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Alaa21 says...

2 years ago

I don't enjoy watching musicals that often, especially the ones that are made to be watched on your small(est) screen, but this one kept me intrigued. Loved the acting! It was superb! I loved the dialogues, the lyrics, and oh the music is spot on! I know that sounds weird, but it reminded me of Fleabag? like the premise of it? I don't know. Anyway, I loved this movie and will definitely watch it again!

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phv482000 says...

2 years ago

Andrew Garfield is SUPERB. We are lucky to have him in this movie.

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Xiofire says...

2 years ago

This was immensely enjoyable, even if melancholy and downright sad at parts. Not knowing the story of Jon Larson really helped with the pacing and reveals. Garfield simply threw himself at this role. He's been on fire lately between this and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. One of the best performances of the year and I'm sure will be nomination worthy come award season. Fans of Musicals and the history of contemporary productions will probably get much more from this too, as I feel many cameos were present that simply went over my head. Fun and energetic but also human, grounded and real, Tick Tick Boom is a toe tapping, emotion evoking ride from start to finish. More great stuff from Netflix.

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Jordyep says...

2 years ago

If you’re not into it after the first 10 minutes, just turn it off, because you’re not going to like it.
It’s a true musical in every sense of the world: everything is extremely (melo)dramatic, and it’s filled with as much overacting and oversinging as you’d expect.
If that’s your thing, this is for you, I really commend Lin Manuel Miranda and Andrew Garfield for going all the way.
But to me it’s just tacky and inauthentic, there’s a fairytale quality about it that makes me feel icky.
The way it tries to force emotion onto you by spelling out the feelings of every character isn’t very artful, in my opinion.
I was kinda surprised to see Black Thought show up, which is probably the highlight of the film for me, being a fan of The Roots.

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Reply by bfchris

2 years ago

@jordyep Correct. If you don't enjoy musicals, you will not enjoy this autobiographical musical about a composer of musicals. Before this film, I was unaware of Jonathan's other work prior to RENT. I also understand now how Lin-Manuel Miranda stands on Larson's shoulders with works like Hamilton. According to Wikipedia, Miranda played Jonathan's role in this musical for one of its runs; I'm very glad that he made a film so the nation could learn more about Larson.

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Klicho says...

2 years ago

Andrew Garfield is amazing.. superb performance

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Agent24 says...

2 years ago

I always love a good musical film and this is a great one. I actually did not know about all the specifics of Jonathan Larson‘s life and career so this was especially interesting. The musical numbers are beautiful and have huge goosebump-potential. Andrew Garfield delivers a brilliant performance as the late musical writer and I also loved the rest of the cast like Alexandra Shipp and Vanessa Hudgens. Overall I really liked the film and I will definitely watch the movie version of Rent as soon as possible.

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miguelreina says...

2 years ago

[Netflix] It's smart that the director chose the Jonathan Larson musical as a biopic that wasn't actually a biopic of the author. Based solely on his own aspirations, the monologue was turned into a musical after his death and the success of "Rent" (1996), and spoke of the desire to transcend in life and dreams that seem unattainable. Lin-Manuel Miranda makes for a moving tribute to Larson (a sensational Andrew Garfield) and Broadway, especially with the musical number "Sunday," featuring numerous gentlemen and dames of the theater. "Sunday" was, in fact, Jonathan Larson's tribute to Stephen Sondheim and his musical "Sunday in the park with George" (1984).

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jshwlr says...

2 years ago

Just give Andrew Garfield the Oscar now.

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Reply by syqesa

2 years ago

@jshwlr wait for it... and done

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melxy says...

2 years ago

wow.

Andrew Garfield is such a delight to watch! the passing, the direction, the story were amazing. I was captivated by everything, I wasn't familiar with Jonathan Larson's work before but gosh I love this man

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sovth says...

2 years ago

WOW— SUPERB!! :clap_tone1::clap_tone1: Epic in every sense. Based on a true story (which I never knew about).

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pikachiu132 says...

2 years ago

It's going to win all the awards. Lin should also direct all movie musicals from now on.

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annissima says...

2 years ago

Absolutely loved it. If you're not a theater nerd you might not like it as much

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ianbaltazar says...

2 years ago

All I can say Amazing!!! I got goosebumps watching this. This is a life changing experience. I just turned 18 and I had the same experience I got panic, overthinking and don't know what to do. Growing up is really f*cking scary specially if you haven't made anything in your life anytime you can die. R.I.P Jonathan Larson you made me realize that life is short we need to do something and also to enjoy our life. Fan fact Lin-Manuel Miranda when he saw this musical when he was young it changed his life and this is such an honor for him to make this into Movie.

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SkinnyFilmBuff says...

2 years ago

Went into this one pretty much blind. I'm a fan of Andrew Garfield and I knew it was a Lin-Manuel Miranda directed musical, but that's about it. Luckily, it did not disappoint. I'm probably biased toward the story, as I'm an aspiring creative who is in the same stage of life as Jonathan Larson is in the movie. As such, some elements were very relatable to me. In particular, the final conversation Jon has with his agent really resonated with me in a bittersweet sort of way. The movie does a good job highlighting the messy relationship many creatives have with validation. Overall, I think the movie does justice to the powerful true story it sets out to tell, with creative directing/storytelling, catchy/fun/poignant music, and a stellar performance from Andrew Garfield.

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pikachiu132 says...

2 years ago

As a huge Rent fan I loved how this movie was the remake of his first successful musical and we were Ble to see this play out and really understand the genius of Jonathan Larson. So many cameos too many to count and it was impressive. I loved this, but you have to be a fan of musicals to really get into it.

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kieranlittleuk says...

2 years ago

Probably my favourite musical, songs are all really good and so is Andrew Garfield

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