The Greatest Show Tweet
Sunday, December 24, 2017 at 8:00AM It's time for another roundup of amusing or provocative or pleasant brevities via twitter. Let's just jump in shall we with Bette Midler telling a funny truth as she winds down her Hello Dolly Broadway run (in mid January Bernadette Peters replaces her)
The SAG Award presenters will all be women this year! Which I think is great. Unfortunately, though, because it’s Hollywood, the trophy will probably still be a guy flashing his dick. pic.twitter.com/uJd13yjSsV
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) December 22, 2017
More after the jump including The Greatest Showman, The Lost Boys, Lady Bird, Anne Bancroft and more...
Corey Haim in THE LOST BOYS is genuinely great.
— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto) December 23, 2017
LADY BIRD
Breaking News: LADY BIRD is still phenomenal and I wouldn't mind a 5hr cut following the stories of all the minor characters.
— Call Me By My Name: Ryan (@sortathatguy) December 23, 2017
Mentally mapping the characters of Last Jedi on to Lady Bird, help. (Luke = Laurie Metcalf, saving the galaxy = going to NYU, it’s all very clear)
— kateyrich (@kateyrich) December 16, 2017
RANDOMNESS
We need to talk about how all movies are too long.
— Slime Visualizer (@FriendlessMean) December 20, 2017
I am never not thinking about this anecdote that Frank Langella includes in his trashy memoir as a means to disparage Anne Bancroft when, in all honesty, nothing has ever made me love her more: pic.twitter.com/mdgIDiITil
— Matthew Eng (@Eng_Matthew) December 19, 2017
You know why most film makers are liberal? Because our job is to make you care about situations & people. And to do that, we think a lot about that kind of shit & channel it into our work. You don’t care about other people? This is not the job for you.
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) December 16, 2017
Sex is great, but have you ever done that thing where the scissors slide all the way across the wrapping paper?
— Kevin Fallon (@kpfallon) December 23, 2017
SUPER NEW YORK SPECIFIC BUT TRUE
During a time of year when THE LAST JEDI, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, and PHANTOM THREAD will all be in theaters, I've never missed the Ziegfeld more
— Rob Plainview (@ClooneyDisciple) December 22, 2017
AND I THINK THESE GREATEST SHOWMAN TWEETS ARE INSTRUCTIVE BECAUSE LOOK HOW CONTRADICTORY THEY ARE. MUSICALS ARE ALWAYS A ROSCHARCH TEST
It’s fun imagining the ghost of P.T. Barnum watching The Greatest Showman and mumbling, “What…the…fuck?”
— bobby finger (@bobbyfinger) December 22, 2017
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN is a thoroughly demented Walmart-ready musical that's as subtle as a circus and twice as loud. P.T. Barnum would have *loved* it. my review: https://t.co/3LVxgVm4cD pic.twitter.com/hNTQM7oxkn
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) December 20, 2017
Questioning all kinds of things about myself because of how badly I want to see The Greatest Showman
— J. David Alvarez (@DavidAlvareeezy) December 22, 2017
If my desire to see The Greatest Showman were any less, it would implode in on itself, go supernova, and annihilate humanity
— Hal Rudnick (@halrudnick) December 22, 2017
I just saw "The Greatest Showman" & I am still blown away. It was absolutely incredible & one of my favorite movies I've seen. I was grinning the entire time & will probably see it 5 more times when it comes out in theaters. GO SEE IT
— Colton Haynes (@ColtonLHaynes) December 15, 2017
If you play 'The Other Side’ from the GREATEST SHOWMAN soundtrack on December 31st at 11:57:06 Zac Efron & Hugh Jackman will end a long pause & start singing together "don't you wanna get away" right as the clock strikes midnight. Start off your new year right.
— THE GREATEST SHOWMANI (@ManiLazic) December 23, 2017
Reader Comments (19)
Ehrlich, that idiot, having the audacity to use the gif I made.....
GASP. I made it to one of your tweet roundups. And for a LADY BIRD tweet! Honored.
Also GREATEST SHOWMAN is so interesting. I'm also VERY excited for it, but critics and general audiences seem to be lukewarm. Apparently people who DID see it this weekend have loved it, but then again those who would watch this moving on opening weekend are probably who the movie is made for. Anyways, my roomie is out of town and I have to wait for her to return next week until I get to see Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron sing and fall in love. Don't tell me I'm wrong.
You know why most film makers are liberal?
Yes, because they failed Basic Economics. All else is self-serving bias.
Merry Xmas, Y'all!
sati -- but gifs of movie scenes once they're online are everyone's (the studio being the owner actually). all you have to do is search giphy if you're looking for something and nobody ever has a clue who made the gif.
ryan -- i really enjoyed GREATEST SHOWMAN fwiw. The people who hate it seem to have a very strange concept of what it's supposed to be (like a truthful biopic for starters - musicals rarely if ever care about historical accuracy. it's not their purpose)
Nathaniel - I think we have similar feelings about The Greatest Showman. I don't think some people understand what musicals are. So many complaints about lack of subtlety, historical inaccuracies, and it being too overstuffed with songs. We are talking about a musical. They are usually about as subtle as a car crash. As for the "too many songs" I was like "have you sat through a Broadway musical?"
Seriously people complain about too many songs in a musical?
Glad to see some positivity about The Greatest Showman. I thought it was kind of a mess, but I had such a blast and some of the musical numbers were very well staged.
The Langella book is full of bitchy comments about Anne.
Methinks Bancroft spurned Langella at some point.
A bit miffed about Bette's tweet. I love her, but there are plenty of problems out there and the sag award statuette is not one of them.
Most film makers think they are liberal, not are liberal. There's a difference between one and the other. Less hypocrisy and arrogance next time. If *most* were liberal as they say or think, things would be easier for those who fight daily against all kind of prejudice in the film industry.
Nnnnvg: Midler's tweet was a JOKE, and a funny one. You're right that there are plenty of problems out there. It would be hard facing them if we lost our sense of humor.
Filmmakers are liberal -- neoliberal. Where my radicals at.
About movies being too long: I re-watched "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and I thought it was a "super-quick" movie... then I realised I'm not used to movies who are 90 minutes long anymore
Bettle Midler is a savage
Film makers, liberals - Oh, yeah! Sure! Everywhere. Except in Hollywood.
I love how sweeping generalizations are OK now when men are in question. Hypocrisy of the higher magnitude.
If only it was actually funny.
Movies are definitely way too long, and I'm not saying that just because I'm about to watch THE SQUARE, which is two and a half hours long. What the hell?
Bette's tweet was a joke and a funny one. Kudos for using Paulson as the imagery. Never forget.
Skipping it this year. Can’t stand the ‘cluelessness’ of everyone present...