Posted on 01/22/2019 3:53:06 PM PST by EdnaMode
No one with sound priorities.
Hahaha. Yup. :D
Yup. James Woods is a perfect example.
Yea, wasn’t he on TV at a time?
Don’t they give him an award every year?
Send him back to the trash can of life and weld down the lid along with the rest of the Hollywood Elite.
One good movie in the bunch, it’s the nominee for Best Foreign Picture, the Polish movie “Cold War”.
Black Panther was pathetically bad. Bad CGI in the final fight scene with distorted characters and every African stereotype in the book, the “Gorilla” clan making ape sounds and the people with the plates in their mouths just to name a few. Also, it was boring - I fell asleep in the middle.
Typo:
You’d better have a SOCIALIST message.
Speaking of which, isn’t it time for another movie about some heroic commie who was so-called blacklisted? We rubes need one of those every 5 -10 years to be reminded how virtuous actors are.
I never even heard of this A Star Is Born.
Is it a remake. Or remake of a remake?
Or is it original and uses the same name? M
It’s a disgrace that Cooper and A Star is Born weren’t nominated. It’s a great movie, I guess he didn’t offend enough people with it.
Remake of a remake of a remake.
This is actually the 4th version of A Star if Born, the 5th if you count a Bollwood version with a different title that I read about.
The first is a straight drama from 1937, the second is the most famous, with Judy Garland and James Mason (she sings, but he doesn’t, big number: the man that got away), a musical one from the 1970s with Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, I always think it might be called “the Rose” but I’m never sure if that’s right or not, and this new one.
It’s really an excellent movie. Nothing is laid on too thick. There’s a scene in a drag bar, but nobody is going on about respect us, respect us; there’s a scene where the performers are saying a prayer before they go on stage, but again, you’d have to be a pretty thin skinned atheist to be offended by it. There is some sex, but it’s not graphic, one full frontal shot of Lady Gaga that actually isn’t “sexy”. And the songs are really good. Willie Nelson’s son is in the band in the movie, and he wrote some of the songs along with Lady Gaga. She is quite believable as an ordinary girl, not someone whose already a world famous singing star. Andrew Dice Clay plays her father and their interactions are very true to life. It is an adult movie, to be sure, but not everything needs to be for 12 year olds, I’m sure most here would agree.
I’ve only seen this one and the first one, I do want to see the Garland/Mason one, maybe I’ll watch it while I boycott the Oscars.
The new one is on pay-per-view, etc. by now, but is still playing in some theaters.
Also, include Clint Eastwood and Jon Voight.
I remember the Garland and Stresand ones.
I forgot or never knew about the 1930’s one.
The Rose had Bette Midler.
The documentary about her is up for nomination. (How much do you want to bet it will win?)
Just my opinion: I watched the Judy Garland version on cable recently. It was AWFUL. It’s a very long movie—2 1/2 hours long with a lot of forgettable musical numbers, one that I thought would never end. Also, I thought Garland looked old and not very attractive. Maybe because it’s a 1950’s movie—not a good decade for film.
“The Rose had Bette Midler.”
AH HA! Thanks!
That first Star is Born is pretty good, and it has a really, really weird little bit at the end. After the big sob story ending, they put up a shot of what looks like a script page describing the very end you just watched. It almost looks like it was a mistake. I tried googling it, and even asked my movie buff friend about it, but I wasn’t ever able to get an explanation. It was very post modern for such an old movie.
It’s a back-from-the-dead thread!
The British version of the Oscar is the BAFTA.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” may be competing for seven BAFTA Awards at this Sunday’s ceremony, but director Bryan Singer is no longer nominated. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has officially removed Singer’s name from the “Bohemian Rhapsody” nomination for Best British Film following new allegations of sexual misconduct against the director.
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