The tap dancing scene was actually done without any digital effects, they actually shot it during several magic hours for a few days in a row (after extensive rehearsals)
Danielle CG Naw, the romantic parts are good, but it's all about the ones at the beginning. Even the one at the beginning that clearly had absolutely nothing to do with the plot was amazing.
While I am grateful to him for introducing me to Snob, Linkara, Lupa, Phelous, ect. I just for the most part don't like Nostalgia Critic himself anymore.
La La Land sounds like an absolute delight and I know I'll have a good time seeing it because I love those old school musicals and I think my husband might enjoy it as well. He introduced me to Singin' In The Rain while we were dating and I just fell in love with that movie. I introduced him to The Sound of Music and he liked it.
A creator letting his ego go to his head and the content of his channel spiraling into crap as a result. Doug is everything Brad isn't. As an individual though Doug's alright
Dough represents Channel Awesome and after what happened behind the scence a few years ago with some producers, including Alison and Phelan, some people just have enough of that company. And its actually more dislike for the CEO Mike Mchaud than for the Walkers, but it gets mostly projected onto Doug since he's the face of the company. Not to forget them blowing the money they raised on Indigogo and that they never resolved the accusations of using that money that was supposed to go to new shows for personal enrichtment.
Fuck dude, I fucking loved this movie. It was miraculous... felt like I was watching a dream. I don't know if I can watch it again, it was just too damn good.
I love that Brad loves Shock Treatment so much. It's been one of my favorites for many years. Most people have never heard of it, and a lot of people who see it, seem to hate on it, because they don't understand it. It has some awesome songs in it too !!!
The opening scene was actually shot live on a real freeway! I saw a screening a while ago with the producer Marc Platt. All the big numbers are supposed to be one take and they really were done well.
Justin Hurwitz wrote the music like months and months before the shooting, as you do for a musical, and Gosling spent something like 6 months practicing the pieces everyday so he could play it effortlessly for the shooting, also he learned more dancing styles to expand on what he already knew
ajmrowland I don't hate Les Mis, it's great watching it the first time, but on repeat viewings I notice the messy cinematography and storytelling with the supporting cast.
I am so glad this movie is getting rave reviews and has been a decent hit at the box office. I'm a huge musical theater nerd, and I love a good love story, so I'm pretty much exactly this movie's target audience. The music in the trailer alone got me hyped for it. Who knew Emma Stone had such a beautiful singing voice?
sonicjrjr14 musicals have more than one song. And the song is typically used to further the plot. One song at the end of a movie doesn't constitute a musical.
I've expected great and I got perfect. This film is made for the big screen - so go and support it, everybody! It's corny, then realistic, funny, then sad, uplifting, then depressing. The most important bit, the music, is outstanding. The costumes, cinematography and acting are superb. Also, the ending is just perfect for this particular plot. I'm gonna watch this multiple times at the cinema. *in love with this film/soundtrack*
Having a hard time seeing how a big budget musical from the director of Whiplash could be boring. But yeah I also want to see th Collartoral Beauty review...looking forward to at least an hour of WTF
Lucy W I think he's referring to the idea of a review for it being boring, not the movie itself. All of these reviews are informative, but the truly entertaining ones are for the hilariously awful movies. Lol
ryan gosling trained for 3 months to learn the piano specifically for this role, and learned very fast and well. there is some usage of hand double in closeups but that REALLY IS him playing
Sorry to double post, but I forgot to mention my unusual theater experience. I saw this at a late showing, 2 months after it came out, so there was a very small crowd. However, there was this very engaged group of 20-something white girls who seemed very into it, laughing at all the funny parts and whatnot. As my date and I sat in our seats while the credits rolled, I saw these women going down the steps very happy, one of them dancing her way down, and then she danced through an aisle with one of her friends. So, if you're the kind of person that gets that excited by a good musical, you might want to catch this one before it's gone!
Was thrown off how it went away from being a musical and then went back to it in the end dream sequence but it was so well made with such great music and grounded performances it just has to be seen.
