it took 4 writers to simulate the howling self-absorption of Paddy Chayefsky gone New Age.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
Innaritu was married to four writers of shrill, shrieking fraud.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link
bar scene w/ drama critic was worthy of Jerry Lewis at his worst
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
did you just watch it?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
He's there right now
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah i was too busy catching up with good movies til now
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
I've condensed the watchable moments in this movie to Emma Stone on the roof and Edward Norton's first scene.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
"2nd rate all that jazz"
That is a pretty good film to be second rate to....
Depp ending sounds far better. Or just ending this movie pre-hospital which is how I basically imagine it ending. Critic scene is probably worst (well except maybe the pointless lesbian kiss) in the entire movie.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
didnt see point of Norton-Stone angle except hey, vicarious middle-aged male audience wank
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:54 (nine years ago) link
Is it cold atop yr high horse
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link
i feel like Keaton in his BVDs (when he's with yr mom)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
My mom's more of a Scotty McCreery woman
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 23 February 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link
@pareeneThe worst things about BordMang are the direction and script and the best thing was the acting so good work Academy
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
and ATJ isn't that great eitiher
It increasingly occurs to me that All About Eve is the exception to your taste levels, not the rule.
― Eric H., Monday, 23 February 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
found this unwatchable, insufferable. didnt make it to the end
― r|t|c, Monday, 23 February 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
― Eric H.,
I've seen our respective top ten lists. Race to the bottom (or top).
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
Enough Said
― Eric H., Monday, 23 February 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
up there with Crash in the Best Film winners this one
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 23 February 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
How quickly we all forgot The King's Speech.
No, I mean literally, how quickly we all forgot it.
― Eric H., Monday, 23 February 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Crash is by several measures worse than Birdman, The King's Speech a somnolent eighties prestige film throwback (remember when those were supposed to make a comeback?).
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Big Thinkpiece #2:
As for the big winner: Voters were obviously mad about Birdman, and everyone who was rooting for something else is … you know, mad about Birdman. It is possible to admire the exquisite craft and technical facility with which the movie was made, to be amused and charmed by its droll, darkly comic take on narcissism, artistic aspiration, and the fight of a creative individual to make a mark, and still feel a slight twinge of … This again? Another movie about showbiz and its lovable nutcases? There are stretches in which the Oscars seem to go into hibernation; think of the 1980s, when Chariots of Fire and Gandhi and Amadeus and Out of Africa and The Last Emperor won and it was hard to discern how much curiosity, or much of anything other than a desire to retreat from the world and the country into a kind of pictorial/historical splendor, the Academy had. In retrospect, I think those movies won not because Academy voters didn’t care about what was going on in America, but because they didn’t know what was going on with American movies. The 1980s — post–Raging Bull, pre–indie boom that began with 1989’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape — were a decade of uncertainty and trepidation about what American films were supposed to be, other than blockbusters.
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/decoding-the-2015-oscars-the-birdman-win-and-what-it-tells-us-about-hollywood/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
birdman was great btw anyone who hasn't seen it should watch it instead of reading this outraged tantrum of a thread
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 23 February 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
totally mcscrotally
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Monday, 23 February 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure to love it when i rescreen from my newly enlightened perspective
― rip van wanko, Monday, 23 February 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
there's hope for everyone yet thats shat I learnt from watching best picture tm birdman motherfuckers
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 23 February 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
uh what
Harris, as always and forever, OTM.
― Eric H., Monday, 23 February 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
His theory about eighties film (borrowing bits from A.O. Scott) makes sense, but nineties commercial filmmaking was just as confused. Look at that decade's BP winners.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
If the Academy's definition of "prestige" has drifted away from Out of Africa and Gandhi, it really doesn't matter at all what they've drifted toward IMO.
― Eric H., Monday, 23 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/OQwTawxZhI0
:-(
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
it could've been a flask
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
otm
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
read that as "outraged rectum of a thread"
punchier, imo
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
For a guy who's such the center of attention in all of his other movies, it's funny that no one mentions Zack Galifinakis in this.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
that was whatchoocallhim mr Hollands opus, not Zach. he was playing zach.
Dreyfuss thats the guy. it was Dreyfuss.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
i only see Zack Galifinakis when he's not the center; there have been others
this is another movie that tells you how great it is, well played
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
David Bordwell on structure, style and the "long take":
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2015/02/23/birdman-following-riggans-orders/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
I found the long-take in this distracting and not at all germane to the story, it drew attention to itself and seemed unnecessarily showy
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I actually really liked the long take as a means of condensing the story while keeping the focus on Riggan's crisis. It's a long take, but not real time, which is something different.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
it wasn't a long take either
going for Thursday as when someone actually reads the DB piece
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Well, yeah, it's not so much a long take (clearly, since there are traditional cuts) as the illusion of a long take, which I actually found less distracting/show-offy than the usual look-at-me long takes a la Scorsese/Anderson.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
I was using long-take for shorthand, it was p obvious to anyone paying attention from the get-go that it's not actually a long/single take
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
the wrong-shake(y)
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Just finished watching this for the second time, taking notes and trying to make sense of my first impressions. For the most part, I like it. I don't quite love it, and the insistent reach for ~significance~ that's always been an irritant in Inarritu's films still irritates here, but it's rich, funny, technically dazzling and hugely energetic.
where's do u see richness in this?
― Hungry4Ass, Friday, 27 February 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
razzle dazzle does the trick
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 February 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
What a great looking, intelligently cast stupid film. Mr. Iñárritu, watch some European Max Ophuls flicks to see what long takes with a good script and flesh and blood characters can accomplish! It's awesome, bro. Check it out.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
bartonfinkman was pretty entertaining. mostly bc of the drums.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 March 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
After 20 minutes I felt bad for the cast, the cinematographer and the drummer. 20 minutes is when gimmick fatigue set in and I realized these (mostly) talented folk had been coerced into a shitshow if epic proportions.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 2 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
*of
poor cast, cinematographer and drummer prbly won't have a careers after this one. what a disaster.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link