La La (Ha Ha) we fooled you. Signed Hollywood.

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2017)

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Damien Chazelle as a director, his Whiplash is a "classic", but not La La Land. In film school, and Damien, if you read this you should now, and I know you will read it, you sold a lot of yourself to the producers in this one. I know you had a pure heart and wanted to make an indie film and knew it wont go far. But... Hollywood inflated it like a pretentious balloon. This is a pure Hollywood "automatic driver car" film . It was stated that the dancing and singing was intentionally natural and nor professional because it will add to the authenticity of having normal people acting. Come on, wake up guys, a dancing musical and singing should portray a great example of professionalism because that was this GENRE is all about. You can't make a romantic/drama and just add some amateur dancing and quality production music and make it a musical....The music production in this film was great and that is it...dancing was mediocre...acting was average...the sets were copied from old musicals, even cameras...they were so blurry because they filmed on the original old cameras and lenses...I don't mind that but It does not work for me like that. An old 35mm camera in a modern coffee shop is so pertinent.. Damien, I love you, but you ate the blue pill by friend. I know you are a very talented director/ musician but please, distance yourself from Hollywood because they took your film as their own...like Chicago and Crash. Don't imitate the oldies..do something that raises a middle finger to the establishment. I like the music production, songs are great in this film, and that the ending has a nostalgic feel and it can have a powerful but the rest...when you make an overall statement..it's just like any Hollywood fake flower. Show us real stories like you did with Whiplash.