Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Funny, but the only award the film has won so far was in ITALY!!! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517451/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1 Venice Film Festival 2018 Winner Smithers Foundation Award Collateral Award Bradley Cooper It's an American association. But even if they were Italian, whores are everywhere...

A Star is Born (2018) Bradley Cooper 2/10 Yeah. Sad but true. Now just read - if you have the courage - what the Americans on this board think of this movie (in the Star is Born thread). The way they reacted to it (or they say they did - some of them clearly didn't really like it but have to preten...

A Star is Born (2018) Bradley Cooper 2/10 Yeah. Sad but true. Now just read - if you have the courage - what the Americans on this board think of this movie (in the Star is Born thread). The way they reacted to it (or they say they did - some of them clearly didn't really like it but have to preten...

Big Magilla wrote: Lady Gaga, though, is sublime throughout. Her acting is strong

Love your irony

Reza wrote: (doesn't help when the drag queens look more appealing than the leading lady)

Reza wrote:
I still haven't seen it but I'm amazed at the response by the critics. Almost unanimous praise.

And at least critics SHOULD know about the previous versions...

I I still haven't seen the latest version of A Star Is Born . . Even now, I could tell you exactly the reaction each member of this board will have to that movie. Those who will love it, those who will basically like it, those who will hate it... It's like a Rorschach test on our attitude to today'...

it's about her being a bad actress). Well, in my repressed and reserved mind "While manifesting a pleasant presence and likeability, if not necessarily an exceptional acting ability" is as harsh a statement as yours, but MY mother taught me to be polite and always say something nice befor...

I was so hungry for subtext - any kind of subtext - in A Star Is Born that I realized that I was listening to the scenes between Bradley Cooper and Sam Elliott with the same kind of gratitude I would reserve to Harold Pinter. Needless to say, these scenes are really quite superficial, but they seem ...

The Insult (Ziad Doueiri, 2017) 8/10 Needless to say, the Americans on this board quickly rejected this movie and its subtle (though powerful) implications - but then I am not even sure they know where (or what) Lebanon is :D They like Hereditary though :wink: Which Americans? I loved it, thought i...

The Insult (Ziad Doueiri, 2017) 8/10 Powerful if heavy handed film, inspired by the Lebanese Civil War, speaks a universal truth about humans who, in the absence of a sense of closure, are unable to control their political hatred and prejudice which continues to grow and fester in their souls. The ...

It thinks it's Chekhov or Ibsen, when it's not even John Patrick Shanley. Yes - amd considering the locations and the director, one could have also mentioned certain Swedish directors and playwrights that it think it is :) But maybe because I went with very low expectations, I wasn't that disappoin...

I'm more in line with Mister Tee's take than those that flat-out HATED it . Yes - I can imagine one hating, say, Caligula or even - though it is a masterpiece - A Clockwork Orange... but hating The Wife?! Indifference, I can understand - but hatred is a bit too much honestly. Or maybe I'm just too ...

I's a pleasant (if overlong) anedocte on a subject which shouldn't be pleasant nor anedoctal. And the final, recent real-life scenes, while definitely disturbing, feel even too urgent and important compared to what we have seen before. One can't deny that the movie is well-made, at times very well e...

I know that some here won't agree - they CAN'T - but like it or not ideas can also be judge (by many) based on those who most passionately represent them - and undertandably so. A movement is defined not only by the principles it adheres to, but also by the people who lead it. And there's always so...