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An American Tail has more than "Somewhere Out There," though. I can think of "Never Say Never" and "There Are No Cats in America," but I think there are a couple more as well (although I haven't seen the movie in years). I certainly would consider it a musical.

For the record (because we had this conversation ages ago, and it's good to throw in a reminder from time to time), the criteria is just "is a musical," and that can be as broadly defined as you like. If you can justify it being a musical, it's fair game. It doesn't have to be amazing, and it doesn't have to be "HDTGM-worthy."

That tagline tho

I used to call someone "Pops" that wasn't even my dad. At the job I had in college, I worked with a dude named Alex. His dad started working as a security guard at night for us. And his dad's name was Alex Sr. He also had two step-brothers (his parents had divorced, and his dad remarried in his late 30s), and they both worked with us. All three brothers always called the elder Alex "Pops," so we just took to doing it because it was easier than specifying "Alex Jr" and "Alex Sr" all the time.

Hey...I didn't say which one the worst was. This did make me laugh really hard, though.

The bar for picking a good one is MUCH lower than the bar for picking the worst one, if it's any consolation.

Claudia O'Doherty is the absolute best, and she can do nothing wrong ever. That said, it was really funny to me that she said "Crushank" isn't a real name. Mostly because she's on a show where one of the two main characters has the last name "Cruikshank."

You just made tomspanks an only partly jaded mandarin.

My mom loves musicals, so I texted her to ask her favorite. And it's actually one I never saw until December because it came up in the discussions that led into this game being created. But she said it's tied with another one I was actually considering picking, so that might be revealed later.

Two things: 1. The fact that Cameron misspelled "Reynolds" in his post makes this even funnier to me. 2. Every now and then on DLM, Doug will talk about people recommending him playing a game where people have to figure out what movie his mom is talking about, and I'm really upset that it hasn't actually become an actual game yet.

Confession: I had never seen it until Debbie Reynolds died.

We should start a forum bingo with stuff like, "Jacob's Ladder scenario" and "Lazy shared universe theory"

Awwww yisssssssss

I like the first season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but I've had a really hard time getting into season 2. I don't think I like the songs as much as I did for the first season, and that might be part of it. Also, Paula is my favorite character, and it bums me out that she's not participating in Rebecca's hijinks anymore, especially because she's the impetus behind so many of the hijinks in the first season. I also want more Heather because she is my second favorite, and I feel like she's getting less and less attention ever since she and Greg broke up.

Everyone knows this should be done through song. Get it together, man.

Would you rather have a picture of my dumb face mocking you?

Ummm...you should have never told us this because that is literally the only way we are going to refer to him.

She's absolutely saying that the cabaret is a place where you can ignore the outside world. Come! Have fun! Drink, do drugs, and die happy like Elsie! Ignore what's happening in the world! And of course, this is completely undercut by the growing antisemitism we've seen in the club - especially the gorilla wedding, which was very upsetting to me, to borrow Jun'es word - and makes the final shot of the Nazis infiltrating the club hit harder. The cabaret is supposed to be a safe place for her to retreat, but the world is pushing itself in.

Yes! The people I know that actually do SX (aka-not this crowd-hating dude) and saw it said it is fucking great. Can't wait to see it!

I think initially it was just kind of her carefree, bohemian way. She's portrayed as a very sex-positive character, and I think she just wanted to hook up with him. And then they developed real feelings for each other. I agree. When I brought it up, I was mostly pointing out how it's strange that a film can feel so progressive for the time but also feel outdated when viewed through the lens of today. This happens all the time. I watched TransAmerica a couple weeks ago, and it has the same thing. It's a very progressive film about a transwoman (and there are parts that hold up as genuinely progressive by today's standards), but there are also things that I saw and was like, "Wow, that would be really out of place today."

This was my only knowledge of Cabaret as well. I have to say I was a bit disappointed, but that's largely because after a few weeks of musicals that I straight up hated, I was REALLY wanting to fall in love with one. And this one didn't grab me the way I had hoped it would. That said, it's a solid movie. I know nothing of the stage version, but my understanding is that this is a very loose adaptation. I didn't get a chance to do much reading about it, but I'm curious what the response was to some of the elements of the film, because I feel like some of them are ahead of their time but also feel a bit dated now. For example, there's the scene where Brian uses the restroom in the Kit Kat Club, and there's a man in drag peeing next to him (I think it might have been the MC, but I couldn't tell for sure). I think it's played as a joke of "look, here's a guy who looks like a girl!" but it's also something you don't really see in mainstream 70s movies. It was starting to enter into film and discussions. After all, Midnight Cowboy was three years earlier and received an X rating just for having a "homosexual frame of reference." Cabaret was PG. Additionally, this movie deals with themes of queerness and abortion, neither of which are topics commonly found in movies of the time without some seriously judgmental moral message behind it. Brian is shown to be bisexual, and while I do find the "you just haven't been with the right three girls" bit problematic, it's interesting that they put his sexuality front and center and don't just play it for laughs or for some other kind of condescending homophobic message. Like others have said, I enjoyed the scenes in the Kit Kat Club. The MC is wonderful, and the transition from mocking the Nazis to thoroughly antisemitic songs does a great job of showing the transition happening in Germany. And the Hitler Youth scene is fucking phenomenal. It's such a great misdirect and a wonderful play on the meaning of the song, which changes drastically once it pulls back to show his uniform. Overall, I thought it was really good, but it wasn't what I had expected at all.

Guys, I've been watching season 2 of Love all weekend between movies that are not Body Parts, I can't wait to see who the guest is this week! (If they posted it on IG or Twitter or something, keep it to yourself, though; I like to be surprised). My dream come true would be Claudia O'Doherty, because she is just amazing. But honestly, this show has so many amazingly funny people in it, I'm sure it will be awesome. (Also, if you're not watching this show, go watch both seasons now. It's equal parts hilarious and sweet and neurotic.)

It got pretty "meh" reviews. The only stuff I heard about it at time of release was that it was boring and kind of awful. By chance, I happened to rent it yesterday because I was at a Redbox for another movie and was just like, "$2? Fuck it." But I haven't watched it yet.

As a Texan, I find it disgraceful that this was not my first response.