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You people don't know jack shit about musicals.

 

An American in Paris

White Christmas

A Hard Day's Night

Help!

Duck Soup

Fantasia

Top Hat

Swing Time

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Head

My Fair Lady

Finian's Rainbow

Holiday Inn

Royal Wedding

On the Town

Anchors Aweigh

And just for fun....PAINT YOUR WAGON

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And yeah, I would consider A Mighty Wind to be a musical. Any movie based on music and features songs directly in the film being performed by actors is a musical. Apparently, Throatwobbler, you haven't watched a lot of those old Fox big band/Carmen Miranda musicals where mostly they were performing on stage or in performance type locations. There are a lot of old musicals where the actors are portraying real singers and musicians and perform only in stage or rehearsal type settings.

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I haven't seen A Mighty Wind, truth be told. I just assumed it was like Spinal Tap, and it wasn't classified on IMDB as a musical, so I figured it wasn't.

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Guest El Satanico
You people don't know jack shit about musicals.

 

 

And just for fun....PAINT YOUR WAGON

I already alerted him to the fact that this is an awful place to do musical tourney at. There's a few like you who appreciate them, but the majority either don't like them or only know the popular ones.

 

 

I remember the Simpson's reference to that...It was their musical episode I believe.

 

We're Gooonna Paaaint that Waaagon...We're Goooonna Paiiint it goood.

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Yeah, El Satanico, I know. I just wanted to be a dick.

 

"There's Lee Marvin. He's always drunk and surly."

 

And A Mighty Wind is a lot like Spinal Tap, although I think they do give more focus to the music. In a way, Spinal Tap could be called a musical as well.

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If you were talking about what I said, it's still a musical. It's about a stage musical, after all.

 

edit: But now that I think about it, that's an odd case. Is a movie about a musical a musical itself? I don't know.

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Guest JumpinJackFlash

South Park: Bigger, Loner and Uncut was an awesome musical! Uncle Fucker is a great song!

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would Moulin Rouge be a musical if they didn't burst into song outside the stage show?

yes, it would be a busby berkeley-type musical. musicals have ACTION built around the SONGS. other movies with lots of music have SONGS built around the ACTION.

 

Like I Love You ( i think that's the name) it has Drew Barrymore, Edward Norton, Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, etc

'everyone says i love you'. not a big fan of it, but i like the musical number tim roth (as a sociopath) does.

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We currently have 40 musicals. Hoorah! If I get no more nominations, I'll just add 24 myself and the voting can begin. So, please nominate people. I'm not limiting the nomination amount now.

 

Already nominated are:

8 Mile

An American In Paris

Anchors Away

Cannibal! The Musical

Chicago

Dancer In The Dark

Duck Soup

Everyone Says I Love You

Fantasia

Finian's Rainbow

Footloose

Funny Face

Godspell

Grease

A Hard Day's Night

Head

Help!

Holiday Inn

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Little Shop of Horrors

Mary Poppins

Moulin Rouge!

The Music Man

My Fair Lady

Oklahoma

On The Town

Paint Your Wagon

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Royal Wedding

Singin' In The Rain

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

State Fair

Swing Time

Tommy

Top Hat

West Side Story

White Christmas

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

The Wizard Of Oz

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Here are a few more:

 

7 brides for 7 brothers.

The Pirates of Penzance.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Fiddler on the Roof

Newsies

Sweeney Todd

 

are we counting disney animated musicals?

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Guest Choken One

How is man on the moon a fucking musical?

 

It doesn't have but ONE scene involving music.

 

8 Mile is all rap battles.

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A Star is Born (you can do both the Streisand and Garland versions)

Yankee Doodle Dandy

The King and I

Fiddler on the Roof

Xanadu

Road to Rio

Robin and Seven Hoods

Guys and Dolls

Going My Way

Sun Valley Serenade

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NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here is your list of 64, I shall try and get this up and running in the next 24 hours.

 

8 Mile

An American In Paris

Anchors Away

Annie

Beauty And The Beast

Brigadoon

Cabaret

Cannibal! The Musical

Chicago

Dancer In The Dark

Duck Soup

Everyone Says I Love You

Fantasia

Fiddler On The Roof

Finian's Rainbow

Footloose

Funny Face

Godspell

Going My Way

Grease

Guys And Dolls

A Hard Day's Night

Head

Help!

Holiday Inn

Into The Woods

Jesus Christ Superstar

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The King And I

Little Shop of Horrors

Mary Poppins

Moulin Rouge!

The Music Man

My Fair Lady

Newsies

A Night At The Opera

Oklahoma

On The Town

Paint Your Wagon

Pink Floyd: The Wall

The Producers

Road To Rio

Robin And Seven Hoods

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Royal Wedding

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Singin' In The Rain

Snow White And The Seven Dwarves

The Sound Of Music

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

A Star Is Born (1954)

State Fair

Sun Valley Serenade

Sweeney Todd

Swing Time

Tommy

Top Hat

West Side Story

White Christmas

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

The Wizard Of Oz

Xanadu

Yankee Doodle Dandy

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

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Godspell

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Rocky Horror Picture Show

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Tommy

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

yay!

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To my knowledge there has never been a film version of the Sweeney Todd musical. There is a filmed version of the theatrical play from 2001 and there are non-musical versions of the story. Care to clarify?

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I don't why you're going to waste your time voting. Nothing's going to beat South Park on this board. Outside, outside chance on Moulin Rouge and maaaybe West Side Story.

 

And Deacon is absolutely right about Sweeney Todd. As far as I know there are no actual musical films of Sondheim works, only tapes of stage plays. Same thing with Into the Woods. Though anyone who likes either of these owes it to themselves to check out Sunday in the Park With George, which is probably his best show. But again, like I said, it's not like Sondheim is gonna get many votes anyway, so I should quit flappin' the gums. They're going to be out first-round in any case.

 

Oh, one final thought: the film of the Producers is not a musical at all. It has a 5 or 6 minutes of "Springtime For Hitler" at the end, but that's it. The Broadway show is a musical, but the movie is just a straight-up comedy. It has no more musical context than any movie with a scene at a theater or opera. I think it's just as much of a stretch to include that in this as it is to include 8-Mile.

Edited by Edwin MacPhisto

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I will check that out about Sweeney Todd and Into The Woods. I was just going off IMDB for those things.

 

I don't see how South Park is such a given to win, I think Rocky Horror has a huge chance, along with a few of the others. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I don't think it's so clearcut as you say. These tournaments almost always have an unexpected result, anyway.

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