Nominated for an Oscar?

Rating: 4/10 (5 February 2018)

It took me a while to finally watch this critically acclaimed, massively popular, iconic movie.
And after watching it, I just can't believe this movie was nominated for an Oscar and nearly won Best Picture of the Year. (Remember that hilarious unforgettable mistake?) Before I watched it, I had heard all the backlash and people hating on it for all it's awards and popularity, and I was like, "Oh I'm sure this movie is really good and people are just jealous of it's popularity." I love musicals, so I thought I would easily like it. And while I was watching it, I was trying to enjoy it.... But I couldn't.
There were only about two things I liked about this movie. 1) It's colorfulness. It has such beautiful cinematography! 2) The acting is pretty good. A lot of musical numbers and scenes seemed to be inspired from older musicals, and I think it was cool that they were trying that.
But the movie was very slow, and at times quite boring. There were times while I was watching it where it really made me feel depressed. And... I just wasn't feeling the passion in the music. It lacked something that other musicals have. I just wasn't feeling the music in this musical. It wasn't really making me feel anything and something always felt missing. City of Stars was a little catchy but that's about it. And the ending? I understand they were trying to be different and basically say that things don't always go the way we plan them to, but still... It ends with them staring at each other? It should have ended with them dancing and singing together happily!
I had such high hopes for this movie, and I think I can understand why other people might like it, but I also understand why it got backlash. And I can't believe it almost won best picture of the year!
It feels strange and weird that I rated movies like Pitch Perfect higher that have way much less depth than La La Land... But idk, it seems to me they have something La La Land doesn't. At least they have happy endings! I gave it 4 stars for the decent acting and colorfulness