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My review-if anyone cares

posted 6 years ago by movielover718 (293)
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First I will say iam a semi Gaga fan but not really, some her music is good that’s all I like.

Her acting was actually very natural , the only scenes I think was “eh” was whenever she became angry like when she screamed at the beginning in the bathroom and by the end her punching the frames and throwing it.

Bradley was amazing. His acting,his singing.

The movie was long but it needed to be long for us to understand Gaga and Bradley ,however the ending was totally rushed and didn’t live up to what I thought it could be.

SPOILERS

THE WHOLE ISSUE with him going deaf seemed like it was going somewhere but it didn’t,I really wanted to know what she would do when she found her he was going deaf. (Also thought that would have been one possible ending with him going completely deaf and she not leaving his side.)
The ending with him doing
You know what was very random and out of the blue, they should have at least made it more tragic and sad (maybe Gaga coming
Home and seeing it,and her reaction) the movie was already long enough they could have gave us 19 more minutes of completing it perfectly.

Overall I enjoyed it,my friend who I went to see it with did not like it but she is a Gaga fan and I think she thought it be all about Gaga and singing 🙄 I like that it kinda felt 90”s(even heard the aol mail message in one scene)
7.5/10

[–] Ldlamb (639) 6 years ago

It wasn’t completely random....they made sure to plug in a scene that showed he’d had those thoughts since he was 13.

[–] jekporkins (1971) 6 years ago

They shoehorned that in towards the end, however. It came out of nowhere in the last third of the movie. They should have shown hints throughout the flick that he had these tendencies. Being an addict isn't the same thing. There should have been something that really explained it earlier. Like in the first half a couple comments such as "Lady Gaga, I drink because it blacks out the pain. If I quit drinking, the pain isn't numbed and I just can't live without it."

[–] movielover718 (293) 6 years ago

Exactly and I saw no hints of him becoming Suicidal,he seem to be doing good at the end not drinking and just one comment from Gaga’s manager drove him off the edge to kill himself ?!

[–] Ldlamb (639) 6 years ago

It could have been better......but the hints were that he tried to kill himself as a teen and he had no problem with possibly drinking himself to death now.

[–] mikeflatley (761) 6 years ago

I missed scene when he talkin 2 guy bout dat ceilin fan fallin down when tried it as a teen.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I thought the whole film was fantastic, beautiful, powerful, and heart breaking. A 9/10 from me.