Heaven Forbid! A Movie? Different from other movies?

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2018)

It's as if people nowadays just want to see a movie that sticks to a formula that is so overplayed and cliche and predictable.
Is it so hard to enjoy a movie that is both mainstream and different from the movies that everyone has seen so many times.
Usually in a romantic comedy movie it plays out like this:
1. There's a boy and a girl
2. They are so different and have different ideas and values that there's no WAY that they can be compatible
3. Turns out they can be
4. They start to slowly fall in love despite their differences
5. Their differences all of a sudden causes an argument. This is what makes the movie reach its climax
6. The couple splits up, seeing different people that are more suited to their values and beliefs
7. Turns out they miss each other
8. They fall in love. THE END
THIS MOVIE DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT FORMULA. It is such a beautiful and at times heart wrenching film about a boy who is an ambitious jazz musician and a girl who is trying to make it as an actress and they fall in love! But their dreams and goals puts their temporary La La Land phase to the test.
It's a real movie about real people and real things happen to them! There's no big fight sequence to make the movie interesting. There's no Deus Ex Machina that makes everything OK. It is about these characters who are trying to reach their goals, and in doing so they end up parting ways!
And this is what seems to make people get super mad about the movie. The happy ending is not what the viewers had in mind. It drives away from that typical and cliche ending and goes somewhere that not many film makers dare to go. This is the primary reason to the movie's gorgeousness and realness.
On top of that, the cinematography is enough to make you cry! There are some amazingly shot scenes that just take your breath away.
Ryan and Emma are absolutely stellar. They have such an amazing on screen chemistry that it makes their doomed ending all the more heart breaking.
The music is another things that makes this movie so different. It's jazzy, it's sometimes bluesy, it is a genre that is not common in modern musicals. Modern musicals are so poppy and generic and something that has been seen time and time again. So this movie moves away from that tackiness and that's why it gets hated? So STUPID!
I could go on and on about why this movie is perhaps and absolute triumph in 2016, but there is no point as a lot of the special snowflakes who try to hate mainstream movies will thumb this review down.