Talk:List of musical films by year

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[edit] Breaking down by year

I'm not quite sure why only the 1990s and 2000s lists are broken down by year. They all should be. So who wants to volunteer? 23skidoo 18:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I guess that would be me, then! ;-) 23skidoo 22:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Setting a criteria

As I was reorganizing the page (see above) I noted (and removed) a number of titles that really weren't musicals. There may have been rock songs on the soundtrack, but you didn't see anyone actually performing or doing dancing, or what have you. There are also a few films listed that really had only one musical moment -- I'm thinking of Not Another Teen Movie and Team America World Police, both of which have one song each, played for laughs. I think ther e should be a criteria established for listing films here. My suggestion would be that music should be a major part of the film, and the movie should have at least 2 musical numbers to qualify. There are a couple of Garland/Rooney Andy Hardy films that don't qualify because they just do one song. Several Elvis films similarly don't count because Elvis just sings the title track over the credits and nothing else. Thoughts? 23skidoo 01:13, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

As a follow-up question, what about made-for-TV movies and short films? I've seen a few TV movies added to the list but in my additions I have intentionally avoided them for now. 23skidoo 02:49, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

A lot of these musicals probably aren't musicals. Before Chicago, I had never once seen a musical in a movie theater. But to look at this list, it's as if musicals have never stopped being popular. Perhaps this page should be seperated into: Animated Musicals, Movies with one song (and is on a stage and really happening), Movies with a pop song sung as background music (probably shouldn't be on this list), Hollywood musicals (so you know it's not some movie that was shown in a single theater), Non- Hollywood ( Bollywood doesn't seem on this list), and other (movies that were shown n one screen).