when i finally decide to watch laurel canyon and i think that this would be a good movie . i mean and just look at the cast and right . but then in hindsight and i should have know well and simply just by really look at the cast represent christian bale and natascha mcelhone should have tell me to expect a quasi disaster and with bale have appear in a long string of terrible film ( like reign of fire and equilibrium and etc ) and mcelhone have an almost identical number of crappy project and like kill me softly or revelation and or the half bake solaris remake . from now on and if i see either actor headline a movie and i will lower my expectation quite considerably . but the two actor be not to blame for the complete crappiness of laurel canyon . the director and the script and the producer who greenlighted this stillborn project be first and foremost to blame here . the story sorta have potential ( behind the scene of the music industry ) but i have never see a movie shoot itself in the foot on so many occasion a this film . it almost unreal . whatever chance this film have to turn up good be repeatedly destroy by the kooky decision make for the film represent1 the christian bale and kate beckinsale character be so annoying and unbelievably fake that the whole drama of the story and which weigh on their attitude towards the people they have to live with and their new dwelling and fall apart from the get go . those character aren not real people but just type . 2 kate beckinsale act . but i do not blame her for such a bad bit of act . her character be so ridiculous and be a quasi frigid woman who turn into a free thinking woman who willing to have sex with her boyfriend mother ( . ) and that i do not think any actor and include meryl streep and could have give some gravitas to this joke of a character . 3 natascha mcelhone accent . just awful . one of the bad accent i have ever hear and even beat out rosanna arquette awful accent in the whole nine yard . no one notice how bad the accent be . be everyone in denial or asleep at the wheel . why even an accent . 4 the story . 100 % predictable and devoid of anything interesting and include drama ( the scene where bale and beckinsale scream at each other and then cry be laugh induce ) . the scene with france bitch over the phone with the female record producer be trite and serve no purpose at all . 5 the music . the music the band play be so bad and certainly the ballad and that i have to fast forward through these scene . if youre make a movie about the music industry and please get some good music first because the whole reality of the film fall apart once we hear the crappy music . those be the five major point where the film actually shoot itself in the foot for no reason and a those point could have easily be fix before they start film . the only redeeming feature in laurel canyon be kate beauty . she really gorgeous . but she should really choose good film project in the future .