I mean in bye bye birdie you could cut telephone hour and just have Ursula and Kim talking about Hugo then go into how lovely to be a women, but it shows how the teens are and the era and has so many great moments in it.
Ryan Gosling has a band named "Dead Mans Bones". He plays piano and sings with another guy named Zach Shields and it's just as charming as Gosling himself.
I was watching a Midnight Screenings review of the AMAZING LOOKING "Collateral Beauty" ;) then in Recommended Videos I see what appeared to be the Nostalgia Critic in a dark car w/ Brad and said "No fucking way is that..."
I listened to an NPR interview with Gosling's piano instructor. He had one month of practice before shoots. It was all simulated. She worked with Geoffrey Rush on his role on Shine and said that only he outperformed Gosling in faking it on screen; in her opinion.
I think the reason la la land Didn't win best picture was because everybody predicated it would and the oscer people noticed and said "hey we can't be that predictable".
As a concert pianist with perfect pitch, I was able to tell that they cleaned up Ryan Gosling's piano playing A LOT from what we were seeing. He was definitely playing the songs that were being played, but definitely not as accurately. Seemed like he was doing a really, really good job considering he learned how to play piano FOR this movie, but there were at least a couple inconsistencies. My guess is that he played along with a professional recording and they used the audio from the recording, so his playing syncs up and looks real, but he's not playing it quite as well as what we're hearing. (Note: I don't consider this a flaw of the movie, as only someone in the audience with my level of expertise would be able to tell. It was a *wonderful* movie, probably my favorite of 2016 (although I still have to see a couple big ones like Moonlight and Arrival).
Having seen La La Land myself, I have to say that while it is incredibly well-made and well-acted, I could not get invested in the story or the characters. Not the fault of the movie at all, it's just me. I was reminded of Saturday Night Fever, another excellent movie that I was unable to get invested in. Same for Moonlight. After watching La La Land, I rewatched the 1999 South Park movie. Still my favourite musical movie.
Oh, they did film those scenes in the actual magic hour, some in different days and using long takes... Damien Chazelle, the director said that on an interview.
Gosling's character was almost played wrong but they casted Ryan instead of Miles Teller and it was great. Damien, the director, felt that Emma and Miles did not have good chemistry. So he casted Ryan instead.
No, it was supposed to be another Emma, Emma Watson. And ironically the reason she didn't do this is the movie Gosling turned down to do this, 'Beauty And The Beast'.
I was so disappointed when I saw it because I wanted the whole thing to be a big musical. I loved the first half, and was less enthused by the second half. Now after hearing your discussion, I understand more of what they were going for with the "musical vs. reality" thing. Now I can probably watch it again with more appreciation. :)
My roommate is a fan of Ryan Gosling and I tried to recommend this movie, but he's already been swayed by friends of his who are into musicals who said it was trite and that Gosling can't sing. I'm no musical fan, but I disagree! I think a Gosling or Stone fan would do themselves a real disservice to pass on this one.
Funny to hear Doug talking about how the light can go away in seconds in Chicago, going from day to night almost instantly, after he spent so much time complaining about exactly that issue in The Dark Knight Rises years ago.
I'm just pointing out the contradiction. Not judging it one way or the other. It's always amusing to me to hear a so-called critic use something as a criticism of a movie in one instance and dismiss the exact same thing in another. Especially since in the case of that moment...he made a HUGE deal out of it. In multiple videos as I recall. If he's come to see it as a baseless criticism then, good, I agree with him. But it's something that's worth calling out. at least in my opinion.
I genuinely do not like Musicals, and think that for the most part it's a terrible style to make a movie. But when it's used cleverly it comes off as a unique form of expression within a dramatic or parody film or whatever. Citizen Kane, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and La La Land are the best movies I've ever seen IMHO.
I saw it today (it opened yesterday in Italy) and I liked it fine, but... not in a 'best film of the year, 14 nominations, Best Picture Academy Award in the bag' way. If that makes sense... Also, Sebastian was a pretty big dick at the beginning, and I loved how he 'thawed out', THEN I read out that his going into John Legend's band was supposed to be him betraying his ambitions and I was annoyed... So according to the movie he was 100% in the right? WTF? The movie at times also seemed to lift quite a bit from 'Les Parapluies De Cherbourg', in particular the ending... Btw, apparently, the audition where Mia is giving that emotional performance and is rudely interrupted is an audition that happened in real life to Ryan Gosling.
