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The MoFo Musical Countdown - Group Watch
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@SpelingError hasn't been online yet, so I'm posting my nomination here now so people can watch the movie if you want to.
Tea for Two (1950) starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.
Tea for Two (1950) starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.
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@SpelingError hasn't been online yet, so I'm posting my nomination here now so people can watch the movie if you want to.
Tea for Two (1950) starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.
Tea for Two (1950) starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.
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I watched Tea For Two last month in preparation for the countdown. I liked it. Doris Day is delightful in this enjoyable musical.
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Tea For Two (1950)
Enjoyable Doris Day musical. I was glad to watch this as it's one of Day's musicals that I hadn't seen. The stand out was seeing Doris dance and yes she could dance! Can't say I've ever seen her dance before. The other big surprise was seeing Gene Nelson give one helluva dance routine. First on a large drum on a stage then up and down the stair's banister. Astaire and Kelly move over, this guy was good! How come he didn't dance in movies more? I do know he was in Oklahoma but I mainly know him from the film noir Crime Wave (1954).
Tea For Two is a fun movie, but not a favorite Doris Day film, for that it's The Pajama Game and Calamity Jane which are both locks on my ballots.
Tea For Two is a fun movie, but not a favorite Doris Day film, for that it's The Pajama Game and Calamity Jane which are both locks on my ballots.
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Tea For Two (1950)
Enjoyable Doris Day musical. I was glad to watch this as it's one of Day's musicals that I hadn't seen. The stand out was seeing Doris dance and yes she could dance! Can't say I've ever seen her dance before. The other big surprise was seeing Gene Nelson give one helluva dance routine. First on a large drum on a stage then up and down the stair's banister. Astaire and Kelly move over, this guy was good! How come he didn't dance in movies more? I do know he was in Oklahoma but I mainly know him from the film noir Crime Wave (1954).
Tea For Two is a fun movie, but not a favorite Doris Day film, for that it's The Pajama Game and Calamity Jane which are both locks on my ballots.
Tea For Two is a fun movie, but not a favorite Doris Day film, for that it's The Pajama Game and Calamity Jane which are both locks on my ballots.
Gene Nelson was a great dancer. He was in a few musicals early in his career, but he eventually switched to directing. He directed a couple of Elvis movies, (Kissin' Cousins (1964) and Harum Scarum (1965)), as well as several TV episodes, including the TOS Star Trek episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gene_Nelson
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Gene Nelson was a great dancer. He was in a few musicals early in his career, but he eventually switched to directing. He directed a couple of Elvis movies, (Kissin' Cousins (1964) and Harum Scarum (1965)), as well as several TV episodes, including the TOS Star Trek episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gene_Nelson
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gene_Nelson
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I recently watched all of Elvis' movies and I must have seen Gene Nelson's name listed as director of those two films, but I didn't remember it. Thanks for mentioning it. The Gamesters of Triskelion was one of my favorite ST episodes so good for Gene!
Thanks to my mother-in-law, over the past year, I've seen about a half hour of every Elvis movie. She loves Elvis, so I put all of his movies on a USB stick so she could watch them on her TV, but she doesn't know how to use it, so I had to be there to start the movie for her.
Every time she got about a half hour into the movie, she would say that she saw enough of it and ask me to turn it off.
(But she can watch his concerts 24/7.)
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Thanks to my mother-in-law, over the past year, I've seen about a half hour of every Elvis movie. She loves Elvis, so I put all of his movies on a USB stick so she could watch them on her TV, but she doesn't know how to use it, so I had to be there to start the movie for her.
Every time she got about a half hour into the movie, she would say that she saw enough of it and ask me to turn it off. (But she can watch his concerts 24/7.)
Every time she got about a half hour into the movie, she would say that she saw enough of it and ask me to turn it off.
(But she can watch his concerts 24/7.)
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I had great fun watching all of the Elvis movies and many of them are pretty good too. Did you see a young Elinor Donahue in Tea for Two, she was the kid in the flapper dress and was also in the ST episode Metamorphosis.
Yes, I did. I remember her best as Felix's girlfriend Miriam in the TV series "The Odd Couple".
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I watched A Week Away (2021) last month and really enjoyed it. Directed by Roman White, who did music videos for several popular artists, this Christian musical stars Kevin Quinn, Bailee Madison, Jahbril Cook, David Koechner, and Sherri Shepherd. It's about a troubled teen who has to go to a Christian summer camp and meets a cute girl. The campers sing a mix of original songs and popular Christian hits of the past (including Baby, Baby, The Great Adventure, Dive, and A Place in this World). There are also a couple fun cameos from two popular Christian singers (you have to watch the movie to see who). The musical performances are fantastic. I thought the actors did a great job. I really enjoyed this. It's fun, cute, and has a positive message, without being overly preachy. It will definitely make my ballot.
