The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

Yeah that makes sense. Technically we didn't do a Silent countdown as it was Pre 30s which included a few talkies. We haven't done a sports countdown.

The general buzz was that a 90s redux countdown was highly favored. Now if we could agree by a straw poll show of hands that we still favor doing the 1990s next, maybe we could get it starter sooner than later.

Who's for doing the 90s countdown next???

I was showing off what great walkway and infrastructure maintenance Kansas City has!

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Viddy - Aye

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1990s Redux Countdown next?

Citizen votes: aye

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I'm 100% in with doing 90's next, all I need is the greenlight that were doing it, and I'll start doing 90s rewatches and watching new movies that I haven't seen from that decade

Moviefan votes: aye

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We should do a 2030s countdown next.

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2020s you mean

No, I meant 2030s as I was joking with my post.

oh ok lol

Everyone seems to be posting their lists, so here goes...
1. The Sound of Music (1965)
2. Oklahoma! (1955)
3. Gigi (1958)
4. My Fair Lady (1964)
5. South Pacific (1958)
6. Cinderella (1965)
7. Pitch Perfect (2012)
8. Frozen (2013)
9. Godspell: A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1973)
10. Hair (1979)
11. Funny Girl (1968)
12. West Side Story (1961)
13. Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
14. In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
15. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
16. All That Jazz (1979)
17. De-Lovely (2004)
18. Cabaret (1972)
19. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)


This is not what I would have chosen for my list, but again I submitted before I completed it.
I have only one thing to say that may be controversial.
I hate La La Land. I found it to be a huge let down.


The only movie that hasn't been on the top 100 list that I wish I had added to me list was Velvet Goldmine.
Also Delovely is wonderful. It stars Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd with the music and life storu of the great Cole Porter.

Anyways, I'm cool with a 90's countdown next.

Let me know how Disney films or MCU films did in back the 2030's so I can go ahead and buy stock Disney stock now!

Thanks for voting up My Fair Lady and helping it clinch a top 10 spot which it barely snuck in.

Just curious what your issues were with La La Land. I know I've mentioned it before, but while I don't hate it, I thought it was a let down giving the amazing premise and story and for what it could have been. It's a film that I wanted to like a lot more than I actually do.

So I don't hate it, I'd give it a B+ or A- as a fair objective rating, but I do remember around the time it came out in 2016 or early 2017 or so it was being heralded as the greatest film musical since Vincente Minnelli walked the Earth and it wasn't.

Yes! That makes 6 I think

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2. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - The only pre-1960s film to make it onto my ballot, which goes to show how amazing it is. Do classic films come any bigger? Does a montage devoted to the history of film ever leave it out? This has been enchanting movie lovers for nearly a century and will go on doing that for another. There's something intrinsic to it's magic that can't be recaptured by technology or the largesse films allow themselves these days. One of the very first full-length reviews I wrote here was for The Wizard of Oz, you can find it here. I had it at #17 on my ballot.

1. Singing in the Rain (1952) - If I'd watched Singing in the Rain again before this countdown it may have forced it's way onto my ballot - but like with The Sound of Music, I did sacrifice a few of the films that didn't need my help so I could promote musicals that had a special place in my heart but wouldn't have had room for inclusion if I'd gone with them. Singing in the Rain has the stamina to still top lists like this one over 70 years since it's release - which is something I find amazing.

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Seen : 70/100
I'd never even heard of : 11/100
Movies that had been on my radar, but I haven't seen yet : 19/100
Films from my list : 20 + 1

#2 - My #17 - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
#4 - My #21 - West Side Story (1961)
#9 - My #9 - Grease (1978)
#11 - My #12 - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
#14 - My #3 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
#15 - My #4 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
#20 - My #2 - Dancer in the Dark (2000)
#21 - My #10 - Chicago (2002)
#23 - My #15 - A Hard Day's Night (1964)
#24 - My #11 - Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
#28 - My #7 - Labyrinth (1986)
#37 - My #1 - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
#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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#108 - My #16 - Evita (1996)

I haven't seen Singin' in the Rain. I know it's popular, I've just never been persuaded to watch it.

I did, however, manage to squeeze in a rewatch of The Wizard of Oz before this countdown, though I didn't review it.

I hadn't seen it in honestly forever, so I was a little surprised by some of the munchkin dialog, which I feel like I could always remember the melody of, but their voices were so chipmunked that I never knew what the **** they were saying, particularly with regard to the "Munchkin Coroner", which, as a concept, I assume just flew over my head the last time I saw it.

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My list in full :

1. Phantom of the Paradise (1974) - #37
2. Dancer in the Dark (2000) - #20
3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - #14
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) - #15
5. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) - #59
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982) - #41
7. Labyrinth (1986) - #28
8. Tommy (1975) - #92
9. Grease (1978) - #9
10. Chicago (2002) - #21
11. Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - #24
12. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - #11
13. Oliver! (1968) - #44
14. Hair (1979) - #47
15. A Hard Day's Night (1964) - #23
16. Evita (1996) - #108
17. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - #2
18. Help! (1965) - DNP
19. Popeye (1980) - DNP
20. Sweet Charity (1969) - DNP
21. West Side Story (1961) - #4
22. Yellow Submarine (1968) - #72
23. Annie (1982) - #60
24. The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) - DNP
25. Shock Treatment (1981) - 1-pointer

I can definitely contribute more to that one.

I considered Repo! because I really liked the concept, but I really didn't like the songs - especially "Seventeen" which I thought was downright awful.

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I'm indifferent to if we do a 90s redux, but I did just do a shortlist and ended up at 37 movies, so, it'd probably feel like a lot less homework for that one.