The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

I had the Wizard of Oz at number one. Singin' in the Rain I had at number 20 mostly on the strength of the dance sequence with Cyd Charrise as I'm not much a fan of Gene Kelly.

My Ballot:

1. The Wizard of Oz #2
2. Beauty and the Beast # 12
3. Grease #9
4. My Fair Lady # 10
5. West Side Story # 4
6. Chicago #21
7. Aladdin #22
8. Moulin Rouge #30
9. South Park #27
11. Pink Floyd The Wall #41
12. The Music Man #29
13. Stormy Weather - The dance with the Nicolas Brothers is amazing


14. Top Hat #58
15. 42nd Street #76
16. The Band Wagon #80
17. Top Secret


18. Inu-Oh

19. The Rocky Horror Picture Show #14
20. Singin' in the Rain #1
21. Meet Me in St. Louis #33
22. Little Shop of Horrors #18
23. Mary Poppins #8
24. Hair #47
25. The Forbidden Zone (one pointer)

Yeah I guess I wasn't around for this countdown and missed most of it. It's a pretty good mofo list that was put together and I'm happy that Singin' in the Rain was #1 - it's obviously the best musical of all-time on of the best films of all time. La La Land not #1 is great. Dancer in the Dark and Hedwig in the top 20...great. South Park #27...could of been higher. I need to finally watch All That Jazz. That Thing You Do that high up huh.

Big thanks to Thursday for running the show and to the usual suspects for their help. I'll be around more for the next countdown. Here is my top 25:

1. Nashville (1975)
2. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
3. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
4. The Music Room (1958)
5. Fantasia (1940)
6. Duck Soup (1933)
7. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
8. The Red Shoes (1948)
9. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
10. The Harder They Come (1972)
11. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
12. I'm Not There. (2007)
13. Pinocchio (1940)
14. A Night at the Opera (1935)
15. Amadeus (1984)
16. Almost Famous (2000)
17. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
18. Black Orpheus (1959)
19. The Meaning of Life (1983)
20. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
21. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
22. The Producers (1967)
23. The Blues Brothers (1980)
24. Bound for Glory (1976)
25. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

From my list I recommend people check out the excellent film The Harder They Come.

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I wasn't expecting the official list to appear so soon. I'm at 54% apparently.

HA! I notice I somehow got a medal too. Time to add it to the rest of my "Thanks for Participating" medals.

Ha, love that gif Thief made! But poor Thief ain't got no medal

So much better than its reputation, at least in any circles I was ever in, I agree, everyone should see it.

My List:

1. South Pacific (1958)
2. Cry-Baby (1990)
3. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
4. The Polar Express (2004)
5. Lisztomania (1975)
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
7. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
8. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
9. 1776 (1972)
10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
11. The Jazz Singer (1927)
12. Guys and Dolls (1955)
13. Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
14. New York, New York (1977)
15. Hair (1979)
16. Absolute Beginners (1986)
17. The Sound of Music (1965)
18. Pennies from Heaven (1981)
19. All That Jazz (1979)
20. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
21. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
22. Grease (1978)
23. La La Land (2016)
24. Lili (1953)
25. Finian's Rainbow (1968)

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Captain Spaulding's Musicals Ballot

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Wild Rose, love Jessie Buckley, with that voice, she needs to do more musicals.

Awaara, glad to see some movies from India on peoples lists.

And every time I see a pic of Dick Powell in a musical, I wonder how he made the transition to noir. I mean, he looks elfin, like he should be making cookies in a hollow tree, not punching guys in dark alleys. But by golly, he did make the move and was great at it. An all-around talent, in any type of film.

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my list:
1. All That Jazz (1979)
2. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
3. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
4. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
6. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
8. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
9. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
10. Annette (2021)
11. Lili (1953)
12. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
13. Labyrinth (1986)
14. Funny Face (1957)
15. The Band Wagon (1953)
16. Easter Parade (1948)
17. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
18. For Me and My Gal (1942)
19. On the Town (1949)
20. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
21. Footlight Parade (1933)
22. The Sound of Music (1965)
23. The Lure (2015)
24. Sweet Charity (1969)
25. The Boy Friend (1971)

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Did anyone vote for Rio Bravo???!

Thirty folks did...on the MoFo Top 100 Westerns list.

Oklahoma!, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, is the only crossover between the two lists. Roy Rogers and Trigger are weepin' up in Singin' Cowboy Heaven, I reckon.

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If the characters singing is the criteria(?), then The Travelling Players would also qualify.
I'm only half way through, but no doubt this is an epic masterpiece.

1. Nashville (1975)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
4. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
5. All That Jazz (1979)
6. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
7. Fantasia (1940)
8. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
9. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
10. Yellow Submarine (1968)
11. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
12. West Indies (1979)
13. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
14. Elvis (2022)
15. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
16. The Muppet Movie (1979)
17. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
18. Head (1968)
19. Golden Eighties (1986)
20. The Wiz (1978)
21. Cats (2019)
22. The Lion King (1994)
23. Hairspray (1988)
24. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
25. The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022

Loving Top Hat.
Hollywood was in full stride here...

Well done @Allaby

Yes, of course. I love Rio Bravo.

Even though I missed the Western countdown, despite it being my absolute favorite genre, I made a list of what I would have submitted and yeah Rio Bravo is on there. I have loved it for years, Howard Hawks can do no wrong in my book, AND it's one of the films I love listening to Quentin Tarantino talk about as the ultimate "hang out" movie.

Of course there's a lot of depth to it too and psychology with not only how John Wayne's sheriff is handling the mounting pressure of doing his job against the odds, but how the film also handles Dean Martin's alcoholism and inner turmoil battle to "get it together," how it handles Walter Brennan's crippled old codger character in true dramedy fashion and his need to still be useful and have a role despite his advanced years, and how it handles the arrogance and sure-headedness confidence of youth in Ricky Nelson's young gunfighter. Sure he's emulating Monty Clift in Red River, but who cares. Throw in Angie Dickinson's "love interest" character of the traveling rogue dance hall gambling girl and with five strong-willed characters... all on the same team mind you, that's a recipe for fireworks if handled well. And of course Hawks' is easily up to the task. You have five great characters fully embodied by their actors who are just livin' it up and enjoying the Hell out of those roles and it's fireworks on screen.

Rio Bravo is just a fun fun fun film with some wonderful underlying themes while still embracing the simplicity and polish of the Golden Age of Hollywood just on the eve of the 1960s a year before big Hollywood films like Elmer Gantry and Spartacus, lower budget thriller/horror films like Psycho, Peeping Tom, Eyes Without a Face, and a year before international cinema unleashed its permanent presence on cinema upstaging even the absolute best of Hollywood with subversive masterpieces like Breathless, La dolce vita, The Bad Sleep Well, and of course L'avventura.

Rio Bravo is Hollywood's big tall glass of whiskey and New Year's Eve party as perhaps one of the last great Golden Age of Hollywood productions full of banter and wit as it was just about to rush in 1960 and a new decade that changed cinema forever at home and abroad. It was a swan song to that era of film, just a few years before John Wayne made The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Cowboys, and The Shootist as a few of his other great late career westerns.

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