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[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The Mean Girls movies made me start this topic. There may be exceptions, but if there is something I can hardly stand, it is movies where the majority of the movie is musical events.

There is an episode of the simpsons that I hate, it is the parody of Mary Poppins and a Musical.

Why does that genre exist? it is necessary? For this type of event, better on Broadway or at concerts, or Theaters.... but in the film genre, it is unattractive to my taste.




I hate this episode and there is another Simpsons episode because they are musicals.


Sometimes they can be expressively artistic, but they reach a certain point of being annoying to the public.



The only good movies that are good are Disney movies from the 90s.





It is a genre that can overwhelm the public if the scenes being excessive.

 

[poppabk]

The only ones are like are the Simpsons parodies. I would legit go see that planet of the apes one.

 

[JBat]

Tommy by Pink Floyd The Who is justification enough for all the terrible stuff




edit: got the band wrong. Y YCoCg corrected me

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Women love watching people sing and dance for some reason.

 

[tusharngf]

i like them as serious movies are full of shit lol



Iconic entrance

 

[willothedog]

there are some good ones

 

[jufonuk]

No to be fair things like grease and rocky horror picture show and the new wonka film are good. There are probably more but I don’t know that many.

Edit bugsy malone is a good one. Well it was when I was a kid. I used to watch it when I was younger.

It’s an odd premise it’s a gangster film musical. Set in the 1920’a New York. Where all the cast are kids it even includes mob hits. Yeah it’s a product of its time I think it was made in the 1980’s? 1976 had to look it up.
It stars Jodie foster and Scott baio


Watch it or not. I was about 9 or 10 when I first watched it.



I’m sure it would cause outrage now.

for me it’s pretentious art, art house films that are the worst.

 

[Neon Xenon]

Not sure if I would call musicals the worst genre in cinema, but they're not something I would ever go out of my way to watch.
I just don't care for musicals.

 

[AJUMP23]

7 brides for 7 brothers is wonderful.

I like musicals.

 

[jufonuk]

While I dont seek to watch musicals there are some great movies that are classed as musicals.

Blues brothers, little shop of horrors, spinal tap for example

They put in o brother where art thou ? Ok that’s not a musical.

20 Best Musicals for People Who Don’t Like Musicals

There are plenty of musicals out there that can appeal to a wide range of audiences, even those who don't typically enjoy the genre.

movieweb.com

20 Offbeat Musical Movies For People Who Don’t Like Musicals

I’m not sure that there is as enjoyable a film genre as the musical, and it’s one that is often derided more than any other, except maybe for horror fil

www.tasteofcinema.com

10 Great Musicals For People Who Don't Like Musicals, According to Reddit

Redditors say viewers who generally don't like movie musicals will likely find something to enjoy in Once and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

collider.com

 

[0neAnd0nly]

I would argue they are hard to nail correctly, but when they are they can be very good:

• The Sound of Music

• LaLa Land

• Many Disney animated films, specifically the Princess movies

 

[Kabelly]

I watched Chicago recenty and it's a great movie. One of the best movie musicals I've seen that blend the story and music storying-telling seamlessly.

This is potato quality because of copyright i'm assuming but this song is fun as hell.

 

[bender]

They are the best.

 

[YCoCg]

Tommy by Pink Floyd

 

[JBat]

corrected my post....a little drunk. please forgive me

 

[SpiceRacz]

You're citing modern musicals. If you want to fairly judge the genre, you have to go further back, to the 40s and 50s when they were more popular. They're of way better quality in terms of choreography and singing.

 

[CGNoire]

I do love Mary Poppins......and thats about it.

 

[John Marston]

The only ones I enjoyed are Grease and does Monty Python count?

 

[NecrosaroIII]

There is a time and place for musicals. The worst ones are musicals that take famous songs / bands and try to write the story and shoehorn in those songs (Mama Mia and Across the Universe).

They're certainly not in the zeitgeist currently but I've enjoyed stuff like My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, South Pacific, and it's Disney's bread and Butter. I think society is too self aware currently to make them work though. Everything has to be ironic for some reason.

 

[kunonabi]

Good musicals are awesome. Bad musicals can be insufferable.

 

[bitbydeath]

Buffy did a musical episode back in 2001 which I still often listen to in its entirety til this day.



Classic!

 

[IDKFA]

Love a musical, but mostly the classics.

Watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) a few weeks ago and fucking loved it.

 

[winjer]

There was a time, when musicals were the top grossing movies. So there was a market for it.
My guess is that people's taste in music got so varied, it's a lot more difficult to make a musical that has broad public appeal.

Personally, I never enjoyed the genre and would avoid it for the most part.
If someone invited me to go watch something like La La Land in the cinema, I would bend over backwards to get out of it.

There are some musics that are good, but they are the exception.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I feel like I'm the only guy who loved the Tim Burton Sweeny Todd. That's the most modern one I can think of that I liked. The other good ones are the classic Disney movies.

Edit: I hate that Buffy episode because it seemed like every tv show after that had a musical episode. Remember the Xena one? lol. I did like the Community one.

 

[jufonuk]

I feel like I'm the only guy who loved the Tim Burton Sweeny Todd. That's the most modern one I can think of that I liked. The other good ones are the classic Disney movies.

I feel that way about wonka. I really liked it.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I’m ready to wager that a well-scripted and well-performed Avengers musical would make so many of you change their tune so quickly.

I’d rather watch a solid musical movie than 9/10th of the poorly written tripe that gets greenlighted these days.
Mary Poppins is a movie about watching paint dry, but the musical pieces are fantastic.
La La Land is literally only watchable because of the musical pieces.
Mamma Mia! is pure joy. Why do people hate it?

