Worst movie musical?

[NightTrain]

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts club band.

Proof that Cocaine is a bad thing.

[qwertyMike]

5. Lightfoot was better than that

please
In the '60's EGODYLAN saw him as his main threat

[mac56]

6. Did Gordon Lightfoot have something to do with SPLHCB?

Somehow I'm not remembering him in it.

On edit:

Oops - sorry - my bad - I just saw the note on the chart. Carry on..

[NightTrain]

7. All I know is, after five years of working in Lite Rock radio...

...I never want to hear another fucking Gordon Lightfoot song ever again!

[mac56]

13. Dylan & Lightfoot

Lightfoot wrote "Early Morning Rain" (which Dylan recorded on "Self Portrait"), and has been a friend of Dylan's over the years. He played with the Rolling Thunder Review in Toronto.

When Lightfoot won the Canadian Juno award for lifetime achievement, Dylan was the one who presented it to him. Legend has it that the Juno people had offered Lightfoot this award several times, but he said he'd only accept it if they got Dylan to present it.

edit: fixed typo

[qwertyMike]

2. The Sound of Mucous

[Richardo]

3. "SPLHCB" is the ony one I've seen...and it reeks.

Still pisses me off to even think about it. :grr:

[mac56]

4. Gotta vote for "Finian's Rainbow".

Especially after seeing Spielberg's big screen version from the late 60s. What a piece of tripe.

Add on edit: "Lost Horizon" stank amazingly, too.

[TrogL]

24. I saw Finian's Rainbow as a stage play

when I was a kid and liked it.

There was one song in particular that was good but for the life of me I can't remember it. Possibly had "moon" in the title.

[mac56]

42. "Old Devil Moon"

Actually a good old standard. Sinatra did a great cover of it.

[regnaD kciN]

31. Wrong director...

It was Coppola (in his first studio gig), not Speilberg. Lucas was assistant director, BTW.

[mac56]

43. Yes, you're right.

My bad. Thanks!

Geez, I've been misremembering things all day. Getting old is hell.

[cosmicdot]

8. A Little Night Music w/Elizabeth Taylor

a brilliant stage production though
w/Glynis Johns and Hermoine Gingold

... send in the clowns ...

[dback]

9. "The Wiz"

Just flat-out depressing.

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Newsies.

Or any musical, IMHO. I hate showtunes.

Shit, I hate musicals!

[Semi_subversive]

11. Don't forget Xanadu

Even though Olivia N-J was a hottie.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Come on! Olivia Newton John, Gene Kelly and ELO

What more d'ya want.

[Semi_subversive]

18. ON-J butt nekked

would have changed my opinion. ANd I'm a big ELO fan, too.

[CanuckAmok]

36. Hoa bout Bev Bevan naked, and work your way up... n/t

[Screaming Lord Byron]

39. Well I won't be sleeping tonight, thanks to that!

[VOX]

21. Agreed. "Xanadu" = "Xanadon't"

They don't come any cheesier than this.

[Emboldened Chimp]

14. Moulin Rouge

Yeah, I'm talking about the Baz Lurhmann piece of shit. A lot of people love this movie. I loathe it. It's overrated, boring and sometimes downright annoying.

[Tyler Durden]

23. YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

All I had to see was the clip of Nicole Kidmann singing "Your Song" and I was searching madly for something that would serve to both blind and deafen me.

[CanuckAmok]

34. That's one of three movies I've walked out of...

...which is particularly remarkable, because we rented it.

I still walked out.

[TrogL]

25. I really liked it, and I hate musicals

First movie I've seen in ages with decent, well-done, professional singing.

At first I hated the idea of pre-inventing modern tunes but if you think of it as kind of an alternate universe, it's kinda cute.

The "do the can, can, can" sequence is a classic quodlibet. The kids love this movie and everytime that sequence starts I have them crank it.

[LTR]

29. Survey says...

DING DING DING!!!

What an awful, obnoxious movie!

[Astarho]

41. I agree

It's overrated, boring and sometimes downright annoying.

That about sums it up. I can understand its Oscar nom for costumes, but Best Picture?!! C'mon!

Like someone said, how come anachronistic songs are stupid in "A Knight's Tale", but brilliant here?!

[Terwilliger]

15. Grease II....BLEAH!

[HawkerHurricane]

16. You left off Xanadu.

Olivia Newton John as a Muse, with a cast of nobodies.

Also, you left off "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", which was a musical, except no one remembers the music.

[CanuckAmok]

35. Gene Kelly wasn't a "nobody", although I can't figure out what he...

...saw in Xanadu.

[Zuni]

17. Sgt. peppers

was the only one i saw and it was AWFUL

[ForrestGump]

19. "Paint Your Wagon" was brilliant!

Heathen!



And released in '69. :D

[Semi_subversive]

20. I agree.

[SiobhanClancy]

22. Terror in Tiny Town is so bad it's funny

A bunch of midgets riding around on shetland ponies...smoke a joint and watch this one:)

[Rowdyboy]

26. I strongly dislike "My Fair Lady"

The heavy cockney accent sends me up the wall. Half the songs could be dropped and it might be tolerable, starting with "Poor Professor Higgins".

And I worship Audrey Hepburn.

[Faygo Kid]

32. Ironic - she was knocked out of "Gigi"

The role she created on stage, and Leslie Caron replaced her in the movie version. A horrendous mistake. Then, she knocked Julie Andrews out of her Eliza Doolittle, in "My Fair Lady." A second huge mistake. Both movies would have been infinitely better with their original stage stars.

[mac56]

44. I loved "My Fair Lady".

One of my favorite musicals. Wish they could have cast Julie Andrews, though. Stanley Holloway stole the show as Eliza's father.

[bif]

27. "Chicago"

The worst.

[Emboldened Chimp]

37. No way!

That movie was pure entertainment. I had a blast watching it. And I usually hate musicals.

[CanuckAmok]

38. Didn't like Chicago, but...

the musical numbers weren't too bad.

The choreography, however, was very sloppy. Especially considering it was the best Hollywood had to offer, and in an environment where retakes are a possibility.

[Faygo Kid]

28. Gaack! "Lost Horizon" - thanks a lot!

30 years to forget the biggest piece of trash I may have ever seen on the screen, and you bring it up again! I am traumatized.

[Zephyrbird]

30. "Newsies"

Good grief, what a lemon!

[CanuckAmok]

33. I only voted for SPLHCB because you didn't have "Moulin Rouge" in the poll

n/t

[The Zanti Regent]

40. You forgot THE APPLE

Golan and Globus made the biggest musical bomb of all time.

The APPLE is truly THE WORST MUSICAL EVER!

If you don't believe me, check out http://www.thestinkers.com/

THE APPLE IS COMING TO YOUR TOWN! BEWARE!!!!!!!!!

[mac56]

45. Don't forget "The Wiz"!

Ease on down the road.