re: Guillermo Del Toro's Excellent "Nightmare Alley" is now streaming on Hulu and HBO Max

I didn't even know there was an original so I just went in blind. Anything to do with carnivals and eerieness like this I'm automatically into, and this movie was hypnotizing in how it looked. But I kept feeling like it was a messed up VHS that keeps jumping forward a couple of minutes. Bradley Cooper's character went from lowly carny to luxurious lounge act so fast I felt like I missed something, and he was so practiced and artificial the whole movie I was just like eh whatever at his emotional ending. All the characters were that way. I'm sure it's supposed to be that way but it was hard for me to get sucked in by the characters when none of them had a personality