Better Than I Expected... Which Isn't Saying Much!

Rating: 2/10 (6 October 2017)

Aside from the clichÃ©-ridden "plot" you've seen a bazillion times, I was reminded constantly that people who have "made it" are playing people trying to "make it". Had this been cast with people who actually need that "big break", I might have been able to forgive the clichÃ©-ridden "plot", and hopped on board.
Gosling and Stone have zero range, and their roles make their "abilities" only stick out like sore thumbs: can't sing; can't dance; can't act. Seriously, how much did Stone's team pony up for her to bag an Oscar? She is an "actress" playing an "actress", but couldn't convince me of even that! And Gosling is nothing but droopy locks and a grin. Unfortunately, "thanks" to Eva Mendes, we can't ship Droopy Locks back to Canada until she kicks him to the curb or their kids turn 18!
Four more beefs:
1) Stone skips town because her "brilliant" one-woman show flops, forcing the theater owners to eat the money she owes them; that DOES NOT happen in real life.
2) Who the hell blows beaucoup bucks on a band with NO SHOT of charting in the Top 100?!
3) Gosling proclaims that jazz is dying -- which "explains" the hordes of 20-somethings at his jazz club!
4) I lived in Boulder City. The name of the library is... the Boulder City Public Library! The film's assistant prop manager is supposedly from Boulder City, but didn't set the hack - sorry, director - straight, I assume, because she didn't want to lose her job.
Speaking of jobs, Earth to John Legend: don't quit your day job (whatever that is).