Musical Films

[Bazile]

So ,what's the point of films musicals ?

[fiction-factory]

None if you don't enjoy them. Lots if you enjoy them. I have really enjoyed some.

[Tilly2]

I love musicals.

[andy-hughes]

FF sums it up perfectly.

You could ask that question about absolutely any art medium - you appreciate it, or you don't, it's as simple as that.

[Mamyalynne]

Some Musicals work as well as they did on the stage , some suffer in my opinion.

[Islay]

Tilly me too!
There are some absolute gems out there, but there are some awful ones too, I don't really like a lot of the ones done in the 60's but love the ones in the 40's and 50's.

[Bazile]

So , tell me what it is about the art form that make you pull up the armchair and the popcorn ready

[Old_Geezer]

Entertainment.

[murraymints]

calamity jane !!

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[jno]

it's just a genre like any other; some examples are good, some are bad. I like West Side Story but never really want to see Carousel again. Others may say exactly the opposite. And sometimes it's just individual numbers that stand out. Who Will Buy? from Oliver! Begin the Beguine from Broadway Melody of 1940. Pretty much anything with the Nicholas Brothers.

[Islay]

Its the feel good factor, the worst thing that normally happens in it is the lead male normally stuff things up with the lead female and has to rediscover his love for her.

[Sipowicz]

I think they're so so!

[jno]

Islay, the best safeguard against that is often to have seven lead males and seven females, plus a barn-raising.

[Tilly2]

My mum and I used to sit and watch a musical every Saturday afternoon. My favourites were Gene Kelly, Fred + Ginger and Donald O'Connor.

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[Islay]

Tilly it was my nana and me on a Saturday afternoon, cup of tea and some tablet and shortbread.
I love Gene Kelly, Fred and Ginger, Ann Miller, Howard Keel and of course Doris Day.

[snags]

I was forced to listen to Paint Your Wagon incessantly from around the age of 8 through to 11 on every single car journey as it was one of only two eight-track tapes my Dad had in the car (The Best of Glen Campbell being the other). Brings me out in a cold sweat now whenever I hear any of the tracks... they call the wind Maria, shudder.

[Tilly2]

I forgot Doris Day! How did I do that? :-)