Musicals Are Garbage

[lleeder]

I'm watching Dreamgirls. What crap! Hey we're having an arguement now its a song!!! What the fuck? West Side Story sucked a thin penis. The Music Man was a kidtoucher.

[Tall_James]

The Sound of Music had a great soundtrack and Nazis.

[WampusCrandle]

The Sound of Music had a great soundtrack and Nazis.

its probably the best musical i can think of, besides Team America World Police

[~Katja~]

I'm watching Dreamgirls. What crap! Hey we're having an arguement now its a song!!! What the fuck? West Side Story sucked a thin penis. The Music Man was a kidtoucher.

I sucked a thin penis... it wasn't half as bad up the ass...


wait what???

dreamgirls is probably not the way to measure a musical by.

[lleeder]

The Sound of Music had a great soundtrack and Nazis.

I'd never watch that trash isn't it like 3 hours of bad songs. The hills are alive with douch chills. Julie Andrews is a cunt.

[IMSlacker]

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[TheMojoPin]

Does Velvet Goldmine count as a musical? It's insanely gay and rocktastic at the same time.

[brettmojo]

http://www.onesheetindex.com/pix/3342_1.jpg

[TheMojoPin]

Does A Hard Day's Night count?

[lleeder]

No I don't count Rock Operas either.

[IMSlacker]

Does Velvet Goldmine count as a musical? It's insanely gay and rocktastic at the same time.

Gotta count Velvet Goldmine.

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[MacVittie]

http://1416andcounting.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/guys-and-dolls.jpg

Marlon Brando at his finest.

[John Galt]

Generally, a main reason you become engaged in a character is through them showing you how they feel. The guy wants the girl, he holds a boom box over his head outside her house. Through that, we see how much she means to him and we connect to him. In a musical, nobody shows us anything. Instead, they sing their emotions and simply tell us how they feel, what they want, etc. It becomes much more difficult for us to connect to the character because they're essentially bitching and moaning rather than taking action.

[TheMojoPin]

Gotta count Velvet Goldmine.

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Right on!

Get ghey wih us, lleeder!

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[~Katja~]

Right on!

Get ghey wih us, lleeder!

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I am amazed how few musicals become popular or make it in Europe especially since they dress so gay... how could they not love this?

[underdog]

Chicago and Moulin Rouge are the two worst movies ever made.

[lleeder]

This doesn't count its too good.

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[TheMojoPin]

That lleeder...he's a king mixer!

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[GreatAmericanZero]

I'm watching Dreamgirls. What crap! Hey we're having an arguement now its a song!!! What the fuck? West Side Story sucked a thin penis. The Music Man was a kidtoucher.

"Dreamgirls" was soooooooooo bad. and i wanted to like it cuz im an early Eddie Murphy fan and i really want to see him in a good movie and i want to see him deserve an academy award nom.


but i agree, musical sucks. my parents took my to "the producers" with lane and broderick, "spamalot" with the guy from Frasier and the guy from Rocky horror and "young frankenstein". I thought "the producers" was fun, but the other stuff i was like "eh". would hate to know how much my parents spent on my ticket


its rare that a musical rules. I'll say "little shop of horrors" movie rules (bill murray.."candy bar, candy bar candy bar!"). "Cannibal the musical" of course. and there is rumors of them turning Pink Floyd's "The Wall" into a broadway play and if they do i'll get a ticket to NY to see it...but after that and the "so-cheesy its good" movie version of Tommy...yeah, musicals suck

[keithy_19]

but i agree, musical sucks. my parents took my to "the producers" with lane and broderick, "spamalot" with the guy from Frasier and the guy from Rocky horror and "young frankenstein". I thought "the producers" was fun, but the other stuff i was like "eh". would hate to know how much my parents spent on my ticket


I thought "Young Frankenstein" was pretty damn good.

And, unfortunately, musicals aren't appreciated nearly as much by males because they feel it makes them gay. I don't really understand this logic.

I would have to say my favorite shows are "Into the Woods" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Completely different, but awesome all the same.

[GreatAmericanZero]

I thought "Young Frankenstein" was pretty damn good.

And, unfortunately, musicals aren't appreciated nearly as much by males because they feel it makes them gay. I don't really understand this logic.

