Vote for the WORST Movie Musical Adaptation Ever- Page 2

[Pgenre]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 12:36am

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[sabrelady]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 12:39am

too close to call. A Little Night Music (even with my beloved Diana Rigg!) and Paint Your Wagon. Running 2nd/3rd Chorus Line and Mame.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 12:39am

Haven't seen Irma so I can't comment.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 12:51am

Irma can't be included because it wasn't a "movie musical"; it was just a "movie"!

Anyway...I have not seen all of the movies on the list (because they were so universally panned), but I did see MAME, and I despised it. So it gets my vote. (And I'm STILL angry about it, PJ! "Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!")

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 1:20am

Well, I listed IRMA 'cause it was an adaptation of the musical, but the songs had been removed completely and the music used as underscoring instead. Since many people bitched and moaned about half of NINE's songs being discarded, I figured they had an opinion in regard to this movie. So even though IRMA (the movie) doesn't include a single song, it's still an adaptation of the musical, more or less.

Posted: 1/3/10 at 2:13am

Paint your Wagon deserves some sort of award- unlike every other disappointing film adaptation, they kept all the songs and jettisoned the entire plot.

That said, I also saw a film of Anything Goes on late late TV once that threw out all the Cole Porter songs... seemed like a really really bad idea.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 2:18am

Yes, Sm2, I got that. But we can't really assess the success or failure of IRMA THE MOVIE as a musical since it's not one. That's my point.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 6:12am

I vote for A Chorus Line, the most abysmal movie musical ever. Does Lost Horizon (1974) count? If so, I'd vote for that one too.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 7:44am

Night Music was terrible, but I loved getting to see Len Cariou as Fredrik. I think... I'm gonna go with A Chorus Line. And Guys and Dolls was entertaining and all, but it was not Guys and Dolls.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 8:02am

All of those in the original list, but there's nothing, just nothing that can come close to CHICAGO, except possibly Cukor's travesty of MY FAIR LADY.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 10:14am

I'm never really going to understand why so many people hated "Chicago". I think at some point, with a movie musical, you have to let go of what the original was and accept it on its own merits at some level. Renee Zellwegger was lackluster and some of the camera herky-jerkiness bothered me (but that's Rob Marshall for ya), but beyond that I thought it was extremely well-crafted and well-performed.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 10:30am

Chicago and My Fair Lady don't really belong on this list. They were both far too popular.

To qualify for the list of WORST, they have to be such stinkers that NOBODY likes them.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:19am

I haven't seen all of the movies listed, but I have to choose the poorly done A Little Night Music. It seems like the actual musical is pretty good, though.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:23am

How is it that Man of La Mancha has escaped mention on this thread?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:25am

Oh, and has anyone who loved the original Annie seen it since starting their period or growing big boy hair?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:36am

Do people start watching it again after their period stops or when they lose their big-boy hair?

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[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:36am

While "The Producers" was perhaps the dullest film I've ever seen in a movie theater, I have to give top credit to "A Chorus Line" for turning superior material into a mind-numbingly awful film. It took me four tries to ever watch the whole film, and I was so sorry when I finally did.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:37am

Man of La Mancha is so dull I forgot to include it.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:51am

My biggewt gripe with MAN OF LA MANCHA was the mispronunciation of Cervantes' first name, Miguel. O'Toole and everyone else kept saying "Mee-gwell." Why didn't somebody bother to correct them?!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 1:09pm

Marshall should have watched this before casting Loren.

[James885]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 1:10pm

A Chorus Line

And I'll add Rent as a write-in.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 1:28pm

"Man of La Mancha is so dull I forgot to include it."

Wouldn't that make it the winner by default? It can't even claim to be so stunningly bad that people would remember it.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 2:10pm

From the list, I was most disappointed in The Producers. The original movie was great, the Broadway version was good and the subsequent film was putrid.

As a write-in, I agree with the poster who said Annie. I saw the Broadway version three times, on tour about another three times, and the dreadful movie just once.

Instead of Christmas, Annie the movie is set around the 4th of July - stupid; the actress playing Annie developed a serious case of overbearing stage motheritis and became a diva before filming her first scene, and it showed; not even Carol Burnett or Tim Curry could save it.

I can't vote for Paint Your Wagon, because even though admittedly it's bad, it's a guilty pleasure watching Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood sing.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 2:34pm

Joe makes a good point about ANYTHING GOES. That's another film I couldn't get all the way through.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/3/10 at 2:43pm

I'm always amazed at my tastes being so against the norm. I really like the Producers musical film. So much that I bought the dvd when I saw it on sale for $3.