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La La Land

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SileneOliveira · 28/02/2019 14:17

Have just seen another trailer for this on BBC, they're pitching it really hard as available to view on iPlayer.

If you haven't seen it - don't waste your time. I saw it on a flight not long after it came out and was so looking forward to seeing it. It was so underwhelming. I really can't see what all the fuss was about. It's not really dreadful in the way Police Academy 23 was dreadful, it's just a bit meh.

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TalbotAMan · 28/02/2019 14:21

DW and I both liked it, but it probably takes two or three viewings to fully judge, and we watched it at home on a large TV which probably suits it better than a seat back screen.

And, although the opening sequence has little to do with the story, it's pretty impressive!

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SileneOliveira · 28/02/2019 14:29

I didn't actively dislike it. It wasn't dreadful. But it certainly wasn't this amazing extravaganza it was being billed as. 9 oscars, 6 golden globes or whatever.

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ConfCall · 28/02/2019 14:37

I agree. It was fine. A bit long. The costumes were super and there were a few great sequences. But all those accolades?? No.

QuantamBaby · 28/02/2019 15:14

I thought it was a wonderful film - the music, dancing and acting are all excellent.

I find it slightly odd that you would come on here to warn people about watching a film just because you didn't like it very much...

HopeClearwater · 28/02/2019 15:45

Weird post, OP. Do you think everyone’s going to agree with you?

CuppaSarah · 28/02/2019 16:25

I found it such a let down too. The opening number was amazing, I was so hyped to watch the rest. Wish I'd turned off after the opening number and ended on a high.

BunnyColvin · 28/02/2019 16:29

It wasn't my bag at all but I can see that it might be some people's.

However, I definitely thought Stone deserved the oscar for her performance in it. Also it gives a pretty good insight into the nuts and bolts of the acting business itself.

I agree that it doesn't live up to the hype but that seems to be the way movies are marketed these days. I like to wait until a movie is out and then check audience reviews. More realistic.

averystrangeweek · 28/02/2019 16:42

I was 50/50 the first time I saw it in the cinema, but I've watched it twice since then and it has grown on me a lot.

Progress2019 · 28/02/2019 16:46

I agree. My daughter absolutely loves it and forced my husband and I to watch. Husband was asleep within five minutes, which was lucky for him, but My daughter was hugely offended every time I closed my eyes for a second, so I struggled on. I didn’t enjoy it at all, and mostly felt bored.

I found the same with The Greatest Showman, even though everyone insisted i’d love it. One friend took her teenage sons to see it SIXTEEN TIMES at the cinema. I was expecting something amazing and was massively underwhelmed.

ElspethFlashman · 28/02/2019 16:47

I liked the songs, I liked the jazzy stuff, I liked Emma Stones performance, but I didn't think the dance sequences were that great.
That famous sequence in all the trailers where the two of them are up high near the Hollywood sign and they're just contempowafting around each other. There's about three steps just repeated over and over.

I turned off The Greatest Showman halfway through. I was really bored. Blush

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SileneOliveira · 28/02/2019 16:51

I preferred the Greatest Showman. The story is very weak and the dialogue is awful. But the singing is great, the musical numbers are big and bold and glitzy and everyone loves belting out "This is me".

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ElspethFlashman · 28/02/2019 16:56

I don't think I saw that far. I turned it off when Jenny Lind sang something about Never Enough. I was like OK that's me out!

But from the little I saw Hugh Jackman was really strong in it. Nobody can look stricken with emotion like that lad.

TheGirlOnTheLanding · 01/03/2019 08:36

DC made me watch LaLa Land and to my surprise, I really liked it (surprise because mixed reviews and I don't really like musicals). I thought Emma Stone was fantastic and I liked the chemistry between her and Ryan Gosling, and the bittersweet ending. But I think the hype for a lot of these movies work against them - your expectations are too high and you're almost bound to be disappointed.

2rebecca · 16/03/2019 20:42

Watching it at the moment and it's too unreal for my liking. There was a traffic jam at the beginning but otherwise it's LA with hardly any cars, no fat people, old people, poor people and no ugly people, plus isn't LA quite latino? ( only spent a day there 20 years ago and hated it). I hate the "all films must do DIVERSITY " brief but this seemed to view Nirvanah as slim, white and attractive.

maddiemookins16mum · 16/03/2019 21:01

I liked La La la d (not as much as The Greatest Showman though) but was felt really cheated by the end of La La land. What a let down.

LucilleBluth · 16/03/2019 21:56

I loved La La Land and I'm a cynical bastard who never cries. I cried at the end.

Its got dancing, Emma Stone in a career defining performance, Jazz, Old Hollywood style, Ryan Gosling and a soppy ending.

I actually think it's more highbrow than people were expecting.

elQuintoConyo · 16/03/2019 22:05

Bla Bla Bland Grin

It bored me all the way through Sad it's a genre of film that's usually right up my street.

fruitpastille · 16/03/2019 22:11

I absolutely love it.

The Greatest Showman is fun but harder to suspend disbelief.

redexpat · 16/03/2019 22:18

I quite liked both, but wasnt blown away.

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