"Not many people can pull off a bright yellow like that" As she is fabulously wearing a bright yellow outfit!!! Love the Irony

Btw ryan gosling did all the piano work himself. And he didn't even play piano before this movie

Gosling's character was right, jazz music is different every night because they are improvising a good amount of the song, at the very least during solos. The other musicians will often play the chords and rhythm of a part of the song while one solos, and they pass around the solo basically in no predetermined way but in a way that still makes sense musically

Some clarifications on jazz, for anyone curious. Most of the time there is a rehearsed part, called the head, which is the main melody/intro to the whole thing. After that, the rest of the band start improvising music on the spot based on what the melody was. It's very much freestyle and flowing. Great reaction btw!

That epilogue of "what could have been" fully made me sob - kudos to Sophia for actually keeping it together.

I was living in Boise, Idaho when I saw this movie. When they were sitting together at the table and Ryan Gosling casually suggest that she come to Boise with him on tour, the theater audience erupted in laughter and started screaming, "yes, come to Boise!"

The beauty is in its simplicity. The movie had a simple story but the overall cinematography was absolutely beautiful along with the chemistry between the two leads. The lighting was stellar. The soundtrack was catchy. The editing was top notch. The ending was perfect. The audience got to see them together even if they didn’t end up together. Perfectly bittersweet. I don’t see it as boring whatsoever and enjoyed how toned down it was compared to other musicians. It’s far and above my favorite movie and I’m not even a musical fan.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling always have this tension between them in every movie they were in together, and I loved it! I was honestly surprised when they didn't actually get together in real life, and just stayed as best friends, which is totally fine. I simply love their connection, and hope they are in a film together in the future. Now back to the movie.

I love your earrings I like that the inside of the lemon is clear✨🍋

This film is by far one of my favorites of all time. The cinematography, spectacular. The color direction is like it’s own evolving character (beginning: bright, vibrant colors to symbolize their hopeful futures ahead of them. as well as their love for one another. middle: darker more neutral tones to rep. their maturity. ending: a combo of both bright and darker colors to show how they’ve morphed and blended together to end up there.). God I love it

Seb's enthusiasm for jazz = my enthusiasm for this movie 😂😂

OMG I didn't even notice the continuity error at the beginning of the movie and I've watched La La Land an embarrassing number of times.

Never seen the movie, and just seeing these parts, even i was tearing up at the end D;

I have to agree with you on the simplicity of the plot itself but at the same time, I was kinda surprised that they ended it in such a way that the two characters didn't end up together but it's still sort of a 'happy ending.' They got what they both wanted even though they were no longer together because they weren't happy where they were. It's more realistic for their characters. I think in real life, two people need to be supporting each other and give way for the other in order for things to work out. Because she still wanted to fulfill her dreams, she can't because she needs to support him and he can't do the same for her.

I felt the same way about it. It wasn't exactly the type of musical I was looking for but overall it was a well done film. Now if you really want to scratch that musical itch, if you find a way to watch Galavant, you should. This goes for everyone, it's criminally underrated.

When they thought of how their lives could’ve gone. 😭 TEARS !!! Cadillac Records is a good movie if you haven’t seen it already!

LOOOOL when Mia stands in front of the theatre monitor your reaction was perfect 😂😂 literally like everybody watching that movie must be PISSED!

La La Land is what life is REALLY like when you find the right person at the WRONG time in your life. It hurts but it’s a real part of life and there’s no way to romanticize more than this. I just hope that people find their “happily ever afters” without the terrible parts. Life finds a way to make you experience the ugly regardless, so no matter what it’ll always be an equal experience. Thank you for this reaction. When I watched this with my GF at the time, I kinda knew it was foreshadowing and it was. I miss her. But life is that way. No need to feel bad for me, it is what it is and life is a marathon, not a sprint. Thank you for your reaction! It gave me some fuel to believe in that magical love and all that!❤

She even got the yellow dress on😂😭🤟🏾

I like to compare this movie to “signing in the rain”. That film doesn’t rely on its musical numbers and its plot could still work relatively well without them. The epilogue here can be traced directly to the scene in Gene Kelly’s head in “SITR”. City of Stars is the equivalent of Gene Kelly signing Signin in the Rain. It’s is a great movie that doesn’t rely on its numbers to drive the plot. That what makes a film great and not just a musical. That what makes this film better than THE PROM. I enjoy The Prom, but this film is so much better

I love that part in the Epilogue where the choir starts singing and they dance surrounded by the lights.

Have no interest in musicals or la la land but the second I saw that it was Sophia uploading I was like "yep this is all me" .she's introduced me to a few movies I'd never thought of watching

The epilogue is so amazing! Have you seen "Whiplash"? Is another movie directed by Damien Chazelle. Oh, and a second question: have you seen "Sweeney Todd"? The adaptation made by Tim Burton

omg my favourite movie of all time. i really never saw the movie from that perspective since it feels tailor-made for me but i do get what u mean, it really all does come down to personal preference. umm if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go rewatch the movie lmao.

