The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

O Brother Where Art Thou didn't work for me narratively - but I love (and actually owned) the soundtrack...

Gentlemen isn't top-tier Hawkes but it's delightful and another testement to the man's ability to tackle any genre with success.

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And here's the first favorite that I just completely forgot about. Absolutely love O Brother, Where Art Thou and its music. Probably would've made my top fifteen had I remembered.

SEEN 11/32
BALLOT 2/25
Should've been on ballot: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

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I like the music in O Brother but I don't care for the movie.

Not sure if I've seen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

#70 - O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
I don't remember its musical numbers. Anyway I have issues with its screenplay and usually don't consider it for whichever countdown. Nice cinematography though.


#69 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Saw it for this countdown. It is a very colorful chicks promotion, nothing more. At some point, I considered it as a filler for my #23-25.

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Alrighty then…I like all these last four movies. Yellow Sub., 7 for 7, O Brother and GPB. None of these is on my list. 7 for 7 probably should have been for the fabulous dance scenes. I was a Beatles Super Fan in my youth and I meant to put one of their movies on my list but didn’t. The soundtrack for O Brother is stellar American roots music. Love it. I always get GPB and How to Marry a Millionaire confused they both have Marilyn and a similar theme.

Seen and enjoyed both, but neither made my ballot.

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Don't really consider O Brother Where Art Thou a musical. Love the movie though.

I think it's safe to say that if anyone performs any music in any way in a movie, it's gonna be on this list.

And that’s why I put A Clockwork Orange confidently at number one on my list.

Dude. That is spot-on.

Well, it does have that Singin' in the Rain number, not much dancing but lots of high kicks

I like O Brother, Where Art Thou? quite a bit, but I don't think it cracks my Coen Top 10. Still, it's a lot of fun. Now that I think of it, I probably could've made space for it on my ballot, especially considering how thin my last 3 or 4 are. But well...

I haven't seen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.


SEEN: 6/32
MY BALLOT: 1/25

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Helluva catchy musical number from O Brother, Where Art Thou?...

Haven't seen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. I haven't had much luck with some of the other notable Hawks' films in other genres (His Girl Friday, Rio Bravo), which doesn't make me want to go give him a try for a genre I'm not big on (admittedly, screwball rom-coms and classic westerns are also not my go-to genres either). Shame, since I do really like John Carpenter movies.


O' Brother Where Art Thou - I'd have to look to see which Coen brothers' movies I'd rank below this (Intolerable Cruelty, presumably the Lady Killers if I'd ever watch it), but that might be it. I guess it's conceivable I'll re-watch again one day because it's not actually bad, just, I'd prefer re-watching nearly any other Coen movie first. I guess that means, maybe it should have made my ballot since I had so many blank spaces. But, an indifferent, "oh well."

O Brother, Where Art Thou? was #96 on the MoFo Top 100 of the Millennium, jumped up to #21 on the MoFo Top 100 of the 2000s, and was #78 on the MoFo Top 100 Comedies list.

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