There's actually a German word for a cross between talking and singing, its called: "Sprechstimme". Its sounds pretty bizarre when performed, the most famous example is probably this: th-cam.com/video/eOZH7qqlDkQ/w-d-xo.html
Just saw it today. While I still liked it better than Les Miserables and I admired it on a technical level, I couldn't get emotionally connected to this couple and I did not remember any of the songs once the movie was over (outside of the audition song). I wanted to like it and I wanted to connect with the dreamers aspiring for greater things, but the music actually was so dismissible that it took me out of it. The movie really needed a better songwriter.
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The tap dancing scene was actually done without any digital effects, they actually shot it during several magic hours for a few days in a row (after extensive rehearsals)
Nice! It was already one of my favorite movies of the year, now I respect it even more the more I hear about how it was made.
+Stoned Gremlin Productions Not to mention, according to a Wikipedia article, Ryan Gosling did learn piano for the part.
The FirstBourne Six days a week.
i think the tap dancing scene was my favorite part. really liked it
Danielle CG Naw, the romantic parts are good, but it's all about the ones at the beginning. Even the one at the beginning that clearly had absolutely nothing to do with the plot was amazing.
I've seen a lot of Snob fans that dislike Critic, but these are my favorite Midnight Screenings 😄
that's cause they're
...
snobs.
While I am grateful to him for introducing me to Snob, Linkara, Lupa, Phelous, ect. I just for the most part don't like Nostalgia Critic himself anymore.
Nostalgia Critic is a character
I discovered Brad through Doug!
arizonatsunami same here! I am very thankful for that 😊
Nostalgia Critic better be doing a Cinema Snob crossover of Winter's Tale. That would be amazing. :D
OH hi Doug! Glad to see you on another screenings.
As an LA native, seeing a dance number in the middle of traffic on a freeway overpass fits the city TOO damn well. It's really great.
Ooooohhh! Brad & Doug doing a review? Hell yes, I'm in!
Oh hai Doug !!!
so anyway how is your sexlife?
I love old school musicals. Can't wait to see this.
Have you ever seen anything by Jacques Demy? I think you'd like him.
La La Land sounds like an absolute delight and I know I'll have a good time seeing it because I love those old school musicals and I think my husband might enjoy it as well. He introduced me to Singin' In The Rain while we were dating and I just fell in love with that movie. I introduced him to The Sound of Music and he liked it.
Emma's audition solo was all one take and was also sung live, just like Hathaway and le mis
I'm confused. Why don't people like Doug? Do they just not like NC or him as a person? Anyway, I love both these guys! They're awesome (:
Gamelover254 I think people dislike doug more because of what he represents than anything else
rocky5000100 what does he represent?
A creator letting his ego go to his head and the content of his channel spiraling into crap as a result. Doug is everything Brad isn't.
As an individual though Doug's alright
Who doesn't like Doug?
Dough represents Channel Awesome and after what happened behind the scence a few years ago with some producers, including Alison and Phelan, some people just have enough of that company. And its actually more dislike for the CEO Mike Mchaud than for the Walkers, but it gets mostly projected onto Doug since he's the face of the company. Not to forget them blowing the money they raised on Indigogo and that they never resolved the accusations of using that money that was supposed to go to new shows for personal enrichtment.
Absolutely agree with your points! This is my favorite flick of the year so far
Its always exciting to see nostalgia critic in these videos
Just read an article about the dance scenes. The swimming pool scene took 33 takes.
you know... for a long time i thought that brad was the brother of doug...
Fuck dude, I fucking loved this movie. It was miraculous... felt like I was watching a dream. I don't know if I can watch it again, it was just too damn good.
I love that Brad loves Shock Treatment so much. It's been one of my favorites for many years. Most people have never heard of it, and a lot of people who see it, seem to hate on it, because they don't understand it. It has some awesome songs in it too !!!
