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Top 27 best movies - ever

Men can like musicals all they want, I'm just saying that mookie didn't list them in his personal top 27 becuase he wasn't pandering or placating anyone. He posted his list. He was being a man about it.

Mookie loves musicals as much as the next guy, but they don't trabslate well into cinema in my view.
Mookie also prefers opera to standard musicals and they definitely don't work on the big screen (he will put them on TV when playing but usually as background music only)
 
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Mookie loves musicals as much as the next guy, but they don't trabslate well into cinema in my view.
Mookie also prefers opera to standard musicals and they definitely don't work on the big screen (he will put them on TV when playing but usually as background music only)

Some work. The Bergman "Magic Flute" is awesome. The Zeffirelli Met Italians (Boheme, Tosca, Traviata) work as movies, too.
 
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Mookie also prefers opera to standard musicals and they definitely don't work on the big screen (he will put them on TV when playing but usually as background music only)

Ingmar Bergman (of all people!) made a version of The Magic Flute that works pretty well. The actor they chose for Papageno was really good at physical comedy, and Papagena is pretty cute.

The Queen of the Night's aria in the second act is just outstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPC4qiQGg4


though the subtitles on that version are annoying, they aren't in the original.


someone posted the entire thing on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPC4qiQGg4
 
Ingmar Bergman (of all people!) made a version of The Magic Flute that works pretty well. The actor they chose for Papageno was really good at physical comedy, and Papagena is pretty cute.

The Queen of the Night's aria in the second act is just outstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPC4qiQGg4


though the subtitles on that version are annoying, they aren't in the original.


someone posted the entire thing on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPC4qiQGg4

I will watch that later this weekend. Thank you
 
that's a good choice, I had forgotten that there were a few other good movies like that and Saturday Night Fever made more recently than the 1960s :o

ON-J was easy on the eyes in those days, eh?

I got chills
They're multiplyin'
And I'm losin control
Oh the power you're supplying
It's electrifying

(Sadly yes, Mookie can sing along to the entire score)
 
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I love musicals and the last time I checked my medical forms said "male."

For the record, here are my (current) favorites movie musicals:

01 The Music Man
02 Wizard of Oz
03 Singin in the Rain
04 West Side Story
05 The Sound of Music
06 42nd Street
07 Holiday Inn
08 The Band Wagon
09 Gold Diggers of 1933
10 Willy Wonka

11 My Fair Lady
12 The Gay Divorcee
13 Hair
14 Fiddler on the Roof
15 The King and I
16 Guys and Dolls
17 South Pacific
18 Top Hat
19 The Pirates of Penzance
20 Cabaret

Probably my list would have 15 of those at least. But i would add Paint Your Wagon even though Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood cannot sing-any time I see that movie i find myself humming the songs all day long. And anything with Ray Walston in it has to be OK. (loved him in **** Yankees)
 
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I will watch that later this weekend. Thank you

You're welcome! :)

I hope you enjoy it. Bergman is on his A-game and he has a really clever wit and sly sense of humor. There are all sorts of deft understated bits of humor throughout.

By the way, that blue-eyed blonde-haired girl that the camera keeps coming back to during the overture? That's his daughter with Liv Ullmann.
 
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RHPS showed for years in Mpls as well at Midnight in Uptown. Watching the crowd was probably more enjoyable than the movie itself.
 
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Musicals, in no particular order:

Grease
Wizard Of Oz
Rock Of Ages
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Pitch Perfect
The Wall (if you want to get technical about it)
Willy Wonka (both of them)
 
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The American Film Institute has quite a few "top 100" list.

Here is their list of "the AFI's 100 greatest American films"

Among all movies, musicals snagged # 5 Singin' in the Rain, # 10 The Wizard of Oz, # 34 Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from 1937, # 40 The Sound of Music, # 63 Cabaret, # 90 Swing Time and # 98 Yankee Doodle Dandy

Their list of top 25 American musicals is here: http://www.afi.com/100Years/musicals.aspx
 
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Musicals, in no particular order:

The Wall

Switching gears based on this post, while The Wall is a musical, it brought to mind concert films.

Woodstock to me is number one. There are so many iconic scenes: the interview with the Port-a-San Man, the mudslide hill, Jimi Hendrix' amazing closing set.

Gimme Shelter is up there as well, though the armed gunman getting stabbed repeatedly toward the end is unnerving every time I see it. My favorite (after Woodstock) is probably The Last Waltz. What a wonderful send-off to a great band!
 
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Switching gears based on this post, while The Wall is a musical, it brought to mind concert films.

Woodstock to me is number one. There are so many iconic scenes: the interview with the Port-a-San Man, the mudslide hill, Jimi Hendrix' amazing closing set.

Gimme Shelter is up there as well, though the armed gunman getting stabbed repeatedly toward the end is unnerving every time I see it. My favorite (after Woodstock) is probably The Last Waltz. What a wonderful send-off to a great band!

FF: They have issued Woodstock in so many formats and versions that it is difficult to know which is best. The most recent Blu Ray is superb and includes seen that were not ever in any of the other editions. From someone who was there (all 3 days) it comes closest to the experience.
 
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