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Watched the first hour of A Star Is Born last night and...OMG, the still photos use has got to be the single most jarring thing i've ever seen in a film. I had no clue about it and had to stop the movie to find out wtf was going on. Would much rather have watched it with that cut entirely as it seriously threw me off. It's when it happens as well; it first happens right after Esther says goodbye to Danny and the others then suddenly we are looking at production stills of Norman/Mason on a boat then Esther at some womans house, i still don't have a clue what was going on during this part it was just way too offputting to take any of it in. Like it's straight up unpleasant and you miss an important part of the story with Esther's situation completely shifting and new characters being introduced and who the fck knows what's going on with Norman, that's obviously not their fault (well it's whoever messed the footage ups fault) but still, very unfortunate. Good effort on attempting a restoration but uh...no! Had to stop it at that point watching the other two hours shortly.
Also i think i'd bump my rating of BPM up to + at least as i couldn't stop thinking about it all day. It bestows a crushing sense of mortality and makes it clear just how severe and tragic this disease is and especially was in the 80's/90's when there was seemingly not much hope. I mean i'm not an idiot i already knew all of this but i didn't think a fictional film could hit me this hard after i watched Silverlake Life, it has and in a very different way. Particularly in how seamlessly the film shifts from them throwing around fake blood and putting on parades to them dying. When it decides to depict death/dying it lets us into these peoples lives who we've only got to know in small superficial dose up to this point. it was very effective. The sex scene where they explain how they contracted it and condom use/the risk of infection is kind of always on your mind because of how it begins, especially won't leave my brain that scene is so dark yet really emotional too. It's weird that i recognized all of this while watching but it didn't effect me as much, i found it sad but it wasn't until first thing this morning that it entered my brain and kind of destroyed me, was like a powerful aftershock. It's absolutely not perfect and it's not really something i'd give 4.5 or higher because it feels longer than it should be, parts like certain act up meetings are really unnecessarily drawn out to the point that it was impossible for me to care throughout but the parts that work work alot and it had an intense lingering effect on me.
Also i think i'd bump my rating of BPM up to + at least as i couldn't stop thinking about it all day. It bestows a crushing sense of mortality and makes it clear just how severe and tragic this disease is and especially was in the 80's/90's when there was seemingly not much hope. I mean i'm not an idiot i already knew all of this but i didn't think a fictional film could hit me this hard after i watched Silverlake Life, it has and in a very different way. Particularly in how seamlessly the film shifts from them throwing around fake blood and putting on parades to them dying. When it decides to depict death/dying it lets us into these peoples lives who we've only got to know in small superficial dose up to this point. it was very effective. The sex scene where they explain how they contracted it and condom use/the risk of infection is kind of always on your mind because of how it begins, especially won't leave my brain that scene is so dark yet really emotional too. It's weird that i recognized all of this while watching but it didn't effect me as much, i found it sad but it wasn't until first thing this morning that it entered my brain and kind of destroyed me, was like a powerful aftershock. It's absolutely not perfect and it's not really something i'd give 4.5 or higher because it feels longer than it should be, parts like certain act up meetings are really unnecessarily drawn out to the point that it was impossible for me to care throughout but the parts that work work alot and it had an intense lingering effect on me.
Cool that you watched it though
