It wasn't awful, but, I think I must be the only person in the world who didn't think it was great. There were times when breaking out into song mid-conversation without some sort of elaborate set-change didn't make sense, The 2 leads weren't exactly talented singers or dancers -- no wow numbers. The sets improved by the time the final number rolled around, but the singing and dancing remained an afterthought.

"People love what other people are passionate about."

It is just incredible how just watching a movie can improve my mood 100 times. The soundtrack is phenomenal and seeing it with the dances makes it so much better. The ending is still very emotional even on a fourth viewing.

It definitely was a good movie with good songs, but it wasn't a life-changing experience like people make it out to be.

What is this thing that's so extraordinary about this movie that everbody sees it but I don't?

Someone needs to explain to Chazelle that the pursuit of success is not a monopoly in a person's life, that you can organize a hierarchy to have it all and make an agreement with your partner to keep it all in balance; work, love, family, because it's all important and because there's a time for each one, so you don't have these "what could've been between you and me" fantasy endings because you sacrificed x for y, because you didn't want to wait for z or because it was just too hard, even though you're content with the outcome. If you're going to create a love story with real life difficulties and the difficulties that arise when two individuals decide to join their lifes together, you can also make an ideal out of your characters, an ideal of organized values and unbreakable commitment between two people because _it is possible_.

I'm not arguing for a happy ending for the sake of happy endings, I'm arguing because that "fantasy" ending _was possible_; it was possible to give a realistic and fulfilled ending to the story of a couple who wanted and could have achieved everything they dreamed of together.

This movie was such a big suprise, I knew it would be good, but it exceeded my expectations.
An in the end the "What if" moment, was great and on point. It happens in real life and lots of movies do not show that part of life.

I just don't like it. Maybe because I don't like jazz. Maybe because the songs are forgettable. Maybe because Gosling's acting was okay at best. Maybe because the romance is based on an affair (I don't think cheating is romantic). Maybe it's because the singing was just plain bad. I just did not enjoy it at all.

ryan gosling you can murder my v anytime you want

I've been avoiding spoilers for this movie so I could watch this with my own expectation.. and it was worth it. It's really fresh and its plot complexity is well-excecuted. As much as I love musical movies, I didn't expect that the plot would be this neat and well-arranged. Well done, Chazelle. Instantly in love with this, oh, and the soundtracks too.

This is probably the most overrated movie from last year… I was really disappointed. The acting was regular and not especially glorious, the story was somehow weird but not that bad. The changes between scenes were so abrupt, that I could not enjoy the story… The soundtrack is amazing but that's about all of the movie that really is good – except for some pictures/scenes that look great (playing with the sunsets, etc.). Altogether I'm really surprised that this movie won so many awards…