it's really boring, nothing intresting to keep u attached to the movie, 60% of it was music n dont get me wrong the songs were amazing n the actor's voice is so blessing but still ... im here to watch a movie not a musical video. the ending was supposed to be good, but not when they both went back to a toxic partner just cuz they couldn't move on.

the quiet heartbreak of this story gets me in a way others do not. the love and pain are just done so beautifully, so gently, so touchingly. this film did a great job of capturing the vibes of the musical, even if it can never fully emulate it. bravo, going to go cry for a bit now.

I just cannot see the hype about this one. Generally, I consider a good screen love story if you can "fall in love" alongside the characters, understand their mutual need, getting caught on in their chemistry, affinity of minds or soul. It goes for any relationship really: friendships, family... Here you can feel it as they play together, just the 2 of them before fixing the vacuum cleaner - but that's about it. There's no "spiritual"/mental one as a Before Sunrise, no "first love" as a Normal People, no escape from loneliness as in Brokeback Mountain, no prolonged musical affinity as a Begin Again or even A star is born, no "finding each other in a dull world" as in Carol... I could have seen it in exactly the same way, without the romantic part. Just as two strangers finding themselves through the creation of an album. Or, even more shockingly, without any kind of relationship involved: just the struggle of a musician to get on with his music and his life. No nuances, no shades. I feel most of the positive reviews are affected by getting emotionally carried away with the music part and the camera in hand style: but if you look beyond - to writing, silences, intimacy, acting... even to the simple feelings from the relationship and not the songs, it's quite disappointing. Totally different movie, but I got the same lack of emotion in The Spectacular Now, as a comparison (even by loving Woodley and Teller's portrayal and skills)

This was one of the most unique movies that I have seen in a long time. "Once" isn't so much a movie as it is a snapshot of two people's lives over the course of a few days. The movie begins with a man playing guitar on the streets of Dublin for money. He is approached by a foreign girl who asks him about his music. The two then begin an odd kind of relationship that I will not get into as it may spoil the movie. The unique part of the movie is that it is partially told through song - both songs that they had written separately and together. I know, you're probably thinking that it is a full-length version of "Cop Rock". No, it is actually very well done and the music seems to slip right in to the movie. The leads are real-life musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and they make up the duo The Swell Season. Hansard is the lead singer of the Irish band The Frames and met Irglová when he was touring the Czech Republic. They kept in touch over the years (she was 13 when they met) and eventually they started to tour together. The two won an Oscar for their song "Falling Slowly" and their Oscar moment is memorable because the band mistakenly started to play as she was about to start her part of the acceptance speech. follow me at https://IHateBadMovies.com or on facebook at IHateBadMovies

Holy shit, that movie is overrated as fuck. Only Singing and music and boring dialogue