The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

Annie was on my list at #12!

I was honestly surprised of how much i enjoyed it. Didn’t expect anything from it but it had the perfect blend of warm and whimsical as well as being both a good musical and family movie. Good harmless fun.

I have not seen Jesus Christ Superstar but I have heard good things. So I definitely want to see it.

This countdown is hard to predict.

Watched Annie when I went through Huston’s filmography a year or so ago. I really didn’t care for it despite it having a couple great songs. It was okay.

Haven’t watched Jesus Christ Superstar. Don’t know that I will. Maybe if I figure out whether it was made for me or not.

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I love Annie! It has wonderful songs and fantastic performances. Annie is my #17. I liked Jesus Christ Superstar too. The acting and singing were very good, but it didn't make my ballot.

Seen: 41/42

Annie worst musical ever!


Just kidding Allaby
I watched Annie for the first time in the Group Watch and was impressed. It almost made my ballot and was a last minute cut. Glad to see it here, it's deserving.

I really meant to watch Jesus Christ Superstar before sending in my ballot. I've never seen it but intend to. Maybe tonight???

Haven't seen any of these two. I might've seen Annie, or bits of it, when I was a kid but if I did, I don't remember anything at all.


SEEN: 13/42
MY BALLOT: 3/25

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Seen neither and don't really feel a rush to change that.

What he said.

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Annie and Jesus Christ Superstar?


If we must.


Annie has a couple great musical numbers, but it was way too squeaky clean and saccharine. And me and my sisters were just the right age that it was constantly overplayed.


Hard Knock Life is still one of the best music numbers in movie history. Didn't make my list though.


I didn't care for JCSS at all. I preferred Godspell, which still missed my list by about 10 places.

Seen: 26/42

List: 4 [A Star is Born (1954), O Brother Where Art Thou, Yellow Submarine, Frozen]

Should've been on list: 1 (The Burden)

I saw Annie again recently for the first time in forever. It was ... fine. I'm not sure if John Huston really had the knack for musicals, but I also don't think it's particularly strong musically.

I can't bring myself to watch Jesus Christ Superstar, but I'm open to be convinced I should.

It's always satisfying to agree with you for whatever reason

LOVE Jesus Christ Superstar...I even did the show myself twice. I didn't expect Annie to rate this high. The 1999 TV version they did on ABC was way better than this one.

I saw Annie as a kid. I don't remember it but I know I didn't like it.

I may have seen Superstar at some point but I'll have to mark it as a no.

Worth mentioning that both of today's entries are the only ones so far with a "Rotten" score on Rotten Tomatoes, both at 50%. What a coincidence.

I watched Annie a lot as a kid. I think. I have little recollection of it and even less desire to revisit it.


Still have never seen Jesus Christ Superstar. I know there's supposed to be a technicolor, um, rain-cloak? Cloak-like article of clothing.
I've not heard anything that has really interested me in it.

I'm not a Jesus expert, but that sounds like you're getting it mixed up with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Yes! Annie was my #1.

#59. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) was my #12 for 14 of its 65 pts.

The concept music album (1970), composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, was very popular among my high school circles in the mid to late eighties. The great Ian Gillan, singing as Jesus Christ, excited us a lot.
I saw the film, based on this album, in the early 90's when it was again in the theatres here.
Can't imagine a musicals list without this title.


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My Ballot
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5. Everyone Says I Love You (1996) [#73]
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7. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) [#99]
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9. Amadeus (1984) [#97]
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12. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) [#59]
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16. Rocketman (2019) [#91]
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25. The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue (1975) [one pointer]
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I need to watch Annie, I just haven't gotten around to it. Maybe it's worth a watch to be a John Huston completist and I do find the "Tomorrow" song to be endearing.

Jesus Christ Superstar, a film I watched years ago when I was in college with a group of friends, is a film that is soo over the top, dated, and ridiculously bad in a cringe kind of way that it is, for my money, a true Mystery Science Theater 3000 type of film. Count me as a person who has very little use for Andrew Lloyd Webber and his brand of pop/rock/opera oriented style. I did find a couple numbers in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to be tolerable enough, but Jesus Christ Superstar is one of those films or musicals that is so insane and out there, that I can't believe what I'm watching. The Herod number alone speaks volumes. I will say, I do like Norman Jewison, in fact so much, one of his films made my list, and I will say I like the idea of the Romans carrying MP40s and Uzis (although a bit ironic considering the Uzi is an Israeli firearm) and I like the idea of transposing the Jesus story into a modern time or sensibility, but the hippie thing is just too much to be taken seriously at all, for me at least. I know and have read that it divided the Christian community a bit - some loved it, others thought of it as blasphemy. I don't consider myself a part of either camp, as I'm neither enthralled or offended by it. It's just not my thing, at all, and to my mind I put it up there with something like Hamilton, that's very much a product of its time, panders to contemporary pop sensibilities, and has ultimately aged or will age horribly.

I am happy to see two more non-animated films make the list and it makes sense that both Annie and Jesus Christ Superstar would make the top 100, as they are and have been main stays and widely seen and known about.

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I was thinking the same thing. This might be the most eclectic and random countdown we've seen so far... mainly because there's so much variety, but I imagine as we get higher up on the list some of them will become more predictable. There are some pleasant surprises so far... I'm glad 1776, The Smiling Lieutenant, Duck Soup, and Easter Parade all made the list.