• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How about ''There are very few musicals I’ve ever enjoyed the first time around, and repeat viewing is like a death of a thousand boredoms

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    2 months ago

    I don’t like musicals because I’m there for a story that’s believable, and that I can relate to - nobody just breaks out in song when they get dumped, for example. Muppets get a pass because I already had to suspend my disbelief in order to even want to watch them.

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      2 months ago

      nobody just breaks out in song when they get dumped, for example.

      Nah, you just have boring friends. Weirdo.

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        2 months ago

        I’d rather my friends than the ones you seem to have with the annoyingly odd behaviors. 🤨

        EDIT: Love the downvote from someone I’m guessing took this comment seriously. Chillax, my dude (or dudette, or dudex, or whatever you prefer).

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      2 months ago

      So do you react the same way to sci fi or fantasy movies? I mean nobody uses magic or flies faster than light in real life. I’ve always been puzzled by this point of view because I don’t get why this is where the line is drawn.

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        2 months ago

        That’s not what suspension of disbelief is.

        It’s all about creating a story that’s believable within the rules of the setting. So within the rules of sci-fi faster than like travel is perfectly reasonable. Hell it might even actually be physically possible we don’t know.

        But musicals don’t really do that, they don’t really explain why suddenly everybody is singing in perfect harmony despite apparently having never practised, it just happens and no explanation is forthcoming.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I like to think that anyone who says they don’t like musicals just hasn’t seen a good one yet