 

[kunonabi]

I feel like I'm the only guy who loved the Tim Burton Sweeny Todd. That's the most modern one I can think of that I liked. The other good ones are the classic Disney movies.

Edit: I hate that Buffy episode because it seemed like every tv show after that had a musical episode. Remember the Xena one? lol. I did like the Community one.

Todd was received pretty well outside of people who were very familiar with the stage version and thus saw the weaknesses in some of the vocal performances.

 

[Neff]

While I dont seek to watch musicals there are some great movies that are classed as musicals.

Blues brothers, little shop of horrors, spinal tap for example

I feel the same. It's not a genre I'm a fan of but I like all of those movies. Labyrinth is also a great one. Too many good Disney movies to list.

I found Spielberg's West Side Story very impressive, you could tell it was an itch he was wanting to scratch for a long time, he really went all-out with it.

 

[T8SC]

They were basically the only thing my ex would watch and she liked every single one, including the likes of Grease 2 & Everybodys Talking About Jamie. However, she didnt like Raiders of the Lost Ark & many other movies people would regard as "classics".

I find them to be cheesy and full of cringe inducing scenes. I don't understand why people need to burst into song and start dancing on tables.
Aside from a few movies such as Bohemian Rhapsody which is more biographical than musical, I'll continue to avoid them. They're not to my taste and I tend to like a very broad range of movies.

 

[Salz01]

They were good in the 50 60 70’s. Outside Little Shop of Horrors in the 80’s, everything after is basically shit. Unless you consider the Disney animated ones ‘Musicals’.

 

[Halo is Back]

I hate the vast majority of them. It's just not for me.

 

[Days like these...]

Do Bollywood movies count as musicals cause if so musicals are the best.

 

[Billbofet]

I love music and I love movies.
That said, I loathe musicals. Not my thing.
I feel this way about plays and broadway productions too.

 

[Ownage]

Yes. It is the worst genre.

 

[analog_future]

They can but hit or miss, but the great ones are fun. It's like broadway up on the big screen.

I really enjoy:

• La La Land
• Mary Poppins
• Moulin Rouge!
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• West Side Story
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Sound of Music
• The Muppets (2011)
• Sweeney Todd

Thats not even including the animated classics like Nightmare Before Christmas, Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Jungle Book. etc.. etc..

 

[newtypepilot]

you must be the guy that hates the monorail song

 

[joedan]

Hate Musicals…except for Grease.

Saw Les Miserables (with Hathaway and Crowe) in theaters. Pure torture. Only movie that I felt the need to walk out despite having bought the tickets.

 

[Pagusas]

I'd like to see movies/genre's you do like OP, so I can get a better understanding of what you consider good. I personally love musicals, and all movies with the exception of the goreporn genre.

Sound of Music, Moulin Rouge and Nightmare Before Christmas are all in my top 10 movies ever.

 

[*Nightwing]

Yes, the worst

…even 8mm home movies from the 50’s & 60’s from boring people in their back yards lounging around with nothing of value to share or record are better than musicals as a motion picture genre

 

[Neon Xenon]

I feel like I'm the only guy who loved the Tim Burton Sweeny Todd. That's the most modern one I can think of that I liked. The other good ones are the classic Disney movies.

Edit: I hate that Buffy episode because it seemed like every tv show after that had a musical episode. Remember the Xena one? lol. I did like the Community one.

The one musical episode that always stands out (like, rent-free) in my mind to this day is from that HBO prison show, Oz.

Seriously. That show had a musical episode.

 

[DeafTourette]

One of the BEST musical movies is The Wiz with Diana Ross, Nipsey Russell, Michael Jackson and More! It was so colorful, the songs were a BOP and the story was JUST different enough from Wizard of Oz (another great musical movie) that it felt like its own thing! The music MADE that movie (based on the Broadway musical of the same name).

 

[Trunx81]

There are some good ones.
Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Westside Story
Mamma Mia

And you can consider every Bollywood movie a musical…

 

[j0hnnix]

I don't think anyone has mentioned the best musical movie ever.

Repo! The Genetic Opera


Everything else sucks. =P

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Flight of the Conchords is the only good musical in human history.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Personally, I never enjoyed the genre and would avoid it for the most part.
If someone invited me to go watch something like La La Land in the cinema, I would bend over backwards to get out of it.

i consider myself a musical enjoyer. La La Land is garbage ass nonsense. I was sorta excited by it. Turned it off

 

[StueyDuck]

I'm indifferent to the genre but wouldn't personally choose to go watch one. Much like a Rom-com or a "coming of age" story.

If I were to find an issue with it, it's that they don't really do anything with the formula. It's usually chatting then plot point is mention, character responds plot point!? Then they break out into song about the thing just mentioned, just copy paste that throughout the whole movie

 

[DeafTourette]

The great Lena Horne

 

[dsp]

youtube.com/watch?v=gFABajBNDJg

This video is for you, OP.

 

[Power Pro]

I don't often watch a lot of musical, but I'd be lying if some of my favorite movies weren't musicals.

I fell in love with Moulin Rouge the first time I saw it, and still love it. The visuals and choice of songs throughout the movie just are amazing.







Wish I could find a better quality version of this last scene, cuz even though you know it's totally how the movie is going to end, it still gets to me with how Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor perform together. It's really beautiful.

 

[Quasicat]

I would argue they are hard to nail correctly, but when they are they can be very good:

• The Sound of Music

• LaLa Land

• Many Disney animated films, specifically the Princess movies