A Star Is Born (2018)

USA
directed by: Bradley Cooper
written by: Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters +Moss Hart (original screenplay), John Gregory Dunne (original screenplay), Joan Didion (original screenplay), Frank Pierson (original screenplay)
starring: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
seen on 6th March, 2019

People like Bradley Cooper, if I may judge him based on this debut, should be mandated by law to not make films longer than 100 minutes. That would make him to really think about what is important to see and what is just unbearable baggage that drags the story down. Perhaps then some subject matter would make an appearance, because we know there is something deeper in this story, it's just impossible to see it in this iteration.

Secondly, people like Bradley Cooper could, from time to time, admit to themselves that their acting abilities are not up to par to play a character with this kind of complexity. It's nice that he spent a year lerning how to play a guitar in a basement with the son of Willie Nelson, but who cares how he plays the guitar if his acting performance does not show any kind of progress during the frickin 136 minutes and his character stays the same the entire time.

Also, my ears and eyes started bleeding from those music and dance numbers. The reason for this might be that I usually do not come in contact with this kind of music, or perhapse because they really made sure to made Ally's music as shallow and superficial as possible. One of the songs starts with the words "Why do you look so good in those jeans?" Wtf, is that character supposed to be nineteen years old or what? If they even made that the source of friction in between them, that she makes shittier and shittier music to stay famous, but oh no, during the argument he rather barks at her that she's ugly.