Not Oscar worthy.

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2019)

I finally got around to watching this film and going over other peoples reactions to it I find there is one thing that doesn't get touched upon so I felt it needed to be said.
I had no problem with Gosling or Stone in these roles. I thought they did fine with the material they were given. My problem with Goslings character comes from him being the stereotypical and unoriginal Jazz Purist with a chip on his shoulder.
What really set me off about this film was the ending sequence. After 5 years going their seperate ways and both being successful, they see each other one night in his club as he's going to take the stage and play. At this point Stone's character has become a movie star and is married with a cute little girl. When Gosling starts playing he plays the song she first heard him play all those years ago starting a dream sequence of what their life would have been like if they stayed together. But not just if they stayed together but if they had the perfect life. Instead of rushing past her in that club and bumping into her as he leaves he instead grabs her and kisses her. When she has her one woman play she, for some reason, has a full crowd of theatre goers that love it. She still gets her big role and he ends up going with her to Paris. And when they have a child it's a Boy...
What is the point of this whole scene? Who is this point of view from? Her? Him? both? It doesn't make sense and is poorly contrived. Plus in their perfect life they had a Boy and not a Girl? What's that about? That's the part that really felt off to me when I saw this film and started to upset me more and more as I thought about it the next day.
Screw this movie.