A CURE IS BORN! A CURE FOR INSOMNIA!

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2018)

Once all the smoke clears and the back slapping and ass kissing are over, what will remain is just another cure for a tough case of insomnia. This was a horrible movie! Usually, once even a moderately successful movie ends, and the end credits roll, there is some chit-chat among the attendees as they file out of the theater . The discussions could be about anything...how someone's left foot fell asleep; the secret ingredient in Cousin Cathy's cubical Christmas cookies; how synthetic motor oil helps cure engine knock...just about anything at all. The point is, there's usually some kind of hub-bub going on as the crowd leaves the theater. Not in this case! Silence! The silence of the shocked and disappointed crowd was deafening and could not be ignored. I know, as fact, that as much as I dislike KrIs Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand, THEIR version of "A Star is Born" (1976) never put me to sleep. Not once! THIS version of "A Star is Born" (2018), with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, put me to sleep SEVERAL times, each time requiring the necessary elbow strikes from my wife--who was waging her own war against unconsciousness, but without the aural component I was emitting. I think you get the picture (no pun intended). This was a sleep-inducing, bad movie! Do NOT see it, as often as you can!