That’s one of the things that frustrated me about the film. I like musicals, but this barely qualifies as musical. This is like watching a bad episode of Glee, and again, I liked Glee.
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superkret@feddit.org 3 days ago
It was a musical where most of the music was one or two actors half singing, half talking, with no instruments in the background.
Either make a movie or make a musical, don’t get stuck halfway in between.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
keyez@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I thought the musical portions with like the game show in his head made sense as a realistic take on Joker who is insane and how he would view his odd relationship with this woman also in an insane asylum. The parts where he sang to her softly were weird IMO but maybe how he thought he could reconnect to her even though the former portions weren’t real.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
We stopped watching about halfway through because of those exact reasons. The movie could have been great, but was put together badly.
My wife and I agreed on an opinion: The director seemed forced to make it a musical because Gaga. Honestly, she wasn’t half bad in the role she was playing, but the musical style turned the entire thing into a Gaga tribute which wasn’t what anybody wanted to see.