BRIDGES in Crazy Heart or COOPER in A Star Is Born

Bridges. I liked Cooper but this isn’t even that close.

Cooper, if only because he's never given a performance like this before whereas Bridges was pulling from decades of previous work. Cooper's performance in ASIB was more surprising and fresh than Bridges in Crazy Heart.

I like Cooper - his best on-screen perf - but being overrated and not just in comparison to Bridges but in comparison to Duvall. It's not an Oscar winning worthy performance to me - which is fine a lot win that aren't great but he got shown up by his co-star (again) and imo I am not sure he's really the front runner like people claim..........there's some "there" there if he wins great I do get it.........but ....... no one is showing up Viggo or Bale or Clint.

I know people think he's better than Gaga but not to me he wasn't - not really. That's what he does, stand by your gal dream boat in movie romances. It's his best film work and even that isn't saying that much to me, not really sure he deserves this default front runner tag.

Bridges. Cooper's got a pretty good handle on the singing but so much of the performance comes off as Fisher Price My First Alcoholic-level acting that it leaves me shaking my head in retrospect. Bridges, meanwhile, brought so much nuance and heartache to his character, and his boozing felt germane to his character, rather than simply being a plot obstacle.