I cringed when they were in the love scenes, especially since the word “fuck” was the primary vocabulary of the movie. Gaga's character had gone from naïve to salty, and I just didn't buy the changes she made to be with Cooper's character.
I finally turned to my movie buddy and told her I was out;
she quickly agreed and we left the theater. Outside, we both agreed that this
movie just didn’t have any spark to it, and we were disappointed--especially
after reading all the reviews and seeing how highly-rated Rotten Tomatoes
listed it.
As far as Oscar-worthy, I say nay—unless there is a new
category for “Most Often Used F-word.”
1 comment:
It's like we saw a different movie. I didn't feel Cooper came across as a dirty old man; we thought he was just a tired, boozed-up guy who had lost his spark. We thought the story was completely captivating, the acting strong, and the music very good.
What I didn't like was the sudden conversion of Ally from country to pop. The sequence where she's suddenly dyeing her hair and rehearsing a ditzy pop song and dance routine was jarring. I know they weren't showing us the time passing, but I didn't see the character as wanting to be or going pop at any time, so this sudden change felt strange and off-putting to me.
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Also, if I had been doing the story, I would have had Jackson overcome all the embarrassment he had caused, get well, ignore Ally's producer, and overcome. I didn't feel his character was one that would allow the producer to get to him like he did and send him spiraling to suicide. I felt it was more a story of two people finding and healing one another than what was shown. I don't discount how they handled it, I just saw it differently or felt there was a better story that could have been told in the third act.
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