I know cool guys who have the same kind of humor as I do. We enjoy the same movies and laugh at the same things. Except, they loathe musicals. Now, they're in peace with their hetreosexuality and are open minded. So I don't think they hate it just because they think it would be "gay", but why do they hate it so?
2007-10-03 09:05:55 · 13 answers · asked by nemesyn 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The plots are always the same. Some chich has a hard time dealing with the emotions that arise from everyday situations. "Oh, I like Johnny, but my mom won't let me date him! Let's sing a song..." Plus they're chalked full of bad acting and worse music. Awful. I wouldn't watch a movie with a plot like that if it didn't have bad music.
2007-10-03 09:15:54 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 6 · 14⤊ 0⤋
I'm a guy, and I despise musicals! The main reason why I hate the vast majority of them is because the songs are either SUPER annoying, are sung by VERY annoying singers, the songs come out of nowhere and come up way too frequently, or a combo of the three. Also, since the songs usually come up so frequently, it either stops the story dead in its tracks or they explain plot points within the song that I don't catch, and therefore I get confused about what's going on.
Plus, when you have song after song after song with little to no breaks, it just gets tiring and annoying. Most of the songs in musicals don't add anything to the story either, a lot of them I swear are just put into the script just to say it's a musical.
And let me ask one question: Why, oh WHY, is there ALWAYS one annoying-as-hell, whiny, high-pitched female singer in a musical?! If you've ever had to endure more than one musical, you know what I mean. But seriously, do they think it's funny, or "cute," to have someone like that singing the song?! Well, it's not.......it's annoying-as-hell!!!
The ONLY musicals I actually like are The Wizard of Oz, Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny, and Camelot (what I saw of it). With these ones, the songs make sense and they add to the overall story. Also, the songs are SO much better than the average musical, and they allow some breathing room in-between.
2014-11-08 03:46:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because honestly.....who does this? Singing everything? It's annoying, loathsome, and just incredibly boring. Whatever plot there may be gets entirely destroyed by crap music. I will go to the theatre and see plays, but a musical? Never. Not even on TV. In fact, if there was a program blocker for TVs that would lock out a channel if it had a musical then I'd use it just to not accidentally land on that channel and ruin my day. I have no idea how Bollywood movies are so popular, but at least the music is sometimes catchy and they look like they're having fun. That being said I still have no desire to sit through one.
Male, 48, educated.
2016-03-21 04:27:46 · answer #3 · answered by Mark 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because most men are not Homosexuals.Musicals were and are still part of the gay agenda started 100 yrs ago in Hollywood and NY created byCommunist leaders and their helpers….FACT.Modern art is same thing. it’s garbage.Musicals are garbage modern art is garbage.Men go to musicals so they can acquire sex from their spouses.Going to musicals and viewing modern art does not take an intelligent mind" that can see the hidden meaning”.There is no hidden meaning.These same men that promote the gay agenda are in fact the most anti gay people on the planet.Western males across the globe have been subliminally feminized by the use of media and television almost since it’s inception.I knew something was off when the character in the movie was about to unveil the plot…..THEN HE BURSTS IN TO SONG….ahhh someone shoot me.Think I’m lying ? I just saw a whole documentary on the promotion of Homosexuality through Hollywood on HBO.Vito was the name of the piece.The country would be very different had the Communists no been allowed here with their homosexual agenda and thievery of our wealth.Oh well.Enjoy your musical.
2013-10-30 11:15:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Stupid question. Not all men are the same. Not all women are the same. I'm a woman. I DETEST musicals. All musicals! I hate reading novels, too. I read political books, medical studies and biographies. Novels and musicals hurt my brain.
2014-12-18 16:15:25 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just saw phantom of the opera today and I couldn t understand anything they were singing. I didn t even really know what the plot was because they sung 99% of their dialogue. It looked interesting, but christ, what s wrong with the Disney musical format? You know, dialogue, then maybe a song, then dialogue. I ******* HATE IT WHEN ACTORS SING ALL THEIR LINES! It s repetitive and hard to understand.
The only musical I ever liked was "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut". The only one I ll probably ever see after Phantom is "The Book of Mormon", only because it was written by Matt and Trey.
2015-05-30 18:33:16 · answer #6 · answered by W M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
High school musical was more than this
2016-03-16 18:09:57 · answer #7 · answered by Hannah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Musicals are just girl things. I think that the fact that people randomly break into song and start dancing around the town makes no sense to them. Not that it makes any sense to us, but it makes less sense to them
2007-10-03 09:23:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Because musicals suck. Except for the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Really, it's personal taste. I find them corny and annoying; probably so do many guys. And stuff doesn't get blown up or killed very often in musicals (what a rip!)
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2007-10-03 09:14:42 · answer #9 · answered by Rin 4 · 10⤊ 5⤋
Many men and boys are uncomfortable with deep emotion. Women and girls learn early that they have more freedom to express their emotions, Also, women and girls are generally better at using words.
Music, of course, reaches down into a person's gut, often beyond words. So in musical theater, you have a combination of a dramatic or romantic story, plus poetic words, plus music--often soaring, romantic, dramatic, grab-you-at-your-gut kind of music. For many men, that's too much of an emotional overload.
To Tim: compare the plots of "The Sound of Music" and "Sweeney Todd" and tell me they are the same!
Addedum: here's a quote I found on Musicals 101 that explains my point even further:
"The greatest question musical dramatists must answer is: does the story I am telling sing? Is the subject sufficiently off the ground to compel the heightened emotion of bursting into song? Will a song add a deeper understanding of character or situation?"
- Stuart Ostrow, A Producer's Broadway Journey (Praeger: Westport, CT. 1999), p. 96.
http://www.musicals101.com/write.htm#Need
2007-10-03 09:20:33 · answer #10 · answered by MNL_1221 6 · 1⤊ 12⤋