Wow... A STAR IS BORN snub?! — Page 6

Not sure how this has been kept under wraps for so long, but the trucker-looking guy who cruises Freddie Mercury in the movie is...

Adam Lambert?!?

http://www.newnownext.com/adam-lambert-bohemian-rhapsody-cameo/01/2019/

I saw the movie last night and was surprised by how dull it was. The first half-hour or so, improbable as it was, was entertaining. But from the moment for the producer approaches her, it turns into a rote, unwritten melodrama that left me largely disinterested. It doesn't help that Lada Gaga's "pop" songs weren't very good. (We know she and her writers are capable of better.) The relationship between Jackson and his brother didn't pack the punch it should have (and it didn't help when I often didn't understand what Jackson was saying anyway). I didn't care about Ally and her father, who were basically comic relief. The Grammy sequence felt over-the-top to me. And then, towards the end, we find out that Jackson tried to kill himself when he was quite young. Which seems, uh, relevant to the story they were trying to tell?

I thought the acting by Lady Gaga was OK, but she only really shines when she's singing, especially early on. That's no small thing in a movie that's about an unknown singer with star quality. But the weak script does her no favors as the movie plods along, and she couldn't overcome it. Bradley Cooper is a good actor, but he pretty much does the same thing almost from the start of the film. It got old.