The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

No problem, I would love to see which ones that I didn't get on the list, It'll be interesting as I keep taking movies off and suddenly they make it

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It's cool

The AFI typically doesn't include non-American films in their lists (it's no Sight & Sound/BFI in that regard).
I don't have an answer for why only 25 instead of 100, other than not all lists of films are 100 films long.

Also I’m no musicals expert, but I do see one pretty glaring omission from that list of predictions.

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I know An American in Paris often gets listed as one of the great American films (by AFI types), but whenever I hear critics talk about it now, it always sounds... "only fine" (and I get the vibe that it's not my type of musical).

It did not cross my mind The Wall was a musical (which it sounds like it's not). I haven't seen it.

Thanks I was wondering if that was an American only list.

I'm no musicals expert as well, I just went on a site for popular musicals and those were among the popular ones, I'm sure I got some misses just like today when I got one wrong.

Not a big deal. I think there's also a few mofo surprises in store.

Oh, I'm sure there is

There was another movie that I was gonna add to list but not sure if it was eligable, Bohemian Rhapsody?

It's eligible

Damn that's probably gonna be one of the misses

Why are we putting Pocahontas in the predictions?? Did I miss the memo where they notified us that film stopped being crap?

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It's not that deep, I just read it off a site that had a list of popular musicals

Geez, what is that site?

More like multiple sites, I must have got Pocahontas when I was looking at Disney musicals, I was looking at those too.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com...s-of-all-time/
https://parade.com/1219550/samuelmur...s-of-all-time/
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls074356392/ - Disney Musicals

I'm just yanking your chain


...although I do think Pocahontas is pretty bad and not memorable at all

Imagine what most mofos would be like if that made top 10,

42. An American in Paris (1951) - I reached a certain stage a few years ago where I decided that I'd go through all the old musicals, and An American in Paris is one I've got to. I liked it - enough to score it 7/10 at any rate. On Letterboxd I wrote : "There wasn't much in this MGM musical to dislike, aside from some of the awkward monkeying around Gene Kelly gets up to with Oscar Levant and Georges Guétary. Even the fact that Gene Kelly, nearing 40 in '51, gets himself a teenage love interest - I mean, it's a little icky, but that love interest is the wonderful Leslie Caron. Caron is still alive today, 91-years-old and her last theatrical appearance was in 2020. This film has a real bravura ending segment which is all interpretive dance with costumes and wild sets to match - beautiful colours, and a great note to end on. The songs are great too, with "'S Wonderful" and "I Got Rhythm" getting things moving. It was a little old fashioned for me though, and it won Best Picture at the Oscars, beating A Streetcar Named Desire and A Place in the Sun - two of my all-time favourite films. In the meantime, The African Queen wasn't even nominated. 1951 was a great year for film - and this was one of the attractions.

Also - a quick note - I was really pleased that an American film would embrace France and French talent so readily. MGM didn't have to cast Guétary, Caron or the French-born Eugene Borden. A shame they didn't film in Paris though, instead choosing the MGM lot, with it's multitude of "Parisian" sets." Leslie Caron is still alive by the way - she's now 93 years of age. This didn't make my ballot.

41. Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982) - Pretty dark for the visual representation of a concept album, but The Wall is a pretty dark album. A terrifying depiction of mental breakdown, misanthropy, depression, anxiety and suicide - I'd expect that would send any record executive or Hollywood producer running for the hills, but I seem to recall the album being pretty successful! One of the best-selling albums of all time, and the record holder for being the best-selling double album of all time. The movie gets wonderfully freaky, with Gerald Scarfe's animation particularly incredible and unforgettable. Bob Geldof was a bizarre casting choice for the central character, "Pink", but everything about Pink Floyd - The Wall is bizarre. A sensational film as far as I'm concerned - I had it at #6 on my ballot.

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Seen : 39/60
I'd never even heard of : 10/60
Movies that had been on my radar, but I haven't seen yet : 11/60
Films from my list : 8

#41 - My #6 - Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
#44 - My #13 - Oliver! (1968)
#47 - My #14 - Hair (1979)
#59 - My #5 - Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
#60 - My #23 - Annie (1982)
#72 - My #22 - Yellow Submarine (1968)
#92 - My #8 - Tommy (1975)
One-pointer - My #25 - Shock Treatment (1981)

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Wow! I really enjoyed reading that - a really neat piece of reminiscence.