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Is there no patron video this month?

Thanks Simon. I'm glad they had her on! And glad she cleaned his clock; I really could not stand Scott Mantz.

Wait wut, is this the thing about youtube demonetizing "small channels". BTW, I would very much enjoy seeing much more content from you (aside: will you be rejoining Screen Junkies, with another season of MF or in whatever context? I enjoyed the show and also thought it showed off some of your talents that are less obvious from your solo vids) but it seems misguided to penalize such channels.

I watch all the singing Jackmans but I can't fuck with a movie that seeks to portray Jenny Lind as some kind of desperate homewrecker and P. T. Barnum as, well, a Hugh Jackman. I have a lot of love for the opening number, tho! It's a preacher in the pulpit and you'll find devotion.

In theory I should like this movie. An original musical about this subject matter should have been good. Great video, funny review :)

The only explanation I can think of for this movie and the marketing around it is that the ghost of P.T. Barnum is overseeing everything and won't let anyone say a bad word about him.

Ugh, I'm getting so sick of this "Not suitable for most advertisers" crap on YouTube. I am fighting with them over videos as well so you are most certainly not alone. As for this video, it's a shame to hear. I'm a huge Broadway musicals fan, however I have yet to see this film and I'm not sure why, but I've had a strange gut feeling about it and this confirms a few of my suspicions. I will end up seeing it though, but I appreciate the "warning" so to speak! :)

I walked away from the greatest snowman not thinking it was that bad but mostly because I went into it expecting cool visuals and catchy songs and really not much else so since it did a decent job at both of those things I never attempted to analyze the movie in any way beyond that. With that said, everything you said about it is true and if you’re going to analyze the movie as a whole from a storytelling perspective (which is 100% fair to do because it’s, you know, a movie) then it really is objectively awful.

The Tom Thumb story sounds like it would be a pretty interesting movie.

"The elephant in the room". <3

I was the only one out of my group of friends who didn't like this movie, and now I don't feel so alone anymore lol

Watching this now, and just wanted to give a minor correction: when Barnum is trying to sell the idea of a freak show to Tom Thumb, he wasn’t selling glory or acclaim... he said “They’ll still point and laugh, but at least you’ll get paid for it.” Just a minor characterization moment there.

This demonitisation bullshit made me finally join your Patreon. I don't think I truly appreciated how unfair the algorithm can be until this "The Greatest Showman" thing.

Have you seen Jerry Springer: The Opera? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwNZ0PR_pMw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwNZ0PR_pMw</a> not sure if you'll enjoy it, it might be a bit dated now. The theme of a showman exploiting 'freaks' seems to be shared by them both, although I'm guessing there is a bit less swearing in The Greatest Showman :)

This video was great! Sorry about the youtube bullshit.

I got adverts on it, did you manage to get the monetization sorted? I didn't even skip the ads!

This movie sounds absolutely bananas! I love musicals but had no desire to see this one at all. However, I think you've managed to change that as I love ridiculously bad movies even more. I'm fairly certain that wasn't the point of this video but...well, here we are. Nice job, as always!

I really hoped this would be a good film, but I agree that it is a mess. One thing I can say is that I could tell that Hugh Jackman had poured his heart and soul into making the film. The passion for making this piece of art is there, but unfortunately it really missed its mark. I do not understand why people are gaga over this film.

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