Post by jesserebel on Oct 6, 2018 0:03:19 GMT
Today I decided to go to the movies and enjoy a day at the cinema... and can I say that "A Star Is Born" was good, but not nearly as good as the critics are saying.
The first hour is great, but then the pacing of the film shifts and it becomes a bit sloppy and almost unbelievable to me. So Jack meets Ally after he sees her perform at a bar during Drag Night. He is a huge Country star and goes backstage and meets her, and from there they hang out all night, he learns she is a great song writer and vocalist, and he also finds her attractive. After their night out he has someone basically stalk her until she caves and flies out to his show so they can sing together. He sings the song she wrote (Shallow) and she sings along with him. From there she goes on tour with him where they do that song, and he eventually has her singing some solo original songs and she is all over Youtube being seen by millions and gaining her own fans. After that she is signed to Interscope to release a pop album.
This is where the pacing becomes a mess cause prior to her signing the contract the film takes its time telling the story. After that it feels rushed. They even get married the same day they get engaged.
Ally gets the contract, then records a pop track and we see her with her manager and she now has backup dancers and is being forced to change her look to fit the pop world more (her manager tells her she needs to dye her hair blonde etc. and she doesn't wanna lose her own identity and doesn't want backup dancers etc. but he forces it). Right away we see her face on Billboards, she is the performer on SNL and she has a full album dropping (even though not long prior she dropped her first single). Before you know it she is #1 in the music scene, has a huge hit pop single singing about ass and gets 3 Grammy nominations. Jack grows jealous of her growing fame, while his decreases with time (he even tells her that with time everyone thats listening to her now won't be listening anymore so to be unapologetic and do and say whatever she wants with zero regrets) and he is a full blown alcoholic.
She now has her own tour, with her name headlining, she wins Best New Artist at the Grammys (where he goes on stage drunk and pees on himself as she's accepting the award) and is the big star while he is a has been (he was originally supposed to sing a tribute to Roy Orbison at the Grammys but then was dropped for a new young Country artist to sing instead while he just played Guitar) that no one cares about anymore.
After the Grammys incident he is forced into rehab, then when he gets out they continue their marriage where she now wants him to be her opening act for her, which her label refuses. She then decides to cancel her tour (although her label is against cause she's new and hot and they wanna continue the momentum of her new fame and fortune and are even making her record a second album already) and the night of her final performance he kills himself after her manager visits him and tells him he is destroying her career even though she refuses to say it. After this we see her punching things and angry, leading to her singing a song he wrote for her that no one knew about but them. As she sings this song we see flashbacks of clips of their relationship.
The second half was very rushed, and you cant tell the time frame it takes place in. It feels like all this is happening within a couple of days cause time just jumps in scenes. You have one scene where she's learning how to dance with her backup dancers then shortly after shes performing then on SNL then finding out she has 3 Grammy noms then a couple of minutes later is accepting the award... it was rushed.
Also this one didn't feel as emotional to me and I don't care for how his suicide scene was done. Also, the hype for GaGa is overboard. She was good, and competent but there was nothing about her that stood out (honestly she was better in the first 2/3 than the final act). I read some comments online saying Judy Garland wish she gave as good a performance as Gaga and some critics saying she's the best actress of all the actresses to portray the female lead in the story. Its ridiculous. She was good, not great, and I felt her acting in the final act was a bit soap opera like. Cooper holds strong throughout (although crying scenes seem to be his weakness)... but he was fantastic. Honestly, he carried Gaga throughout most of the movie. You could tell he was helping her a lot off screen.
Good movie overall but a bit rushed, a bit melodramatic and too much hype.
PS shoutout to Beyonce for turning this down! She was Bradley Coopers first choice for this and she rejected it. Thank God.
6.5/10
The first hour is great, but then the pacing of the film shifts and it becomes a bit sloppy and almost unbelievable to me. So Jack meets Ally after he sees her perform at a bar during Drag Night. He is a huge Country star and goes backstage and meets her, and from there they hang out all night, he learns she is a great song writer and vocalist, and he also finds her attractive. After their night out he has someone basically stalk her until she caves and flies out to his show so they can sing together. He sings the song she wrote (Shallow) and she sings along with him. From there she goes on tour with him where they do that song, and he eventually has her singing some solo original songs and she is all over Youtube being seen by millions and gaining her own fans. After that she is signed to Interscope to release a pop album.
This is where the pacing becomes a mess cause prior to her signing the contract the film takes its time telling the story. After that it feels rushed. They even get married the same day they get engaged.
Ally gets the contract, then records a pop track and we see her with her manager and she now has backup dancers and is being forced to change her look to fit the pop world more (her manager tells her she needs to dye her hair blonde etc. and she doesn't wanna lose her own identity and doesn't want backup dancers etc. but he forces it). Right away we see her face on Billboards, she is the performer on SNL and she has a full album dropping (even though not long prior she dropped her first single). Before you know it she is #1 in the music scene, has a huge hit pop single singing about ass and gets 3 Grammy nominations. Jack grows jealous of her growing fame, while his decreases with time (he even tells her that with time everyone thats listening to her now won't be listening anymore so to be unapologetic and do and say whatever she wants with zero regrets) and he is a full blown alcoholic.
She now has her own tour, with her name headlining, she wins Best New Artist at the Grammys (where he goes on stage drunk and pees on himself as she's accepting the award) and is the big star while he is a has been (he was originally supposed to sing a tribute to Roy Orbison at the Grammys but then was dropped for a new young Country artist to sing instead while he just played Guitar) that no one cares about anymore.
After the Grammys incident he is forced into rehab, then when he gets out they continue their marriage where she now wants him to be her opening act for her, which her label refuses. She then decides to cancel her tour (although her label is against cause she's new and hot and they wanna continue the momentum of her new fame and fortune and are even making her record a second album already) and the night of her final performance he kills himself after her manager visits him and tells him he is destroying her career even though she refuses to say it. After this we see her punching things and angry, leading to her singing a song he wrote for her that no one knew about but them. As she sings this song we see flashbacks of clips of their relationship.
The second half was very rushed, and you cant tell the time frame it takes place in. It feels like all this is happening within a couple of days cause time just jumps in scenes. You have one scene where she's learning how to dance with her backup dancers then shortly after shes performing then on SNL then finding out she has 3 Grammy noms then a couple of minutes later is accepting the award... it was rushed.
Also this one didn't feel as emotional to me and I don't care for how his suicide scene was done. Also, the hype for GaGa is overboard. She was good, and competent but there was nothing about her that stood out (honestly she was better in the first 2/3 than the final act). I read some comments online saying Judy Garland wish she gave as good a performance as Gaga and some critics saying she's the best actress of all the actresses to portray the female lead in the story. Its ridiculous. She was good, not great, and I felt her acting in the final act was a bit soap opera like. Cooper holds strong throughout (although crying scenes seem to be his weakness)... but he was fantastic. Honestly, he carried Gaga throughout most of the movie. You could tell he was helping her a lot off screen.
Good movie overall but a bit rushed, a bit melodramatic and too much hype.
PS shoutout to Beyonce for turning this down! She was Bradley Coopers first choice for this and she rejected it. Thank God.
6.5/10
