The ending was really good, but as far as odes to old movie musicals I'd honestly watch Once More With Feeling again instead.
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
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Gris - Feb 22, 2020 3:16:56 pm PST #2553 of 3424
Hey. New board.
dcp - Feb 24, 2020 2:48:53 pm PST #2554 of 3424
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Saw Joker this weekend.
I was impressed. Joaquin Phoenix earned his best actor awards.
It is not a movie I ever want to see again.
Calli - Feb 26, 2020 6:06:44 am PST #2555 of 3424
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I am halfway through La La Land. I really love musicals and yet meeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh.
Yeah, I felt the same. For starters, I didn't think the leads' singing or dancing was particularly good, and that's kind of important in a musical. I mean, it wasn't Russel Crow's Javert-level bad, but that's a nearly subterranean bar.
-t - Feb 26, 2020 6:13:36 am PST #2556 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What I liked about La La Land was that it kind pof took the opposite approach of most musicals - instead of using music and dance to pack more emotion into a storyline, for example, they used spectacular visuals to pack more emotion into the music. I enjoyed it but I've had no desire to rewatch it and I don't actually remember much about it now.
Gris - Feb 28, 2020 8:53:02 am PST #2557 of 3424
Hey. New board.
They did not earn the musical numbers at all. I hate having conversations with musical haters who are always like "I don't understand why they just start singing and dancing all of a sudden it is so stupid" but this movie completely felt like that to me. The musical numbers almost entirely came out of nowhere and added little. I haven't seen every movie musical from the fifties or anything and it's possible that many of them do seem this random, but I feel like the ones that have stood the test of time at least make the musical numbers feel integral to the story in some way, or at least START that way.
Tom Scola - Mar 04, 2020 7:41:12 am PST #2558 of 3424
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
The James Bond film No Time to Die, which was supposed to open in April, and for which tickets are already on sale, has been pushed back to November.
It seems like the studio is concerned about what kind of impact Covid-19 will have on their bottom line.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 04, 2020 2:56:19 pm PST #2559 of 3424
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Where was the coronavirus when they were getting ready to release Cats?!?
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2020 7:14:56 pm PST #2560 of 3424
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Birds of Prey was so much fun!
My only issue as a Batfamily fan is THAT IS NOT CASS CAIN. Like, the character was fine; she just needed a different name because HOLY SHIT CASS CAIN IS NOT A PICKPOCKET SHE IS A TRAINED ASSASSIN AND MY BATGIRL. ita would back me up 100% on that. She was a huge Cass Cain fan.
I miss when Ewan McGregor whipped his dick out in every movie he was in. IJS.
-t - Mar 07, 2020 11:03:05 pm PST #2561 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I wondered about that (Cass Cain) when I heard the name. Literally all I know about the character is what I have picked up here, so I wasn't sure that wasn't part of her backstory somehow...
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2020 7:35:00 am PDT #2562 of 3424
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Also, every time I see the trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, I get more excited to see it.