tep
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Post by tep on Feb 10, 2023 14:11:15 GMT
I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did. I’m not the biggest Chazelle fan… that coupled with all the mixed reactions, I figured this was not going to work for me. But yeah, despite some flaws, I thought it was pretty great. Memorable, emotional, super entertaining… I don’t think I’ll ever forget the Maguire sequence in my life. And I get why people don’t like the ending, but I loved it.
8.5
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Post by Pavan on Mar 12, 2023 18:55:51 GMT
Its like Chazelle got this idea to depict early Hollywood and wrote 7-8 sequences which he thought would justify the title and let his ambition conceive and consume them. Some of them worked and some of them didn't. So its a mixed bag for me. The craft was there, everyone brought something to the table but i feel its not properly envisioned that it falls way before greatness that it so wants to achieve- 7/10
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 3, 2023 15:16:44 GMT
La La Land fan struggled to get thru this piece of randommness. I finally finished it in 4 sittings.
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forksforest
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Post by forksforest on May 9, 2023 2:07:45 GMT
I wish I’d written out my thoughts when I watched it bc my memory is failing me.
Generally, a 7.5/10. Maybe my expectations were low enough and I was bored enough but I enjoyed it. I think this is what Baz Luhrmann is trying to go for (spazzy, erratic) but fails so miserably at because he has no substance to work with.
This was over bloated, for sure, but it kind of worked? Every scene was adding to each character’s arc and downward trajectory, and while it could’ve been maybe 30 minutes shorter, it didn’t feel unnecessary or meaningless and was paced in a way that fit the story.
Pitt was solid, Robbie as well. The production was incredible.
Edited to add: my only gripe is with the ending spoonfeeding us. That could’ve been trimmed and left to the audience to fill in. We did not need to sit through that entire montage to understand that we were coming full circle on the theme initially introduced lol
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Pasquale
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Post by Pasquale on May 9, 2023 7:50:12 GMT
This was actually, pretty good and my favorite of Chazelles's. Robbie was phenomenal, the sequence where they film in the desert was gobsmacking amazing, Pitt is a fucking legend, Maguire is fucking creepy, lol, Smart was good, the ending where it shows movies all over time had to show Mad Max: Fury Road, but is did show Avatar, so I forgive it, lol.
It's a really fucking good movie.
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Post by Joaquim on May 28, 2023 18:28:30 GMT
I’ve seen just shy of 1700 movies in my life and this is the first one that truly broke me down and reduced me to tears. I was legit fucking sobbing for most of that final hour. Damien Chazelle, felicitaciones on your historic achievement but don’t ever fucking do this to me again, cabron
The film as a whole is absolutely spectacular and Chazelle filtered so many plebs with this. He was already one of the great artists of his up and coming generation, but this just solidified his place at the top
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Post by infernalpleb on Oct 2, 2023 18:51:07 GMT
Chazelle the director rescues Chazelle the writer's blushes on this one. Some of the sequences are awe-fully crafted for a viewer and I can't help but adore it on some level for that. But between the constant fizz of life we get via the camera and set pieces, the other half of what it's gliding by is a script of basic beats. It's a tough one to wrangle with, my mind see-sawed with almost each alternating scene on whether I despised or lauded the damn thing. And yes, I know I'm beyond late here and replying to not even add much if any eloquence with my opinion, but hey.
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