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Post by kijii on Oct 10, 2018 22:30:58 GMT
Will the 4th time be a charm?
In any case, I plan to take my wife to the movies this weekend to see it. She loves popular and country music.
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 10, 2018 22:46:24 GMT
Enjoy, both of you.
Give us a detailed review.
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 11, 2018 0:25:41 GMT
I've liked all 3 thus far, though the Mason and Garland one is streets ahead of the others. I'm also thinking of going to the new one which opens here in a week from now.
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 11, 2018 0:41:50 GMT
Saw it today. You will definitely enjoy it. Bradley Cooper amazed me. He's never been better. And he was directing himself as a first time director! No small feat.
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Post by Rufus-T on Oct 11, 2018 0:53:34 GMT
I have doubt when I heard there'll be a remake "Not again!" I said. When I found out that Bradley Cooper is charge and starring with Lady Gaga, I got interested. These are two very talented people who seem to turn anything they touch to gold. Hope you will give review.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2018 12:25:56 GMT
Enjoy seeing "A Star Is Born This Way, Baby" as I've started to refer to it.
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Post by timshelboy on Oct 11, 2018 13:13:46 GMT
It has had amazing reviews in UK - 3 of the 4 reviews I read were raves and the other was sort of OK not bad.
I doubt I'll see it at cinema but for sure when it hits dvd.
I have the 54 one and revisited the 37 a few years back. Odd thing is thinking about it has me curious to look at the 76 one (not seen since for 40 years or more , and not much liked aside from the soundtrack LP which I'm sure I still have on tape somewhere. The critics may have disliked the 76 one but I'm sure it was a hit (as was the LP - singles from the film being released ahead of it - with extensive clips from the movie - as sort of a trailer)
Here's a couple of the better numbers
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Post by kijii on Oct 11, 2018 23:57:22 GMT
By the way for those who want to re-view the first three versions, they are all currently streaming on FlimStruck.
I enjoyed re-watching the 1937 William A. Wellman version since I find Janet Gaynor so cute--in both silents and sound movies. I was brought up watching the 1954 George Cukor with Judy Garland/James Mason version (I was 10 when it came out). I saw did see, but don't clearly remember, the 1976 Frank Pierson version with Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson, so I will stream that before seeing the current version at the movies.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 12, 2018 4:40:39 GMT
By the way for those who want to re-view the first three versions, they are all currently streaming on FlimStruck. I enjoyed re-watching the 1937 William A. Wellman version since I find Janet Gaynor so cute--in both silents and sound movies. I was brought up watching the 1954 George Cukor with Judy Garland/James Mason version (I was 10 when it came out). I saw did see, but don't clearly remember, the 1976 Frank Pierson version with Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson, so I will stream that before seeing the current version at the movies. which is your favorite as well.
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Post by kijii on Oct 12, 2018 6:01:39 GMT
By the way for those who want to re-view the first three versions, they are all currently streaming on FlimStruck. I enjoyed re-watching the 1937 William A. Wellman version since I find Janet Gaynor so cute--in both silents and sound movies. I was brought up watching the 1954 George Cukor with Judy Garland/James Mason version (I was 10 when it came out). I saw did see, but don't clearly remember, the 1976 Frank Pierson version with Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson, so I will stream that before seeing the current version at the movies. which is your favorite as well. I think the 1937 version is my favorite. Fredric March and Janet Gaynor make this original version work well.
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Post by snsurone on Oct 12, 2018 13:22:33 GMT
I love the 1954 version, except for those sepia-tinted stills shown with the original soundtrack. Yes, those visuals were deleted, but I'd rather see the edited version than those inserts. Judy Garland definitely should have won the Oscar as Best Actress, and I believe she was cheated!
The 1937 one was OK, but IMHO, not as good as the Cukor version.
I confess that I never saw the 1976 remake, but I've heard it was very bad; mostly an ego trip for Streisand. And I don't intend to see this latest one. Bradley Cooper is all right, but I'm NOT a fan of Lady Gaga!
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Post by kijii on Oct 12, 2018 13:56:52 GMT
I saw the 1976 version last night--- It is, IMO, the worst of the three. It is only saved by Barbra Streisand's great singing--She is probably the best popular vocalist of my entire life. She sings "Evergreen" in this movie.
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Post by bess1971s on Oct 12, 2018 16:58:07 GMT
I saw this the other day and I can't say I was impressed. Bradley Cooper and Sam Elliot, both of whom I like, seemed to be having a "who can mumble better" contest. Lady Gaga has a beautiful singing voice but she made no impression on me in this particular role. All of the previous Esthers were memorable(esp Judy's) but Gaga's Allie left me flat.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 12, 2018 17:55:52 GMT
What Price Hollywood? 1932 directed by George Cukor, is usually mentioned as the original A Star is Born, but what I could find out, it's only partially true, as it took only a part of that story and developed it into the first A Star is Born.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 13, 2018 14:16:19 GMT
I like the 1937 version. I'm gonna see this new one at some point. Hope you enjoy the movie.
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Post by kijii on Oct 14, 2018 3:02:13 GMT
I saw this the other day and I can't say I was impressed. Bradley Cooper and Sam Elliot, both of whom I like, seemed to be having a "who can mumble better" contest. Lady Gaga has a beautiful singing voice but she made no impression on me in this particular role. All of the previous Esthers were memorable(esp Judy's) but Gaga's Allie left me flat. bess1971s--- I agree with you. I liked Lady Gaga a lot. But, Cooper should keep his day job rather than either singing or directing. At first, I liked all of those closeups, but after a while they become too predicable (and there were too many of them too). As a story, this movie added the extra dimension by adding Sam Elliot as Cooper's much older brother from-another-mother. Since this is about concert rock singers, it is more like version 3 than versions 1 or 2. But, Cooper has a James Mason moment in which he stole Allie's moment of receiving an award while Cooper's character embarrassed her.
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