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What a wonderful movie. This won me over in a way that almost nothing else from 2016 has- the sheer charm offensive of it, the warm colors (Hey, pinks and purples, like movies used to have!), the jazzy tunes, loved it all. I like that it draws from a good range of musicals in its influence- there's a lot of Jacques Demy as people have noted, but of course it's clear the filmmakers also love the classic Hollywood stuff, and the jazz elements also put me in mind of One From The Heart. Of course it helps that the Drafthouse pre-show contained trailers for Young Girls of Rochefort, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, New York, New York, Pennies From Heaven, etc. The songs definitely run together a bit, and I think that's deliberate and I'm not sure what I think of the score overall, but there are definitely highlights. It doesn't seem to fully follow the Broadway/Hollywood structure- as said above there's not a clear "I Want" song- but it definitely goes for that in places. And this, like the Nice Guys, is a good example of filmmakers knowing how to take advantage of Ryan Gosling's charm. Any other actor, the guy might come off as just too elitist and douchey (though the actual plot addresses this and he suffers for it), but he can pull it off. No, you be trippin'.
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See I thought the argument was particularly convincing- neither is really trying to be mean to each other but things just pile up.
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Feb 3, 2017 21:27
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I honestly think How Far I'll Go is the weakest song in that film- it feels the most like A Disney Ballad, complete with the turning one syllable into two to show off the vocalist's range etc.
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Feb 20, 2017 00:27
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It just feels generic in a way most of the other songs don't.
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Feb 20, 2017 01:06
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blue squares posted:it feels generic because it's the I Want song, something literally every musical ever has and will always have. True but the best entries in any genre find new things to do with the formula and repackage the conventions in unusual ways. Like "Somewhere That's Green" is also an I Want song (the composers even drew on it for "Part of That World" in Little Mermaid, even referring to it as "Somewhere That's Dry") but it's subversive in its kitschiness.
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Feb 20, 2017 05:17
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He's kinda wrong, but in the end he's better off being able to do what can satisfy him- take the money for a while, then use it for what you really want to do. Just like Keith isn't wrong for wanting to play jazzy music that's also really popular. "Start A Fire" is a good song, but Sebastian won't be happy playing it over and over and over again for the rest of his career. The film really isn't very judgmental, which is something I like about it.
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Feb 23, 2017 22:17
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i am the bird posted:With John Legend: Seb doesn't play "real" jazz, doesn't chase his dream, and ignores Mia (the end result being him choosing to miss her play opening for a photoshoot, a plot point that is also unearned by what is depicted on screen) He may point Seb in the "wrong" direction for a while, but that doesn't make him a bad guy. He's not in the wrong, he's not malicious, he's not even thinking just "$$$". And like you said, Seb probably wouldn't get that club without the money. The problem is not so much that he takes the gig in the first place, but that he stays with it so long he starts to neglect what's best for his own artistic development.
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Feb 24, 2017 23:08
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Yeah I liked La La Land a little better but there's already a backlash against it. Now that it hasn't hogged all the awards and another great movie won BP all that should die down.
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