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)

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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70. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - I really need to watch this again - I've seen O Brother, Where Art Thou a half-dozen times or so, but if you gave me a piece of paper and pen, then told me to write down specifics, I could say a lot about it other than how everything eventually comes to an end. I don't know if it's because I zone out every time I watch it, but I have an over familiarity with the start of that film and a lack of remembrance concerning the rest. Or at least the very last scene. Something I really dislike is not being able to remember how a certain film ends, despite having seen it. It makes me feel like I haven't really seen it. This isn't my favourite Coen Bros movie, simply because they've made so many great films. It's far from my least favourite though. Watching it again soon.

69. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - I don't think I've seen this - famous for the whole "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" number. I will one day.

Seen 21/32

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It's no secret I am an enormous Coen Brothers fan, but even so O Brother got nowhere near my ballot. Mostly because it just plain isn't enough of a Musical, for my taste, to be included in this exercise. However, I positively had to make room for Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It was my twenty-first pick, good for five of its sixty points. While not the funniest Musical ever made nor the funniest comedy in Hawks' mighty filmography, it is still very funny, showcases what I find to be the legendary Monroe's best comedic performance, and for good measure has one of the most iconic numbers in the history of film.

That's the third of my choices to show.

HOLDEN’S BALLOT
17. Amadeus (#97)
21. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (#69)
25. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (#74)

I really liked O Brother, Where Are Thou? and saw it a couple of times but it's been a few years. I never considered it for this list though.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is great fun and Marilyn and Jane are an awesome duo of showbiz gals in this. The supporting cast is fine, particulary Charles Coburn as "Piggy" and scene-stealer little George Winslow, the raspy-voiced child actor who Marilyn at first mistakes for somebody older, then he helps her out of a jam, partly because, as he croaks, "You've got animal magnetism!" Didn't include this one either.

So far:
#1. On the Town #93 (list proper)
#6. Easter Parade #78 (list proper)
#10. Gigi #85 (list proper)
#12. Calamity Jane #84 (list proper)
#14. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers #71 (list proper)
#25. Neptune's Daughter (one-pointer).

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