First time I cried in a theater

I loved this movie so much....and for me I was fine with the movie till the final scene but that final scene/dream sequence came out of nowhere and it hit me so hard....also that scene of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling nodding at each other and acknowledging each other hit so close to home because I do have so many people in my life who I was so close but we then drifted apart but at the same time we all helped each other when we were there for each other and this movie made me miss them....

Lol I saw this in theaters and bawled my eyes out. Then I told my friends how much I loved it and how hard I cried. Took a group of 10 comp sci nerds to the theater. When the lights came up, every single one of them had tears running down their faces. It felt like really well-rounded characters just being actually realistic. I personally enjoyed this more than what you seemed to think; I'm one of the people that would 100% hype up this movie. It's still good to hear that, even if it's not your favorite, you appreciate the film for a lot of the same reasons I do.

As a former student stage technician with a focus in lighting I feel validated

Yooo finally someone agrees! I think the lighting and cinematography are phenomenal, and the songs are great, but the plot is just not it. The best part is that ending sequence, it's so beautiful!

It's refreshing to watch a reactor who feels free to be a critic. It seems like other reactors stick with the positive to not offend fans of the movie, which I totally get. But I'm in complete agreement that this movie overall didn't feel like a musical. At times it did, but plot sections would get long and I'd forget, and suddenly there was singing and dancing out of nowhere. This is why I much prefer The Greatest Showman (same composers), which felt much more like a consistent musical.

This film really shows us a new current version of "New-York New-York"

Okay hear me out...Flipped. It’s wholesome, heartwarming, happy and meaningful. It’s just so sweet! Such a beautiful ya romance with lots of GREAT character development.

You should try watching Blue Valentine. It stars Ryan Gosling too.

Yes, they said they were inspired by that Sleeping beauty scene And most of that argument scene is just their adlibs .

tbh i think the hype is more about the visuals and the amazing music idk. love the movie but i agree with u the plot is a little simple.

It's a musical...you kind of don't have to take it that seriously •́ ‿ ,•̀

Maybe you wouldn't have found it so boring if you hadn't heard the soundtrack before and you didn't know the ending? I also think you would've enjoyed it more if it wasn't so hyped. I watched it without knowing anything about it and without knowing how much praise and hype it had received (yes, I've been living under a rock)

8:49 So now that you've watched the movie you get Twice's reference!!!😃🥰 So happy that you noticed and mentioned, the only K-pop group that I'm an actual fan by the way lol, and my first show ever will be theirs on Feb 6th, 2024😁🥹🥳

this movie and soundtrack is one of my biggest guilty pleasures,, i lowkey love this movie 😶😶

Great video! La La Land has become one of my favorites of all time and though I could defend some of the criticisms you’ve given it that seems pointless 🤷‍♂️ Glad you enjoyed it! Was really fun watching your reactions.

have you seen the Princess Bride? if you haven't, you should DEF do a reaction!

girl i have been BINGING your videos and how have you managed to watch...every single one of my favorite movies? your taste is *chefs kiss*

emma is so pretty and i love her voice

Okay I'm going to watch this after school I watched all of you avatar reactions and loved it the reactions were amazing (your my favorite reactor)

Anybody else remember how this won Best Picture?

just found you by luck, and tbh its been 3hrs and I have been non stop watching your videos. Your amazing :D

That detail of Mia's hands at the beginning of the movie never observed that much even though I watched the movie so many times😮😮😮 and that sync part they have very little time to shoot at the exact time of the sunset that's why maybe🙂🙂🙂

I LOVED that Another Day of Sun song!

YESSS! LALALAND is my favorite musical, hope you like it

Every time i see a new vid from you it makes me so happy ;-;

I love her hair ir looks so good

I actually avoided this film when it came out because what came to mind was that ryan gosling and emma stone are the leads so even if the movie sucks, people are gonna love it anyways. I waited years to finally watch it and my favorite part of the film is when they split up and reunite years later. If they had given us a cliche story where they end up together, i would've hated it, but they both achieved their dreams which is exactly what their story was about. I was pretty pleased with it. Not one of my favorite ones but it's cute.

Her: “Man, I wonder if anyone’s gonna come to her show.” Me: “Oh, honey, just you wait…”

this is easily one of my fav movie ever

13:29 Hun when you dance with someone you are head over heels for it does feel like that. The whole world disappears.

The beauty, in this outfit, is giving me throwbacks to the wardrobe department of this film. Speaking of you skipping out on the film when it first came out, it's understandable. I wonder if Moonlight (Best Picture Oscars 2017) will be on your 'What to Watch' list later?

