original Jurassic Park score, almost anything by John Williams or Hans Zimmer
Your favourite music movie?
Just for fun.
Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here.
In no particular order.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So camp it is brilliant!
Tim Curry slays it!
Just way too much to begin to mention.
I can still get a blast from it now.
Let's do the Time warp again!
The Blues Brothers.
Ah, Jake and Ellwood.
Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon)
Just so right....
Rock of Ages.
Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance.
Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though.
No it was for the pair who stole the show.
Alec Baldwin and Russel Brandt.
Simply perfect for the movie.
Your thoughts on these and your nominations?
Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here.
In no particular order.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So camp it is brilliant!
Tim Curry slays it!
Just way too much to begin to mention.
I can still get a blast from it now.
Let's do the Time warp again!
The Blues Brothers.
Ah, Jake and Ellwood.
Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon)
Just so right....
Rock of Ages.
Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance.
Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though.
No it was for the pair who stole the show.
Alec Baldwin and Russel Brandt.
Simply perfect for the movie.
Your thoughts on these and your nominations?
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Hi Uberwaltz, Re your selections: 1) I saw "Rocky Horror" once, many moons ago, but I don't remember the music well enough to comment on it. I do remember the film well enough, though, to agree with your "so camp it is brilliant" comment. 2) "The Blues Brothers" -- Fantastic! Love it! 3) I haven't seen "Rock of Ages." My personal favorite: "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," a classic 1964 romantic French film directed by Jacques Demy and starring Catherine Deneuve, in which every word is sung rather than spoken. The music having been composed by Michel Legrand. Best regards, -- Al |
I've watched "The Last Waltz" more times than I can remember. The farewell concert of The Band, filmed by Martin Scorsese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz |
Awesome post! Dewey Cox story, okay raunchy and not appropriate for watching with kids but the paraody of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Brian Wilson songs were fanatastic, songs like Walk Hard, Let's Duet, Midget Man just fanatastic. Rocky Horror a Classic Across the Universe great Beatles songs redone The Who's Tommy some great songs and of course a 40 ish Ann Margret Chicago great songs, great music, great dancing, hot women Dave and Troy Audio Doctor NJ |
Of course nothing beats Rocky Horror. The only one that comes to mind and hasn’t been mentioned yet is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109045/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2 "Do you have the Texas Chainsaw Mascara?" Priceless! |
None of these are music movies, but they are all movies with top notch scores. Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev) Psycho (Bernard Herrmann) Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann) Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud (Miles Davis) Lawrence Of Arabia (Maurice Jarre) |
"The Wall". It most strictly meets the original question as a Music Movie. The music itself stands on its own as it was developed first and contains very little dialog. It artistically mixes animation and live action and is enjoyable with eyes opened or closed. The songs are meaningful and the movie is not filled with non-singing twittering about breakfast or a contrived transition to bridge memorable songs. To me, "Tommy" contains too many elements of a musical and is better contexted as a true rock opera but not as cohesive when considered as stand-alone music. There are far too many plot transition jingles/songs that only maintain their relevance in the context of the film....Tina Turner's Acid Queen and the injured glamour girl with the child Frankenstein guitarist on stage...as examples. "Yellow Submarine" should not count but it is simply brilliant and a very stark contrast to the other Beatles movies which were more simply live documentaries masking their early explorations in drugs and religion...and drugs. If only the world had more studio footage of the Beatles in action. "West Side Story", "Grease" and even "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" were adaptations of musicals as well as "Sound of Music". "Little Shop of Horrors" was well done also if you like that sort of thing, but still originally musicals. "Spinal Tap" and "A Mighty Wind" are great musical mockumentaries. "The Last Waltz" has Scorsese's involvement and reached a wider audience for that reason and the very special guests, but would not consider it a "movie". "Frozen" and "Tarzan" (moreso Tarzan) have good soundtracks but so did "Snow White" and "Mary Poppins". "Amadeus" +1 is beautiful. |
