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Miss V, have you already watched Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour?



Paint Your Wagon is a Western Musical. You can only guess how hideous it is, MV,

My mum had the soundtrack. That's right. Pity me.
I am so sorry.

I would recommend giving Repo! a go. I certainly wouldn't say you'll love it, but I do think it's something wihich has a better chance than many others.
I’ll give it a shot.



Opinions vary



We’ve been over this. Stage productions - whether plays, concerts, whatever - are not movies according to me and my opinion is the only one that matters when it comes to what I watch.

Also, again, concert documentaries are not eligible. This has been specifically stated by Thursday in the countdown thread. And if they were eligible, I would be voting for good concerts. Not that crap.

I have no idea what about me made you think I might be a Swiftie anyway.



I didn't think you were a Swiftie - I'm not.

Have you watched The Doors? Not a concert, not a filmed live performance.




Have you watched The Doors? Not a concert, not a filmed live performance.[
Yes I have, though I was a teenager at the time so couldn’t tell you what I thought of it. I may or may not watch it again.





Little Shop Of Horrors
(Frank Oz, 1986)

I've been having a shitty week so far, so I was in the mood for something stupidly entertaining or at least weird enough to be amusing. I checked in on the Group Watch thread, saw this was nominated and thought it could fit the bill. I also saw that it had a lot of familiar faces in it, including several actors that I've liked in other roles, even if I'm not really a fan of them. I also own a couple of Steve Martin's banjo albums so I figured I'd at least be able to tolerate his singing, right?

Yeah, no. Watching this was a mistake. I thought the songs were awful, the humor fell absolutely flat, and I hated all of the characters - none more so than Audrey I with her shrill and horribly grating voice. It was actually physically painful to listen to her. I was truly searching for something to like about this whole mess and was originally going to be generous and rate it a 1.5 because at least the backing singers had nice voices, but then the movie had to go and get my hopes up thinking that Audrey I might actually die (and yes, I read about how the ending was rewritten from the original stage production) so I'm docking it that extra half a popcorn box because screw this movie.

Needless to say, this did not make my shitty week any less shitty, but I guess that's just tough titties for me.




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Paint Your Wagon is a Western Musical. You can only guess how hideous it is, MV,

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Looking at your Letterboxd watchlist, I love Hedwig and I really enjoyed Crazy Heart.

Musicals are a rough genre for me. I don't enjoy most of them, and my ratings for them tend to be pretty tepid. If I made a top 25, it would include quite a few films that I basically gave a C+.

I'll throw out there The Ruling Class and Starstruck. I was really hoping to enjoy Repo: The Genetic Opera but was disappointed to find it not to my taste.



Looking at your Letterboxd watchlist, I love Hedwig and I really enjoyed Crazy Heart.

Musicals are a rough genre for me. I don't enjoy most of them, and my ratings for them tend to be pretty tepid. If I made a top 25, it would include quite a few films that I basically gave a C+.

I'll throw out there The Ruling Class and Starstruck. I was really hoping to enjoy Repo: The Genetic Opera but was disappointed to find it not to my taste.

Yeah musicals are by far my least favorite movie genre, so the threshold for consideration for my ballot is basically I just have to not hate it. Hedwig is on my watchlist only because I'll take just about any excuse to watch it. It's guaranteed the top slot on my ballot. Crazy Heart is another rewatch. I vaguely remember liking it but haven't watched it since it was still fairly new.

I'll take a look at Starstruck and The Ruling Class.

Edit: Which Starstruck are you referring to? I see a lot of results on IMDb.



Looking at your Letterboxd watchlist, I love Hedwig and I really enjoyed Crazy Heart.

Musicals are a rough genre for me. I don't enjoy most of them, and my ratings for them tend to be pretty tepid. If I made a top 25, it would include quite a few films that I basically gave a C+.

I'll throw out there The Ruling Class and Starstruck. I was really hoping to enjoy Repo: The Genetic Opera but was disappointed to find it not to my taste.

I only once started The Ruling Class. In my memory, I did not recall it being a musical in the few minutes I watched. Kept meaning to go back to it. If you end trying to fill out the ballot for this, I'd suggest looking at some of Jansco's musicals, though some of them might feel more the film equivalent of interpretive dance. Personally I liked The Confrontation. I can't say this would be a recommendation for Miss Vicky as, I get the sense she wouldn't like them.


The problem I think I often run into with musicals as a genre is they tend to be light-hearted and romantic-comedies. The latter is a genre I don't care for. Now if only I could find a way to rewatch Suzuki's last film, Princess Racoon (original Japanese title, very different), because I remember not being fond of it back in the day, which seems really anomalous now and due for a revisit (and is very much a musical if I recall).


(It looks like my ballot+watchlist is currently at 30. But I'm expecting not to like at least a handful of unwatched movies on that watchlist. I guess it's time to actually see what One From the Heart is like).



Edit: Which Starstruck are you referring to? I see a lot of results on IMDb.
Sorry, it's this one, from 1982.

I thought it was funny, I liked the music, and it was overall just very fun for me. The review I wrote of it at the time is here.

Recommending musicals is so hard!



I just looked up The Ruling Class... Gotta be honest, I'm probably not going to watch it. It's from the 1970s, it's 2.5 hours long, it stars Peter O'Toole, and looks to maybe have a religious aspect to it? That's a whole lot of red flags.



I just looked up The Ruling Class... Gotta be honest, I'm probably not going to watch it. It's from the 1970s, it's 2.5 hours long, it stars Peter O'Toole, and looks to maybe have a religious aspect to it? That's a whole lot of red flags.
Totally fair. I almost wrote that whether or not you watch it would come down to how much you enjoy O'Toole. I forgot that it's so long!



Totally fair. I almost wrote that whether or not you watch it would come down to how much you enjoy O'Toole. I forgot that it's so long!
Something about that man just creeps me out for whatever reason. I don't even know why.



Something about that man just creeps me out for whatever reason. I don't even know why.
I know what you mean, actually. Though I think he's pretty amazing in certain films, and his weird energy works pretty well in The Ruling Class as someone who is insane and has a literal god complex.



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Vicky, have you seen Dancer in the Dark? Not sure how much you'd be into it, but most of the musical numbers occur in the protagonist's head as opposed to the traditional "breaking out in song" element, so I'm not sure if this would pique your interests. That said, I might nominate it in the group watch thread.
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