| I guess we're seeing the reason for that whole embargo and all. (unsurprised.) | |
| Last Edit: GrumpyMorningBoy 02:05 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 02:03 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: Barnum movie musical isn't getting the 'Greatest' reviews - WaymanWong 11:11 am EST 12/20/17 | |
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| From the first trailer, i was bracing for the worst. I do not understand why Pasek and Paul get roped into these things. I honestly think they're better than this. And sadly, I've decided that Bill Condon's instincts served him best in "Gods and Monsters," and I suppose the adaptation of "Chicago." But his direction on "Beauty and the Beast" was straight up bad, if you ask me. Emily Yoshida at New York Magazine is extra harsh: "The lyricists are Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, two young men that as far as I can tell are getting away with murder in the musical-theater world right now. They’re best known for this year’s Tony winner Dear Evan Hansen (“So let the sun come streaming in / ’Cause you’ll reach up / And you’ll rise again / Lift your head and look around / You will be found”) and the lyrics to Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (“Someone in the crowd could / Take you where you wanna go / If you’re the someone ready to be found.”) They have lent equal incisiveness to the songs for The Greatest Showman, which have the nondescript sheen of an L.A. pop factory writing camp... The Greatest Showman’s factual fakery isn’t what makes it so aggravating. It’s the fakery on every other level — lyrical, dramatic, and social. Perhaps Barnum would be proud. But he’d definitely get better music." - GMB |
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| Link | http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/the-greatest-showman-review.html |
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