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best film musicals... EVER!

what's the best film musical...EVER?

  • ‘bugsy malone’

    Votes: 9 9.7%
  • 'west side story'

    Votes: 7 7.5%
  • 'the sound of music'

    Votes: 5 5.4%
  • 'oliver!'

    Votes: 8 8.6%
  • 'the rocky horror picture show'

    Votes: 9 9.7%
  • 'the wall'

    Votes: 3 3.2%
  • 'grease'

    Votes: 6 6.5%
  • 'south park: bigger longer and uncut'

    Votes: 13 14.0%
  • 'moulin rouge'

    Votes: 3 3.2%
  • other... please state

    Votes: 30 32.3%

  • Total voters
    93

DaveCinzano

WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
as i was trawling through old threads i rediscovered me old 'bugsy malone' one, and there seemed to be a fair few musical fans out there.

so let's have a pointless poll so we all end up humming show tunes at work today :D

*'bugsy malone' - kiddie gangsters, splurge guns, pedal car chases, jodie f-f-foster and superbly diverse score from paul williams
*'west side story' - romeo and juliet in the noo yoik hood, words by sondheim, music by bernstein... "maarr-ee-ahhhh"
*'sound of music' - julie andrews battles those pesky nazis in the alps, with nuns, brats and a stern daddy figure
*'oliver!' - lionel bart turns dickens into a rollicking roustabout, with lovable scamps all over the shop
*'rocky horror picture show' - the fella from the 'crystal maze', meatloaf, susan sarandon... hubba hubba! and it's all about sex! probably!
*'the wall' - gerald scarfe's scary pictures of jack-booted nazi hammers, and it's all about playing truant or, um, something, man...
*'grease' - travolta and newton-john get it on in fifties middle america, and we still love it... stockard channing always got my vote, bad girls 4 ever ;)
*'south park: bigger longer and uncut' - badly animated children sing rude words: it doesn't get much better :D
*'moulin rouge' - doomed courtesan nicole kidman and penniless writer ewan macgregor croon anachronistically at each other in this visually overloaded take on bohemian paris
*other - well come on, tell us the worst...

...and yes, the options are biased to ones i quite like, so not many from the golden studio days, but that doesn't mean you can't nominate them...
 
Myself and mango5 went through a musical fest a few months back. Good cheesy fun! I was surprised at how good Mouline Rouge was, but to be honest West Side Story has always been my favourite.
 
you must be joking about 'hair', but how can i have forgotten 'oz'?!

:rolleyes:

"puddem up! puddem up!"

:D
 
did you know........

in bugsy malone the piano player in FAT SAMS name was micheal jackson...

and did you know.................


its 15 years since i first saw BUGSY MALONE i still want splurge gun..........
 
i'm not just trying to be awkward, but you've genuinely left off my 2 favourites.
Annie and Fiddler on the Roof.

from your list i'd take Bugsy. And that was a different Michael Jackson
 
Another vote for Singin' in the Rain. The film most likely to cheer me up if I'm feeling a bit depressed. Lena Lamont is absolutely priceless.
 
Yeah Fiddler on the Roof should be included.

And where's the King and I? :o OK, not for the music but for Yul Brynner and all the lovely kids (even though it is banned in Thailand) :p

Oliver will always be No. 1 though :)
 
Ah fiddler on the roof too

yes..




(iiiiiiiif I were a rich man...a yadda yadda yadda yadda yah)
 
i just can't choose, .

singing in the rain
my fair lady
seven brides for seven brothers
calamity jane

and i simply won't pick a fave

so there
 
I've gone for Bugsy Malone. It's a downright classic, those cream guns were so :cool: - everyone wants one!

Have to admit, I nearly went for South Park - pissed myself laugh through most of it. The Unclefucker Song ... ROFL :D
 
Oliver! wins hands down.

The best songs:

Pick a Pocket or Two
A Fine Life
Reviewing the Situation

The best story - Dickens for heaven's sake!

The best coreography - the market scene!

We have a winner!
 
Not one Sinatra film on your list? How can you do a list of musicals and not include any Frank??!!

On the Town
Guys and Dolls
High Society
Young at Heart
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Anchors Away
An American in Paris (okay, thats Kelly, same thing)

or
White Christmas
Cabaret
or, oooh, loads more.

On The Town best of the lot
 
bristle-krs said:
erm... quite easily, given he was shit! :p :D
from the man who croons for stoickard channing this is fighting talk indeed!

i would offer you outside sirrah, but it's really kinda wet, and i've only got a little jacket, and, and, and.........
 
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