I don't have the hateboner for Hamilton that a lot of this site has, but this is fucking horrendous. It fully justifies bullying theater kids. Schools should stop having music programs.

  • deadtoddler420 [any]
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    3 years ago

    lin manuel miranda's much hotter stand in owns a convenience store in a neighrborhood that's supposed to be really poor (note that we rarely see evidence of this, he owns a convenience store at 27 and another major character is going to stanford). He wants to move back to the dominican republican and saves up the money to buy a bar there and do so. however, he falls in love with a girl who he treats like an incel, so he stays. the whole time there's a second b-story love story going on, and it really feels like they should've just combined them because neither gets remotely fleshed out. it's also incredibly hard to guess anyone's age because they all look in their 30s and no one behaves like an adult.

    like, if you're watching a movie about poor people and you're thinking "i wish i was these people because all their problems have incredibly easy solutions", you fucked up very hard.

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      like, if you’re watching a movie about poor people and you’re thinking “i wish i was these people because all their problems have incredibly easy solutions”, you fucked up very hard.

      RENT does this...

      • deadtoddler420 [any]
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        3 years ago

        What's bad is like, not only are the problems super easy to solve, they're all introduced almost immediately and never evolve. They all also have an intro song for what they want despite re-iterating it all throughout the movie. Like it's so boring to watch. One of the big conflicts is a girl doesn't want to go to Stanford anymore. She tries to tell her dad she can't go anymore, which would cause any parent to freak out and be like "what are you gonna do now". Instead he just gets up and leaves and the scene basically resumes an hour later.

    • MarxNAngels [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      okay, but who cares about problem solving? the movie is just a vehicle to explore the push and pull of ambition and community, which might be especially acute in immigrant communities, and ya know, celebrate the latin diaspora of washington heights, but by extension, the diaspora everywhere.

      i will say though it's absolutely insane to watch the smart girl meltdown -- like, just transfer to columbia lol.