“In the Heights” Reviews

It sounds like Warner made the right move holding it so people can see it in theaters

The trailer looks great

Steven Spielberg must be hyperventilating.

Well, it don't look like Shaker Heights..

On the trailer, I didn't expect to like that. But I did, tremendously.

And yes, Spielberg is probably reducing the font size on his name on the West Side Story credits.

The opening is at Tribeca FF using the United Palace Theater in WH.

I've seen a few things here and they've done an amazing restoration.

I never miss a Jimmy Smits musical.

So, this Hamilton meets Puerto Rican West Side story disaster got a good review? It looks awful.

I’m confused, HBO says it comes out simultaneously on June 11, why are there reviews already?

Because they screened the movie early for critics to build buzz, you freaking dumbass

Just saw this today at a preview screening. Wow.

Beautifully photographed and choreographed.

Most film reviews now are based on social narrative and not quality of film.

They released the first eight-minute number. Looks fun and Anthony Ramos is a charmer.

[quote] Most film reviews now are based on social narrative and not quality of film.

That's been true since Roger Ebert went off the deep end after Gene Siskel died.

This was posted last month on the theatre threads. Meh, little story, no protagonist, and Anthony is dull.

So is Warner Bros. as unscrupulous as Disney or have critics just forgotten how to tell a good musical from a bad one since they have been so few and far between over the last 50 years?

The days of reviewers like Pauline Kael are long gone.

[quote]So is Warner Bros. as unscrupulous as Disney or have critics just forgotten how to tell a good musical from a bad one since they have been so few and far between over the last 50 years?

Well, they saw "Cats," so ...

[quote] The days of reviewers like Pauline Kael are long gone.

So are the days of movies that warranted that level of scrutiny.

As if anyone would dare give this woke movie anything but raves. The reviewers don't want to be hunted down and called racists for saying Miranda's shit all sounds the same and the movie is obnoxious. Everyone gets a trophy! It's just easier that way.

Don’t believe the prepared hype. It’s loud and boring. Anthony Ramos’ appeal escapes me. The critics will fawn all over this wokefest.

It'll definitely get an award of some type for Lin Manuel Miranda...the Academy is precumming at this point to grant him his EGOT.

Darren Criss just posted a nine minute rant about how perfect it is. He said the same thing about A Star is Born so take it with a grain of salt.

Why is the Grandmother Cuban, that seems random?

I might see it.

If it’s Lin-Manuel Miranda two things are true: It will be praised to the heaven, and it will be total shit.

*heavens (Heavens!)

I will never see this film. A bunch of tired Mexicans doing flash mob dances and lip synching an autotuned soundtrack. And every interview with the cast has been nauseating Oprah shit: "It really fed my spirit to connect with these souls and be enveloped in the wave of love that generated from their hearts and share our journey that seemed pre-ordained or Fate or something, just something magical yet so real and true and nourishing. I just didn't want it to end, and y'know it won't because we are all connected, we share the same DNA now, and we just want the audience to join our movement because it is a movement of hearts and souls and minds and..."

Oprah said that? Is she one of the producers?

Do they teach a class in how to speak the shit quoted in R28? It seems like nebulous, meaningless bullshit is how the entire woke movement speaks. Not so much an echo chamber as an echo pit filled with crap.

The lead guy looks dirty

Do they all have dirty arms? I won'r be seeing it.

[quote] Costume and Set design Oscar™️ Contender

For jean cutoffs and t-shirts? Lol.

I don't doubt the movie's good reviews, but Lin-Manuel Miranda can suck it. He's the son of an upper class consultant and clinical psychologist, so it's not like like he grew up in some fucking run-down ghetto making coffee at a bodega. It's really no different than Kim Kardashian making a musical about Armenian genocide.

R34 His Father worked for Ed fucking Koch.

I loved the In The Heights movie. It’s a nice bauble. Beautifully directed, the best since Chicago. The songs aren’t particularly memorable but are precursors to the genius that is Hamilton.

