A Star is Born

Well, I loved it.

You forget how good Gaga's voice is. I could quite happily listen to her singing the phone book all day long.

Saw this this eve..Oscars alert! Lady G is excellent in all depts....But I feel that Cooper is the star that really shines through...Acting and importantly direction is top notch. First half is stunning..Drifts down a little as gaga returns to her normal self stlye wise...But this really is an unmissble debut for Cooper in a directional role...

I’m in the ‘I loved it’ camp too

Oscar noms for sure. Thought Gaga was absolutely superb - it’s sort of annoying because it proves she literally can do everything - but also it was the first time I’ve watched Bradley Cooper and gone ‘you really are an excellent actor’. Thought his direction was all fantastic.

My first introduction to A Star Is Born and I was a mess at the end.

Watched this for a second time tonight (I was lucky enough to be at the UK premiere but felt pressure to Be Cool and not sob my way through) and I just really love this film. The cinematography is beautiful, the music and love story hit all the right emotional notes for me AND there's the cutest dog in it. I'll probably go a third time soon enough!

I also didn’t quite get the scene where she punched the guy in the bar. It was like that aggression came out of nowhere and that side of her personality was never revisited again.

There is something about Bradley Cooper that puts me off. He looks like an evil dolphin. However You all make it sound like a film worth watching. However if you want to see a great performance by a woman watch The Wife with Glenn Close. Film performance of the year.

Well there you go, a weekend in and its already made well over its budget back in box office takings. 😂😂

I just got back from seeing this. I would agree with the other posters that the first hour is by far the best part - after that I started checking my watch every so often. The leap from budding newcomer to grammy-nominated pop princess came too fast for me and I also didn't like that Gaga's Ally changed from a fairly natural-looking young singer to this super-glammed up look, practising dance routines and so on, I'd rather see her stick with a country music trajectory or something. But I suppose the "pop princess" à la Beyoncé (and indeed Lady Gaga herself) is currently the best a female performer can aspire to.

Always been a fan of her and I thought she was terrific and worth seeing this for. Cooper was okay as an actor for me, but as a director I would like to see him hung, drawn and quartered for over-use of the shaky handheld camera. It doesn't lend "authenticity" or "edginess" to a movie as directors seem to believe, it just gives me a headache.

Figures that the only one I recognized apart from the two leads was the kid from Hamilton.

Saw this at the weekend as well, can only really echo what everyone else said.

I thought that she was going to have some sort of epiphany during the SNL performance and start seeing a 'deep and meaningful' song. It felt bizarre that they had set her up to be a serious performer then it changed to just a normal pop princess. Lady Gaga was brilliant obviously.

When Bradley's character does what he does at the end the audience actually gasped. I wanted to shout 'did you not see that coming a mile off?!'

It was shot beautifully as well though, made it very compelling to watch.

I enjoyed it for what it was, ie inevitably very Hollywood hokum. However, in some ways I preferred the film I saw immediately afterwards (Private Life), which was un-showy and talky and took its time creating credible, rounded, sympathetic characters and left the end open. No, I am not comparing like with like and A Star Is Born does indeed deliver exactly what you'd expect and is undeniably great entertainment.

Saw it yesterday. She was very good (for god’s sake don’t let Madonna see it, she’ll go mad) but the idea that some slightly grungy Joni Mitchell type would immediately sell out like that seemed rather far fetched, not least because she is too old to be sent down that particular route. The songs in the first half were good, the rest very meh and that big one she sang at the very end... sorry but she didn’t pull that off. You need a Whitney type for that sort of number and as talented as LG is, she’s not got that sort of voice. In fact that song seemed totally at odds, style-wise, from everything else in the film.

I thought the drag scenes were unnecessary and forced, maybe a cynical ruse to pull the gays in, but not necessary because they’ll be going anyway. Willam was wooden AF.

I thought Bradley Cooper was lovely in it. Very sad and vulnerable. And for a directorial debut there were some really great moments. I don’t think it’s the five star film that people are saying it is though. 

I agree with what others have said, the pacing was all over the place and there was no sense of how long this all took place. Ally going from serious performer to manufactured pop star made no sense. It's also at least 20 mins too long.

At the end many of the women around me were sobbing.

My favourite part was the nod to Judy Garland when she sang the intro to 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'
A nice directorial debut, but not deserving of all the praise it's received.