One of my favorite movie in my whole life, its so pure magical and i will never forget how its magic do things to me in the big screen. 💛💛💛 And specially that i never knew i will love Jazz so much and changes my taste in music.

Idk I still think Twice did that dancing at dusk scene better 🧡💞

Same. I watched this movie in theaters reluctantly with friends because I thought it was just another corny romance movie starring 2 very beautiful actors like so many others. But I was dead wrong by the end of that movie. I watched Damien Chazelle's previous masterpiece Whiplash at home, andI bought tickets again 2 days later. Still one of the few movies I watched twice on theaters.

it's the matching earrings and fit for me

It’s funny to me that you noticed the continuity error of Emma’s hands being in different positions, but not the fact that in the flash back she doesn’t actually flip him off. It’s her index finger instead of her middle finger for some odd reason

I think the problem with them as a couple was that she expects too much from people and is fixed in her ideas not allowing room to change or vary and that he takes his troubles out on other people and has a tendency to come off as sulky. In any case Chicken on a Stick is a terrible name for a jazz club and so are his reasons for wanting to call a club that. I know it's a reference to Charlie Parker but if so then at least call it 'Bird' or 'Yardbird' since those were his actual nicknames.

Oh, this is the outfit from your newest insta post >.< So cuuute

This film is a partial homage to the tragic beautiful operatic French musical “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” which is described as either the happiest sad movie or the saddest happy movie. It’s a love letter to knowing that you loved & lost & loved again… but you still have that… feeling of wondering what could have been.

this made me and my mum SOB when we first watched it... and the second and third time too

Typically with jazz, there’s a main melody that everyone eventually comes back to, and solos and improvisations are constantly tossed back and forth between the players

Those lemon earrings! 🔥🔥🔥

fun fact! the song at 3:27 was done in one continuous shot! I think a few of the songs were

I appreciate your perspective. For me, I liked this much better than the musicals you refer to for the exact opposite reason you like them. I always hated when 2 people would be having a conversation and all of a sudden they break out into song. It's what I didn't like about musicals. So I understand why you didn't like this movie as well as the musicals you are used to and love. Also, you never get true enjoyment when people build it up so much you get disappointed. What II did really enjoy was your reactions while watching this movie as you try to figure out what was going to break them apart. We of course knew what would happen, so it was interesting to hear your thoughts as you watched. You did a nice job analyzing the agrument they had, but I was hoping to see your reaction as it happened. I was so sad and stunned like she was sitting there! What he said to her really upset me .. "Maybe you liked me when I was on my ass 'cause it made you feel better about yourself". It was so cruel and didn't match what their relationship had been like. But as I think about it now, it was very realistic because that's what people do in an argument - they say something they would really regret saying just to get the upper hand. You did comment you thought it was over the top. Thank you for this video - extremely interesting and thought-provoking.

The freeway scene was the 110 over the105. What’s funny is something similar happened once on the 105 when there was a huge deadly car crash and ambulances couldn’t get to the cars dueto the traffic and people trying to off-road to go around but getting stuck. I was stuck with the car turned off for 5 hours and people were playing music and dancing between the cars with strangers. It happened about 4 or 5 years before La La Land so I wouldn’t be surprised if someone involved with the film was also stuck with me at the same time.

Omg It was my first time watching this movie I love it

Your earrings are a cute touch. 😊

yk i was here since she was reacting to advatar :) and we stand ur clear skin

Someone in the Crowd is the best for me.

The saddest part of the ending is… in her mind, if they stayed together, he didn’t get his dream.

Mia and Sebastian’s Theme lives in my soul rent free

"And the winner is...." 🤦‍♂️

I know what they were doing with the 'what could've been' segment, but in it till could've had a plot twist. Even the 50s MGM musicals it referenced had a plot twist where something went wrong only to be resolved again later. That's what a story is. They weren't just stories where one good thing happened after another.

this movie is hella good bro

Did you notice she always wears something blue for casual outfits?

I dare you to react to "Call Me By Your Name"

10:41 In a jazz band every member tends to get a solo and solos are improv most of the time, but the rest of the song is rehearsed. So yes and no, but jazz solos can also be several minutes long, sooo, I guess yeah sure there is probably a lot of new material every other gig

as a fellow musical lover, I enjoyed this movie a lot. it's no West Side Story (my favorite), but it gets a 'thumbs up' from me. as someone who had their heart broken by their first love, the ending of this movie broke me. I could not think straight for weeks... I've been happily married for 17 years, but every once in a while I do wonder what my life would've been like with my first love...

i still don't get why they broke up in the first place if you loved someone that bad why would you let them go ???