I would have to say my favorite shows are "Into the Woods" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Completely different, but awesome all the same.

seriously, i have no fear of being thought of as gay

and i thought when i saw "the producers" on broadway it had some funny funny shit in it (that wasnt represented in the film version of the play). Still, i thought the original film version was funnier

my parents are big Mel Brooks fan so we got tickets for "The Producers" before it got all the praise and awesome reviews. and it was enjoyable

we are also big monty pythons fans so we got tickets for "Spamalot". We saw the first show Hank Azaria wasn't in (they had the guy who played Steve the pirate in Dodgeball in that role instead) and it had some chuckles but it wasn't as good to me as any of the monty python movies

and "young frankentstein" was just garbage...anything funny in the movie they extended to an 9min song so the original joke wasn't funny anymore and it was just boring

its not a gay thing at all. and i'll admit to liking gay themed movies. i liked "brokeback mountain" and "party monster". Its just my own personal enjoyment.

but good musicals on film to check out will always be "Cannibal the Musical" and "Little Shop of Horrors". As much shit as Norton talks about Steve Martin, this is BRILLIANT

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[WhistlePig]

Gotta count Velvet Goldmine.

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Though I loved the music in Velvet Goldmine I couldn't stand the fact that these characters were supposed to be T Rex, Iggy, Lou Reed and Bowie but they had different names and looked different. I guess they couldn't use their real names but it just bugged me. Life on Mars (the American version) just had an episode like this--the guy was a glam/glitter guy named something stupid but he obviously was supposed to be one of the famous glam guys from the early 70s.

[sailor]

I sucked a thin penis... it wasn't half as bad up the ass...


wait what???

dreamgirls is probably not the way to measure a musical by.

thank you for not letting this board become totally gay.

[KnoxHarrington]

Musicals always seem to me to be an oddly half-assed genre. I actually don't mind opera, which is music wall-to-wall. But the sudden musical number in the middle of a musical just doesn't work for me.

[Friday]

i enjoy musicals, i sing musicals, i act and dance them.
i usually listen to them in my car.
i sometimes make money performing in them.
sometimes i don't.
but i always enjoy bursting out into song.


btw... i enjoyed Dreamgirls ..and West Side Story is one of the most wonderful masterpieces to hit a broadway stage and national tour (i danced that choreography!!) ... but the Music Man is a piece of garbage IMHO.

[TheMojoPin]

Though I loved the music in Velvet Goldmine I couldn't stand the fact that these characters were supposed to be T Rex, Iggy, Lou Reed and Bowie but they had different names and looked different. I guess they couldn't use their real names but it just bugged me. Life on Mars (the American version) just had an episode like this--the guy was a glam/glitter guy named something stupid but he obviously was supposed to be one of the famous glam guys from the early 70s.

It's was supposed to be about all the real glam musicians with a focus on Bowie, but he bailed after reading the script and refused to lend his name or music, so they tweeked the script and the characters after that happened.

[sailor]

hopefully future generations will understand the beauty of cop rock.

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[DarkHippie]

I love musicials. I have always loved musicals. And I just had sex with my girlfriend so I cant be gay

[~Katja~]

I love musicials. I have always loved musicals. And I just had sex with my girlfriend so I cant be gay

well you could be in bed for seconds and thirds... that might make ya less gay

[Thebazile78]

I love musicials. I have always loved musicals. And I just had sex with my girlfriend so I cant be gay

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[hedges]

I really don't like musicals too much, but how can one not enjoy West Side Story.

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[IMSlacker]

but the Music Man is a piece of garbage IMHO.

How can anyone not like The Music Man? Little Ronnie Howard is so adorable.

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[epo]

Watch American in Paris and shut yer goddamn mouth.

[Gvac]

lleeder is really hitting his stride.

I've agreed with his last 10 or 12 threads in a row.

Musicals are indeed awful.

They're for women and nancy boys.

[TheMojoPin]

lleeder is really hitting his stride.

I've agreed with his last 10 or 12 threads in a row.

Maybe you're both on simultaneous declines.

[Dan G]

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7991/everyone.jpg

How can you hate on Ed Norton, Goldie Hawn, Drew Barrymore, Natalie Portman, Alan Alda, and Woody Allen breaking out into multiple song and dance routines?

[fezident]

My god how I hate musicals. I truly hate them.
Even when I was a kid, I simply couldn't get passed the bizarre-ness of a bunch of characters just sitting around... and then bursting into song (always facing front, natch)... and then going right back to what they were doing.

The whole thing is lost on me. No connection.

[PD]

I have to say,
I enjoy Little shop of horrors (as Gaz said), and also

Guys & Dolls
West Side Story
Fiddler on the Roof
Sound of Music
and My Fair Lady.

it's not Goodfellas, but I have to admit I like em.

[instrument]

Hate a musicalmovie, lovie a musical play.


Weeeeirddddd

[keithy_19]

I think life would be pretty grand if random situations people would burst into a seeminly rehearsed musical number.

[MacVittie]

I love musicials. I have always loved musicals. And I just had sex with my girlfriend so I cant be gay

of course not. It's Guy & Dolls, not Guys & Guys.