Directing good, plot and characters flat, like really boring people.

Rating: 5/10 (23 February 2017)

What's the big deal with La La Land!? I don't know! Narsissistic Hollywood nominating it for 16 billions Oscars, I sort of get that. La La Land is all about the good old (boring) times. But what about all the other critics? Why do they love it so much? Strange. Could it be that no one dares to say they thought it was kind of meh? Possibly.
OK. So La La Land is well directed. It's well made. Everything is nice and OK. Technically it's pretty good. But that's it. The songs are really nothing special. The acting is nothing special. The dancing is nothing special. The story? Nothing special. Not much at all, really. See where I'm going with this? La La Land is nothing special. It has nothing new. I don't really mind it not having anything new, but other critics always seem to, so why don't they think it matters with La La Land? And no, it's not one of those times where the direction is so good that we don't need a story. Not at all.
These characters are so flat and boring. Oh my god. Emma Stones character wants to be an actress. Ryan Goslings character is a jazz pianist. That's it. They have absolutely NO other qualities. They are the most boring people I've seen in a movie for quite some time. And it's nothing more to say about them. They are snore.
And the piano theme they beat us over the head with? Yes yes, it's nostalgic and nice, but come on! Over and over and over. And over and over and over and over.
I think in a couple of years people will have forgotten why they supposedly loved this movie so much, and it will more or less get lost in history. It's hype, people. A lot of hype. It's not bad, but 14 Oscarnom worthy? Hell no!