If you care one iota for musical theater, and don't get chills from that version of "Sunday" in tick, tick...boom!, I don't know what to say. Oh, to have been on set that day...
I know Holiday Inn is super problematic (the less said about their Lincoln's Birthday number the better) but I have such nostalgia for watching it with my mom. Plus it's the origin of White Christmas! (even if their is a movie musical by that name that seems to think otherwise!)
The film version of Rent is a great example of good intentions leading to poor results all across the board. Everyone’s heart is in the right place and almost none of it works.
I just saw Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova here in Denver and wow, those songs still hit hard. When Your Mind's Made Up is definitely the best non-standard time signature song from any musical [stares in Everything's Alright].
Here is the dilemma with which you have presented me: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS is a great movie, but one I don't actually consider a musical, while RENT is a bad movie but at least it is actually a musical.
On one hand, I get it (because you could make the argument that a fair few of the titles in this bracket are not full-on musicals a la Singin' in the Rain or something).
On the other hand...there's, like, ten songs performed in the movie! I feel like this one, more than a rock-star biopic, counts.
It's obviously too late to do anything about it in this bracket, but here is my arbitrary and purely personal definition of what qualifies as a "musical" vs. "a movie with music:" There needs to be a non-diegetic component. If every song involves the people on screen playing the instruments and doing a music performance, that's not really a musical. ONCE, for example, passes the test by virtue of the "Lies" sequence. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, 100% absolutely not.
"Falling Slowly" from Once might be one of the five best movie musical songs ever written. It's just so stunningly perfect.
If you care one iota for musical theater, and don't get chills from that version of "Sunday" in tick, tick...boom!, I don't know what to say. Oh, to have been on set that day...
I know Holiday Inn is super problematic (the less said about their Lincoln's Birthday number the better) but I have such nostalgia for watching it with my mom. Plus it's the origin of White Christmas! (even if their is a movie musical by that name that seems to think otherwise!)
The film version of Rent is a great example of good intentions leading to poor results all across the board. Everyone’s heart is in the right place and almost none of it works.
I just saw Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova here in Denver and wow, those songs still hit hard. When Your Mind's Made Up is definitely the best non-standard time signature song from any musical [stares in Everything's Alright].
Here is the dilemma with which you have presented me: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS is a great movie, but one I don't actually consider a musical, while RENT is a bad movie but at least it is actually a musical.
On one hand, I get it (because you could make the argument that a fair few of the titles in this bracket are not full-on musicals a la Singin' in the Rain or something).
On the other hand...there's, like, ten songs performed in the movie! I feel like this one, more than a rock-star biopic, counts.
It's obviously too late to do anything about it in this bracket, but here is my arbitrary and purely personal definition of what qualifies as a "musical" vs. "a movie with music:" There needs to be a non-diegetic component. If every song involves the people on screen playing the instruments and doing a music performance, that's not really a musical. ONCE, for example, passes the test by virtue of the "Lies" sequence. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, 100% absolutely not.
Holiday Inn is a NO for the Lincoln Birthday salute in blackface.
I really, really want Rent out first round. I just cannot stand that show.