Year of the Rat Music Project

Well I finally watched “Once” and it restored my faith in humanity, just like I knew it would. One thing that bothered me, though, was how the movie got tagged at some point as “the musical for people who don’t like musicals.” Is it a musical? Really? If it is then “Walk the Line” and “Ray” are too.

My friend Michael argued with me that it is a musical because music tells a significant amount of the story, but I know another movie that fits that definition, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (“Go ninja!/ Go ninja! / Go!).

OK, so it’s a musical. I was playing the Devil’s advocate. But this leads me to my second point, the tag that this movie defies description. Not so, it’s part of a healthy subgenre of movies about bands making music.

Some Other movies about Fictional Bands Making Music:

1. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
2. “That Thing You Do”
3. “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?”
4. “High School Musical”

More to come as I think of them