iTunes Exclusive Episode La La Land

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Whenever we do one of these things, it is to review something in this particular episode as
no exception. We are today for you, reviewing the latest film from a whip-lash director,
Damien Shazel. We're talking Ryan Gosling, we're talking Emma Stone,
and we're talking La La Land.
Yeah, before we start this whole thing, yes, sir.
Actually, we got to says a screener from the company, but we did, but we're going to do this
because they did the press screening for this, which they invited us.
So we want to take Austin and everybody at Slyfox.
See you, honey. Yeah.
See you, honey, see you, honey.
See you, honey.
Some of our favorite people.
So even though we didn't go to the screening, we were able to see it.
And for all the favorites, they do exactly.
We have to give back. Why not?
So here's what you need to know. This takes place in, of course, Los Angeles,
hence the name of the film. Emma Stone plays Mia.
She is an aspiring actress from Nevada, who's trying to make it big.
And she meets Sebastian, played by Ryan Gosling.
There's a series of unfortunate incidents.
There's a traffic jam in the beginning, and then they run into each other as he's,
he wants to play jazz music. That's his thing.
And he's trying to take meanial jobs so that he can at least pay his rent,
but he wants to do his own thing, and then he's getting fired.
And says something kind of crashed to her as she's, she's walking and he's walking out.
But as these things tend to happen, they tend to end up getting together.
And from there, we go through the trials and tribulations of two young kids just trying to make it in the
world.
I mean, that's really how I want to say.
But I don't know how to say John legends in this.
Yes, the great John legend.
But he has also in, uh, get hard with a little feral.
Well, you can't give him, yeah.
You gotta work, bro.
You gotta work.
Something's saying.
Everybody's gotta work.
Exactly.
Uh, this, again, this is Damian Shuddazal.
This is the guy he wrote and directed this.
He also did whiplash.
This is huge a couple of years ago.
This is a little bit of a departure from from that.
It still deals with music.
But I don't know that I would call this a music call per se.
You know what I mean?
In a way, yes and no.
But, you know, you could tell I had that feel.
And that's like, you know, JK Simmons is in this.
Of course, very briefly, though.
Yes, but it's still a kind of head that
feel whiplash with this character when he's in there briefly.
Oh, no, no, I hear you.
I hear you.
But, yeah, I had that feel.
Yeah, I mean, you could have waited to see that kind of, you know,
that umbrella of that style from whiplash in this film.
Musical?
Yes, it starts off with a dancing song.
Yes, it does.
You know, but is it a musical as part say when you go see the King and I at a Broadway show?
I just, I don't know.
No.
And in front of the show from the movie Brothers Kevin Daniels, he put it perfectly.
This is more of a throwback to the Fredestare ginger Rogers films.
Where there were dance numbers and there were musical numbers, but it's not a music call.
Because there's a lot of dialogue in between the songs.
But what are the things that really dug about this?
And I don't know if you noticed this or not.
But every one of the musical numbers shot in one take.
I didn't know that.
And it's there were no cuts in any of the dance numbers.
I did not notice.
Yes.
Yeah, Kevin Daniels put it best.
You know, so I agree with that.
The Fredestare style stuff like that, maybe from the 40s, 50s.
And it was kind of that old feel too like you just watched the film.
You knew it wasn't this time.
You knew it isn't a back time.
And it had that kind of thing there.
So, you know, Kevin, we love the guys.
He's at their website.
That would be the movie Brothers, BRUTHAS.com.
And also their YouTube pages to say.
Yeah, check them out because that's their website.
That's their friends of ours and we love them to death.
I really, really, really dug this film.
It's it's shot in that retro style.
Yeah.
It's it's a late 50s early 60s style of that dance film.
But done in modern times, which I thought was a really neat combination of things.
There was the the farce aspect to it because there's a scene where they're dancing in a
planetarium and they start to float through space.
But it's part of the deal.
Yeah, it's not high school musical.
God no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You could say they, they might be in the same state or country or continent.
But that's about it.
Yeah, another thing I really, really dug about this is Gosling.
Now, I don't know if you know this or not.
But he was actually playing along to songs that somebody else wrote.
He worked two hours a day, six days a week for two months at least.
Learning how to play the songs that he was playing in the film.
Really?
Yes.
So he was actually like to the point where he was actually playing the
songs.
It's kind of like Mickey work,
warning the rest of the rest of the story.
Yeah, he totally wouldn't method in this and I thought that was great.
And it really gave a sense of realism to it.
Yeah, we talked about John legend in this deal.
John legend, not a lot of screen time.
I've seen him do better acting work.
But his role was very pivotal to the story.
He really kind of brings the choices we make in this life and the consequences
they're in.
Like he represents that in this film.
And I thought that that was really well written.
Emma Stone is Emma Stone.
Yeah, let's just put it out there.
She's not Emma Stone and she's great and we love her and she's quirky.
And I want to pinch her cheeks and I want to take her home and put her on my mantle because
she's so cute.
But I mean, the acting was fine between the two leads and all that.
The singing and everything.
But I don't see any big nominations next year to save that way with this role.
You know, it was acting.
And I put, you know, my written review at WWWWW.
That's clubhouse.com podcast.com.
That is our website.
I did kind of put that this film is kind of a mix of that kind of musical
and the dance and everything.
But it's not a big part.
But it's more of a love story.
I would say more than anything in that.
Now, my beef, I kind of have with this film is when you look at it,
is great as the singing is, the acting and all that stuff.
And I didn't see any major shining roles when go, oh my god, they deserve
a nomination.
I would agree with you that.
