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Forum: Movie Reviews 37 minutes ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

Some other countdown facts...

The Lion King just snatched the top spot as far as IMDb scores go, with 8.5, followed by Amadeus at 8.4 and a handful tied at 8.0. Meanwhile, Into the Woods remain...
Forum: Movie Reviews 45 minutes ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

I know most people will drool over the other songs, deservedly so, so I will give a shout-out to this one. Infinitely catchy and fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bGjlvukgHU
Forum: Movie Reviews 49 minutes ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Hard to argue with The Lion King being peak...

Hard to argue with The Lion King being peak Disney, peak musical, or just peak cinema, period. It's just a gorgeously animated story with charm, drama, thrills, emotion, and everything you might want...
Forum: Movie Reviews 54 minutes ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Stats: Pit Stop #10 ...

Stats: Pit Stop #10
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExd2E4ZGEzeHNleDl6MnRwbnNqbWtha3Z2dm5kZmNwemRtaWU2d3ZqaSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/13dMW2YwHZyoy4/giphy.webp

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Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 hour ago
Replies: 84,783
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By Thief
Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw

IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY
(2012, Hertzfeldt)

https://i.imgur.com/fcIMt4F.jpeg




It's Such a Beautiful Day is a compilation of three previously released short films from Hertzfeldt. The...
Forum: Ongoing Tournaments & Brackets 1 hour ago
Replies: 274
Thief's Monthly Movie Loot - 2024 Edition
Posted By Thief
IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (2012, Hertzfeldt) ...

IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY
(2012, Hertzfeldt)

https://i.imgur.com/fcIMt4F.jpeg




That is one of the many existential musings of the narrator in Don Hertzfeldt's animated masterpiece, and to...
Forum: Ongoing Tournaments & Brackets 5 hours ago
Replies: 274
Thief's Monthly Movie Loot - 2024 Edition
Posted By Thief
Again, should've posted this a long time ago, but...

Again, should've posted this a long time ago, but life keeps throwing wrenches at me in pretty much every aspect and I just put up the audio for this, so here is the July "assignment" episode of the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 16 hours ago
Replies: 42
How many films have you watched so far this year?
Posted By Thief
Re: How many films have you watched so far this year?

According to Letterboxd, I'm up to 195, which is the same amount of films I saw in 2023. So unless I die tomorrow, I will probably surpass that.
Forum: Movie Reviews 22 hours ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
I don't follow football but I like clever...

I don't follow football but I like clever wordplay :up:
Forum: General Movie Discussion 22 hours ago
Replies: 74
Movies where Rotten Tomatoes got the rating completely wrong
Posted By Thief
There are a couple of very positive reviews in...

There are a couple of very positive reviews in that 14%...

Gods of Egypt is utterly ridiculous, but hard to resist...
Forum: Movie Reviews 23 hours ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Haven't seen Cabaret, so here's where I stand... ...

Haven't seen Cabaret, so here's where I stand...

SEEN: 33/94
MY BALLOT: 15/25


1. Moulin Rouge! (#30)
2. Little Shop of Horrors (#18)
3.
4. Once (#25)
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

The way that this song stuck in my head when I was a kid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZNRzc3hWvE
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 74
Movies where Rotten Tomatoes got the rating completely wrong
Posted By Thief
Yeah, this is another layer where people find...

Yeah, this is another layer where people find themselves usually at odds. How to compare, say, Resident Evil with Citizen Kane, for example. As far as I'm concerned, the former doesn't even have to...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 74
Movies where Rotten Tomatoes got the rating completely wrong
Posted By Thief
Your Golem example goes to what I posted earlier...

Your Golem example goes to what I posted earlier about a general misunderstanding of how the Rotten Tomatoes score works. The fact that the film has a 100% doesn't mean it's "the greatest" or that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 74
Movies where Rotten Tomatoes got the rating completely wrong
Posted By Thief
The question would be "more about what?". About...

The question would be "more about what?". About film? Probably yes, solely on the strength that it's part of their job to be educated in film history, techniques, and whatnot. That's not to say that...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
It's really been years since I last saw Mary...

It's really been years since I last saw Mary Poppins. However, it was one of those (along with The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and several others) that we listened to often cause we had the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 74
Movies where Rotten Tomatoes got the rating completely wrong
Posted By Thief
Re: Movies where Rotten Tomatoes got the rating completely wrong

[gets on soapbox]

Friendly reminder that the RT score is not a measure of "quality", as in 100% = "perfect movie", but rather an aggregate of a selection of critics. If a film has a 100%, it means...
Forum: Ongoing Tournaments & Brackets 2 days ago
Replies: 274
Thief's Monthly Movie Loot - 2024 Edition
Posted By Thief
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939, Fleming) ...

THE WIZARD OF OZ
(1939, Fleming)

https://i.imgur.com/wQ7JfFN.jpeg




The Wizard of Oz follows Dorothy (Judy Garland), a young girl that is unhappy with her life in rural Kansas and longs...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

As far as the Rotten Tomatoes score, it has been split the following way:


88 entries have a "Fresh" score (above 60%).
11 of those are what they call "Certified Fresh" (a score above 75%)....
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

The 31 point gap between My Fair Lady (#10) and Grease (#9) is the biggest of the countdown so far. The next ones are:


26 points between Fiddler on te Roof (#24) and A Hard Day's Night (#23)
...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Never seen Grease. Big blind spot for me. ...

Never seen Grease. Big blind spot for me.


Anyway, here's where I stand...

SEEN: 32/92
MY BALLOT: 14/25


1. Moulin Rouge! (#30)
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
BTW, to whoever else had these two in their...

BTW, to whoever else had these two in their ballot...

https://c.tenor.com/beUu3Fm2wmYAAAAd/tenor.gif
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Same here.

Same here.
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

Cabin in the Sky is full of great musical numbers, but this is probably my favorite...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZXkoRTI3Q
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 2,166
The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown
Posted By Thief
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

^That's what I rated it back when I saw it in 2018. I would probably bump that rating to 4 now, I think.