Question for my fellow Cinephiles (5 Viewers)

[Madmarsha]

let's really address this
*caveat* i am not a huge fan of the genre as a whole - mostly bc of live theatre musicals -- like Shakespeare, musicals really need talent up and down the cast to truly work and a great cast is seldom happening outside of broadway
and i do have some of the issues some of y'all have expressed - the bursting into song - not necessarily that it happens but because some/many musical writers so love the genre that they don't concern themselves with transition or story (I get frustrated if the song did not move the story along or give insight into character)

BUT

I do have an issue with the broad dismissal of musicals -
most every poster in this thread also participates in just about every music video thread there is and seemingly have no problem with narrative erupting into song in music videos - so you're ok with the premise
then like i alluded to earlier, most everyone is fine with superheroes or alien visitation or space travel, et al, so fantasy is not a hangup
most don't seem to have a problem with shlubby 50 yr old guys winding up with the hot 20 yr old women, so strained romance contrivances aren't an issue

so what is it?

Hey, I know when I've been called a hypocrite.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Hey, I know when I've been called a hypocrite.

I smell a song coming on

 

[Madmarsha]

I smell a song coming on

Well, I was thinking that since the entire south has been apparently shut down because it's going to be below 30 degrees, I would take the opportunity to write my magnum opus "Shakespeare The Musical: The Ballad of Billy and Annie".

 

[DaveXA]

But let’s be 100
Action/fight scenes in action/adventure movies serve pretty much the same narrative effect as a song n dance number
It’s choreography, almost always set to music, filled with elements just as (in)likely as musical numbers, and seldom advance the story

just sayin

Indeed, sometime the music makes the movie. And others just is a great backdrop. The musical scores are often what brings a picture to mind when we hear it today. I'm not necessarily dismissing the music, but more the "musical" genre.

 

[livefromDC]

I went through a Tony Curtis phase when I was a kid. Still don't know what the hell that was about, but one summer when I was no older than 12 or 13, I watched all of his movies purposely. And enjoyed them. Perhaps it was the limited channel selection we had back then. Or maybe it was a seemingly incurable boredom brought about by my mundane existence on Nintendo games, walks to the library and early 90s TV sitcoms. Who knows.

I dont think I have watched a Tony Curtis movie since.

 

[Saint_Ward]

If citizen Kane was soooooo good... then how come they never made a citizen Kane 2?

checkmate bozos.

Does RKO 281 count? A movie about making the movie?

 

[SaintJ]

which brings up another question. Why are musicals so polarizing. I enjoyed Annie when I was a kid. Wizard of Oz is probably my favorite movie of all time. But I can’t really think of another one I enjoyed. If you are acting and suddenly the whole set breaks out in song and dance, my suspension of disbelief is toast. Why can’t I buy into This being normal life behavior?

I had the same problem when I lived in NYC, and I'd be walking though Grand Central Station and not ONCE did the crowd suddenly burst out into choreographed song. Lotta ******** if you ask me.

 

[SaintJ]

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Which, having grown up in New Orleans, for a long time I assumed was a documentary.

 

[Madmarsha]

"My Darling Clementine" is my all-around favorite version of the OK Corral. I know people love the diseased Val Kilmer in Tombstone (which is getting to be an "old" movie now, too, my Millennial standards), but it's very hard for me to sit through that movie while MDC I can watch over and over even if for no other reason than to see Monument Valley.

Funny how you can see a movie a zillion times and yet in the zillion plus ONE time you can see something completely different. It's all Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil Earp's fault James was killed by the Clantons. They never should have left that still-wet-behind-the-ears brother all by himself in Monument Valley tending to the cattle to ride into Tombstone.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I went through a Tony Curtis phase when I was a kid.

All little boys do

It goes dinosaurs, cowboys, superheroes then Tony Curtis

I thought everyone knew this