The opening scene was actually shot live on a real freeway! I saw a screening a while ago with the producer Marc Platt. All the big numbers are supposed to be one take and they really were done well.
Justin Hurwitz wrote the music like months and months before the shooting, as you do for a musical, and Gosling spent something like 6 months practicing the pieces everyday so he could play it effortlessly for the shooting, also he learned more dancing styles to expand on what he already knew
Move away Moulin Rouge and Les Mis, THIS is the real cinematic live action musical.
The Cinematic Mind Les Miserables is the best!
The play, absolutely. The movie..... eh, not so much.
Yeah. Love Les Mis the book, love the play. The movie? I try to pretend that never happened.
The Cinematic Mind I understand Moulin Rouge, but never had a problem with Les Mis myself.
Looking forward to Beauty and the Beast.
ajmrowland I don't hate Les Mis, it's great watching it the first time, but on repeat viewings I notice the messy cinematography and storytelling with the supporting cast.
I am so glad this movie is getting rave reviews and has been a decent hit at the box office. I'm a huge musical theater nerd, and I love a good love story, so I'm pretty much exactly this movie's target audience. The music in the trailer alone got me hyped for it. Who knew Emma Stone had such a beautiful singing voice?
Kaija Schmauss She had a lovely voice in Enchanted which came out a long time ago.
Witty Username That wasn't Emma Stone. That was Amy Adams. She was good though.
***** oh, huh. Whoopsies then. My mistakes, thanks for telling me.
Ever watch 'Easy A'? She had a fun musical number at the end of that
sonicjrjr14 musicals have more than one song. And the song is typically used to further the plot. One song at the end of a movie doesn't constitute a musical.
Critic and Snob together again :D
I hope there's another crossover with you guys soon.
Critic and Snob together again... XD
I've expected great and I got perfect. This film is made for the big screen - so go and support it, everybody!
It's corny, then realistic, funny, then sad, uplifting, then depressing.
The most important bit, the music, is outstanding. The costumes, cinematography and acting are superb.
Also, the ending is just perfect for this particular plot.
I'm gonna watch this multiple times at the cinema.
*in love with this film/soundtrack*
I cannot begin to describe how jealous I am.
this is my movie of the year. 10/10 loved it
MrOiManDudeGuy Mine too!
Are you guys in the the Batmobile?
Do you know the max speed of that car?
its.....JUSTICEEE
Oh my god I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Collateral Beauty lmao
I'm glad to hear this one turned out good. I generally dislike (live) musicals but for some reason I like a good musical movie.
*sees Doug in thumbnail...automatically gives a like before even watching it*
This week's good awards-bait movie.
That's boring, tell me when the Collateral Beauty review is up.
Having a hard time seeing how a big budget musical from the director of Whiplash could be boring.
But yeah I also want to see th Collartoral Beauty review...looking forward to at least an hour of WTF
Lucy W I think he's referring to the idea of a review for it being boring, not the movie itself. All of these reviews are informative, but the truly entertaining ones are for the hilariously awful movies. Lol
Ok, yeah, I see what you mean.
Aww I wished Brad would've taken Sara to "La La Land".
I bet she'll cry.
'Why won't you take me to... La La Land?' XD
Gregory House I read that in Sarah's voice lol. She would use her puppy dog eyes too when she asks :3
ryan gosling trained for 3 months to learn the piano specifically for this role, and learned very fast and well. there is some usage of hand double in closeups but that REALLY IS him playing
Sorry to double post, but I forgot to mention my unusual theater experience. I saw this at a late showing, 2 months after it came out, so there was a very small crowd. However, there was this very engaged group of 20-something white girls who seemed very into it, laughing at all the funny parts and whatnot. As my date and I sat in our seats while the credits rolled, I saw these women going down the steps very happy, one of them dancing her way down, and then she danced through an aisle with one of her friends. So, if you're the kind of person that gets that excited by a good musical, you might want to catch this one before it's gone!
1:27 and we were shockingly wrong.
I fucking loved this movie! It's easily my favorite of the year.
Oh, and... Dougs here. Cool.