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I watched this awhile ago because I knew Allaby would nominate it when his turn came again.
A Week Away
(Roman White, 2021)
Being sent away to a week at a Christian Youth Summer Camp sure sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me, but I can't really buy that this would actually be offered as an alternative to juvenile hall to a repeat-offending delinquent who just got caught stealing a police car. But there I was watching this happen in the opening scene and already struggling with suspension of disbelief before we even get to the religious stuff.
Not that the movie takes its time before it starts pelting my ears with songs about how great God is. Though I do have to say these songs were marginally more tolerable than those in the last two "teen romance" live-action musicals I watched (Grease and Grease 2). I mean, at least I didn't have to listen to anyone sing about girls creaming over the guys' pussy wagon or about how a girl should "do it" for her country. But the songs were still not at all pleasant for me to hear. Besides the subject of the songs, I really disliked the singing itself. "Avery," the main character's crush, has a singing voice that was really grating to me to the point of being physically painful to listen to and her awful lip-synching and the weirdly mismatched tone of her singing vs her facial expressions during the "Awesome God"/"God Only Knows" Medley were equally painful to watch. She had tears streaming down her face, but not even a hint of emotion in her voice and her trembling lips certainly didn't match up with the lyrics. Bizarre.
This movie also goes out of its way to be aggressively wholesome to the point of being nauseatingly so. I get that this is a Christian movie and this is sort of par for the course for this kind of thing, but damn they could've toned it down a touch and made some of the characters at least a little interesting. These kids are such a bunch of goody-goody dorks that even the would-be bully among them has a scene where he complains about "freezing his buttocks off" while working to save the narwhals. Ugh.
But obviously as a 40-something, musical-hating atheist I am very much not in this movie's target demographic so my criticisms of it won't and shouldn't mean much to the people who do or might enjoy it. And I will say it's pretty far from being my least favorite musical, but that's about the highest praise I'll give it.
A Week Away
(Roman White, 2021)
Being sent away to a week at a Christian Youth Summer Camp sure sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me, but I can't really buy that this would actually be offered as an alternative to juvenile hall to a repeat-offending delinquent who just got caught stealing a police car. But there I was watching this happen in the opening scene and already struggling with suspension of disbelief before we even get to the religious stuff.
Not that the movie takes its time before it starts pelting my ears with songs about how great God is. Though I do have to say these songs were marginally more tolerable than those in the last two "teen romance" live-action musicals I watched (Grease and Grease 2). I mean, at least I didn't have to listen to anyone sing about girls creaming over the guys' pussy wagon or about how a girl should "do it" for her country. But the songs were still not at all pleasant for me to hear. Besides the subject of the songs, I really disliked the singing itself. "Avery," the main character's crush, has a singing voice that was really grating to me to the point of being physically painful to listen to and her awful lip-synching and the weirdly mismatched tone of her singing vs her facial expressions during the "Awesome God"/"God Only Knows" Medley were equally painful to watch. She had tears streaming down her face, but not even a hint of emotion in her voice and her trembling lips certainly didn't match up with the lyrics. Bizarre.
This movie also goes out of its way to be aggressively wholesome to the point of being nauseatingly so. I get that this is a Christian movie and this is sort of par for the course for this kind of thing, but damn they could've toned it down a touch and made some of the characters at least a little interesting. These kids are such a bunch of goody-goody dorks that even the would-be bully among them has a scene where he complains about "freezing his buttocks off" while working to save the narwhals. Ugh.
But obviously as a 40-something, musical-hating atheist I am very much not in this movie's target demographic so my criticisms of it won't and shouldn't mean much to the people who do or might enjoy it. And I will say it's pretty far from being my least favorite musical, but that's about the highest praise I'll give it.
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I watched A Week Away (2021) last month and really enjoyed it. Directed by Roman White, who did music videos for several popular artists, this Christian musical stars Kevin Quinn, Bailee Madison, Jahbril Cook, David Koechner, and Sherri Shepherd. It's about a troubled teen who has to go to a Christian summer camp and meets a cute girl. The campers sing a mix of original songs and popular Christian hits of the past (including Baby, Baby, The Great Adventure, Dive, and A Pace in this World). There are also a couple fun cameos from two popular Christian singers (you have to watch the movie to see who). The musical performances are fantastic. I thought the actors did a great job. I really enjoyed this. It's fun, cute, and has a positive message, without being overly preachy. It will definitely make my ballot.
That looks like fun
That looks like fun
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