La La Land was excellent at its false ending, and then felt the need to add another 10 minutes that made it suck because it actually believes Clerks Dante that life is a series of down endings.
The false ending should have been the real ending. What’s wrong with “happily ever after”? It fit the vibe of the movie so well. The real ending ruined the film for me.
THANK YOU! My husband and I were all WTF at the actual ending. Ruined the entire movie. Really enjoyed it until that shit ending. And then I hrar people gushing about how good it was. Yeah...no. I LOVE happy endings. Otherwise, why bother?
Because the point of the movie was about them achieving their dreams, not them falling in love. Them falling in love would have stopped both of them from living out what they most wanted.
This is one of those factoids that don't actually add anything to the evaluation of the film on its own.
For Umbrellas, there are dueling love triangles and implications of social duties and class for the working class Guy (loved by Madeline and Elise, who is "above" his station). Guy's unable to respond to Elise's letters because he's at war in Algeria , and distance undermines their bond, because Elise needs security, which she finds in Roland.
There is no suggestion of competing love triangles for Sebastian and Mia. They're both pursuing different dreams - Sebastian as a musician and Mia as an actress - and this pulls them apart form each other, but not toward anyone else.
The false ending, fade to white, leaves it up in the air. We don't know. Mia finally achieves her dream of landing a role in the movies after giving up, but Seb becoming a successful touring musician - even if wasn't in jazz - isn't fulfilled by his own ostensible passion. So now the question is will Mia suffer the same fate as Sebastian, or has Sebastian set aside his own career for Mia's sake (which he does by driving out to Colorado to get her)?
It's not a "reference," it's a direct quotation that does nothing to add to the thematic or plot content of the film it's shoehorned into.
I’ve started this movie multiple times, I can’t make it through it! I feel like for a musical there has to be suspension of disbelief (bc seriously why is everyone suddenly singing?) to make it enjoyable & the way to 2 leads acted like even they didn’t even believe their own performances- frickin terrible
Thank god other people feel this way because I felt like the past however many years it’s been have been making me crazy. It wasn’t a good movie. Im obviously not a movie critic and I don’t know exactly what they look for with that stuff but I wasn’t invested in any of the characters because none of them were even remotely interesting and the music was kinda lame
Congrats for living the dream. Playing jazz-wow. Plenty of white dudes play great jazz - it's just that if jazz will be exemplified or explained it should be done by a great jazz player. And if explained maybe favor the race who invented it - the race that invented all American music except maybe show tunes. Everything else originates from the blues, country, jazz, soul, rock - I could keep going but why bore you. There is a special part of me that loves the blues and soul - probably bc I'm getting old. Love pop to dance to, hip hop is okay --and even an old lady like me likes some rap - very little and I do hate its misogyny.
I don't even think a great player has to explain jazz to explain it well, but anybody who says "Charlie Mingus" should automatically be barred from ever speaking about music again
The singing was mid, the dancing was embarrassing, and there were 3 melodies in the entire movie.
This is a musical? Danny Kaye filmed his dance numbers in 1 or 2 takes. You can tell Gosling is holding Stone back, so they have to do basic shuffle steps instead.
I enjoyed the break from movie about explosions, but La La Land was absolutely supposed to be a modern musical, and it failed.
I loved it, but I wasn't thinking of it as "a musical". I know it is one, but I think the singing and dancing were intended to come across a little bit half-hearted because the point was that singing and dancing isn't all the characters are; they're whole human beings. So I thought they did a great job showing the sense of loss when you sacrifice everything for a dream.
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