The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Unless you were in an air conditioned movie house in Topeka, Kansas in 1936, I can’t see why anyone would want to sit through all three hours of this.

It's huge, overbudget, dazzling, and entertaining, but you'd be hard-pressed to remember more than one or two of the characters or specific events.

Like most biopics, the movie isn't entirely factual, but it does hit key points in a wonderfully entertaining manner.

Overlong, cliched bio-pic, not really worthy of its best picture Oscar.

Here's a textbook case of how a film can lose its appeal over the years.

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Overlong, overblown biopic with a pair of flawless stars.

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A bit overwhelming and overblown, it's one thing to say that this movie is great for historical purposes, but it's hard for me to imagine that anyone likes to sit through a three hour tedious musical like this.