How is it?

how is it?

it's emma stone being emma stone and people praising her for it.

Saw it today.

It's great. I want to see it again, and I really can't remember the last film I saw in theaters that I wanted to see more than once.

It's also gonna sweep at the Oscars.

i grew up in an indian household in chicago, it made me hate musicals because songs and dance numbers popped up in the middle of the story, and to this day, i still hate musicals.
so i wont see this one.
but even i can tell that this shit will AT LEAST take best picture the way that silent movie "the artist" did a few years ago, another movie nobody saw.

Saw it today as well.
It had me worried at first. The first 1/4 of the film kind of shafts the plot for musical numbers (they're really great music numbers, but still very odd). I don't think the director had a clear grasp on how exactly to work music and drama together. Mia suddenly got a boyfriend when just a couple of songs ago she was single and we need Seb to fill us in on this. It kind of came out of nowhere, was very surprised. The rest of the film though is absolutely spectacular. The ending scene was probably the best part of the movie for me though. You get all the music of the film kind of mashed together in a really nice piano piece that brilliantly accompanies a fantasy one of the characters is having and it's just really great. Like Whiplash, it ends bittersweet. More emphasis on the sweet though.
I'd recommend it highly. I kind of want to see it again to experience some of the musical numbers all over again, but I'll wait for the DVD release. Gotta see Rogue One next.

I'm very curious to know how this would have turned out if it didn't have the "musical" aspect going for it.

The beginning numbers are not very impressive and kind of shoe-horned.

But the movie picks up quickly after and you can't help but love Emma and Ryan's chemistry. It also has a great message and you end up being pretty emotionally invested I would say. The ending is pretty powerful too.

The only good musical number though is the one in OP's poster

>The first 1/4 of the film kind of shafts the plot for musical numbers (they're really great music numbers, but still very odd).

>The beginning numbers are not very impressive and kind of shoe-horned.

I felt exactly the same. I could see people walking out of the movie and missing out on the rewarding half of the movie. The music at first wasn't a total hit with me at first and the movie initially felt a bit of a classic example of Hollywood sucking its own dick. But the later portions of the movie make this movie quite worthwhile and worthy of the hype.

Def recommend.

best movie this year
inb4 doesn't say much

I wouldn't say it's shoehorned really, just presented kind of awkwardly. Another Day of Sun is pretty much setting up the character conflicts in the movie, it's just presented very suddenly and awkwardly. I'm a sucker for the pure cheese of that situation though, that is classic everybody-breaks-out-into-song shit to the extreme.
Someone in the Crowd was okay, but also very sudden. Intention was to set up Mia's relationship troubles, but it wasn't pulled off fantastically. I think the last part of the song was the best.
Mia and Sebastien's theme was pretty great. That scene actually blew my mind a bit because the advertising leads the viewers to expect one outcome by the end, only for the exact opposite outcome to happen. I was really confused, thought there was some weird deleted scene put in the advertising for a moment..

Actually, on the topic of the advertising it's really fucking misleading in the best possible ways. You expect a light-hearted movie with little character conflict only to get a huge "fuck you, you're wrong" halfway into the film. I thought Sebastien and Legends' character were gonna bro it up, with Legends' character setting Sebastien back on track or some shit (that whole line about jazz looking towards the future instead of the past). Instead, there's immediate tension between them and he leads Seb into selling out his dream for stability and money. Was really weirded the fuck out with how down-to-earth the movie was.

Man, I thought the musical numbers at the beginning were the best parts. The serious stuff later on the film was done better in Umbrellas of Cherbourg 50+ years ago.

I've had "Another Day of Sun" and "Someone in the Crowd" stuck in my head all day. I listened to the songs and it just isn't the same; I need to see the damn film again.

I thought this movie was held back by two things

1) lack of a Mia theme and a Sebastian theme

2) Stronger vocal performances from the leads

Other than that, it was amazing. Any movie that can stick a great ending needs to be praised. 9/10.

>great ending
It was Umbrellas of Cherbourg all over again, user. It was a great ending 50 years ago, but now it just feels unoriginal.

Are those two WHITE PEOPLE dating?

Fucking disgusting, it's 2016

I don't know, I just come here to look at the porn.