My thing was the pots and plastic, but that's what those types of films are though.
Yeah, and that's, that's a thing that would be my only beef because basically it's that love story.
It's kind of that, you know, I hate to say it, but you know,
is there, there's those main different types of love stories, or the
endless story where they just meet and fall in love, or you got the West Side story,
where there's two different families or, you know, I hate to say the stupid boat movie
where it's the high class versus the love that is.
Yeah, exactly.
But, but it's one of those main love stories.
But this pot, only my only gripe is the pot was way too simplistic.
I can see how you would go there for me.
It's what I expect it, you know, this is that throwback style.
A lot of those films were very simplistic back then.
Now, there is the end of this film,
takes a visually gorgeous kind of a meander side track.
Yeah, to it, and then draws it all back together, which I thought was really, really well done.
It kind of was a little disorienting at first, but once it all comes back together,
it was, it was absolutely gorgeous.
I'm with you in the fact that there were no real standout performances because you know
what you're getting from these people and they deliver.
It's gotten a bunch, it's got seven golden globe nominations, which it richly deserves.
I just don't know if any of these performances are going to garner any hardware.
There might be some technical stuff that might get a little bit of hardware here,
but this is such a competitive field this year.
My thing is I didn't know disrespect and anything to the film because I found it to some
plastic and it's just your right.
No, my thing is I didn't see why it got seven golden globes and what the big buzz was.
I just myself did not see what the huge, this is going to be a big player this year film.
And I think part of what I saw is because it's so different than everything else out there right now.
It's just something different. Here's your nominations. Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Gosling's nominated Emma Stone is nominated Shazel's nominated for Best Director and Best
Screenplay. City of Stars was nominated for Best Original Song and just in her with
nominated for Best Original Score. A great score in this film.
This is the mood of it very well.
But this is remember the golden globes is the Hollywood foreign press.
So there's a little bit of a different flavor to it. It's not the sag. It's not the Academy Award.
I wouldn't be surprised if Shazel's not, I would be surprised if he wasn't up for Best Director.
If I had to pick one category that this comes out of, it's this.
Gosling maybe just because he carries so much of this film and he carries it very well.
Where it's much his story. It's as much Sebastian's story as it is me a story.
She's great. But I think if one of them's going to get nominated, it's going to be him.
Yeah, I just didn't see the big buzz. I mean, yeah, he didn't credible on this and incredible on that on the singing.
But does that make him a great actor? You know, he is a great actor.
But it's just like, you know, what's like, Rufalo last year or year before.
Yeah, you before, yeah, in spotlight, you know, that one's like boom, watching that.
I think with with Gosling though, it doesn't your girlfriend member, right?
Yeah, I think I think you're right. It was last year.
I mean, it's just way like that. Oh my god, he killed that role. This one's so like, I didn't see anything
or killed it. It's great that he did the talent. I'm not saying he's going to win, but I'm just saying
I wouldn't be surprised to see him nominated because he really takes the character of Sebastian and he
he really does make it personal. Like you watch him in this film and you can see like he's invested in
who he is and he and that kind of rubs off on the audience for the audience kind of winds up invested in
who Sebastian is and the journey that he saw because all he wants to do all he wants to do is play music daddy.
But, you know, he has to make certain choices because the big bad wolf is always not going
at the door. You got to pay the bills. Exactly. I really, really enjoyed it. It runs just over two hours.
I thought it was paced well. The musical numbers choreography is rock solid. These two work very,
very well together on multiple levels. There's some greater original songs in this as well that I enjoyed.
It's just, it has everything that those movies I grew up watching. I loved watching the
Freightest Air Ginger Rogers movies when I was a kid and this really had a lot of that to it and that's
what I really dug. Yeah. Don't talk about him. Good film and all that. I just didn't see the big
shining star. But the music dancing, I'll give it to that. But keep in mind, it's not a musical.
It is not. You're ready to write this thing. Yeah, that's right. All right. The way we do our
ratings on this show, we're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down. We're not going to give you
letters. We're not going to give you stars. We're not going to like spell words.
Nothing like that. Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the Empire. They want us to go
a little deeper. We're going to go a little deeper. We asked two questions. Question number one,
would you see this film again? The answer is no. Then we're done here. But if the answer is yes,
that I'm going to ask the secondary question, which is how far are you willing to go to see the
again? Here's the spectrum from top to bottom. Full price at the theater.
Twilight, Matt and A, early morning, second run, Red Box, Netflix, cable. Dom, would you see this again?
Yeah, I would. How far are you willing to go? Don't think me as a stickler or the
Mad Raine thing goodness. I thought the pause was a little simplistic. I'm going to put this as a right
box. You know, there's nothing wrong with that. It's your opinion. Yeah, I respect that. I would definitely
see this again. I would love to see this in in a large theater, not necessarily, would just say
dollar theater or Matt and A. I would see it first run. First run. But I think a Matt and A
would be a good choice for this. And my thing is, you kind of have to be in that mood for it too.
If you like it like you're saying, if you like the Fred Astero movies, yeah, see this thing for sure.
If you want something that's kind of just a have a good time, enjoy some music, see some dancing,
and it's adult versions of high school musical, just a hundred times better than that kind of stuff.
But you know, you have to kind of be in that mood, I think also. You know, I want to say
don't see in the theater if you like this stuff. I think it's a wonderful wonder film. And I
really think everybody should see it. So go check it out. It is law law land written and directed by
Damien Shazel. And again, for the industry, again, even though we didn't see it in the press screening,
we were able to see it, but we want to take everybody at Slyfox and Austin for the invited.
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