I find it difficult to believe this thing has an 8.0 rating. I kept watching it, hoping it would show some kind of reason for a number that high, and it failed miserably. The songs, such as they are, are repetitively wretched - especially the one that gets repeated ad nauseum as some kind of leitmotif for the main character's "relationship". The choreography veers heavily to the bland, and the acting - dear god, the acting... pieces of 3/4" plywood could do better.
I can see what they were trying to do, but from the opening number it's a big time fail, sorry. While I applaud Gosling for learning to play the piano as well as he did (and I'm presuming that a good chink of this is him actually doing the deed), we see next to nothing of Stone's abilities as an "actress" - in particular the play she spends so much time writing and producing. Was she that terrible? Maybe so. But as with all Cinderella stories, she gets The Big Moment that turns her into a Major Star just in the Nick of Time.
I really do not understand the love for this film. It's shoddily written, formulaic to the extreme - even the "American in Paris" scene at the end in which Stone imagines what might have been is clunky as all heck - in a desperate attempt to be something it simply isnt.
Nancy Walker did far better with CANT STOP THE MUSIC.
I can see what they were trying to do, but from the opening number it's a big time fail, sorry. While I applaud Gosling for learning to play the piano as well as he did (and I'm presuming that a good chink of this is him actually doing the deed), we see next to nothing of Stone's abilities as an "actress" - in particular the play she spends so much time writing and producing. Was she that terrible? Maybe so. But as with all Cinderella stories, she gets The Big Moment that turns her into a Major Star just in the Nick of Time.
I really do not understand the love for this film. It's shoddily written, formulaic to the extreme - even the "American in Paris" scene at the end in which Stone imagines what might have been is clunky as all heck - in a desperate attempt to be something it simply isnt.
Nancy Walker did far better with CANT STOP THE MUSIC.