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Teasing Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

I was very lucky to see NTBTSTM two weeks ago when its traveling tour came to Chicago. A unique marketing challenge in many ways, first the “who the fuck are these guys?” factor for 99% of the audience and more important the fact of how much of it really needs to be experienced with no idea of what’s about to happen. In lieu of the anti-trailer that would suggest, largely selling the first 15 minutes like the Rogue Nation ads is probably the best idea.

brundlefly wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 10:37 pm Teasing Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

The Narrator Returns wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 4:17 pm I was very lucky to see NTBTSTM two weeks ago when its traveling tour came to Chicago. A unique marketing challenge in many ways, first the “who the fuck are these guys?” factor for 99% of the audience and more important the fact of how much of it really needs to be experienced with no idea of what’s about to happen. In lieu of the anti-trailer that would suggest, largely selling the first 15 minutes like the Rogue Nation ads is probably the best idea.

The trailer, which may not be a good idea.

I feel like Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie will probably go down as one of this decade’s best comedies and I can’t imagine anyone here not at least admiring it for the fact that it even exists at all. There’s a clear playful sense of improvisation that make you think you’re initially going to be just watching a fun little mockumentary about 2 guys trying to book a gig at a dive bar in increasingly wackier ways until it hits you with a jaw dropping sci-fi switch up only to then hit you again with an earnest message about the value of friendships like Matt and Jay’s. I never knew what gag or plot point the movie was going to hit me with next and there was an anticipation in trying to guess what the movie was going to throw next at you that really thrilled me, especially in trying to figure how they were able to pull off a lot of the stuff that they did. Probably the most fun I’ve had in a theater in a while and I highly recommend watching it in a theater because I can’t imagine anywhere else being even half as satisfying without a crowd (alongside the fact that’s 2 moments in the movie that only really work watching it in the theater).

Everything involving the CN Tower, five stars

therewillbeblus wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 5:21 am Everything involving the CN Tower, five stars

100% agree, I love the conversation they about pliers with a store employee and I especially loved when

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as they’re falling from the sky on their parachutes, the audio keeps cutting off before we hear briefly the audio again and it’s them screaming, the whole theater burst into hysterics at that part