La La Land: A Dizzying Journey of Magical Moments

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I just saw La La Land and wanted to share my thoughts about it. The movie tells the story of how an aspiring actress and a struggling jazz musician help each other find love through the struggle of achieving your dreams. Overall, it was a decent movie with some catchy music. Here are some things that stood out to me:
* I loved the raw, immature sound of the lead actors voices. At first it was distracting, but as the film progresses it pulled me in and helped me feel like these were regular people like me.
* The musical number at the beginning of the movie didn't seem to fit. It seemed like it was just a way to introduce that this was a musical but didn't really add to the story.
* When Mia's car got towed, how did her roommates get home? Small plot hole, but it bugged me for a while.
* There were a lot of plot holes. What happened to the band? What happened in between fall and winter at the end (trying not to spoil too much)? Who's number did Sebastian's sister give him? There were parts of the movie that just seemed thrown in so that the movie had a plot. On the other hand, life is full of random things that happen so it's kind of refreshing to have a movie where there are things that happen that don't matter to the overall plot.
* The ending was good and bad. I didn't feel convinced that Mia was sincere in the relationship in the end.

Definitely a movie worth seeing but definitely different. I liked to see something besides Star Wars or a super hero movie, but I wish I had been drawn into the characters more.

Update: I wrote this over a year ago and never published it. Since then, I've really grown to love the simplicity of La La Land. I'm still torn about the ending but I think you're supposed to be. Anyway, definitely a move to enjoy and the soundtrack is great.

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