A good movie

To be honest, when I heard they were coming up with a 4^th version of this story, I can’t say I was really excited by this idea. However, since it had been very well received, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I was still not blown away by the story. Indeed, it was still rather generic and, above all, they could have removed the ‘evil’ producer who was just lame and unnecessary. Still, I have to admit that I still did enjoy the damned thing, in fact, I liked it even more than the classic version starring Judy Garland. Indeed, what made this movie really worked were the really strong performances from both Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga who had some great chemistry together. Concerning Bradley Cooper, I wasn’t really surprised as the guy has slowly became one of the most interesting actors at work nowadays, something I didn’t expect following his breakthrough with ‘The Hangover’. Above all, I was quite impressed by Lady Gaga. Of course, you might argue that to play a singer was not such a huge stretch for her but many singers tried something similar before and failed miserably (Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey,…). Eventually, I thought she was terribly convincing as Ally who was in fact nothing like Lady Gaga herself and, as I mentioned before, her chemistry with Bradley Cooper was really neat. Finally, I really loved many of the songs played during this movie which was a rare thing for me. While watching this flick, I couldn’t help thinking that it was a pity that Lady Gaga had spent much of her career with some rather annoying pop songs when she is in fact a really strong singer. Anyway, to conclude, even I still think it was nothing original, I have to admit that it was actually a really decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.