The Musical Movies Thread

Hawk4444 · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject:

hey all

this thread is dedicated to musical movies. stuff like

1. The Rocky Horror Picture show-----------Tim Curry Laughing

2. Little Shop of Horror's------"oh be a dentist. you'll be a succes. Razz

3. The Phantom of the Opera---------by far one of the great's of all time :o

Discuss W00t!

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fallenangel · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

Best:

Rocky Horror
This Is Spinal Tap
Velvet Goldmine
The Wedding Singer
Chicago
Little Shop of Horrors
Labyrinth

Worst:

Phantom of the Opera
My Fair Lady
Moulin Rouge
Selena

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Hawk4444 · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject:

i thought the Phatom of the opera was good. but that must be me and my friends i guess :P

OMG labyrinth. how in the hell could i forget that one. :o

i loved that movie. so much good singing. david bowie was great in that movie. really its the only one i remember him being in besides Zoolander. ^_^
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fallenangel · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:20 am Post subject:

He's in lots of weird artsy movies. Man Who Fell To Earth. Gets all full frontal nekkid. He plays Andy Warhol in "Basquiat". Good stuff.

But by far he's best in Labyrinth. The fact their other two options they were considering were Sting and Michael Jackson...just thinking of them as Jareth makes me ill. And then I laugh at the thought of Michael Jackson having to seduce a young girl. Plus David wrote the songs, so they're Bowie Brilliant.

And on a similar note of the Labyrinth, Velvet Goldmine is brilliant in the same way. Bowie ain't in it, but it's about him. Based on the story of him and Iggy Pop, with some big artistic liberties taken to change the story...and make it more explicit than either of them ever directly admitted. Songs are fantastic, all modelled after if not directly covered from old 70s glam, and the whole movie has that glitter and feathers look of T.Rex and the New York Dolls. It's a bit strange, but the soundtrack and visuals are tops, and Placebo/Brian Molko perform NY Dolls' 20th Century Boy all tarted up like glam boys. Apparently only interesting if you either 1. know the story of Bowie/Iggy or 2. like glam rock, 'cause it's all about that scene. So everyone I know is love it or hate it. But I love it.

Phantom of the Opera sucks just 'cause I've always hated the play to begin with, so the movie was just worse. The only friends I have who liked it, only like it because they wanna jump the guy who played the phantom.

EDIT: Interesting, actually, that Ewan McGregor appears twice on my list. Very near the top for his performance as Curt Wild (the Iggy Pop character), but waaaay down at the bottom for the piece of garbage that is Moulin Rouge. Clearly this shows that he should always be the long haired drug addict and not the sappy loser.

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Hawk4444 · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:27 am Post subject:

[quote="fallenangel (fallen)"] Plus David wrote the songs, so they're Bowie Brilliant. [/quote]
Indeed. he should be like that all the time Razz

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fallenangel · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject:

I feel David should dress like Jareth all the time. I don't care if it was fake hair, it was still pretty. And the shimmery eye makeup didn't hurt. He's got the attitude naturally, so he doesn't really need to act to be Jareth.

Although he did dress pretty close on the Reality tour. A purple velvet coat with gold trim and such.
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Beatlechick90 · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

Grease. :wub: GIVE IN TO GREASE.
Rocky Horror (of course)
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Most 80s/90s Disney movies
Annie (I like the original version, where Miss Hannigan is evil and slutty and her brother-in-law tries to kill Annie)
West Side Story
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Tommy

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Hawk4444 · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:20 am Post subject:

that is true. disney movies do count as a musical movies. I'm so happy you knew that ^_^
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Viper069 · Has No Life Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 487

Rent looks good

Hawk4444 · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:14 am Post subject:

NOt sure if i'm going to watch that movie.

i mean the story sounds cool enough. but i never seemed to want to watch it. <_<
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