original film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.