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[Stinkles]

I present to you, Russel Mulcahy's Highlander. Score, music and lyrics, Queen with Michael Kamen. Vocals, Freddie Mercury.


It IS a musical. Anyone who says it isn't is an effete Spanish peacock. The lyrics accompany and match the plot, story and action. It's thematic, scored and lyrical. It is, in short, a kind of magic. It will never be matched. It is STILL eminently watchable and it is still one of the greatest movie scores ever recorded, with incredibly memorable songs, melodies and appropriate moods. It even captures a decade.

Deets:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/soundtrack


Tracks:

"A Kind Of Magic"
Performed by Queen
Written by Roger Taylor


"One Year Of Love"
Performed by Queen
Written by John Deacon


"Who Wants To Live Forever"
Performed by Queen
Written by Brian May


"Hammer To Fall"
Performed by Queen
Written by Brian May


"Princes of the Universe"
Performed by Queen
Written by Freddie Mercury


"Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)"
Performed by Queen
Written by Brian May


"A Dozen Red Roses for my Darling"
Performed by Queen
Written by Roger Taylor


"New York, New York"
Performed by Queen
Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb

Vids:

Who Wants to Live Forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOE_b4aYD0

It's a Kind of Magic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytMNBUR2CQ

Gimme the Prize! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZQUVZKrH3I


It is not available on Netflix, because it IS TOO AWESOME. Don't act like you wouldn't go see this on Broadway, because you WOULD.

Don't act like a remake with a PROPER Muse soundtrack wouldn't be amazing. Because it WOULD.
Happy Hallow'een, Ladies.


And don't act like Connor MacLeod and the Kurgan wouldn't be the best Soul Calibur unlocks in all of history.

 

[RustyNails]

Lagaan is the greatest Musical ever made.

 

[Stinkles]

Lagaan is the greatest Musical ever made.

This thread is about common sense. Not Bangra.

 

[CHEEZMO™]

OP is wrong.

The truth.

 

[RustyNails]

This thread is about common sense. Not Bangra.

How much did the lamelander receive on Rottentomatoes? Lagaan got 95%

 

[Stinkles]

How much did the lamelander receive on Rottentomatoes? Lagaan got 95%

Lamelander? LAMELANDER?


Ban this filth.

 

[RustyNails]

I was gonna go with Lowlander

 

[coldvein]

does the south park movie count as a musical? if so, that's it.

 

[Stinkles]

does the south park movie count as a musical? if so, that's it.

Yes it does. And it's an excellent, Oscar-worthy musical. It's just not the best one. Team America ALMOST makes it, for what it's worth, but the music is more thematic than specific.


Highlander has more film, as well as better music.

 

[Lamel]

Lagaan is the greatest Musical ever made.

Great film, watched it as a kid and enjoyed it so many times.

 

[beast786]

Ka was the best thing I have ever witness on a stage

 

[sooperkool]

 

[Stinkles]

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There is NO swordfighting or beheading in Chocolate Factory, or breastesses. So....

 

[akira28]

You know when those guitar strains start playing for Princes of the Universe you feel like a badass.

 

[T.M. MacReady]

THERE CAN BE.......ONLY ONE!




sorry, I have nothing to add to this convo, just LOVE Highlander. Good thread.

 

[Noshino]

Sorry, Evil Dead The Musical takes that title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrDui7xeGv0

 

[Foxix Von]

 

[Xyrmellon]

If you have that big a hard on for Highlander, don't dare see the sequel, where they throw out the entire premise of the first movie and say they weren't immortals, they're aliens and Sean Connery shows up for a cringe-inducing cameo that he completely did for the cash.

I haven't seen the third one, but heard they act like the second one never happened.

 

[Pollux]

How Now Dow Jones

 

[Xyrmellon]

And btw, Queen's Flash Gordon music is better.

 

[Stinkles]

If you have that big a hard on for Highlander, don't dare see the sequel, where they throw out the entire premise of the first movie and say they weren't immortals, they're aliens and Sean Connery shows up for a cringe-inducing cameo that he completely did for the cash.

I haven't seen the third one, but heard they act like the second one never happened.

They didn't make a sequel. They only made one movie. And then they stopped. Because it was so perfect.

Sure, some fanboys will photoshop fake sequel posters, or write fanfic about a would-be TV show. But those things never happened. So it's cool.


OK?

 

[Xyrmellon]

They didn't make a sequel. They only made one movie. And then they stopped. Because it was so perfect.

Sure, some fanboys will photoshop fake sequel posters, or write fanfic about a would-be TV show. But those things never happened. So it's cool.


OK?

Lol, okey dokey.

 

[akira28]

I think it's Canon that the 2nd one was a hypoxemic dream while he was dead once that never actually happened, and all subsequent films occurred in an alternate dimension of similar but not equally awesome circumstances of the first.

 

[iirate]

Out of those mentioned, I'll go with...

The Blues Brothers.

 

[Stinkles]

Out of those mentioned, I'll go with...

The Blues Brothers.

Blues Brothers isn't a musical, because the songs are NOT about the story.

 

[Phobophile]

OP is wrong.

The truth.

Sounds a bit... gay.

 

[Silh]

Spoiler

lol

 

[sprsk]

West Side Story.

 

[Always-honest]

Sound of Music

and South Park.