The ending made me cry but it was so good 😢
The opening song actually tells the story of the movie
Was thrown off how it went away from being a musical and then went back to it in the end dream sequence but it was so well made with such great music and grounded performances it just has to be seen.
It did win best picture for two minutes. Another great review.
Too many movies I need to watch!! This is on my list of January watches for Oscar consideration.
I mean in bye bye birdie you could cut telephone hour and just have Ursula and Kim talking about Hugo then go into how lovely to be a women, but it shows how the teens are and the era and has so many great moments in it.
Ryan Gosling has a band named "Dead Mans Bones". He plays piano and sings with another guy named Zach Shields and it's just as charming as Gosling himself.
Hi Doug! Great review , I really hope this comes to my town (moonlight did)
I was watching a Midnight Screenings review of the AMAZING LOOKING "Collateral Beauty" ;) then in Recommended Videos I see what appeared to be the Nostalgia Critic in a dark car w/ Brad and said "No fucking way is that..."
I listened to an NPR interview with Gosling's piano instructor. He had one month of practice before shoots. It was all simulated. She worked with Geoffrey Rush on his role on Shine and said that only he outperformed Gosling in faking it on screen; in her opinion.
Daria reference gets a thumbs up
love the Lazenby T-shirt Brad!
Brad and Doug are coming to us from the set of Inside the Actor's Studio, I guess.
glad you saw this with doug
I think the reason la la land Didn't win best picture was because everybody predicated it would and the oscer people noticed and said "hey we can't be that predictable".
This movie was outstanding. Go see it!
As a concert pianist with perfect pitch, I was able to tell that they cleaned up Ryan Gosling's piano playing A LOT from what we were seeing. He was definitely playing the songs that were being played, but definitely not as accurately. Seemed like he was doing a really, really good job considering he learned how to play piano FOR this movie, but there were at least a couple inconsistencies.
My guess is that he played along with a professional recording and they used the audio from the recording, so his playing syncs up and looks real, but he's not playing it quite as well as what we're hearing.
(Note: I don't consider this a flaw of the movie, as only someone in the audience with my level of expertise would be able to tell. It was a *wonderful* movie, probably my favorite of 2016 (although I still have to see a couple big ones like Moonlight and Arrival).
Ryan Gosling learnt piano for this role.
Has anyone else found that Midnight Screenings is great to watch when you're baked?
It really was Ryan on the piano, he practiced for four months before shooting.
John Goodrich Gotta respect that dedication.
Having seen La La Land myself, I have to say that while it is incredibly well-made and well-acted, I could not get invested in the story or the characters. Not the fault of the movie at all, it's just me. I was reminded of Saturday Night Fever, another excellent movie that I was unable to get invested in. Same for Moonlight. After watching La La Land, I rewatched the 1999 South Park movie. Still my favourite musical movie.
yea.....about that best picture prediction....
Oh, they did film those scenes in the actual magic hour, some in different days and using long takes... Damien Chazelle, the director said that on an interview.
Gosling's character was almost played wrong but they casted Ryan instead of Miles Teller and it was great. Damien, the director, felt that Emma and Miles did not have good chemistry. So he casted Ryan instead.
*****
Yes but Miles and Emma do not make a good couple. Also Miles was too busy in his boxing role for "Bleed for This"
No, it was supposed to be another Emma, Emma Watson. And ironically the reason she didn't do this is the movie Gosling turned down to do this, 'Beauty And The Beast'.
Did the ending of this movie thrash anyone or was just me and my friend?
Best movie of 2016 for me at least. It was a MAGICAL experience.
Please see Manchester by the Sea. Barely edges out Moonlight for my best film of the year.
Max Nobel the red haired kid's performance kinda took me out of the movie a lot
Max Nobel brad already saw it
I've heard a lot of people saying this. Could you elaborate?
I was so disappointed when I saw it because I wanted the whole thing to be a big musical. I loved the first half, and was less enthused by the second half. Now after hearing your discussion, I understand more of what they were going for with the "musical vs. reality" thing. Now I can probably watch it again with more appreciation. :)
Hey will Doug be reviewing Winter's Tale someday?
