then go all out and make a "The Death of Superman" movie
instead of wasting my time with the bullshit they are putting out.
You do a BvS movie and the best part of the 151 minute movie was
the appearance of Wonder Woman.

Do better.

And I'm watching Deadpool again tonight because it's
a comic book movie done right.

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What will the twist at the end of Split be?

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It Follows was fine. Not as good as The Witch. Watch if you want a creepy 90 minutes with a bunch of ghost titties and one shot of some ghost dick.

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but I appreciate the review and will likely skip this one. It didn't look very good and couple that with the PG-13 rating? WE CAN DO BETTER.

America is already great

Vocally, neither is really given all that much to do until Stone kills it with Audition. She killed that.

Re dancing: The shuffly tap during A Lovely Night didn't impress me at all. The dance among the stars is better, but so heavily edited and stylized (not a knock) that their dancing takes a back seat to the visuals.

It is odd that the only two number-numbers are the first two songs in the first ten minutes and then the rest is not that way. I would have either done just the first one or split them up a bit.

But that's a good movie. I will admit there was some backlash fermenting in my heart during the Globes speeches where the theme seemed to be "Gosh, can you believe a musical can be successful?" which would be a fair point in a world without Hamilton. In this world, it came off as too much of a "Nobody believed in us." I will be okay if it, Moonlight, Manchester or PopStar wins Best Picture.

Also, to answer Jim's question, I think Damian Chazelle might like jazz and would like to explain that to you, especially if you're a lady.

And I am with BPH on the earworm power of the Moana soundtrack.

he's just incredible.

I'm rewatching How I Met Your Mother and just saw the episode he's in (Season 9 -- Bedtime Stories).

None of the songs from SING STREET are likely to be nominated, from what I've seen.

If there was a better song than "Drive It Like You Stole It" in a movie last year, it was "A Beautiful Sea".

I'll grant that "You're Welcome" and that part of "We Know The Way" where LMM sings "we tell the stories of our elders in a neverending chain" are pretty awesome though.

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Pretty much everything I've ever read about Bessie Smith confirms this, her ethos really was "kiss my black ass." Charlie Parker, on the other hand, really was a tortured genius (though more in an "intellectual heroin addict" than "Byronic hero" sort of way).

More to the point, he's right about the people he's making fun of, the people like Kerouac and Ginsberg, who loved the music but romanticized it beyond all recognition. Every clip of Ginsberg in Ken Burns' Jazz makes my skin crawl:

NARRATOR: Parker and his fellow be-boppers were flattered by the attention of the Beats—but bewildered by it, too. Bebop was intricate, sophisticated, demanding—only the most highly skilled musicians were capable of playing it. Yet the Beats insisted it was simple, spontaneous self-expression—anybody could do it.

ALLEN GINSBERG: Jazz gives us a way of expressing the spontaneous motions of the heart. It’s like a fountain of instantaneous inspiration that’s available to everybody. All you got to do is tune on your radio or put on your record or pick up an ax yourself and blow.

NARRATOR: It was not the first time that jazz enthusiasts had misunderstood both the music and the musicians who made it. It would not be the last.

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You probably know that's a real place, located on Pier Ave in Hermosa Beach. And it does have a storied history as a west coast jazz club, dating back to the 1940s.

However, as depicted in La La Land, it is not now a primarily black club, and only features jazz a couple times a week (I believe).

While watching the movie I felt this was a little bit of Chazelle projecting.

For the record, I haven't seen La La Land, but I find Gosling and Stone to always be fantastic and my wife really enjoyed it.

The problem is, critics/film industry types have gone so overboard for mediocre musicals and such because they cannot, just cannot, resist any film that is anyway a celebration of them, or "art", or whatever. Remember that time they gave Best Picture to a movie because it has a cute dog?

At the end you're expecting this big romantic reunion. And you get it! Then the real world takes over, and it's just two people who once knew each other.

So, so good.

And as for the reaction, I've (anecdotally, to be sure) heard from people that are just generally wary of musicals who aren't very interested in seeing the movie. Which is just natural, for the reasons you've listed. But it's so, so much more than a film retelling of a stage musical!