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Post by alece10 on Dec 21, 2023 18:23:03 GMT
Watched this yesterday and I'm afraid I didn't really like it.
I liked the music but found the film dreary.
Half in black and white and half in colour. Actors kept talking over each other and so I couldn't hear what either of them were saying. Lots of long pauses in dialogue with the actor (mostly Bradley Cooper) just staring at the camera.
I felt it was a bit of a vanity project for Bradley Cooper as he starred in it, directed it, wrote it and produced it.
This will all mean that everyone else will love it and it will win loads of awards.
And i think half the budget must have gone on cigarettes.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 21, 2023 22:21:19 GMT
The clips I have seen look incredible in terms of capturing the essence of the man. More than just the make up, it is clear that Cooper really did his homework.
I will watch on Netflix as soon as I have a window.
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Post by showgirl on Dec 22, 2023 4:09:54 GMT
Some of us commented on this in the "Last Film You Saw" thread (I refuse to say "watched"; is this a US English usage?); on the whole those who did enjoyed it, but not all. I was at another film yesterday where I discussed it with someone who, like me, had liked it and had been amazed by the make-up.
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Post by alece10 on Dec 22, 2023 4:54:47 GMT
Some of us commented on this in the "Last Film You Saw" thread (I refuse to say "watched"; is this a US English usage?); on the whole those who did enjoyed it, but not all. I was at another film yesterday where I discussed it with someone who, like me, had liked it and had been amazed by the make-up. Sorry didn't realise this had already been mentioned on another thread. Curious as to what word you would use instead of "watched"? |
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Post by jek on Dec 22, 2023 11:23:20 GMT
I'm one of the people who commented on this in the other thread. I really enjoyed seeing it at the Barbican Cinema. I have since watched it on Netflix with my daughter (who had not seen it and who, as a music graduate, was interested in it) and I have to say that it wasn't a patch on seeing it in the cinema. Not only was it much better on a big screen (obvious, I know) but, as a hearing aid wearer, I had no difficulty hearing the dialogue in the cinema but on TV it was as alece10 described. And it was special hearing the London Symphony Orchestra at full tilt in the film, just as I so regularly hear them in the main hall of the Barbican. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 22, 2023 17:23:10 GMT
I was also at the Barbican and thought it was mostly great, I would of liked it to be a bit longer and explore the issues in more depth.
Carey Mulligan wax fantastic.
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Post by showgirl on Dec 23, 2023 4:02:26 GMT
Some of us commented on this in the "Last Film You Saw" thread (I refuse to say "watched"; is this a US English usage?); on the whole those who did enjoyed it, but not all. I was at another film yesterday where I discussed it with someone who, like me, had liked it and had been amazed by the make-up. Sorry didn't realise this had already been mentioned on another thread. Curious as to what word you would use instead of "watched"? Getting off-topic so apologies, but to me the obvious (& only) word is "saw". After all, why else would you go to the cinema except to see a film? And once there, surely it goes without saying that you would "watch" what you had gone to see? As well as finding the insidious creep of the (imo) puzzling use of the word "watched", I'm genuinely curious as to where this has come from. I have a horrible suspicion, however, that the same demographic (or nation, etc) is also responsible for the ghastly but all-too-prevalent error of saying you are excited "for" rather than "about". After all, substituting "for" means you are excited on behalf of, which is fine if that is your meaning, but if, as so often, the context suggests you are excited about seeing a production (audience member) or mounting it (venue), the misuse is bizarre and confusing. |
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Post by alece10 on Dec 23, 2023 8:42:03 GMT
I'd not thought of it like that before but I suppose I would go to "see" a show but I would "watch" something on TV.
Who knows these days what is right or wrong.
I have more of an issue with "season" instead of series and "dropped" instead of released.
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Post by karloscar on Dec 29, 2023 11:04:13 GMT
People have been happily watching television and films for many decades. It implies that it's something that you chose to give your attention to rather than something that happened to be playing in the background by chance. I'd be far happier that someone made the effort to watch my performance than just glanced at it in passing.
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Post by mkb on Dec 29, 2023 13:13:50 GMT
... I have more of an issue with "season" instead of series ... Richard Osman and Marina Hyde are asked about this in their most recent podcast ("The Rest is Entertainment") and spectacularly miss the point. They answer that "series" is the whole and "season" is a set of episodes, so a series can comprise multiple seasons. This completely misses the point that that's not how "series" used to be used. The common usage now is an Americanism that has taken over here I suspect. The use of "season" has the implied sense of the set of episodes being time-defined, whereas "series" suggests any number of consecutive events, so I think the American usage has some merit. |
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Post by Mr Snow on Jan 3, 2024 16:06:22 GMT
I found this a curious experience.
The format seemd to be to keep switching between long periods which were very, very talky and then long perods of music. The performances were the very opposite of natural film acting (I get how large a personality he was). Bit naughty how some of the music heard wasn't written by him without it being made clear at the time.
YET
it is unlike anything else I've seen Biopic or not.
it is true to itself and loved the period details.
it has some very strong moments.
I will watch agian on TV to decide; but I have a suspicion it will be best to leave it a year or so.
mmm yes a bit of a Vanity project but maybe it has something special???
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