This movie was too long. Dice was the best thing in it by far.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
He was great as Gaga's gay friend
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
Lady Gaga Quashes Rumors That She Ever Thought Bradley Cooper Talented In Any Way
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 March 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link
I’ve never been more in touch with my inner normie than during that oscars performance
― k3vin k., Saturday, 2 March 2019 04:44 (five years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 March 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
Just realized that this movie is where Cameron Crowe ended up in a parallel film universe.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 4 March 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
coop does kinda hide behind/dwell on the sam elliot voice but its a smart decision to do so, & to purposefully build it into the story
― johnny crunch, Friday, October 5, 2018 2:17 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
my viewing notes on this:hey, bradley cooper's singing sounds like... sam elliott?wait, isn't sam elliott actually in this movieoh, there he is! and cooper's character is apologizing for... stealing his voice?
really nebulous as to whether it was intentional outside of the plot, or if cooper's country-man singing affectations just sounded like that and then they wrote it into the plot
the one thing that kept coming to mind is... how deep did j.j. abrams work his way into cooper's brain? not only is every afterparty inexplicably scored by beastie boys music, but cooper ended up casting his old acting buddies from when he was on 'alias'! the couple i spotted were greg grunberg (his driver) and ron rifkin (guy at the rehab place)
― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, 8 July 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
this was a good film to watch with your old mum who keeps asking what the high pitched noises are for because she missed the deafness part of the storyline.
does the auteur kill himself in the other versions or did they ramp that up for this version because people do not generally understand what's at stake in life with regard to suicide? because it did not seem to me that this person would commit suicide. at all.
i still liked it and still cried although i will cry at anything at all. my mum mentioned BC's eyes like ten times while we were watching it.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
I really enjoyed the drag bar scenes and thought those very nicely pitched indeed. i missed the hispanic friend of Ally and thought they should have brought him back in more.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
anthony ramos! (he was in the original b’way cast of Hamilton)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
does the auteur kill himself in the other versions
yes
― Number None, Monday, 21 October 2019 07:00 (four years ago) link
In the 70s one I think he drink drives and crashes his car
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
yeah, it's ambiguous whether it's an accident or suicide
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
A more ambiguous ending would have been better. They have him drunk at the wheel of a car a few minutes prior anyway.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
He drunkenly walks into ocean in the earlier ones, iirc.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 October 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
it's an ambiguous drunken car crash in the 70s one and intentionally walking into the ocean to drown himself in the original according to a quick google
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 October 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Did he drown himself in deep water? Or was it...
...
shallow
― solos that go widdly widdly widdly (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Reviving to discuss MAESTRO, which I saw yesterday thanks to MUBI GO and kind of liked.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:20 (five months ago) link
Do we see the Maestro mentor little Lydia Tãr?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 December 2023 23:34 (five months ago) link
Heh
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 December 2023 01:31 (five months ago) link
One thing I kept thinking about the younger B&W Lennie: he looked like Richard Benjamin and sounded like Art Garfunkel.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 December 2023 01:32 (five months ago) link
It's a watchable bad movie.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 02:55 (five months ago) link
counterpoint: this is going to bomb― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:10 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:10 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
willing to consider the possibilty that i wasn't 100% otm with this
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 December 2023 12:56 (five months ago) link
Bradley Cooper's been in Hollywood so long that he can only think in biopic cliches; the last half hour consists of waiting for Carey Mulligan to die so that he can feel guilty about the bisexuality we rarely see.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 13:17 (five months ago) link
Bradley Cooper IS Steve McQueen
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 December 2023 13:30 (five months ago) link
Danny DeVito IS Bradley Cooper in the Henry Winkler Story
― calstars, Friday, 15 December 2023 13:38 (five months ago) link
I watched this with my sister last Xmas and the only thing I remember about it is thinking Sam Elliott's entire performance needed subtitles.
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Friday, 15 December 2023 13:41 (five months ago) link
it had subtleties u mean
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 December 2023 13:57 (five months ago) link
Didn't notice too many of those tbh.
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Friday, 15 December 2023 13:59 (five months ago) link
I'm glad that there seem to be Maestro showtimes in Chicago even after it debuts on Netflix.