I loved this reaction so much, it made me think about so many things. At the same time i'm like, of course it's gonna be boring if you alredy heard all the songs and alredy know what's gonna happen, not a minor detail but the main plot and intrigue of the whole film. I imagine myself watching Chicago for the first time in thoes circumstances and it sounds awful, there's no way you can have a journey and experience if you alredy have 80% of it stolen, movies are just meant to be seen for the first time as new production, it has quiet scenes for you to process the music, plot changes etc, cuz it's gonna be all new. Otherwise you only have the visuals left.

is this how you usually watch movies 😂. some quite OBJECTIVE takes for a somewhat fantasy movie 🤣

I'm on a binge right now of your videos! Your personality is so awesome and you are so hilarious. SUB4LYFE

Oh my gosh you are my spirit person… I hated this movie the first time I saw it.. like so much.. but some how I fell in love with it.. omg I wanna sing with you 😭😭😭

Hello I like your reaction. Do you have the full reaction that isn't edited!? Would love to watch it!!!

Chicago is a great musical

Can you please do green house academy. I love that show so much and i have watch it 3 times and because you did avatar the last air bender which is my favorite show so i hope you do green house academy please please please i have also been watching you since toy story 4 and i love your videos please do green house acedemy

Wow I haven't watched this movie since it came out and I remember I had just broken up with a Sebastian and was cringing through the whole movie when I heard the name. Another fun time, I had broken up with a Simon soon before Bridgerton was released and was cringing through every episode as well. I have to start picking boyfriends with more unusual names haha

La la land as in Los Angeles but also as in the imaginary world they escape to together.

I watch all the ads so you can get your bag 😩

you look like you belong with one of the performers in Another Day Of Sun hahaha so beautiful

Anyone else in the Korra reaction waiting room with me?

1:50 these are the I-105 and I-110 fastrak lanes.

7th time rewatching the film. Never noticed the continuity error with Mia in the beginning

Yeah the pool scene made me a little motion-sick, not gonna lie. Too much spinning... So would you have found this movie a little less boring if the music/dancing/performing was diegetic to the plot, vs non-diegetic? The magical realism in the film seems very day-dream-like, as in the fantasies fill a roll for the purpose of character expansion and relationship building...but they do seem a big jarring at time. As a counterpoint, take Moulin Rouge where, from the get-go, the world the film is set it feels just the tiniest bit out of sync with our own. The Paris of the film is architecturally similar, the time period feels consistent, the costumes work, all of that lines up...but everything feels like it's one High C from kicking off a dance number. This makes sense for the purposes of Baz Lurhmann's story being told almost entirely through music; the performances and sexual taboos and jealousy and love provide the framing device. Even the time period, set at the turn of the century, feels sufficiently removed from modern society to provide a certain level of suspension of belief; it's long-enough ago that we can apply a level of surreal acceptance to all the crazy over-the-top-show-stopper numbers we see. So when every character kicks off the story or conflict or rising action with another musical performance, it fits...it feels diegetic to the world establish, we almost expect it to happen. With La La Land...I dunno. The musical numbers are stylish, bright and colorful when need be, somber and isolating when appropriate, both our leads undergo a certain level of change and growth aided by the fantasy/magical detachment elements in the film. So why do certain elements feel removed from what a typical musical might display? Perhaps I'm a bit cynical, but part of what makes the film stylish is also what removes me from it. The modern setting doesn't help...traffic jams, early 2000s LA, vocal/slang quips, settings in peoples private homes, they all work as ways to tell the audience where and when and in some cases how people are interacting. They even move the plot along in some instances (HOOOOONK!). But then the music cues in, out of nowhere...and people move toward each other, cautious, curious, an unseen force driving them to move and sing and express...which changes the set, drastically sometimes, to this hyper-literal sound-stage for a number to commence-upon and be played-out. And yes yes it's beautiful and expressive and artistically engaging, but for ME, someone who saw the film and found themselves grounded more in the REAL Los Angeles, with REAL people struggling to find a REAL way to make their careers/relationships/lives finally come together, it becomes more distracting. The phantom of the opera movie from a while back has the same effect: on a stage, the magical realism makes the live, in-person performance more palpable and grounded, which makes the music/dancing/emoting more diegetic to the performance overall. But for a film where it can't hang it's hat on anything specific...I'm not sure I buy it, subconsciously. It almost feels like they should have gone in whole-hog, like with Moulin Rouge, or functionally remove the more abstract/fantastical elements for a more grounded, realistic love story...like Crazy, Stupid Love (ironic), or Blue Valentine. Since we're on the subject, what was your overall impression of how LA was portrayed? Was it sterilized, washed, did it feel honest and real? Interested in your appraisal. Great vid though! -J

Emma Stone is so freakingly brilliant ( as usual ) in this movie !! And she won an Oscar for her amazing performance ! I love her , and her voice is so sexy .