This somehow saddened me a lot. It made me realize that true love and mutual artistic understanding like this between a man and a woman will never actually exist, especially in this era where everything, including relationships, are consumed in an empty way, just a fuck and suck one after another. It's depressing that we live in a corporate decaying society where we still rat race and wageslave but for nothing, no passion, no authentic imagination, no artistic vision and musicality to the core, no meaning in what we do.
They didn't like each other enough to make it work lol
>>217412369Wrong, they had to go in separate ways for pursuing their respective careers. She even reimagined her life with him at the end when she finds him again in his jazz bar.
>>217412288Boring film. Only good song in it was by flock of seagulls. For a musical its terrible
>>217412720Shit taste. Also synthpop is for faggots.
>>217412288Damien Chazelle is a hack and his movies about music are especially bad.Brody on Whiplash (https://archive.ph/yHPmy):>Here’s what Parker didn’t do in the intervening year: sit alone in his room and work on making his fingers go faster. He played music, thought music, lived music. In “Whiplash,” the young musicians don’t play much music. Andrew isn’t in a band or a combo, doesn’t get together with his fellow-students and jam—not in a park, not in a subway station, not in a café, not even in a basement. He doesn’t study music theory, not alone and not (as Parker did) with his peers. There’s no obsessive comparing of recordings and styles, no sense of a wide-ranging appreciation of jazz history—no Elvin Jones, no Tony Williams, no Max Roach, no Ed Blackwell. In short, the musician’s life is about pure competitive ambition—the concert band and the exposure it provides—and nothing else. The movie has no music in its soul—and, for that matter, it has no music in its images. There are ways of filming music that are themselves musical, that conjure a musical feeling above and beyond what’s on the soundtrack, but Chazelle’s images are nothing of the kind.Brody on La La Land (https://archive.ph/NcDw1)The height of artistic and cinematic crudeness conjoined arrives in a scene that’s staged as a revelation. Mia tells Seb that she hates jazz, complaining that what passed in her home town for a jazz radio station was used as background music for parties and everyone talked while it was playing. Seb is determined to introduce her to the real thing, and he immediately takes her to a club, where a quintet is playing some vigorous (if derivative) post-bop—and after the first few notes are heard Seb launches into his elaborate mansplanation of the origins and merits of jazz, talking volubly and inexhaustibly over the music he loves as if it were nothing but the local background station.
>>217412288Loved this movie. Hit me right in the goddamn feels.
>>217412288Cassavetes + Rowland, many creative partnerships with romance involved please get out of Chazelle's shallow end
>>217412288I want to watch this really badly but the fact it's a musical massively turns me off, is it still worth it?
>>217412288You could definitely see it as a fantasy where males and females finally saw each other for what is good about the other and there was joy once again, nice take OP.
>>217412890I haven't seen these movies, but neither of these "critiques" speak to the inherent quality of either movie at all. They do however make whoever this "brody" guy you're quoting sound like a massive, pretentious fag.
>>217413016>is it still worth it?Yes, I hate musicals too but I really liked it in the end.
>>217413016It isn't much of a musical. The opening sequence is the most "musical" scenec After that, it is polished song sequences
>>217413061Brody is pretentious but nevertheless the only good critic working today.Chazelle is a hack regardless, making movies about things that he completely misunderstands.
>>217412890>>217413452Tiresome
>>217412288Boo hoo nigga.
>>217412288The movie is gay and so are you if you watched it all