― jaymc, Friday, 15 December 2023 14:08 (five months ago) link
My possible challops is that the three main performances were all really good and made this worth watching.
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 December 2023 01:16 (five months ago) link
who's the third, Snoopy?
― jaymc, Sunday, 24 December 2023 13:41 (five months ago) link
(I broke down and watched this on Netflix)
I'm so tired of this kind of film, this approach to narrative.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 December 2023 13:46 (five months ago) link
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 December 2023 14:24 (five months ago) link
Star of Screen & Meme, Maya Hawke.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 December 2023 16:55 (five months ago) link
excellent performances, movie was absolutely missing something, felt like it needed another 30 minutes to fill some of this out.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:27 (five months ago) link
I did think the makeup was extraordinary in this, particularly the aging work they did.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 18:12 (five months ago) link
Turning Leonard Bernstein's life into one of thwarted heterosexual misery took some makeup too.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 18:51 (five months ago) link
This was such a pretty slodge.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 19:28 (five months ago) link
*slog
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:01 (five months ago) link
Very superficial and gives you no sense of why anyone should care about Bernstein.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 December 2023 03:55 (five months ago) link
well that scene in (westminster abbey?) works very well and that's cooper's best bit of acting. he really does convey what is amazing to watch about Bernstein's composing. what it failed at for me was giving any sense of why his wife cared about him (or, also, why she suddenly had no patience for him). It needed more establishment of their relationship for me. The massive time jumps didn't serve the story well.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 28 December 2023 04:09 (five months ago) link
Ely Cathedral. Bernstein was intense, but always in control and focused. Cooper’s fake conducting has him looking like he’s having some sort of spasm, unconnected to what is actually happening.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8giUJbT9Yg
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 December 2023 04:27 (five months ago) link
Lady Gaga didn't do a great job in Maestro tho
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 December 2023 04:27 (five months ago) link
Yeah, what made him special or interesting. It's just decreed that he's a genius of some kind.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 28 December 2023 04:33 (five months ago) link
I know the long Mahler scene is supposed to show us something about his conducting, supposed to sweep us up. But I was unswept. You can't capture that kind of power just by imitation.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 28 December 2023 04:34 (five months ago) link
the mahler scene and the one scene with koussevitsky were the only ones that try to reckon with his talent and cultural importance at all. the rest of the movie takes it completely for granted, seemingly saying “well of course he’s great, look at how rich and famous he is!”
it’s a pretty looking film, but completely solipsistic. you don’t get the idea that cooper admires bernstein or loves music, just that he loves himself
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Saturday, 30 December 2023 13:37 (five months ago) link
I don’t think this is a movie about his greatness or his artistry. Yes, it does take that for granted because I don’t think it’s the point of the film. It’s a movie about his relationship with his wife. His talent and celebrity aren’t the focal points - they’re complicating factors in his personal life.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 30 December 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
I liked this movie a lot more than others in this thread. I generally hate Bradley Cooper—he seems very full of himself and seems like he’d be the first one to tell you how serious of an artist he is. And i found the PR rollout for this film excruciating. I don’t know if it’s becauseI live in LA but every billboard and Instagram ad I see seems designed to campaign for specific awards (“the sound design is astounding!”). It’s all just really distasteful.
But my wife wanted to watch it so we did. And against my own wishes, I was hooked within five minutes and found the whole thing to be pretty outstanding. The costumes, the makeup, the performances, the cinematography, the script. And yes even the sound design! I was practically angry with myself by the end for liking it so much. And I think it’s precisely becauseit’s actually a smaller, more domestic film inside the shell of a Great Man narrative. It skips over so much his Wikipedia beats and typical biopic cliches—for instance, the way it elides the fact that the performance in the church was for JFK’s funeral. His embrace of his estranged wife at the end was more important to the scene than the historical significance of the concert.
Their big climactic argument where she accuses him of hiding from his true self—to me, that came off as a real and sharp cut rather than a cliche Oscar Moment, because the film is more about just that—a portrait of a man hiding from his true self—rather than a biography of various great celebrity milestones.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 30 December 2023 15:20 (five months ago) link