Where did the Golden Age of Hollywood go?

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2017)

"La La Land" is an American romantic musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle in 2016. After its' success at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, I couldn't give a go by the musical that set a record and won seven awards, including Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, and best Original Song. What can I say after finally watching this film? Well, best wishes to the New Hollywood Era. Your Golden Age has gone.
The idea of recreating and breathing a new life in outstanding musicals of Golden Age if Hollywood turned out a complete fiasco. "La La Land" is full of weird clichés, awful mise en scène, poorly rehearsed dancing actions, and doubtful twists in the plot. Furthermore, the production department failed to make outstanding shots as well as edit them in a right way with a good taste. I won't even start to complain about bad color correction and sound. Seriously? For the budget in thirty million dollars they couldn't produce clear recording that is supposed to be a number one factor in musical? Bad for them.
The first scene on the highway gave me full understanding that this musical is just a frustration. The dancers probably failed to join one of the Step Up movies and were redirected to "La La Land" as a joke. Choreography is terrible when the viewer can't see it as a whole action, or focus on main characters. Choreography in "La La Land" is more than terrible. I was laughing. Not in a good way. And again it is one of the main parts of such genre as musical.
The plot itself is boring and slow. There is no progression and no drive that brings the will to continue watching it. Half of actions and scenes were added and shown with no particular reasons to show them. Actually, there is no evident chemistry between the two protagonists. What is kind of shameful, especially because of the fact that it is not the first project, where Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play together. Come on guys, show some love for each other. Some drama at least. Their relationship on stage was more comedic than tremulous.
Acting. One of the strangest things for me is to watch the Golden Globe's Best Actress in a movie where she can barely act. On the one hand, she was supposed to be a failed actress, who went her journey and reached her goals. But on the other hand, Emma Stone haven't done a good job in the general scenes also. Regarding Ryan Gosling, his passion for Jazz was overacted, as he has no passion at all. Besides, as a musician myself, It was a pain watching his performances. It was so obvious that he just can't play piano. I almost closed my eyes, so I can only lose myself in music. As well as in their dancing scenes. It looked too lame.
To sup up, "La La Land" is a pure frustration mixed with some dramatic comedy. I can't call it a musical with a capital "M." Actually, I can't call it a musical at all. No good music, no good sound, no good dancing.