#when lalaland did it it felt half assed but these newer movie musicals

[sassmill]

Still watching it but my review of The Color Purple (2023) is that I don’t love every directorial choice made with cutting and adding things HOWEVER: I LOVE that they tried new things. I think some of it was just plain fuckin weird but I loved that it was different! I think we’re entering a new era of movie musicals being more experimental. Not that anything was particularly groundbreaking but it IS breaking a pattern of bland movie musicals and it’s so refreshing to see something like this. They’re not pandering to be broadly appealing to like white middle America, they had a vision for how they wanted to tell this story and they stuck with it and executed it. And I have no doubt they had to sacrifice a LOT of that vision to even get it this far because of what the industry is like but. I have so much love and respect for this movie as a work of art.

#like the first time I watched cabaret I was like… I don’t love it but I GET it #I get why it was important for the time #and I understand what it was trying to do #and I understand what THIS production was trying to do #it’s okay that I didn’t like every aspect of it because I understand what they were doing #I think culturally we will look back on this movie as a standout artistically #like yeah why the fuck not bring back weird dream sequences! #and HUGE ensemble numbers! #I loved that in west side story too! #when lalaland did it it felt half assed but these newer movie musicals #aren’t trying to pay weak homage or imitate classics #they’re trying to reinvigorate the style #so fuck yeah! I’m all for it!