My roommate is a fan of Ryan Gosling and I tried to recommend this movie, but he's already been swayed by friends of his who are into musicals who said it was trite and that Gosling can't sing. I'm no musical fan, but I disagree! I think a Gosling or Stone fan would do themselves a real disservice to pass on this one.
@4:10 "digitally do" lol! sounds like dijurido lol!!! coming out of dougs mouth hehehe
The opening number does have meaning too the whole film if you look at the lyrics
This movie made me happy (even after being charged $13.50 for a large popcorn and water).
Hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic and he's the Cinema Snob, we remember it so you don't have to!
Ryan Gosling actually learned piano for this movie. Holy shit.
Funny to hear Doug talking about how the light can go away in seconds in Chicago, going from day to night almost instantly, after he spent so much time complaining about exactly that issue in The Dark Knight Rises years ago.
Wyatt Smith that was years ago lmao. Think things maybe changed since then?!
I'm just pointing out the contradiction. Not judging it one way or the other. It's always amusing to me to hear a so-called critic use something as a criticism of a movie in one instance and dismiss the exact same thing in another. Especially since in the case of that moment...he made a HUGE deal out of it. In multiple videos as I recall. If he's come to see it as a baseless criticism then, good, I agree with him. But it's something that's worth calling out. at least in my opinion.
Also the audition song was recorded live.
La La Land is the closest thing to a REAL a live action Disney movie we've ever gotten.
With Doug this time. Oh right, Brad's in Chicago.
I wonder if the cinema snob should review Hello Dollie.
I genuinely do not like Musicals, and think that for the most part it's a terrible style to make a movie. But when it's used cleverly it comes off as a unique form of expression within a dramatic or parody film or whatever.
Citizen Kane, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and La La Land are the best movies I've ever seen IMHO.
Well, Brad was sort of right about the movie winning best picture...for about 30 seconds!
So... the singing is better than Pierce Brosnan in Mama Mia?
FUCK YEAH!!!
I know the sunset in the dance number was an actual sunset.
I saw it today (it opened yesterday in Italy) and I liked it fine, but... not in a 'best film of the year, 14 nominations, Best Picture Academy Award in the bag' way. If that makes sense... Also, Sebastian was a pretty big dick at the beginning, and I loved how he 'thawed out', THEN I read out that his going into John Legend's band was supposed to be him betraying his ambitions and I was annoyed... So according to the movie he was 100% in the right? WTF?
The movie at times also seemed to lift quite a bit from 'Les Parapluies De Cherbourg', in particular the ending...
Btw, apparently, the audition where Mia is giving that emotional performance and is rudely interrupted is an audition that happened in real life to Ryan Gosling.
I loved the movie.
Do the full review, pleeeeeeease!
doesn't deserve half of the oscar nominations it got
Did Doug like Whiplash?
I thought this was a biography about the Teletubby character
I'm surprised Doug hasn't done this before.
Hi Doug!
Was something up with the audio? Or was that just because of a different car?
artistwithouttalent different car, doug's car
There's actually a German word for a cross between talking and singing, its called: "Sprechstimme". Its sounds pretty bizarre when performed, the most famous example is probably this: th-cam.com/video/eOZH7qqlDkQ/w-d-xo.html
I didn't love this movie but I did think it was good
they do look like brothers.
Tbh, I thought Emma Stone was a phenomenal singer in this
Just saw it today. While I still liked it better than Les Miserables and I admired it on a technical level, I couldn't get emotionally connected to this couple and I did not remember any of the songs once the movie was over (outside of the audition song). I wanted to like it and I wanted to connect with the dreamers aspiring for greater things, but the music actually was so dismissible that it took me out of it. The movie really needed a better songwriter.
1:22 About that.......
It's the nostalgia critic.
No Jamal. You be trippin'.
I'm kinda hoping Moonlight wins Best Picture in a surprise upset, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if La La Land wins.
You must have been very happily surprised last night. ;)
Yeah. It was an interesting night, to be sure.
Did Brad ever see Whiplash?
o hai Doug
BAT CREDIT CARD!!