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

Nature trying to destroy this movie https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/a-star-is-born-world-premiere-lighting-projector-venice-1201999539/

man I totally forgot that Dorothy Parker wrote this. was thumbing through a collection of her short stories the other night and was like waaaaaht

well, she cowrote the '37 original, but you can definitely pick out a few of her lines.

Reviews I've seen out of TIFF are dece-to-rapturous.

(of course the "rapturous" end includes Owen Gliberman so)

Hearing that this movie might be good does nothing to make it more comprehensible to me

When we complain they don't make 'em like that anymore we don't want actual remakes of "'em." Having said that this could be an entertaining mess.

― abcfsk,

I don't think Kenny suggested it.

If you told me this movie opened last weekend and already made $300 million I would believe you.

I will never understand the cult of Bradley Cooper. Like, how he got to be mega-paid "serious" actor of Hollywood is completely baffling to me. He will always just be one of those ppl who was in Wet Hot American Summer.

I liked him best as a smarmy quasi-supervillain in the TV version of Limitless

It's kind of funny that his most prominent screen role by a fair distance is in the GOTG movies

wait, there was a TV version of Limitless? I though the film sank with Cooper.

I often use him as a grammar example when teaching appositives: "Bradley Cooper, an Oscar-nominated actor, has never given a great performance."

I will never understand the cult of Bradley Cooper. Like, how he got to be mega-paid "serious" actor of Hollywood is completely baffling to me. He will always just be one of those ppl who was in Wet Hot American Summer.

You'll change your tune when Cooper wins no fewer than 4 Oscars next February.

Christ is his name on the screenplay too?

By god it is, and with an &, I feel bad for the poor schmuck who had to call himself Cooper’s writing partner

Surely they'll save Best Actor for his Lenny Bernstein movie.

(he's co-writing and directing that one too)

wait, there was a TV version of Limitless? I though the film sank with Cooper.

Yeah, no one watched it but he had a recurring cameo in the same role. I, along with approximately 6 other people, actually enjoyed it, way moreso than the movie.

He was standout good in The Place Beyond The Pines.

eh I'd fuck him

He was standout good in The Place Beyond The Pines.

god I hated that movie lol

eh I'd fuck him

Gaga's best bet for Best Original Song

Naturally I checked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_multiple_Academy_Awards_in_a_single_year

Acting trophies have never been part of anyone's multiple-award-winning Oscar nights.

yeah Limitless the film had one of the more palpable "what the fuck am i doing here?" de Niro roles I've seen.

A STAR IS BORN: When a rockist marries a poptimist, clearly one of them must die.

An incredible 30-40 minutes deflated, slightly, by a screenplay that’s not as rich as the music industry conflicts at its center. The songs are bangers though—genuinely. #TIFF2018

— k austin collins (@melvillmatic) September 10, 2018

Adding to the positive critical praise, Peter Bradshaw gives it 5 stars in the Guardian, saying it's hokum (quelle surprise), but "outrageously watchable".

"It’s the romantic epic of male sacrificial woundedness and it’s been regenerating like Doctor Who... supercharged with dilithium crystals of pure melodrama."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/31/a-star-is-born-review-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper

stop conflating doctor who and star trek bradshaw you prick

Surprised he couldn't shoehorn a kryptonite reference in there somehow too.

someone did really important work here pic.twitter.com/WkhEcrb54f

— rachel syme (@rachsyme) September 8, 2018

I will never understand the cult of Bradley Cooper. Like, how he got to be mega-paid "serious" actor of Hollywood is completely baffling to me. He will always just be one of those ppl who was in Wet Hot American Summer. a student on Inside the Actor's Studio.

and he isn't any better looking than the dudes who sell avocados on Eighth Street and Eighty-Seventh Avenue.

Turning into a perfect hot take storm for Film Twitter.

i would buy an avocado from Bradley Cooper

i am so happy i am not on Film Twitter

i would throw an avocado at bradley cooper

them shits are expensive, dont do it

i'd pay a fair bit of money to hurl objects at bradley cooper tbh

well then give me the avocados, you can throw awards at him til he forgets his name for all i care

I just found out Sam Elliott plays Cooper's older brother in this (he's like 30 years older?), which raises the chance I'll see it to about 20%.

y’know, one of those older brother types that could also conceivably be yr grandfather that are so common nowadays

i hear his dialogue is just him lamenting in his velvety baritone about the imurity of today's peaches or somethin

*impurity

breaks the 25-year age gap of Cruise and Hoffman in Rain Man

I'm probably going to enjoy this shitty movie

I can't imagine it being any more stilted and awful than the 1976 version.

wait til we get the next Jazz Singer

Co-starring Dave Chappelle?!

Bradley Cooper is the beige demon who makes sure very standard white dudes get to be in everything. He turns a scene to damp sugar quicksand with his treacley fingers and convinces you his vile incantations are him speaking some adorable French. I will fight him. Stand back..

— Neko Case (@NekoCase) September 15, 2018

Musicians don’t sing emo songs a foot from another musician’s face with long pauses for “feeling.”

FUCK OFF “A STAR IS BORN” TRAILER!!

I want a DNC for my fucking eyes..

— Neko Case (@NekoCase) September 15, 2018

Neko is a national treasure

<3 neko