How can there be good, interesting, well-written, well-directed films like The Favourite, and Into the Spider-Verse, and BlacKKKlansman nominated and winning awards, and ALSO A Star Is Born? Is Lady Gaga that popular? Are people that tired of thinking about films? Even Green Book (or How To Solve Racism In Eight Weeks) was better than this...
First off, I hate country music and most pop. So that could already put me solidly outside the demographic circle for this film. Secondly, people who say Lady Gaga is ugly have never seen a real ugly person. Is she ugly when compared to what the beauty and modeling and film industries have been telling us is beautiful for decades? Sure, but she's not ugly. She's barely movie ugly. You want ugly? Steve Buscemi is fucking ugly. He's talented as fuck, but he is someone H.P. Lovecraft would have slapped eyes on and then described as "batrachian". He's the child of Grendel and Gollum. And if HE had been discovered, singing French songs in drag by a drunken Bradley Cooper, I would have completely believed that "people like the way he sings, but they call him ugly". But Lady Gaga? Her face is a little weird. To me, this device is maybe one or two steps above the "ponytails and glasses make hot girls not hot" device that's been used, overused, beaten to death, exposed, parodied, AND THEN REBEATEN TO DEATH for years. It's sloppy. Something Oscar worthy films should not be.
Then there's all the trite shit that's trudged out for the billionth time for everyone to be surprised and impressed with. Ugh.
Look, I know this is a remake...of a remake, I think?...but I don't care. You know what needs a remake? The Silent Hill video game franchise. Resident Evil is cleaning up and we still have to contend with PSOne era graphics and controls if we want to experience the first Silent Hill. I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED BY THIS RUSTY BLOB!
Also, I know he's become his own thing and a goddamn Oscar magnet, but I cannot see Bradley Cooper without seeing Michael Ian Black absolutely fucking the shit out of him in Wet Hot American Summer. I know Cooper would probably have been discovered at some point, but the fact that David fucking Wain put him in his first movie...aaahhh! Deeelicious. I prefered Gaga in American Horror Story. Her funkiness made more sense.
Now, as for Vice, I knew NOTHING about this film, not even a trailer. I heard Adam McKay had written and directed and I was stoked. In the end, I thought it would be funnier and I don't see the point of it. Okay, evil man in politics. Yeah. We're there guys. It's happening NOW. This did deserve Best Make-Up though. And Bale MIGHT be my pick for Best Actor for how hard he threw himself into Cheney. He must REALLY hate who he really is to be so good at taking on other roles... I'd hate to ever ruin a take on his set by checking a light... Someone suggested I check out The Big Short, but I saw a trailer and I don't need to. The twist though? Wow, masterfully done. Plus, Bale looking directly down the barrel and saying "you chose me...and I did what you asked" is chilling and sad and please let's only have 690 or so days left in this caldera of piss and shit and blood and fire and hate please.
Biggest problem: Sam Rockwell did not dance. I am heartbroken by this sad fact. But, we got to see how awesome a couple Lois Lane and Batman would be so.....ugh. I'll stop.
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