Hamilton

A Disappointment

This is a musical not made for people outside of the USA. I had to watch the thing again and wiki Hamilton to try to figure out who was who except for some of the bigger names.

Going by the poster, this is was meant to be some attempted rise to fame of Harry Potter in Holly...

I suppose this movie was behind the eight ball from the very start in a way. On the one hand, there was such a tremendous hype for it as a play, it built the expectation of being blown away, and on the other hand, it being presented in its live theater version made it lose some of the visual impact ...

This is not a Movie. It is a television program. It is a filmed stage play that is being broadcast on television. These things do not add up to this being a film, not even a TV-movie.

"My name is Alexander Hamilton/And there's a million things I haven't done/But just you wait, just you wait," Lin-Manuel Miranda sort of sings at the beginning of Hamilton. About three hours later we're still waiting.

Hamilton is divided into two acts. The first covers Hamilton's arrival in New Y...

If you didn't know going in, this isn't either a film or a TV show. It's a recording of the Broadway play of the same name.

Admittedly, this play is for Americans who already have some idea of history. That probably excludes the younger generations, since the public school systems have gone south...