Ten Times 2024 Movies Should Have Leaned Harder into "Movie Musical" Genre
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 8:01PM by Nathaniel R
I’m back! Well, not quite but working towards it. We're going to do an 80s theme in early November, okay? But let’s start with a question and a list to prove that I have actually been watching movies (and am alive) though I’ve rarely been writing and miss it terribly.
Has it been a good, bad, or ugly year for the always threatened Movie Musical genre?
The greatest of all movie genres is always threatened with extinction but it's also resilient and still with us almost a century after its debut. The year isn't over so the initial bolded question is premature. Mean Girls was a dud early in the year and the highly anticipated Joker Folie A Deux is currently flopping which serves it right for sidelining Lady Gaga (of all people) and being so uncomfortable about calling itself a musical. But we've still got one famous stage adaptation (Wicked), two experiments (The End, Emilia Perez), one animated adventure (Moana ), and three musician biopics (A Complete Unknown, Maria, and A Better Man) arriving before year's end so there's still hope.
Here are ten movies from 2024 that could have been musicals with a few tweaks or even more insanity from their auteurs. Consider...
