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:faint: Really Bad....
No doubt!!
:faint: Really Bad....
There is no place for musicals. How about my wife's favorite film, the abhorrent Moulin Rouge? ainkiller:
"Citizen Kane" is just plain dull. It may have some innovative (for the time) cinematic techniques, but that doesn't make it enjoyable to watch.
'All About Eve" is probably the worst of the lot in terms of over-hype. Everyone (movie critics) says it's great, but I have TRIED to make myself watch it numerous times and have never succeeded in making it beyond about 1/3 (or less). People I don't care about saying things I don't care about and doing things I don't care about...
The best, and perhaps only, good musical is "Cabaret", and it only passes muster since the songs are *in a Cabaret* where they should be. (Except for that Nazi-kid at the picnic who sings "The Future Belongs to Me". That always gives me the shivers from thinking about what it really means.)
Nertz to you philistines. You just haven't seen any *good* musicals. Anything postwar is the bunk as far as I'm concerned -- America forgot how to write a decent song after about 1945 -- but the finest music ever written in the United States came out of film and stage musicals in the twenties and thirties. So there.
But yes, I've had all I can stand of "Singin' In The Rain." The individual songs are fine -- all the film is is a "best-of" collection culled from various MGM musicals of the previous twenty years -- but the presentation is terribly cloying in a "look at me, ain't I cute" manner. And it had nothing of the acid edge of actual 1929 film musicals to cut thru all the the smiley-faced postwar sweetness.
Whenever I think of Singin' In The Rain I think of this, not the 1952 Gene Kelly number.
[video=youtube;xe60AkZd0WQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe60AkZd0WQ[/video]
Then there's Eric and Ernie's version.
[video=youtube;6mDTn-QvO9I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDTn-QvO9I[/video]
Still jumping shark. :rofl: All singing in the rain will get you is pneumonia.
Since a couple of "modern" movies have already been mentioned, I'll chime in with Scarface (1983) and Avatar (2009). Regarding the latter, I'm convinced it wouldn't have been nearly as successful if it hadn't been released in 3D; I think people were so impressed by the visuals that they mentally blocked out the tired old plot that's already been done repeatedly.
Anything Rodgers and Hammerstein ever did, from Oklahoma to The Sound of Music, is overrated. Rodgers and Hart, on the other hand, are woefully underrated.
Anything by Stanley Kubrick.
There is no place for musicals. How about my wife's favorite film, the abhorrent Moulin Rouge? ainkiller:
The best, and perhaps only, good musical is "Cabaret", and it only passes muster since the songs are *in a Cabaret* where they should be. (Except for that Nazi-kid at the picnic who sings "The Future Belongs to Me". That always gives me the shivers from thinking about what it really means.)
Two words says it all: Baz Luhrman
Since a couple of "modern" movies have already been mentioned, I'll chime in with Scarface (1983) and Avatar (2009). Regarding the latter, I'm convinced it wouldn't have been nearly as successful if it hadn't been released in 3D; I think people were so impressed by the visuals that they mentally blocked out the tired old plot that's already been done repeatedly.
"The Women". The characters are one dimensional, the acting is hammy and the plot, oh boy don't get me started on the plot. Sure there are a few good lines, but the movie is a real chore to watch.
And if you don't like Winnie Lightner, how about Ethel Merman --
[video=youtube;l89fWQ7_EYE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l89fWQ7_EYE[/video]
Now *that's* entertainment.