A nice way to spend 3 hours

No one cares about the oscars anymore. I hope they get the same treatment as the golden globes and get relegated to a youtube live show.

R28 Hollywood has been hyping this film to be THE definitive Latino rep film like Black Panther was to black people and Crazy Rich Asians was to Asians.

Most of the people in the film seeming are carribean in origin, no Mexicans but they of course will Claim and credit anything that speaks an once of Spanish.

R36 Are you saying Miranda's a genius or Hamilton is genius?

It's three fucking hours long?? Ugh.

Any memorable songs ?

Have there been any memorable songs from modern musicals?

I thought it sounded awfully Hamilton-esque too.

These are the two big songs.

The NYT review was pretty mixed even thought it was "critic's pick". I heard another mixed review on the radio this aft. From the NYT:

It’s a great party — replete with fireworks, dance floor blowouts, kisses, tears, loud arguments, more kisses and more tears. Which isn’t the same as a great movie. There are some dead spots in the story, and scenes, including musical numbers, that are adequate when they should be dazzling. Still, in spite of a longish running time I really didn’t want it to end. Chu knows how to show everyone a good time. The nightclub, swimming pool and beauty shop scenes are joyful and welcoming, even if, as cinema, they aren’t especially memorable or original. The dynamic choreography, by Christopher Scott, is ill served by the editing and camera movements, which hack graceful and athletic motion into a hectic collage of faces and limbs.

[quote] Most of the people in the film seeming are carribean in origin

They're certainly in demand in my country of Australia, R38.

Woke advertisers and government departments are determined to be woke. But they can't find indigenous Australians willing to be models so they use curly-haired Caribbean instead.

Loved it. Suck it, haters.

EMPIRE Helen O'Hara-'Like a shot of summer holiday straight to the arm, this will have you shymmying out of the cinema and hugging all your neighbours' Sounds awful!

Ugh rap crap

I started to watch it last night and while it’s well filmed, I just hate Lin Manuel’s musical style.

[quote] Have there been any memorable songs from modern musicals?

I can't remember any. Most of the ones of the last 20-30 years haven't gotten the number of cover versions their predecessors got that helped keep them alive between revivals and movie/TV adaptations.

In the Heights?!? More like in the depths, of disappear!

I want Ramos to sit on my face.

[Quote] I started to watch it last night and while it’s well filmed, I just hate Lin Manuel’s musical style.

You mean hiphop/rap? I love that it’s a new way to deliver big musical. Most of his songs are traditional musical style, but the entry into them is rap.

Very original and timely

Loved the play. Cant wait to see the movie.

Blurgh.

It’s fun and was directed brilliant. The choreography, especially in the Latin club, is amazing.

I’m sure they were trying to emulate the West Side Story Gym dance sequence

Ramos was on CBS Sunday Morning. I still can’t tell if he’s attractive or talented or just very, very lucky.

Great body.

Christ, is every song just as same as the last one? I think they could cut about four numbers and streamline this bitch. And I’m sure it’s a gay male thing, but I can barely tell the two female leads apart and I’m never sure which one is which and thought they were the same person at the start.

No BP and no BO In 3 weeks of released it made less than $25 million which is less than Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway made in 3 weeks. Known in Hollywood as In the Red!

[quote] I can barely tell the two female leads apart and I’m never sure which one is which and thought they were the same person at the start.

They were chosen because they look generic and fit the targeted marketing formula

How far did the viewership drop this weekend?

My brother didn’t realize there were two different female leads until half the movie was over. The female leads were both quite slim. One of them should have been more full figured to create more contrast between them,

'The event of the summer' has fallen into non existence Oscar will forget.

It did better than half the movies that will end up with Best Picture nominations this year.

R66 Did better critically?

[quote] I can barely tell the two female leads apart and I’m never sure which one is which and thought they were the same person at the start.

Does one of them being black give you a clue?

Black, black?

Yes, there was a black couple and a LatinX couple yet people were complaining that there were no Afro-LatinXes in the movie.

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