Hollywood's acclamation falls flat

Rating: 1/10 (14 March 2017)

A massacre. This is bad, this is really bad. I really haven't' seen a movie that bad and god there are number of them every year, in a long time and so outrageously awarded. Every possible cliché is present. The traffic-jam encounter, seen that in For the love of the game; the people dancing on top of the cars singing about Burritos, i've seen it already: the start of the relationship in front of a movie, seen it a hundred times already, it's like two people collide into each other on the side walk or at the park and they fall in love. It's funny because just a year ago, Woody Allen did a musical and La La Land is a clear copycat. And the ending is predictable by a mile "and they met again at this bar and he played the song and they wondered if whatever had been different". Please, this is overdone !
It's hard to believe that the hype, the campaign, the distribution of awards, the columnists who are bought out, is actually real. The whole 'modern day musical' and 'an incredible bet !' is a joke.
This is not a musical. This is a caricature of High School musical, it's on the same level as any other sitcom out there. But, has any of these members of the jury of the Golden Globes and Academy Awards ever watched The Sound of music ? Want to hear an actual musical performer ? Julie Andrews. Not Emma Stone. Julie Andrews.
Ryan Gossling ? I'm sorry but i just don't understand what was going through the director of casting's mind. When I think of male performers, yeah Astaire, Paul Robson. But what is Gossling doing in a musical ?I thought a musical was supposed to be a movie with an actual score and performers ?
Chazelle's lone motivation: building a famous couple. He wants the girl he's the most attracted to, that's what this movie is all about. It's to propel Gossling/Stone duo right up there with Betty/Dunaway, Andrews/Van Dyke, Costner/Sarandon, and say, "I created an iconic couple!" No you didn't !
This is a lazy script, that doesn't give homage whatsoever to the great musicals, its romance is as insipid as the romance in Creed and cheesy as in My all American.
Who does Chazelle think he is to believe that he is the first to draw four girls in a red, yellow, green, blue skirts ?
The camera work is terrible, it loops, it takes detours - it wants to be creative but there is no discipline to it and that's why it looks bad. The fundamentals were not respected. To be honest, you feel like screaming throughout the entire movie.
I remember when Moulin Rouge came out, I was unimpressed by the lack of depth and flavor of the characters but the montage in the format of a video-clip, was quite entertaining. This however, does not back up the hype.