That’s because Nigel did the math on his fingers, and he has 6 fingers on his right hand.
IMD ratings are stupid. I almost never see a rating even as high as 9 for anything no matter how much people love a movie or consider it one of the greatest ever made:
Citizen Kane: 8.3
The Maltese Falcon: 7.9
Star Wars: 8.6
No Country for Old Men: 8.2
The Shining: 8.4
Lawrence of Arabia: 8.3
Psycho: 8.5Here’s a few 9s.
Schindler’s List: 9.0
The Godfather: 9.2
The Shawshank Redemption: 9.3That’s how rare it is. Even The Shawshank Redemption couldn’t get a 10.
Edit: Whooosh for me on the joke. And I love This is Spinal Tap too. I love it so much I sat through the terrible 4-hour rough cut on the Internet Archive.
It’s disappointing that they didn’t hardcode it to 11/10
To be fair, the joke is “it goes up to 11.”
To be fair.
