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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Love love love the Judy Garland SIB, the song early on, The Man that Got Away, is amazing. It's too bad some scenes were lost, and have still photos used at those points. I also like the Janet Gaynor version because I like Fredric March.
I've never watched the one with Streisand, because I don't like her. We have the new one recorded but haven't watched it yet. I'm not really a Gaga fan, mostly because we don't really follow current music. She has a good voice, but nobody sings like Judy.
I'm of the opinion this movie didn't need remaking.
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I'm with you there. I liked the Cooper casting, and before anybody thinks "oh, yeah, her, well, he's hunky," that wasn't it. (Okay, mostly not it.) He did a nice job with the part.
But Garland and Streisand...I mean, talk about setting the bar. I didn't luv for Streisand's character portrayal, but she actually did a decent job with it. Better than I expected. And Kristofferson...well, he was bloody
perfect for it. Born to play that part.
But Gaga's voice ain't nuthin' to write home about. I mean, as I mentioned earlier, being a bit (ahem) older, I never followed or knew anything about "Xtina," (Christina Aquilera) and to my shame, wrote her off as some pop tartlet. Never gave her a moment's thought. One day, Mr. Htich and I are sitting here, nuthin' on the Boob Tube, we see this movie and altho it's been roundly panned, we both love Cher, (another enjoyable voice!) so I turn it on. Mostly as background noise, while we're both reading.
Holymother, when that girl opened her mouth in the big "the show must go on" scene, if I'dda had knitting, I'dda dropped it. The one song she'd done earlier, in the opening small-town-girl-in-the-cafe shtick, was nothing. This? I was amazed that I'd never heard her before, old or not. And she blows it out, in
every other piece, throughout.
THAT, to me, is the kind of moment I want, when I watch SIB. Garland, Streisand (honestly, can't pull the Gaynor version in my noggin, atm), they have that. Gaga simply doesn't and it really brought the quality of the film, the impact, all of it, down. Doooowwwwwn. Of course, that's must MHO, YMMV.
Hitch