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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.
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.
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.
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.
Where was the coronavirus when they were getting ready to release Cats?!?
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.
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...
Also, every time I see the trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, I get more excited to see it.
Steph, Gail Simone agrees with you.
I like her, she's fun to watch, the actress is adorable (Ella Jay Basco) is great in the role. But she bears no resemblance to Cass. I don't think of it as an insult so much as a missed opportunity.
Steph, Gail Simone agrees with you.
Vindication! I did like the character; she just needed a different name.