There's this quote I once I read: "Life is like a bad movie - You can sit through it, you can drink and laugh at it or you can leave early". Since I had no alcohol at the time I chose not to suffer and just leave mid way.

I rarely stop watching a movie in the middle, but then again most films, even the poorly written ones, tend to have even a bit of substantial context to them. In this case I felt like I watched one of those ridiculous Bollywood movies only instead of the occasional "burst into a dance without any reason" that happens in Bollywood, here we have a movie that does it through at least the first hour (after which I decided I've seen enough). I won't go into detail but I felt like there was no plot to hold on to. I love musical movies but in this case it seemed to me like I was watching a generic pop song with a very shallow meaning. I didn't care about the characters so all these "magical" musical scenes seemed meaningless.

I'm happy for anyone who did enjoy it, and did feel immersed in the love of story of the protagonists, but I simply couldn't. I am writing this review because I felt it's shameful that this movie deserved an Oscar nomination , but while writing it I realized that if I could care more about the story I'd probably love the film. Guess the Academy saw something I didn't...seems to constantly for years now. Did I lose/change my taste in movies or is it the academy?