Yeah, I think folks are really missing out due to faux-outrage and virtue-signaling. I’m seeing it all over Twitter and Facebook, too. People who have clearly not seen the film, but can describe it FAR better than you and I somehow. It’s crazy, but it’s their loss. I just hate to see quality work go unrewarded, and this film is quality work.
I even dropped Gosling a note on Twitter to thank him for doing this movie. I thought he was fantastic, and it probably never would’ve been made if he and Chazelle hadn’t decided to join the team.
I’m going to see it again. I’ve been going to the movies with a friend. We started last month. Let see, she had never seen Smokey and the Bandit. It was playing in honor of Burt. Of course, the movie with today’s standards was lame.
Then we went to see A Star Is Born. Both of us liked Lady Gaga, but what a downer movie. No one would ever see this a second time. Plus 2 hours and 15 minutes of a stupid story. A Star Is Born is a vehicle for a female singer, that ordinarily 1/2 the public would not know about, ie Judy Garland, and Barbar Streisand.
Anyway, thanks to the posting here, I went to see the movie MYSELF and loved it. I mean, I loved it.... and can’t wait to see it again with my friend.
We have some great people on this forum, but we have some out right stubborn ones, who will not admit they’re wrong, or even check something out.
But in all fairness, you must admit... the PR on this was terrible. Gosling should have kept his mouth shut. The flag is shown on the moon, and Armstrong salutes it...It’s plain as day. They decided NOT to show him hammering the flag into the ground. I think in retrospect Speilberg should have.
But there were a lot of things cut out of the movie. I mean 90 minutes to show the entire Pre Gemini, Gemini and Apollo missions?