An Oscar for Lin Manuel? — Page 3

"Another Day of Sun" is one of my favorite songs in "La La Land". It really captured my love for all those classic MGM musicals starring Astaire, Powell, Kelly, Charisse, Reynolds, et al. that I obsessed over in my youth whenever they were shown on local tv.

I had no problem understanding the lyrics or it's message. Great song.

Updated On: 1/25/17 at 12:31 PM

bwaylyric said: "Doesn't help that Moana will not win best animated film



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Honestly...I hope it doesn't. Zootopia was superior in every way. The only comparison between them is the animation itself. Both had stunning animation. Zootopia is the better script, more relevant story and better told one at that, and frankly more creative and original. Ironically enough, Disney is trying to break their mold, but they held to it with Moana. It just felt like a check off list for things that needs to be a Disney/Princess type musical film. Disney is honestly doing way better with their non-musical animated films these days. Wreck it Ralph anyone? Clever and original as h-e-double hockey sticks.

Theater_Nerd said: ""Another Day of Sun" is one of my favorite songs in "La La Land". It really captured my love for all those classic MGM musicals starring Astaire, Powell, Kelly, Charisse, Reynolds, et al. that I obsessed over in my youth whenever they were shown on local tv.

I had no problem understanding the lyrics or it's message. Great song.

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SAME!!



Also want to add that Audition was stuck in my head when I left the theater. SO I don't agree with @RippedMan when you say it's forgettable.



who cares if the songs don't advance the plot? Why does that even matter?

Everything can't and shouldn't be Les Miz or Hamilton...

Again, splitting the vote: not a thing. It's not like the Academy is divided between Moanists and La La Landites.

Here's why I say vote-splitting is not a thing. (Well, except in the sense that every vote takes a vote from each of the other nominees.) Since 1980, there have been 15 cases of a film having more than one song nominated in the Best Original Song category. 9 times out of that 15, one of the songs won. Only six times did the multi-nominated film not win for song. (This includes the odd case of 1983, in which two songs from Flashdance and two from Yentl were nominated, and Flashdance won.) So, in a considerable majority of times, it seems that having multiple songs nominated means there is a great love for a film's music and one of the songs is likely to win.

I was thinking this was sure thing, but Moana's music is pretty ho-hum. I was quite surprised there was a ton of praise for it. I think the film would have been better without it, and I LOVE animated musicals. I really like a lot of Lin's work but just couldn't understand it here. "How Far I'll Go" is pretty bland and uninspiring.I thought the numbers in the film were at best uneven and unearned.

Zootopia is a far superior (and relevant) film.

RippedMan said: "I just don't think the La La Land music is good at all. And i LOVE Pasek and Paul. I was just disappointed by how lame all the music was. It was just super forgettable and the lyrics were all so bland and contrived. I mean "Another Day of Sun" - You couldn't understand the lyrics. And "Audition" has no melody. None of the songs propel the plot or do anything to further the character development, IMO."

1) pasek and paul wrote the lyrics. the music is by justin hurwitz.

2) you can understand the lyrics of another day of sun if you open your ears.

3) audition has a melody. i know this because i'm humming it as i write this post.

as for why they "allow" several numbers from the same movie... history has shown us that movies with songs are not limited to having one good song.

"2) you can understand the lyrics of another day of sun if you open your ears."

My ears are fine and I couldn't understand them either. It's not a problem with the song, but the sound mixing is very bad in that number- I've seen more than a few reviews mention it. Maybe it's clearer with repeat listening, but in the theatre it was gibberish.

Perhaps you all just saw the film at a cinema with bad speakers? I had not one issue hearing any part of the movie.

Mr. Nowack said: "Perhaps you all just saw the film at a cinema with bad speakers? I had not one issue hearing any part of the movie."

It seems pretty unlikely that so many people (and it's not just people on this board) managed to see the movie in a cinema with poor speakers. I've seen the movie in two different cinemas and had the same issue both times.

jo said: "Did he write something new for the live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, due for release in March? That would be his next chance.

Although he might be running in competition against our popular new songmakers, Pasek and Paul, who are writing the entire musical score for THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ( due for release during the awards season - on Dec 25, 2017). According to the NYTimes, the duo have written a dozen original songs ( music and lyrics) for the movie musical headlined by Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams and Zac Efron."

JennH was referring to the fact that Alan Menken has yet to win an Emmy; his work on Beauty and the Beast would not help him achieve an EGOT nor would The Greatest Showman in any stand on his way of achieving that (in the way that they are currently standing in the way, with Justin Hurwitz, of Lin-Manuel achieving his EGOT).

the backlash is mostly amongst people i wouldn't deem intelligent enough to appreciate the film, from what i've noticed.

I think the LALA Story backlash seems more a social media thing. Not saying it doesn't exist to some level, but that's hardly an indicator it's a trend or a building opinion among Academy voters. I mean, the film got 14 nominations...

Updated On: 1/26/17 at 06:05 PM