explain the inexplicable: Bradley Cooper’s A STAR IS BORN feat Lady Gaga

Christ. One previous version of it literally had Judy Garland in it!

lol

haha

I will probably watch this on an airplane.

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 14 October 2018 22:08 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd rather watch United 93 on an airplane.

― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 October 2018 22:11 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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 22:12 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This reminds me of when I was on a ferry in Croatia and they were showing Titanic

Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Q: is this movie (a) rockist, (b) poptimist, or (c) neither/ambiguous?

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!

Sam Kinison wasn't available?

scheduling conflict iirc

Dice is the new Danny Aiello.

Him & his whole limo crew were great

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?

otm. what was with the nooses over the pride flag in the beginning?

it's not going to bomb

― 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.

you're l88

I waited a polite interval.

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

when does that come in the movie

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

Every critics group has awarded every other actor + deed knowing this will sweep the Oscars.

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

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

If there’s circles in the characters it’s Korean

I think his eyes are just baggy from the drinking.

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

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

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.

my bro got my mom this soundtrack for Christmas and I spent all day making fun of Cooper's twang (FOOOOOO CHAIIINNNGGEE)

I rewatched the 1937 version last week, and wanted to kick Esther's grandma down the stairs

did you say that at the premiere

{RupertPupkinGif}

As someone w/ no real opinion abt Bradley Cooper and zero expectations of authenticity or music biz accuracy from a big stupid movie I found this to be really well done and surprisingly affecting. It seems a rather big & easy target for some of the beefs in this thread.

Enjoyed it about as much as I did the Blaze Foley biopic for a different reasons

When targets are big and easy, just aim.

As far as non-sequel non-comic entertainment goes, it works at its C+ level.

Why does almost every gaga song take a nonsense syllable and repeat it endlessly as its hook

Ro ma ma ma ma

Sha ha ha ha ha Hallows

Pa pa paparazzi

her name is Gaga tbf

I thought this was mostly good. The story by its very nature is boilerplate, but the acting and directing is pretty strong, and if I didn't like the way it handled her pop star rise (too fast! too far!) or the cheeseball post tragedy sentimental big song ending, I thought that the beginning and much of the rest was pretty good, too. At the very least I know it's got to be a million times better than Bohemian Rhapsody.

And I totally recognized that as the Diceman by the end. Dice and Chappelle in the same movie, that's some A+ comedian stunt casting.

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, October 14, 2018 2:00 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TBH, I'm still fine with that reading, even now.

No problem with the reading, it does open up a different sort of world though.

Coop has better hair and tats though.

Camille Paglia has opinions

Surprisingly, despite its progressive gestures toward masculine sensitivity and transgender inclusiveness, this A Star Is Born is the most sexist film of the entire series.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-sexism-star-is-born-films-guest-column-1186741

A Paglia fan who gave up on everything in the mid-afternoon

(j/k tho her Birds BFI monograph is still among the best in that series)

I don't believe in love in the afternoon.

This movie was too long. Dice was the best thing in it by far.

He was great as Gaga's gay friend

Lady Gaga Quashes Rumors That She Ever Thought Bradley Cooper Talented In Any Way

I’ve never been more in touch with my inner normie than during that oscars performance

It’s messed up how people try to pretend the ‘80s version of A Star Is Born never happened pic.twitter.com/PSMfBSnYYz

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) March 4, 2019

Just realized that this movie is where Cameron Crowe ended up in a parallel film universe.