La La Land - Movie Review

Star Rating: ✮✰✰✰✰

Storyline - 

"Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart." - imdb.com

Review - 

If you are someone who is now upset because I gave this movie a one star rating, do yourself a favour and stop reading this review now.

If, like me, you want to watch this movie out of sheer curiosity, but have no idea what it's about, just save yourself two hours of your life and just don't.

La La Land is an unnecessarily fantastical movie about a couple who both want to make in big in LA. Mia (Emma Stone) an struggling actress who works at Warner Brothers Studios as a barista, trying to find a job. Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is a washed up musican, who is struggling to deal with finical ruin after losing he's co-owned club.

They first officially meet at a party, where Sebastian plays in a cover band and Mia heckles him. This is followed by one of the many completely random dance scenes, as he walks to her car. Sebastian invites her to the movies, but Mia has forgotten she has dinner with her current boyfriend, who she ditches at the restaurant to see Sebastian. After a long winded song and dance, Sebastian joins a friends band which becomes famous leaving Mia is neglected. Here they have a blow out.

The movie ends with Mia and her husband walking into a jazz club after dinner, where Sebastian walks on stage and plays the song she first heard him play at a restaurant.

Review time, this movie was as painful to watch as writing that synopsis was. Through out the movie I often found myself sitting there saying "What the fuck?" to myself. I can't believe that this clusterfuck movie of cliques and stereotypes actually won an Oscar. Emma Stone looked sick through out the entire movie, her face gaunt and her too thin limbs.

The only redeeming quality this movie had was passion Sebastian had for jazz before he became a sellout. The bars they went to are the kind of place I like to go, and that the only thing I could relate to in this movie. Everything else just repulsed me with its unrealistic and shallow romantic qualities.

Not a movie for those who enjoy story or depth.

💜MetalandTeacups

Information - 

Release Date:  25 Dec 2016
Time: 2hrs 7mins
Cast:

	Ryan Gosling	...	Sebastian
	Emma Stone	...	Mia