Meaning “it has legs.” Which is referring to it having a strong showing

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May 27, 2018
9:30:39am

Duke Silver All-American

for an extended period of time. It’s typically indicative of a movie that people go back to see multiple times.

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Watched The Greatest Showman - thought it was fun but forgettable

Gustav

5/27/18 9:15am

I loved it, one of the “leggiest” movies of all time, so I think most other

Duke Silver

5/27/18 9:23am

Leggiest?

El Careeb

5/27/18 9:27am

Meaning “it has legs.” Which is referring to it having a strong showing

Duke Silver

5/27/18 9:30am

RE: Leggiest?

WJCougar

5/27/18 9:39am

Even better

El Careeb

5/27/18 9:42am

RE: Leggiest?

pinolero

5/27/18 10:06am

I'm glad it made money

Gustav

5/27/18 9:42am

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Cretin

5/27/18 9:47am

True, but there was nothing remotely like Russell Crowe as Javert

Gustav

5/27/18 9:58am

I thought you were referring to Zendaya’s legs here.

BeefNoodleCoug

5/27/18 10:57am

Her arms showed she definitely didn't go full method actor for the role

Gustav

5/27/18 11:10am

RE: Watched The Greatest Showman - thought it was fun but forgettable

AFCougK9

5/27/18 9:25am

I really enjoyed it, one of my favorite non-war movies

IGlowInTheDark

5/27/18 9:27am

Musical- is it a story interrupted by music or vice versa?

PJMort

5/27/18 9:29am

Aren’t all musicals underdeveloped?

boorad

5/27/18 9:30am

Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady

BrutustheBrash

5/27/18 9:53am

Annie, Once, even Pitch Perfect — or most Disney cartoons, etc.

Gustav

5/27/18 10:01am

Not all — La La Land had greater development of characters, motivation, etc.

Gustav

5/27/18 9:56am

Agree that Barnum was a much more complicated person in real life, and probably

Game Changer

5/27/18 9:30am

That movie sucked so bad.

LaVellIfIKnow

5/27/18 10:15am

You suck so bad.

JohnnyComeLately

5/27/18 10:20am

RE: You suck so bad.

LaVellIfIKnow

5/27/18 10:25am

Cultural appropriation. Mods?

JohnnyComeLately

5/27/18 10:27am

I got bored and walked out

El Careeb

5/27/18 10:16am

I didn’t go in to Greatest Showman expecting it to be a true representation of PT Barnums life.

JohnnyComeLately

5/27/18 10:18am

Agreed it was never going to be the total picture

Gustav

5/27/18 10:33am

Yeah that sucked for sure. But look at the life of “General Tom Thumb”

JohnnyComeLately

5/27/18 10:39am

It was entertaining but not neessarily good if that makes sense.

Dillinger

5/27/18 11:25am

Anyone who doesn’t like this movie is a troll or has terrible taste.

spugeddy24

5/27/18 11:39am

Seems that liking it being under 2 hours and disliking it being underdeveloped

Seaward

5/27/18 11:48am

Could, but not necessarily

Gustav

5/27/18 12:24pm

So you wanted more of Barnum's internal growth, but dislike the white washing of

Seaward

5/27/18 12:50pm

Sure

Gustav

5/27/18 1:01pm

I get that, but I’m not sure that was the point of the movie.

spugeddy24

5/27/18 1:05pm

Sort of

Gustav

5/27/18 1:23pm

I think it means different things to different people.

spugeddy24

5/27/18 1:29pm

When you think about it, Efron can only communicate in song and dance

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