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Post by Zeb31 on Nov 25, 2019 15:44:55 GMT
Agreed. It starts out interesting enough and that Matthew Libatique sure knows how to point a camera, but it begins to bleed pretty badly around the halfway mark and by the time we get to the ending Cooper has ditched everything that made the film compelling in the first place to completely sideline his co-star and give himself a non-stop succession of hollow, unearned Oscar clips. I generally dislike the term vanity project, but it's hard to argue that it isn't an apt description in this case. I wasn't expecting much from Gaga (oops), but she carried this entire film on her back, both with her performance and with her songs. Too bad she's reduced to a supportive wife trope so early on. The worst part of the whole film for me was when he cut flashback moments involving himself into the final number. That was a real low point and peak vanity on his part. Good lord, yes. Gaga's giving it 110% and selling the shit out of the song, and Cooper just has to undermine the entire scene like that.
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