i can't watch it anymore
it's really boring and a little annoying

yeah but then they're called barry jive and the uptown five.

they just changed the name.

Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On is one of my favorite songs for sure.

high fidelity the musical, i could not think of anything worse. but i am not a fan of music theatre.

god what a stale movie

It closed after two weeks. But the guy who wrote the book for the musical (David Lindsay-Abaire) is a genius. Everyone else sucks.

Apparently they're making Fight Club a musical. Music by Trent Reznor.

i love natasha gregson wagner though. also, the movie does have some funny parts

Empire Records is another music movie that is incredibly mundane music-wise.

I'd like High Fidelity better if it was more about his love for music than his problems with women.

why don't they make triumph of the will: the musical?

i mean, they eventually will get there, they are running out of ideas for musicals.

In all seriousness, Triumph Of The Will is one of the more visually stunning and artfully photographed films i have seen. Certainly a pretty incredible work of propaganda.
And definitely better than even the most supposedly "hip" Date Movie.

they are also doing spiderman the musical with music by fucking bono and the edge...

also here is a link to some music from silence of the lambs the musical http://music.mp3lizard.com/jonandal/

some funny shit

by the way, when are they doing the remake of birth of a nation?

i would so watch triumph of the will, if just to see what it really is in it's entirety.

You should watch it. I'm dead serious.

would've been better in color though. you can say what you like about the Nazis, but they did do color so well

Red and black are a Mighty combination.

triomphe de willems is a very well made piece of cinema obviously the nazi propaganda machine that funded it thought so too. leni reifenstahl made some absolutely beuatiful images, just a pitty what they were made for.

birth of a nation is awesome the way it is, but, if they remake it, they need to make it a trilogy like the lord of the rings and do the civil war battles like those epic cgi shit.

but yes, in all seriousness, i will watch triumph of the will some day.

No, there are plently of wonderful, smart original musicals but they'll never get produced on BROADWAY. As it is sung in the song "An Original Musical" from the awesome musical [title of show]-

"And i'll make Broadway my eternal address"

"Woah, easy motherfucker, Broadway? Let's start with off and off-off and then you can think about the great white way."

"But why can't I dream big?"

"Well, if it was a jukebox musical, a revival, or a recognizable commodity I would say 'Dream away, biotch'. But original? On Broadway? Baby that is risky."


I'm done.

I find it best to watch whilst burning some human flesh. Just gives it that authentic Nazi feel

i meant that, since it's fashionable now to adapt movies, they will eventually arrive at adapting triumph of the will once they do schindler's list and dead man walking.

sondheim's Assassins is great, westside story is great. I recently saw spamalot which was fantastic, who would have thought a monty python musical. I much prefer opera to musicals though.

Will High Fidelity be adapted for Broadway as a musical?

sorry to tell you but dead man walking has been done in opera form, about 5 years ago it was done, and it is surprisinly good.

perhaps have a look at the link that ripchord posted gmku

It already was. It opened over a year ago. Closed after two weeks, in the shadow of a more successful rock musical that opened only three days after HF did.

Damn! I missed it.

I have to admit, I identified with him massively when I watched it.

However, at the time, I was living in the indie snob capitol of the planet and making my living as a dj, completely obsessed with my on-again-off-again lover/ex who in retrospect was a manipulative bitch, and absolutely convinced that superior music knowledge equalled superiority. And I was over 30 too, which is essential for it all to fit. What the movie really is, is kind of a spiritual sequel to Slacker, which I also completely identified with in my twenties.

While I still enjoy both movies as very entertaining representations of some actual types of people I've known well, I think I've pretty well thrown off the shackles of both now. I do still make fun of my wife when she listens to the Cure though...

yeah but they sounded different, jack black kept talking to him about them blowing the roof off or whatever