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Three musicals for people who hate musicals

McBean

almost 4 years ago

The Blues Brothers
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Wizard of Oz

Anyone any more suggestions?

Mike Spence

almost 4 years ago

Phantom of the Paradise
Sweeney Todd
Across the Universe

Samanth​a

-moderator-
almost 4 years ago

The American Astronaut

Does Dong, a.k.a. The Hole kind of count?

House of Leaves

-moderator-
almost 4 years ago

I can’t resist.

Once
And I second The Blues Brothers.

Crap Monster

almost 4 years ago

Rumplesink something must be wrong with me because I love musicals, and I love all three of those films.

…and Across the Universe is simply horrid, so it may actually fit the bill.

leah

almost 4 years ago

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

adam

almost 4 years ago

Coppola’s One From The Heart is outstanding, if not in realisation then at least in ambition.

Singing In The Rain is as good a satire as it is musical too.

Oh, and Magnolia is a musical of sorts.

Sunday

almost 4 years ago

Beauty and the Beast (assuming they don’t also have a further complex with “kiddie shit”)
Dreamgirls
Across the Universe
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

And possibly Ray and Walk the Line

And maybe (just maybe), out on the fringe of genre play, there’s O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Justin Vicari

almost 4 years ago

Nashville
The Last Waltz
One Trick Pony

Adam Lippe

almost 4 years ago

Pennies From Heaven
I’ll Do Anything
Walk Hard

Jaspar Lamar Crabb

almost 4 years ago

Starstruck
True Stories
Get Crazy

Casey

almost 4 years ago

All that Jazz

Noah

almost 4 years ago

Victor Victoria.

SOYBEAN

almost 4 years ago

The Wicker Man (1973)

budrose

almost 4 years ago

mindless sheep.

Michael Sajkowi​cz

almost 4 years ago

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

PINK FLOYD THE WALL

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Susan M

almost 4 years ago

Cabaret

Cole Garner Hill

almost 4 years ago

across the universe? really? do you even like movies? do you even like music? or are you just a fan of bono’s rendition of “i am the walrus”?

Cory

almost 4 years ago

Cannibal The Musical

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Dancer in the Dark

These are the only musicals I really like, besides maybe Wizard of Oz, that I can think of. I couldn’t stand Sweeney Todd, that style of music just bores me to tears. Maybe I’d give it another chance. Nightmare Before Christmas was unbelievable visually, but the music in it didn’t do it for me either.

Ben D.

almost 4 years ago

Thank you Sweedishbeaches. It had to be said.

McBean

almost 4 years ago

@Jaspar
True Stories is a good one. Strange little film.

Fredo

almost 4 years ago

Cabaret is really the only musical I can sit through (I don’t count The Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka as musicals – at least not in the traditional way)

McBean

almost 4 years ago

@Fredo – That was my point. I can’t stand musicals, but I like the three I listed. They’re not traditional musicals, but have a lot of songs and singing in them. Most of the films people are listing here are not musicals in the traditional sense.

Narda

almost 4 years ago

The hole -TSAI MING-LIANG
A nous la libertè -RENE’ CLAIR
The Nightmare Before Christmas -HENRY SELICK

I’m not a fan of musicals, either. But I do like True Stories, as well. I’d also recommend:

The Commitments—their versions of the songs are more ingrained in my brain than the originals. And the scene where the drummer beats up the singer is classic.

The Nightmare Before Christmas—Danny Elfman is as much an author of this project as Tim Burton and Henry Selick. Not only did he compose the music and write lyrics, he also sang as Jack Skellington.

Citizen Dog—a real oddity from Thailand, the songs range from ballads (in Thai, naturally) to rap, it’s also beautiful to look at, shot in super saturated High Definition. Every frame of this film has been meticulously put together, and is as imaginative as they come. It can be a little too whimsical at times, though. I have never seen a film from from South East Asia that’s as polished as this.

Narda

almost 4 years ago

Monrak Transistor

Tom Alexand​er

almost 4 years ago

I have trouble understanding why some people hate musicals? I love musicals — susension of disbelief, going with the good feeling most musicals impart, and the art and craft of vocals, performance, choreography, dancing…the greatest musicals are sublime experiences.

I suppose if you hate musicals, watch ones that seem to be of another genre: Cabaret is a perfect example, great movie. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast? Does Nashville count (“I’m Easy” being one of the greatest movie songs EVER)? Well, probably not. And of course, one of the GREAT musicals of all time — South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

Loki

almost 4 years ago

The Singing Detective (80’s tv series starring Michael Gambon)

RvdHamm​en

almost 4 years ago

Le dernier chaperon rouge

A real nice short film wich not only is a musical but also a horror, fantasy and countless other genres.

you can check it at youtube

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almost 4 years ago

Une femme est une femme | Jean-Luc Godard
Les parapluies de Cherbourg | Jacques Demy
Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell (my favorite)