A Star Is Born (2018)

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   frankqb

   This is an impressive film, but not entirely in good ways.
   
   It’s impressive for its performances, full stop. Cooper and Lady Gaga are both fantastic as both singers and actors. The sets, costumes and cinematography are all stupendous. Some of the songs are even very impressively written.
   
   It’s also just really impressive that a film that gets so much right is so damned boring, predictable and preachy. The film talks a big game about having something to say and “reaching deep into your soul” and yet can’t do the same thing itself. It feels like a film without a soul. What are the start-to-end goals of either of these characters? Why do we want to root for them? The film retreads familiar tropes of alcoholism and the rock star life but neither gives the viewer little stake in the issues at hand nor a coherent message to take away beyond the cycle of drug and alcohol abuse and a thin parallel to music. I’m sorry, but it’s just...weak.
   
   But in all honesty, despite these glaring gaps in its emotive intent, the film is very well put together. Like a pop song though, it’s an impressive package that pretends emotion, but is cavernously hollow beneath the surface.
   
   Two and a half stars out of five. 5 years 5 months ago
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   satisfythecrave

   *Bradley Cooper voice* I just wanna take another look at the first act. 5 years 5 months ago
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   Emiam

   7/10
   Remake of classics from 1937, 1954 and 1976. The latest of so far 4 movies on the same theme with the same name. The first two are about movie stars, the last two are about music stars. It becomes, I think, somewhat more touching when it comes to music - where it is possible to express emotions in a better way. Fantastic music (by Cooper to)! Something long can happen. Great acting by the leads (by Gaga too)!
   (Sep 2020, Popcorn Time) 3 years 7 months ago

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