I was just about to add this.
The ending is cool, I like where they took it and it was the one point in the film where I sat forward and was engaged.
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La La Land is so good
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The ending is cool, I like where they took it and it was the one point in the film where I sat forward and was engaged.
I didn't remember any of the lyrics to any of the songs a few days after I watched it in the cinema, so as a musical I found it rather poor. As a film it was "fine", but nothing special.
No moonlight tho
(actually i don't really know i haven't watched la la land, just making a joke about the oscars)
(actually i don't really know i haven't watched la la land, just making a joke about the oscars)
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I agree.
I absolutely love this movie and it actually helped me to get over an ex girlfriend.
I didn't mind the movie so much, but I remember being really let down with the songs. Specially with the singing. As far as I remember, all songs apart from one are sung in that soft breathy way and they never pick up or go anywhere.
Personally, it wouldn't even make my top 20 of best musicals.
Personally, it wouldn't even make my top 20 of best musicals.
I really struggle with most movie musicals but this is a great film for people who don't like musicals.
Ironically most of my friends who like musicals didn't like it.
Ironically most of my friends who like musicals didn't like it.
The ending is the only thing about it that was great the rest of the movie was pretty hollow. I overall thought it was an okay to good movie but it rightfully lost the Oscar to a far more deserving movie.
It was one of my favorite movies of 2016. Man, that ending made my cry the first time I saw it. I'm also a sucker for musicals, and this one delivers for sure.
That said, I liked Moonlight so much more that it isn't funny. La La Land is also not going to age gracefully in some aspects (especially how white the white guy tries to explain John Legend what Jazz is, hah).
That said, I liked Moonlight so much more that it isn't funny. La La Land is also not going to age gracefully in some aspects (especially how white the white guy tries to explain John Legend what Jazz is, hah).
The beginning and middle are rather great too. I love the opening number.
This is pretty much the go for me.
La La Land is pretty good but Whiplash is a top 10 movies of the 2010s.
This is where I was as well. I'm sure if you engaged with the characters it was an enjoyable film but i just found them both a little irritating and i couldn't get into it.
Okay, I'm gonna ask.... what was the rollercoaster of emotions when it was announced as the "winner" for Best Picture?
It's fun. I got the chance to watch a La La Land in Concert where they had an orchestra playing the score while the movie was playing. Great experience.
I'm with you on this one.
I guess the main characters being self-absorbed and all about their career was kind of the point? But the movie failed to convey that point properly.
It's like they tried making a grandiose love story out of it, but that love story could have succeeded without a problem if it was real. They just gave up for no reason at all, at least it looked like that to me. Dunno, the movie is basically neoliberalism 101, abandon everyone/everything to follow your dream of being successful because money and fame are the most important things in the world. Literally no emotions whatsoever.
Moonlight is one of the best movies ever and it blows La La Land out of the water.
I thought it was pretty disappointing and felt really phony toward the end.
Another Day of Sun is a pretty good dance number and song though.
Another Day of Sun is a pretty good dance number and song though.
That's very deserved criticism of Goslings character. But the movie also has Legends character (deservedly so) putting him in place by calling him a pain in the ass and telling him Jazz doesn't need saving, especially by him as such a traditionalist. Which Legends character goes on to prove by making his band hugely succesful.
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Thanks for reminding me about that gut wrenching Manchester by The Sea scene. 😐
Hah, yeah, I definitely think there's an element of this. It's hard to watch Moonlight and not think of them as competitive in some regard, and obviously Moonlight is the far superior film.
Also La La Land is easily Chazelle's worst project. Whiplash, First Man and the Eddy are all far superior.
My family was disappointed in it, and we love musical movies. It just didn't click with us. I liked it the most of my family and just didn't love it as much as I hoped.
While you are correct, the film very clearly frames Gosling being right and Legend being wrong/a sellout.
I absolutely loved the movie, the soundtrack was incredible and it was just a visual treat with amazing character dynamics between Ryan and Emma.
Euh, I wouldn't say 'very clearly'. Mostly, perhaps? Gosling and Stone are the main characters so that automatically makes them seem 'right'. But Goslings character got fired several times because he was too stubborn to just play 'the damn music' in the restaurant. Stone had to talk him out of naming his future jazz cafe Chicken on a stick, and not doing it in the old jazz bar I forgot the name of. It's mentioned several times how his stubbornness and general pain in the ass-ness and desire to 'save jazz' isn't working. Gosling even admits to Legend that he is in fact a pain in the ass. I agree that the movie could've spent more time on the fact that Legend doing his thing with the band was great, it just wasn't what Gosling wanted. And in the end Gosling came around from his whole 'saving jazz' sing by remarking how it was great that his bar Seb's was doing 'just okay'.
Chazelle plays a bit with the fact that his main characters aren't 'right', even though you mostly see their point of view. Tellers behavior in Whiplash definitely wasn't healthy. And though he was an ass to the girl he met, and to his family, they really weren't wrong. Tellers character was just being an obsessed, egotistical ass who we sort of come to see as right because he's the main character. The same thing goes for Gosling's character. I just also think he's very charismatic, and despite being an ass very likable. And he grows a bit during the movie.
But yeah, I don't entirely disagree with you, and the fact a lot of people full out agree with you shows you definitely have a point.
I just realized I said ass a lot in this post. Ah well. Ass.
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It was pretty good, but didn't hold up that well to a rewatch for me. Don't really have a desire to revisit it again.
Oof you're rather off the mark on this one. It's about how following your passions can come at a price. In this case the price was the relationship.
On a side note, I kinda like how souls kinda asks a similar question and gets to a different answer.
Oofffff no no no no, the greatest showman was average at best. Admittedly, alot of my friends would agree with you though
