Nosferatu@Cult Labs | 15th January 2017 08:26 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by gag
(Post 517426)
everyone has a different opinion of a film, I write reviews but mine don't go into depth like some people do, doesn't have to be a work of art you're just writing a opinion on how you feel about the film, to friends on here, not writing for a column in a newspaper. | That's why I try to do, leaving my academic grounding in film behind me as much as possible and dealing with quality and entertainment rather than things which are more suited for an assignment than a simple 'yea or nay' opinion.
For example, when talking about La La land, I could have talked about the embrace of artifice, the clear influence of Jacques Demy's Young Girls of Rochefort and Stanley Donen's Singin' in the Rain, for example. The upbeat tone is almost a counterpoint to David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., but I won't get into that!
I should have mentioned the tone setting opening number which was almost like Chazelle saying "This is a musical and these are the rules" so no one is under any illusion about what is to come, such as some audience members with Sweeney Todd when they walked out because they weren't expecting people to sing! |