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.

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.

Honestly, her take sounded quite a bit more reasonable than that. If your an artist, your art isn't going to connect with everyone all the time, and you have to be ok with that. A lot better than the normal blaming and bullshit that usually goes around when a movie bombs.

Seconded.

It was very... experimental, I'd say. I applaud them for the balls to try. I feel like it wasn't too far from achieving what it was going for.

Yesterday I was watching a musical episode of ST: Strange New Worlds after a few rums, and I really enjoyed it. However variety is expected from a show like Star Trek, especially because SNW sort of emulates the episodic feeling of the earlier shows.

My point being that while this particular episode was going for a jaunty positive sing-along, the Joker was probably going for something similarish but just in a dramatic and tragic sort of sense.

And the ST episode is ranked quite poorly as well, and I can see how I wouldn't always enjoy it, but yesterday I really did.

So being "forced" to watch a musical is pretty much people's problem, I think. Or seeing one without the expectation of seeing one.