What?!

Rating: 4/10 (1 March 2019)

I'm sorry but what did I just watch? I didn't see this in theaters and I saw it in Redbox a couple times before I decided to rent it. In my mind I thought that it wasn't going to be anything I haven't already seen, a tragic love story. I like Lady Gaga, and Bradley Cooper, and this was a decent cast or actors. And if I watched it on mute I'd say it was shot well. It's the story and the characters that ruin this story.
Jack in a pill popping alcoholic with NO REDEEMING QUALITIES!! Ally is a singer/song writer who can't get into the industry because she's been told she doesn't have the right look (I get that, the industry is messed up. They want you to change this, fix that, lose weight, dye your hair, change who you are, and be like someone else etc)
Ally meets a drunk Jack one night and he tells her she's beautiful and tells her she's talented (and apparently that's enough for her to throw herself in his arms and run into the sunset.)
Ally sings a snippet of something she came up with on the fly in her head about the feeling she gets from Jack (tell me something boy..) and the next night Jack gets her to come to his show, invites her on stage, and they sing Shallow as if there was a scene I missed where they spent the night putting the song one paper together..
*the crowd goes wild*
Everyone loves it and Ally goes on tour with him singing this one song Shallow. Then Ally becomes an INSTANT STAR!
The song Shallow is what? A country song that has its foot in the door of pop? Jack is a country artist?
Ally gets signed and next thing you know she's making some kind of pop album and dying her hair orange and now she's doing dance rehearsals with back up dancers? By the end of this movie I still don't know what kind of artist she is.. first country, then pop princess, then soulful like Whitney Houston at the end.. I don't get it.
She marries Jack for reasons I don't understand.. because he believed in her? Because he said she was beautiful? Because he said she was talented? He just stays drunk the whole time!
(I get it. Addiction is a desease. Addicts need love too. But you got to have redeeming qualities. You have to want to be a better person. You have to want to fight and strive to be better for yourself and to be a better person for someone else. Was Jack that? No.)
Ally wins a Grammy for best new artist for music that sounded just mediocre and Jack stumbles on stage wasted talking nonsense and pisses himself in her spotlight.. WHAT?! Is there no security in this place?! He stumbles and sits on the steps for a minute and you don't think no one would go up and be like "let me help you back to your seat, man." Of course not. AND SHE STAYS WITH HIM! What is so amazing about this man?!
*this already contains spoilers so I'm just going to go there*
Ally goes on tour and Jack is supposed to be there to perform Shallow with her, but he has gotten drunk and hung himself in their garage. (This was by far the best shot in the movie, not that we didn't see it coming, but it was executed extremely well.) THE END.
They say the movie is coming back to theaters for one week with, get this, TWELVE additional minutes which will undoubtedly save this sinking ship but whatever. If you read this I thank you :)