The movie features an interracial couple (black man/white woman) and, if memory serves me right, the very first woman singing is a minority.

I think the lack of separate themes was a strength. It makes the ending much more hard-hitting when you pick up the Mia & Sebastien theme.
I was pretty pleased with the vocal performances, but I'm not very picky in that area. Emma and Ryan were better than expected. I really want to hear more of that dude who sung the other half of Another Day in the Sun though. I really dug his voice. Also Mia's friends were pretty great.

good thing i never saw it

I never said it was original. It was done really well. The fact that you know that the whole movie comes together in the end when Sebastian plays that first note of the main theme is just great execution.

POO

See it, user. It's a good film. I actually just got finished watching it as watching La La Land today motivated me to finally rewatch it since the first time I saw it was back in a college class where I fell asleep like halfway through.

Agreed that the combo theme was great. I think the movie was missing some strong les mis style solo performances though.

stop talking about race on Sup Forums

Eww, no. That's why I wasn't a fan of Les Mis. It's just so odd watching a musical where the person is alone, singing towards the audience as if they're asking them for help. It works for an actual play as the fourth wall is imaginary; the viewer can actually walk up on stage and assist the person if they wish. It doesn't work so well in a movie theater. It comes off as silly.

>I think the movie was missing some strong les mis style solo performances though.

That's what I enjoyed about it. It didn't try to fulfill the a quota of musical numbers. There were plenty of scenes that could have easily changed for strong solo performances but it would feel tired.

I wasn't big on the ending. Feel like the conflict is rushed into the movie to drive a point across when the movie we got that precedes the conflict doesn't in anyway contribute to the point.

Kinda sad cause the director based it off his own life experience and as someone who's been in a similar situation I feel like he missed so much of what makes the love vs dream decision so hard.

Shit I just remembered something I wanted to point out
Did anyone have a lot of Koreans at their showing? I swear to fucking God a Korean couple, a separate Korean girl, and a Korean old dude all came in and watched this shit while mumbling in their language from time to time. I wouldn't be so weirded out by this, but before watching the movie I noticed a lot of Korean comments on the soundtrack posted on YT. Then there was a cover of Mia and Sebastien's theme was done by some Korean dude. Am I going mad or is there some Korean-connection I'm not seeing?

I think additional performances would have bloated the movie. The first few songs felt awkward enough, no need to make room for more scenes like those.

i can't imagine sitting through a film with gosling AND stone as leads. just torture

it's shit

Armond already weighed in and we hate it now

>In this sense, La La Land continues in the inauthentic mode that Millennials inherited after the indie film movement sank under the wright of its own narcissism. This is often the hidden subject of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films — specifically his quasi-musical Punch Drunk Love. But La La Land also imitates the snarky genre pastiche of Quentin Tarantino’s neo-noirs. But Chazelle’s overture to road rage is unconvincing because it lacks profanity, violence, and aggression — the realistic urban-trash texture that, as filtered through junk movies, inspired the undeniably proficient Tarantino, the first film-buff director to idiotically repeat film history. Chazelle is false to his own premise; he lacks both Tarantino’s idiosyncrasy and Demy’s Franco-American sophistication. (La La Land’s attempts at matching color schemes offend the memory of Demy’s visually harmonized emotions and his high aestheticism in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. This junk is more like the now-forgotten silent atrocity The Artist.) Plus, the charmless Stone and Gosling and the smug John Legend sing and dance without grace. How awful is all this? La La Land makes one long for a Quentin Tarantino musical.

>This junk is more like the now-forgotten silent atrocity The Artist.
rofl. brutal

>Demy's Franco-American sophistication
He wasn't going for sophistication. White mentions "millennials" and yeah, this is very much a millennial musical.

pure kino porn

Armond reviews always make me smile or laugh a bit

>wait fo the DVD release
>2017

The Artist was fucking great.

Literally the same, I keep listening to the soundtrack and its funny because the last time I felt this strongly about a movie was whiplash, this dude just keeps batting 1000

Its such a phenomenal film, theres something thats so gripping about it

>what is "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)"

fucking love those "Kodachrome" colours.

It's ok, I don't regret seeing it. However, I feel that I have to remark on how overhyped and overrated it is, but this is typical of this kind of movie and of modern day audiences. Given some time people will realize it's nothing special.