A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ La La Land (1 Viewer)

[Colin Jacobson]

After all it's while we wait so the conversation is open to just about anything.

Colonoscopy stories? What I had for lunch? NCAA picks? The options are endless!

 

[babsdude]

I'm so late to the LA LA LAND party! I finally saw it this weekend. I can't stop thinking about it, am listening to the soundtrack every day, and cannot wait for the Blu-ray.

I love musicals so much, and LA LA had me crying in the first scene! (Not because it was sad -- because it was so magical!). I cried many times during the film, because the story or song effected me, or because I was simply enchanted.

I don't know if it is this year's Best Picture for Oscar, but I'm a huge, huge fan.

 

[Robert Harris]

I'm so late to the LA LA LAND party! I finally saw it this weekend. I can't stop thinking about it, am listening to the soundtrack every day, and cannot wait for the Blu-ray.

I love musicals so much, and LA LA had me crying in the first scene! (Not because it was sad -- because it was so magical!). I cried many times during the film, because the story or song effected me, or because I was simply enchanted.

I don't know if it is this year's Best Picture for Oscar, but I'm a huge, huge fan.

Film is just "stuff." Either data or a strip of nitrate, acetate or polyester, containing a strip of continuous or edited images.

It's what is embedded within that film or data, that can has the potential of creating extreme visceral reactions for most humans.

Two of the more recent, and I'm not posting the first with any political motivation, but rather as an extraordinary use of digital workflow, as is the second, which I find extraordinary.

It is this kind of art that can make people smile, laugh, cry, or in some cases fall asleep.

Same situation with LLL, and it's use of imagery and audio.

These make me smile:





and a bit of background



It's up to the filmmakers to take the stuff that with which we work, and turn it into something that can elicit that reaction.

 

[Robert Harris]

I'll take those comments a step further.

The way... the quality with which someone's work is presented, the size of the screen, the type of audio, can either send data to unforeseen heights, or keep it on land, as a generic widget.

The most basic function of presentation, is something extremely simple. A curtain.

And then comes everything else.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Ok. Who here thinks it will NOT win BP and Director? Anyone?

I think the Academy has had some unexpected splits between those two awards in recent years, and I could see it getting one and not the other. Wouldn't want to place any money on which it would take in a split scenario.

 

[Tino]

It would be a major, I mean MAJOR upset if it doesn't win picture and director.

 

[Garysb]

The release of La La Land has been delayed with no new release date. Target sent me an e-mail that I have to approve the delay or the order will be cancelled. It says "New release date: 09/09/2099." Obviously a place holder. Unless only the Target exclusive version, which I ordered is the only version delayed. Amazon no longer shows a release date but you can still order. The link in the e-mail I received didn't work but I was able to go to my account and check my order to approve the delay.

 

[Robert Crawford]

The release of La La Land has been delayed with no new release date. Target sent me an e-mail that I have to approve the delay or the order will be cancelled. It says "New release date: 09/09/2099." Obviously a place holder. Unless only the Target exclusive version, which I ordered is the only version delayed. Amazon no longer shows a release date but you can still order. The link in the e-mail I received didn't work but I was able to go to my account and ccheck my order to approve the delay.

I never knew it had an official release date. I preordered the 4K/UHD disc from Target during last week's "buy 2, get 1 free" sale and it had no release date attached to it. Furthermore, no email from Target. Since, it will be in movie theaters for a while if it wins a bunch of Oscars so I wouldn't expect a release date for another two months or so.

 

[Robert Harris]

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2017/02/natures-element/

 

[Robert Crawford]

I don't feel the tone of the film as a whole is depressing. But Casey Affleck's character is depressing. The character he portrays is sort of a halfwit and some people find it difficult to identify with halfwits.

BTW, there's a difference between someone that has a learning disability and someone that simply chooses to do foolish things or act in a stupid manner. As portrayed, Affleck's character is the latter and it was really off-putting.

Mark

Having seen the film, his character is not a hafwit nor do I agree with your assessment about him choosing to do foolish things or act in a stupid manner. He's a character that made a tragic mistake and is having major issues dealing with the consequences of that tragic mistake. I found his character and those of the other film characters very real and even more so than the characters portrayed in La La Land. That's my opinion, others can disagree with that opinion. No problem as it goes to the subjective interpretation of film appreciation.

 

[Mark Booth]

So, who thinks 'La La Land' will clean up tomorrow night?

Mark

 

[Tino]

I think it will NOT clean up but will win a good amount including picture director and actress.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I think it will NOT clean up but will win a good amount including picture director and actress.

Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

 

[Tino]

Wow. What a shocking ending to the Oscars. Congrats to Moonlight.

 

[Dee Zee]

Well, that happened.

 

[Mark Booth]

This just in...

Mark

 

[Mike Frezon]

Amazon has dropped the pre-order price for the 4k UHD Blu of La La Land to $24.96.