Looks really good, can't wait early December opening
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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HorseTears said: "This looks so intriguing and [potentially] enchanting. I say that despite being one of seven people who thought Whiplash was a mess.
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Add me to the list that didn't like Whiplash, thought it was a nasty vile movie
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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rosscoe(au) said: "HorseTears said: "This looks so intriguing and [potentially] enchanting. I say that despite being one of seven people who thought Whiplash was a mess.
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Add me to the list that didn't like Whiplash, thought it was a nasty vile movie
I don't know if I would call the movie as a whole a nasty vile film, but definitely JK Simmon's character. I know that was the point, but I know many music students who swear they have never experienced such an incredibly inhumane teacher. It was pretty revolting to watch.
I have high hopes for La La Land though! Huge fan of both Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.
I am deliriously excited for this. An original movie musical starring two of our most charismatic, lovely film actors (one of whom who is semi-fresh off a searing Broadway debut), directed by one of the most promising young directors in the industry? Perfection in the making. Is it December 2nd yet?
This continues to get awards and very good word of mouth.Some of these visuals should look pretty good in Cinemascope. From today's NYT; big article...
Stunning, original, purely joyous in places, and the last 30 or so minutes are brilliantly heartfelt. I left on a cloud of whimsy.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Moulin Rouge and La La Land are very different films but both are highly romantic and unusual musicals about performing artists or writers. Also, visual effects in the Observatory scene might remind many of certain scenes in Moulin Rouge.
Although the first half hour left me cold and the music and lyrics are very uneven, La La Land turns out to be an extraordinary and transporting movie.
So over awards. Comparing Moonlight to La La Land or either to Manchester? Comparing what Emma Stone does in La La Land to what Isabelle Huppert does in Elle? Why? There's a point where work is so strong that contests are silly. Why can't we put more effort into just loving great filmmaking and less into the sweepstakes mentality?
Good to know, Jordan. I haven't seen it yet, so it was just a curiosity question because all I keep hearing is how spectacular it is. So of course a theatrical adaptation came to mind given the subject matter.
I very much enjoyed this. A tribute to the old style movie musicals while also doing its own thing, Lots of little tips o the hat to the genre The original music is wonderful , I esp loved Seb & Mia's love theme. The cinematography was breath taking- Linus Sandgren should def receive a nomination, sadly his camera man ( steadicam operator) Dan Sasaki can't be nominated but deserves to be nominated for something, really his camera is like another character in the story. Those long unbroken takes of dance sequences! Heaven! His colour saturation stopped just short of being too much so again- perfect.
Stone and Gosling are lovely too. ( OK I got a lil tired of the segueing into a song w a quiet soft little voice but I'm nit picking) I know Gosling had an indie band( and yes the House of Mouse) but he did have to learn to play jazz and he did it very well. Her singing is a not as strong but is still good. The dance sequences!!!! OMG!! The traffic opening number, Mandy Moore did a fee nom inal job.
Justin Hurwitz's song were clever and charming( some of the rhymes freezingand sneezing?!) and the 80's cover band stuff was a hoot!
The ending- worked- really only ending possible. ( OH the fantasy other timeline came close to being OTT but again just stopped short)
Definitely buying the sound track and the film when avail- thi is something I could see again!
Just back from in on the big screen, rather than a screener (I was literally begged to resist the screener.) It's beautiful, it's stunningly designed and edited, and the leads a charmers. But (a naysayer) at 2 hours 8 minutes, it's a little love story stretched a long way.
(SPOILERS) The "If/Then" ending provides a emotional third act. But for me it's more of an exercise in homage and reinvention of form than a satisfying or believable love story, particularly in light of the plot reason why the couple hits troubled waters, rendered with acute naturalistic stakes. The turn that happens at a romantic dinner was hard for me to accept as likely between an actor and musician, both of whom know well the trade-offs in the business, the way geography, touring and location-dictated separation come with the territory. They seem blindsided, as if such exigencies are about selling out. (Surely one of them, the very next day, would call and reconsider. But not, it's final.) I thought it weakened Stone's character -- he basically gets her the big gig when she exits the business -- driving to Nevada, out front of her parents' home yet -- yet she schools him about selling out ... to tour with someone on the caliber of John legend? You'd think he was signing on as an Elvis impersonator, not a musician getting a lucrative offer to tour with a talented singer. She seems inflexible, and pointlessly so.
But it's all style, and the dancing and romantic old school ambiance are hypnotizing. Having problems with the story will not be popular, starting with this post.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
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Not by me- sections of the film certainly were less than others
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the play and it's poor turn out. Really, none of her friends could bring a date or other friends? but I get the epic fail is more striking. Less real but moves the story forward.