Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ 15 Feb 2017 16:15)
Just because it's reviewed well, doesn't mean it's good. I personally think musicals are annoying and gimmicky films. It's always seemed to me like a very small % of people actually like musicals, maybe 1% of all moviegoers I've talked to throughout my life. It's odd that movies that so many people don't care for get highly reviewed, tons of awards, and everyone who I know who goes and sees these things (generally older people, or hipsters under the false pretense of thinking seeing an artsy film makes them better than people who go see John Wick), never has anything bad to say about them, but can't say anything good about them other than "it was great" or some other equally generic response. Makes me think that people will just say they enjoyed any unbearably boring film as long as it's winning awards. Just like how that shit show of a fucking failure Gravity won awards and had insanely high ratings. That whole movie was just fucking awful.
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There is no discerning one steaming pile of shit from the next. None of his movies are watchable.
I'm not a musical man myself, but I've enjoyed several of them. There are undeniably plenty of good ones, and not all of them have won many awards... Singin' In The Rain is often considered the pinnacle of the Golden Age of musicals, and it didn't win a single Oscar or BAFTA (all it won was a Golden Globe for best musical).
People enjoyed Gravity for the visuals. I think it's a bit overrated, but it's pretty immersive (especially when watching it in 3D, as it plays with that a lot). Even if the story was meh, I thought the technical/visual aspects made it worth watching. At times CuarĂ³n made me feel like I was there with Sandra Bullock.