• pimento64
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    10 months ago

    People tend to treat them differently because “it’s a musical” is used to excuse nonsense writing and bad acting. People who aren’t annoying-ass theater kids don’t want to watch a TV-movie-tier B movie padded out to 2 hours with a bunch of rhythmic talk-singing filler. I’m not criticizing the existence of musicals, it’s just that they’re the most common direct-to-dumpster form of entertainment after horror movies.

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      10 months ago

      I totally agree. I love music and I love movies, but somehow musicals always turn out totally campy and over the top in the worst ways.

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      10 months ago

      You’re pretty passionate for a person that isn’t an annoying ass theater kid

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        10 months ago

        What about this, specifically, indicates passion? If you mean how long it is, I’m not good at writing so I’m not very concise, but that isn’t the same thing as flipping out.

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          10 months ago

          Just a lot of creatively mean ways to minimize people for liking things that you don’t, it takes a certain kind of theatrical flair.

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            10 months ago

            Okay Professor Cattiness, I’ll take your expert opinion on acting bitchy under consideration.

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              10 months ago

              You ironically took a dramatic stance on a tired, boring take, “I don’t like musicals.” Cool, neat, have an opinion. Then you peppered it with some better-than, smarter-than, still says “bitchy” attitude.

              Bad scripts don’t get turned into musicals because it’s easier than writing a good script and getting on with it. That’s like building a rocket ship to escape a sinking canoe. People like singing and dancing. So music, lyrics and choreography share two-hours with story. It’s writing on hardest mode while juggling two plus other artforms entirely.

              So much to say about something you don’t like or understand. You make it fun to laugh at you.