Every other movie ever made deserved the Oscar more

Rating: 1/10 (21 February 2017)

I went to see this movie only because of all the Oscar nominations, but when it turned out to be so cheesy that I would send it back if it was a pizza I'd ordered, I read the fan reviews, hoping somebody would explain what I had missed. None do, but I've learned something I had not wanted to know about IMDb reviews. Musicals like Annie and Grease understood that there needs to be a plot line between the songs, and some songs should be decent enough to not need a movie to sell them. Unfortunately, La La Land was only created to prove Mel Gibson's paranoia about Hollywood correct. The racist screenwriters wanted to ensure we all knew that they thought the teacher in the movie Dangerous Minds was too nice (they hammer on this twice in the movie). They then try to hide their racism behind portrayal of the main character having black friends and liking jazz, but only long enough to end the movie with a drawn out scene about this same character deciding he was wrong about those choices and regretting that he ever made any black friends. Somehow, Hollywood's elite thought this message was more important than reminding Americans about a forgotten war hero who singlehandedly saved nearly a hundred American lives on the battlefield in WWII, or the true story of an Indian boy's struggles to find his family.