i saw this today & loved itlike not in a omg it’s amazing etc way but i am a sucker for the melodrama of the story, and it delivered that very well & was just exactly the kind of movie I needed right now, just lose myself in a story & cry & sing. i was 100% down. the early scenes in the drag bar & what have you were so engaging (Willam & Shangy <3) I thought Gaga & Coop had good chemistry too! And he’s always been hot but sort of a cipher to me, but good lord this grungy drawly Coop checked all my boxes. damn. loved seeing Anthony Ramos too!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
would rather have dealt with him
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 October 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
how can some alt-country guy be super famous tbh
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 13 October 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
This movie takes place in an alternate reality wherein Ryan Adams actually became the Superstar the industry banked on him becoming in 2001.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 October 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
lets just say it exists in the same universe as Crazy Heart and move on bcz it’s such a dumb subject
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 October 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
I hate to make a cheap, negative observation, but I've heard clips of Coop singing the "maybe it's time we let the old ways die" song a few times now, and his fake corny affected soulless clueless country twang grotesque is just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad, so terrible, so off-putting, i'll have to just cover my ears when i see this
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 14 October 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
🙄
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 October 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
i'm okay with my inability to just deal with it
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 14 October 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
saw this last night, it's solid and gaga's performances (which I assume are live) are stellar...wasn't as impressed with the acting as some people are and the back half does drag quite a bit. that said I was surprised to find myself affected a couple of times. and I havent seen any of the earlier ones!
the tunes kinda knocked too
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 October 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
Gaga completely carried this movie, she was fantastic. I'd like to think her character's next album is full-on artpop Lady Gaga
― Vinnie, Sunday, 14 October 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
the full album has a lot of extra songs that are equally as good as the ones used in the movie
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 October 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
Her recent intw with Colbert is pretty good. That movie might not be as bas as I thought. I doubt I’ll ever watch it though.
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 14 October 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
I promise to at least watch Lady Gaga's second movie
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 14 October 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
I saw this today, as London seem to be in permanent 'miserable pissy rain' mode.
Enjoyed it quite a bit. Lady Gaga is great and Bradley Cooper adequate. The second half does drag a bit, but doesn't damage the film too much.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 14 October 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
I will probably watch this on an airplane.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 14 October 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
I'd rather watch United 93 on an airplane.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
not permitted. I remember watching Iron Man 3 on an airplane once and thinking "wait, they just edited out a big action set piece from this! ...Oh."
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 14 October 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
Q: is this movie (a) rockist, (b) poptimist, or (c) neither/ambiguous?
― flopson, Saturday, 20 October 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 October 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
sf chronicle describes it a the gayest version of the story yet, which does pique my interest a bit:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/style/article/Is-the-new-A-Star-is-Born-the-gayest-13311518.php
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 October 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Christ. One previous version of it literally had Judy Garland in it!
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 October 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 October 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
haha
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Sunday, 21 October 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
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This reminds me of when I was on a ferry in Croatia and they were showing Titanic
― i know kore-eda (or something), Sunday, 21 October 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link
Thoroughly enjoyed this.
Ambiguous in a way that’s very similar to Hearts Beat Loud, which similarly has a younger woman branching out from keeping-it-real demos to a pop sound.
I did love how intentionally (I think) bad her SNL song is in this, very much her version of “The Shape if You.”
Jack’s hearing issues allow for this nice acting device of having people repeat themselves, which gives those moments an authentic rhythm.
Did not realize until reading Edelstein’s review that Andrew Dice Clay plays the dad!
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 12 November 2018 07:34 (five years ago) link
Sam Kinison wasn't available?
― President Keyes, Monday, 12 November 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
scheduling conflict iirc
― I hope your face & dick gets ripped off by chimapzai (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 November 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Dice is the new Danny Aiello.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 12 November 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Him & his whole limo crew were great
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link
this was okay i think, reasonable B minus bag of cliches. gaga was great and libatique shot it well. i kinda didn't give a fuck about anything after around 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through. the evil producer/"pop sellout" stuff was terrible even if the movie does go out of its way to suggest that cooper's rockist stuff is immature BS. wanted a lot more of sam elliott, but doesn't one always?
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 21 December 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
otm. what was with the nooses over the pride flag in the beginning?
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 December 2018 05:07 (five years ago) link
it's not going to bomb― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, August 18, 2018 3:19 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkwhy though― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, August 18, 2018 10:09 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkcounterpoint: this is going to bomb― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, August 18, 2018 10:10 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink(...)I promise to only "I told y'all so" once this thing breaks 300 mil― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:31 AM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, August 18, 2018 3:19 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
why though
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, August 18, 2018 10:09 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
counterpoint: this is going to bomb
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, August 18, 2018 10:10 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(...)
I promise to only "I told y'all so" once this thing breaks 300 mil
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:31 AM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
current BO tally: 388 million worldwide.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
you're l88
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 31 December 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
I waited a polite interval.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
also in recognition of this milestone I'm actually watching this
why has no one mentioned that "Shallow", way more than any obvious country milestones, feels like a chopsier version (vocally speaking) of a vintage Richard and Linda Thompson tune
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
when does that come in the movie
― flappy bird, Monday, 31 December 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
this is going to win everything btw
lmao that's the song they do in the parking lot and when he drags her onstage. the one that's going to win Best Song and stuff
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
Every critics group has awarded every other actor + deed knowing this will sweep the Oscars.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
ohh yeah I remember sorta liking that, I'll re-listen. I thought this was surprisingly good for what it was. didn't see Bohemian Rhapsody, looked & sounded awful but heard good things about the Wembley sequence.xp
― flappy bird, Monday, 31 December 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
I'm watching a stream w Korean (I think) subs because I have no standards now that I'm not a critic, and I can already feel my interest waning now that the courtship is over
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
If there’s circles in the characters it’s Korean
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
I think his eyes are just baggy from the drinking.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
the "realist" aesthetic ends up clashing very badly against the various implausibilities of the music-career (and style) aspects. too bad as the acting really is pretty strong across the board
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
also in recognition of this milestone I'm actually watching thiswhy has no one mentioned that "Shallow", way more than any obvious country milestones, feels like a chopsier version (vocally speaking) of a vintage Richard and Linda Thompson tune
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 December 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
it still does not add up for me as a song that cooper's character/band would be into. or at least, if he's later going to be bummed out about a "pop" turn, what's his beef with this again?the band members not being characters at all really added to the musical unreality imo. not that i want a dumb scene of them being like "hey man, it's kinda weird how your girlfriend now has like three songs in our setlist, wtf?" but maybe something of them reacting to her music, or to his falls and rises. "oh cool it's like a vintage richard and linda thompson tune," "don't listen to sam elliott man, you're under control," "hey man i'm worried about you" ... I dunno. they're like wax dummies in the background. maybe we're supposed to infer that they're cowed, hired guns, but that doesn't fit with the pearl-jam-meets-meat-n-potatoes-country-rock-boogie authenticity trip he's feeding himself.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 December 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
my bro got my mom this soundtrack for Christmas and I spent all day making fun of Cooper's twang (FOOOOOO CHAIIINNNGGEE)
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
I rewatched the 1937 version last week, and wanted to kick Esther's grandma down the stairs
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
did you say that at the premiere
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
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― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link