This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
No amount of good looking actors can make up for boring set designs.
We’ve all seen the slow-no ship landing rubbish before. I didn’t need to spend 10 minutes of this movie trying to appreciate exceptionally boring ship designs.
And how baffling it is to have 2 main locations featured on completely different planets and still look vaguely similar. There was no effort to disguise that all shots filmed “indoors” had made zero effort to experiment with lighting.
And I…
The first 15 minutes were fun, light hearted and Gaga’s performance had me excited for what she could pull out of the bag. The idea of Scorsese directing to add a gangsta type twist to the characters was thrown out by the romance story developing. But after roughly the 40 minute mark, my thoughts had changed.
How Ridley Scott managed to get so much right and so much wrong has baffled me. Set and costume design were fantastic, scripted dialogue felt…
