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⌈ Secret Post #4061 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

02. https://i.imgur.com/vCAoNhx.jpg?1

[morieris]

I wouldn't care about the revisionist history if what they gave us wasn't so bland.

Him being a con artist who claimed a blind, deaf woman was a former slave would have been more interesting to watch. Interesting =/= good.

[gelertcrumpet]

That was what was so bonkers to me. So you made a pop musical about PT Barnum - okay, weird choice, but there's been weirder. But then you don't dig into anything about what made him noteworthy, about what made him objectively interesting as a massively flawed person, because they're too scared of making an unpalatable product and/or making Hugh Jackman sad, I guess.

Everything I've seen about it feels so removed from Barnum they could've made it about any Abstract Circus Man with fewer issues.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked the movie despite it having basically jack shit to do with the historical PT Barnum, but this isn’t even the first musical about him.

[(Anonymous)]

what's the first musical? I had no idea this was about PT Barnum.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - Barnum, a 1980 musical. It largely centres around his partnership with his wife, and focuses a lot more on his status as a con artist. Of course, it still de-emphasises and even lies about a lot of the shit he pulled, because duh.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I got so turned off by Greatest Showman, like... Barnum might have whitewashed a bit of history, but I found it so friggin enjoyable, and I think Jackman could have been great in the role Jim Dale played, but... the movie looks so blah.

(I hated the music from La La Land, which is the other reason I have no interest in it, I assume I will just plain not enjoy the songs if it's by the same team)

[(Anonymous)]

This is the reason I haven't gone to see it. Barnum was such a HUGE character and would make a hell of a good movie but I figured they would make it pretty instead of interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, that movie had such weird box office success.

[(Anonymous)]

I know right? Apparently it was this massive success and people were so shocked to see it lost an award to that James Franco movie, but I have seen absolutely nothing about it online. I didn't even know it was about P.T. Barnum until this thread

[morieris]

There's a market for serviceable pop musicals, between this and La La Land.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, it is more the fact it was never number one. It was like in third place for 6 weeks or something weird like that.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the movie is too bland for theatre fans to care about it and regular folk who thought the movie was uplifting and the music was good :) don't care about stuff like that.

I feel like any movie about Barnum has to be filled with bizarre untruths.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, just to live up to the legacy.

[(Anonymous)]

I left that movie, walked down the street, and realised I couldn't remember one single song from it. Given I can remember songs I learned in primary school (which was... some time ago), and I am generally intensely enthusiastic about musicals, I feel like that said a lot about the songs in this film.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked the dancing, but thought the songs and especially singers were overproduced in ways that sometimes lessened their impact. And they weren’t super memorable to start with.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I liked the choreography, and the costume design too, but the main thing I watch musicals for is the songs, and this movie was just so entirely bland in that area.

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't hear any of the lyrics. The music and dancing overpowered them for me. So yeah, I agree.

[(Anonymous)]

The end of the movie - https://youtu.be/9Rtvwu75K3I

[(Anonymous)]

Why is this such a big deal lately? Maybe it's the country I'm from but idgi

Everyone is talking about this

[(Anonymous)]

People are talking about the movie because of the Oscars. People are talking about PT Barnum because of the movie. If you’re asking about something else, you’re going to have to be less vague.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen it yet, but even from the trailers I was like, "hmmm, this isn't going to be factual at all" but then, it's a Hollywood musical, I don't really expect factual.

[(Anonymous)]

I found this movie so disappointing as mindless musical entertainment, that I couldn't even work up any disgust at the revisionist history. I wasn't exactly expecting a biopic, anyway.