To think that La La land is awful

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Just that. We've put it on Netflix.
I wasn't desperate to see It, but you know, heard good things.
40 mins in and..well, I'm posting about how shit I think it is in here.
Do I need to give it more of a chance, or put Friends on?

It was 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back. Absolutely dreadful. Awful ending. And what annoyed me most - who was the main character? The Emma Stone one right? But who got top billing in the credits? Yep, Ryan Gosling. Casual sexism, well done Hollywood.

I watched the whole thing in the cinema. Ryan Gosling's character was actively obnoxious. YANBU.

YANBU. Utter drivel. and I usually like Emma stone and Ryan gosling.

Was it really only two hours? It felt like four. But I suppose I did have a nap in the middle.

I cried at the end of LaLa land. The ending was not what i expected.

I think I would have cried all the way through.

Yes me too malificient - it was bloody cruel!

I absolutely loved every minute of it - and Ryan Gosling is absolutely gorgeous! But each to his or her own...

YANBU. I had to turn it off it was so dreadful.

YABU, it's bloody marvellous.

Really boring.

I was similarly baffled at Mama Mia, but I adore Les Mis (stage and movie).

Ooh no Head Mamma MIA is fab, loads of fun. But you’re right though about Les Mis, it is the best!

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels made a great musical too.

The singing and dancing of the two leads is supposed to look like that. It's meant to look like two ordinary people finding themselves in a fantasy musical. Ordinary people can't dance like Fred and Ginger.

I could have written this exactly a week ago! Put it on Netflix last Saturday night, so rubbish that I turned off after 20 minutes. And I love musicals, even Mamma Mia.

I thought it was awful.

It was tedious

Hollywood slapping itself on the back

And both main characters had no chemistry between them and are dull

LA is such a diverse city they could have made the film far more interesting

Adored it. Cried at the he end. Loved the greatest showman too.

Agree with others you should see it at the cinema though. Sweeps you along.

YANBU. As an avid MT fan this production is as boring as fuck! Its little wonder that most people removed themselves from the cinema screening within the first hour. It is diabolical! What a complete waste of money!

I can understand it not being to everyone's taste but am dumbfounded at what appears to be the sheer hatred for what is, at worst, a bit of whimsy. Why are people so extreme? Is it a reaction to its massive success perhaps?

I think it will, quite rightly, become regarded in a few years as a classic.

louise I don't think it's that. I've not turned off many films in my time. This really, really grated on me and I really wanted to love it.
I think that whilst it's success does, now baffle me, I don't think I took against it because of it.
More to the point, I don't think it was whimsical enough! Whimsy I would be no doubt enjoyed. It was slow and sad or at least a bit miserable for much of the time.

The reason I can't stand it is because it pisses on a genre I love from a great height.

Yanbu. I thought it was absolutely shite

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