Started by ace3g, May 31, 2013, 08:28:54 PM
Quote from: ace3g on Aug 28, 2014, 03:17:08 AMhttp://screenrant.com/birdman-michael-keaton-reviews-preview/early reviews
Quote from: Aspie on Aug 01, 2014, 02:42:13 AMNeed to see this immediately.
Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Sep 25, 2014, 09:41:58 PMI want this movie...
Quotethere are a lot of things you can say about Alejandro González Iñárritu as a filmmaker, but you'd probably never say he's playful. He's often thuddingly serious and literal, which is why I find all of his movies to be absolute f**king chores. Babel is like a parody of a big, serious movie, and the Keaton speech would be right at home in Babel. Has Iñárritu lightened up and seen how silly he is, or is this just more of his Serious Artist stuff?
QuoteI felt like it was written by a bitter film student who couldn't handle wannabe-film majors who snicker and fall asleep during arthouse films. So, Iñárritu has to make a film where his characters monologue about TRUTH and ART and even has the titular character address the audience saying all we love is mayhem and explosions.
QuoteAs for the plot twist or the double reversal or whatever it is that comes toward the end of the film, I'm dying to debate that but of course I won't, except to say that it's completely misguided and makes "Birdman" feel like an immensely ambitious gimmick that finally crashes to earth. I think the movie is far more interesting, more daring and more deeply confused than its dopey magic-realist escape valve. It is a work devoured by its own ambition, consumed by the very thing it vilifies. It's obvious Oscar bait – a mid-budget showbiz satire, loaded with stars – that decries the Oscar process, in the words of Hunter's critic character, as a bunch of vain and empty people giving each other awards for cartoons and pornography. (That's not something an actual critic would ever say: Oscar movies are often terrible, but not in that precise way.) It's a work of sparkling, witty entertainment that yearns to soar above all such things, even though its hero and its creator both know how the Icarus story ends.
