La La Land. What can I say? Well, first off, let's make it abundantly clear to EVERYONE that I do NOT LIKE musicals. Hate them. There is one exception, Grease...and maybe The Rocky Horror Picture Show...cause I liked the songs. I only went to see La La Land cause it won a heap of awards and has been nominated for everything so I figured it cant be all that bad... The first 10 minutes for me was Painful, very Painful...did I mention I Don't LIKE MUSICALS? I hate that random song and dance, it just doesn't make sense to me... So I sat there in the theatre watching this painful singing and dancing by random strangers and then Emma Stone showed up. I like Emma Stone. She does that slightly quirky/confused thing really well and she's pretty. Then she started singing...umm Emma you are definitely an actor, but then she started dancing, OK, not too bad, this girl can move. Then Ryan Gosling showed up. I love you Ryan Gosling. I am sure there is nothing that you can do wrong. WRONG. Ryan Gosling is okay with the dancing but please Ryan, do NOT sing, ever again. E.V.E.R. After lots of gazing into each other's eyes Emma and Ryan formed a connection. I would like that connection with Ryan. He's good at that I-think-I'm-falling-in-love-with-you gazing thing. So slowly I started to relax and start enjoying the film. The singing got better (Emma, NOT Ryan...) and the dancing was great. The old time romance was lovely to watch. This film had a great story line. Two wanna-be's in Los Angeles, who meet, fall in love, but ultimately just want to "make it" in Hollywood. That is their goal. They just happen to have bumped into each other in the meantime. It was only in the last 15 minutes of the film that I decided that I LIKED the film. It is one film that I can confidently say actually doesn't leave anything "hanging". You don't walk out of the film thinking "but what happened with....bla bla bla". All lose ends get tied up and not that many films manage to do that these days. So that is why I liked the film - because it all made sense. Yes it was set up as an old fashioned musical with some mobile phone text messages thrown in (yes, those mobile phones reminded you that you weren't watching an OLD film) and the film I thought was very arty too with lighting and scenery. I'm glad that I saw it and you should probably see it too. You can probably wait for it on DVD or TV, as it's a musical folks and I Don't LIKE MUSICALS!!