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If we're going by Pat's logic then This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind are musicals as well, and they're not. They're films about music, but every song that's performed in the film is a part of the narrative of the movie, rather than the spontaneous musical numbers characters break into. 

A bit like Bohemian Rhapsody. 

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2 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said:

If we're going by Pat's logic then This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind are musicals as well, and they're not. They're films about music, but every song that's performed in the film is a part of the narrative of the movie, rather than the spontaneous musical numbers characters break into. 

A bit like Bohemian Rhapsody. 

They are both (Mock)documentaries. That’s another genre entirely. 
 

Bohemian Rhapsody is shit. Remi Malik is probably the best I’ve seen him, but that’s a low bar. Oh, and nice to see the kid from Jurassic Park turn up as one of Queen without the flamboyance or poodle hair. So which ever one’s are left from there.

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Exactly like I said, not musicals. 

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5 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Oh, and nice to see the kid from Jurassic Park turn up as one of Queen without the flamboyance or poodle hair. So which ever one’s are left from there.

John Deacon, the one that had the good grace to retire before they tried that awful cosmos rocks comeback album with him out of Bad Company. 

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5 hours ago, Steve Justice said:

Does Labyrinth count as a musical? 

Wouldn't think so. A few David Bowie songs are in there, but that was the same for mostly every Bowie film released around then.

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5 minutes ago, bAzTNM#1 said:

Wouldn't think so. A few David Bowie songs are in there, but that was the same for mostly every Bowie film released around then.

Songs written for a film plus dance numbers = musical.

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8 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Songs written for a film plus dance numbers = musical.

It probably is more of a musical but I just don't see it like that.

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3 minutes ago, bAzTNM#1 said:

It probably is more of a musical but I just don't see it like that.

I don’t either if I’m honest. I’m just going by the dictionary definition. Maybe the UKFF can start a campaign to get the definition changed

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5 hours ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Although the other The Producers, which is a film of the musical of the film, is a musical.

And its fucking shit. 

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We need to think carefully about how we're defining musicals here, because The Blues Brothers is fucking brilliant, so if we're counting it as a musical then we're all going to have to agree that not all musicals are rubbish. 

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