The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

My guesses for tomorrow's movies: Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Not sure when you last watched this movie, but the burning bush sequence is about 45 minutes in - so well past the opening number.

The movie looks good, but it didn’t strike me as being anything special in terms of the artwork. To me it looks just like Sinbad or Spirit or any of the other 2-D DreamWorks flicks.

I didn’t like the songs at all

None of the friends I was thinking of were raised that way, no. And even as a religious person I don't find the story comforting at all. It's probably one of the least comforting of the most common Biblical stories, and that was a source of criticism (and, in more thoughtful cases, praise) at the time, too: that it's not your typical, inoffensive family film. It deals with some really serious stuff.

Generally, irreligious people love it because it's still a good story, the animation is gorgeous (and not just in the boring technically impressive sense, but in the sense of having genuine artistry and thoughtful cinematography) and the music is top-notch, which is to be expected with the likes of Schwartz and Zimmer. It sounds like you may have gotten through maybe just the opening number. I dunno if you'd have liked the rest of it or not.

I don't really mind if someone doesn't like it, but I can't really figure out from this post what it was. Did you think the music was bad? How did it manage to "annoy"? Et cetera. I don't generally litigate conclusions because there's no accounting for taste, but I do like to understand how those conclusions are reached.

To me it looks just like Sinbad or Spirit or any of the other 2-D DreamWorks flicks.

I guessed one of today's movies correctly! Hooray for me. I love Into the Woods and it was number 6 on my ballot. I've seen Gigi and recall liking it, but don't remember much of it. It was never in contention for my ballot.

Seen: 15/16

The animation quality is good, but yeah, it does have a very generic drawing style overall similar to how all the Pixar and Disney 3D movies increasingly blend together.

My guesses for tomorrow: Stingray Sam and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

I will have very mixed emotions if you're right about this prediction.

85. Gigi (1958) - I've seen this - and I really like Leslie Caron, but I liked it as opposed to loving it. On Letterboxd I wrote : "I enjoyed the music in GiGi, and the production design was absolutely through the roof and gorgeous - not to mention the costumes - but the story left a few things to be desired, and all this fussing over stupidly wealthy people turns me off sometimes." Thank Heaven For Little Girls is one of the weirdest numbers in a musical I've ever heard/seen - especially from Maurice Chevalier!

Seen : 10/16

I like the song BECAUSE it's "weird" in the modern, but was considered cute, endearing & lyrical when it originated.