We're taking the grandkids to see this FAMILY FRIENDLY movie.
Posted on 12/21/2017 4:34:51 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
P.T. Barnum always has been regarded as a great entrepreneur and show business pioneer who saw things no one else did, perhaps realizing the business was just one big circus.
The new musical The Greatest Showman avoids the pitfalls of typical biopics to become more of a fantasia of song and dance, a joyous exercise in pure entertainment that is made for the holiday crowd.
If it doesn’t get swallowed up by other family fare like another Jumanji, another Star Wars, another Pixar toon and even Fox’s own Ferdinand, audiences will discover than true rarity: an original movie musical.
Although we haven’t seen a big circus-based movie musical since, well, Doris Day in 1962’s Jumbo (or at least one that I can fondly recall), this is thankfully a fun one that fires on all cylinders without being cynical or pretentious.
Jackman was born to play this role, and he knows it. It is worth catching if you care about original movie musicals at all.
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We're taking the grandkids to see this FAMILY FRIENDLY movie.
The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Charles Dickens, is another gem.
We’re going to see The Man Who Invented Christmas too. Also going to see Darkest Hour, the movie about Churchill. I believe in supporting good movies, since most are trash.
I wanna go
Jackman was awesome in Less Miserables too!
I hope they did some research into Barnum’s early life. Walt Kelly (of Pogo comics fame) did a really neat writeup of Barnum, who was provocative even as a young man. Kelly recounts an incident where Barnum was drinking in a Tavern, and there was some guy there bragging about how good he was with numbers, so Barnum made a bet with him. He presented the scenario where a father, age 30, has a son who is one year old. The father is 30 times the son’s age. When the father is 40, the son is 10, so 1/4 the father’s age. When the father is 60, the son is 30, half the father’s age. The son is gradually “gaining” on the father. If they live indefinitely, at what point does the son “catch up” to the father? The guy took the bait.
I cannot watch the movies with hyped up noise (can't call it just sound), jarring visuals, and no discernable plot. I like movies that give me insight and some hope about the world around us. It's nice that there are some movie choices that parents and grandparents can bring the kids to and they can all enjoy it.
Yes he was!
Hope so too.
Loved Hidden Figures...
I know. There aren’t many movies that you can say that about.
Anti-2nd Amendment Aussie fruit.
Though the son could never catch up to the father in real life, if the percentage difference is expressed as a function using limits, as time approaches infinity, the percentage difference would approach 0, making them the same age, at time == infinity.
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Mark
Jackman seems like a genuinely good guy.
He really has come so far in spite of his handicap of having knives for knuckles.
The book is far more detailed.
Do you recommend the book?
It is much more historical and less drama-driven. If you want the deeper background on Langley’s computational developments, the book is well worthwhile. But don’t expect a page-turner.
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