A rather eccentric film musicals poll

^ Oh, no worries at all. I love The Meaning of Life and it's my most watched film in the list. When I was a teen, I definitely ranked it amongst my ten favourite films (along with A Clockwork Orange, Brazil...) and it remains a favourite. And as for Moshkito, we share a lot of the same likes and he has been very supportive of my art house and sci-fi/fantasy film polls, so I don't mean to come off as ungrateful for his participation, and he commonly mentions ones not on my lists that I love. I'm glad to have so many at this site whose tastes overlap with mine in different areas.

I'm stressed with my work (odd times which requires some different approaches), and not putting things well, or sometimes not thinking things through as well as I would like. I'd be less stressed if I stopped procrastinating, thus trying to distance myself from forum discussion. That said, this forum can be a good place to get the brain juices flowing, even if it is just out of my ears and onto the floor. I just need to be better at focusing on my work and better at time management (I get the work done on time, if not completed before "the eleventh hour", and done satisfactorily, but it means sleepless nights far too often). Spending time coming up with such lists is not the best use of my time, but I do enjoy the discussion that such things result in, and I do like re-visiting, remembering, or re-thinking about old favourites.

I like to hear about others not in my lists, often I know and love them, and sometimes, but not so often, I learn something new. It only bothers me when I feel people are being overly judgmental about, unfriendly, or readily dismissive of my choices or approach, or are not paying attention to what's been said or even what's in the list, but I wouldn't say anyone has been in this topic.

Edited by Logan - April 05 2020 at 10:41

Mortte wrote: I like Rocky Horror music, Ramones is of course great too, but as a huge Who-fan have to vote Tommy. BTW never listened that soundtrack album, but in the movie some of the music sounded really great (specially that band version of the ending of overture, that´s acoustic in the original Tommy). I think I have to listen that soundtrack album first in this morning (if it is in spoti or tube). I little bit wonder where you Logan had all the time and interest to listen all this? And this is not blaming you, more of admiring you.

While I said I wouldn't post for some time (I have a lot of work that needs doing -- I need to scramble), I should have mentioned that this is a very rare case where in my research to remember ones (I often put some time into research when doing such things), I ended up supplementing my list a fair amount --usually I like to do polls just based on my favourites. A lot of these weren't in my "weird film musicals" searches. I have seen 23 in the poll, which is still a lot. I don't sleep much at all, which frees up more time. In the case of Repo! The Genetic Opera, that is one I had tried to watch some years ago, but couldn't get through it..

As for South Park: Bigger, Longer Uncut, I might well have included that had I thought of it (I have seen it).

It's early days still, but it's interesting that five people responded to this topic and that is two more than the total number of votes in this multiple-choice poll (and certainly two of those five did vote). Judging by one of Moshkito's comments, in response to the Dark Elf, he seemed to like one of my choices, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, yet Moshkito didn't vote for it (that's the first one I thought of, such a classic). Certain kinds of polls get far more votes than people who respond. I'll look back on my other film polls (done a lot as I used to live and breathe film, partially because of film studies) to see if that's been the pattern when I have the time.

Edited by Logan - April 05 2020 at 09:38

I like Rocky Horror music, Ramones is of course great too, but as a huge Who-fan have to vote Tommy. BTW never listened that soundtrack album, but in the movie some of the music sounded really great (specially that band version of the ending of overture, that´s acoustic in the original Tommy). I think I have to listen that soundtrack album first in this morning (if it is in spoti or tube).

The Dark Elf wrote: Let's do the time warp again.

Don't dream it, be it.

EDIT: By the way, I'm not the kind who likes to make topics and then doesn't engage people in conversation or answer questions, but I have things to do and will be taking a break from the site. So no point asking "Where is such-and-such?" or "Why didn't you include so-and-so?" I doubt that much discussion will happen in this topic anyway (they are a bit of a time-waster to prepare and I always have less time to waste than I end up wasting).

Edited by Logan - April 04 2020 at 20:54

If it's not a proper musical, I don't care, this is supposed to be an eccentric poll.

A favourite of mine in this list is Phantom of the Paradise:



And this is not a movie, but a favourite musical of mine:





Edited by Logan - April 04 2020 at 19:36

With all the songs in it, could you consider "The Meaning of Life" a musical?