What film did you watch last night?

[AndyRM]

Can you have a musical with too much singing?

To be fair it has been rated as a particularly strong sequel and the song writing is top notch. You may find your child (again assuming you were watching with a small child) startling you by singing "ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh" at random points throughout the day...

I genuinely don't get why people are surprised that musicals contain singing.

I'd be a bit miffed if John McClane burst into song, but Elsa? Hardly a shock.

 

[Conrad_K]

The movie wasn't billed as a musical. If it had been, I wouldn't have bothered.

 

[Beebo]

Tombstone on Film4.
I rate is one of the best modern westerns. And it’s over 30 years old now!
Val Kilmer was robbed of an Oscar nomination.

 

[matticus]

The movie wasn't billed as a musical. If it had been, I wouldn't have bothered.

Really? Here's what google said:

 

[icowden]

The movie wasn't billed as a musical. If it had been, I wouldn't have bothered.

On the one hand you are absolutely right. On the other hand every Disney Princess film (with the exception of Raya and the Dragon) has been a musical to some extent, and Disney animation is synonymous with musical theatre. Other clues are that Frozen is on Broadway and the West End as a theatrical musical.

 

[Conrad_K]

[shrug] I'm not up on Disney lore or Broadway stuff. The DVD cover didn't say anything to suggest "musical."

 

[Beebo]

The movie wasn't billed as a musical. If it had been, I wouldn't have bothered.

Let it go. 😁

 

[cougie uk]

"Frozen II."

The first one had too much singing, but it was okay. The second turned the singing up to 11, and somewhere along the way I lost track of what the point of the movie was. Definitely a victim of the Sequel Curse.

LOL - I turned up a day late to the local theatre once. They had a Rep company so instead of the show I'd booked - tonight's was Paint Your Wagon.
We were there so I thought I'd give it a go anyway. Probably not the musical version I thought.
They opened with a song - 'oh maybe it's just the opening song and then they crack on' I thought.
No. Of COURSE it was the musical all the way through. Still good fun though.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Probably not the musical version I thought.

We booked Lord of the Flies once at the Theatre Royal, thinking it would be a play. Turns out it was a dance thing. Dancing all the way through, no singing, no talking 😭

 

[Beebo]

My worst mistake was booking the whole family tickets to see A Christmas Carol in the theatre.

It was just one man dressed as Charles Dickens just reading the story.

They were desperate to leave at the interval but I made them stay. My wife and children never let me live that down.

But if I had read the actual advertisement I would have seen that it wasn’t a play!

 

[matticus]

My worst mistake was booking the whole family tickets to see A Christmas Carol in the theatre.

It was just one man dressed as Charles Dickens just reading the story.

They were desperate to leave at the interval but I made them stay. My wife and children never let me live that down.

But if I had read the actual advertisement I would have seen that it wasn’t a play!

That is superb. I think it could only have been funnier if he'd mimed it, under Charades rules:
Audience:" It's a book... No, it's a play! "

 

[Legs]

West Side Story (1961) which is in iPlayer. I know the story (who doesn’t?) but have never actually seen it. What’s most astonishing is the longevity of the cast - apart from Natalie Wood, most of the actors in the main roles (Tony, Bernardo, Riff, Anita, Baby John, Velma and Graziella…) are alive today.

 

[PaulSB]

A Complete Unknown - a portrayal of Dylan through his earliest successful years. Timothee Chalamet is superb. I felt I was watching a young Bob Dylan, at no point did it feel like someone acting or interpreting Dylan. Chalamet seems to have found a way inside Dylan. It's very hard to describe.

 

[lazybloke]

Schindler's List is on BBC2 currently.
I still don't understand those who perpetrate war and other evil acts.

 

[ColinJ]

Schindler's List is on BBC2 currently.

That is one of the films that I have never been able to bring myself to watch. There are others too that I would probably find just too depressing!

I still don't understand those who perpetrate war and other evil acts.

It would be worrying if you did!