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Birdman
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Cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
Release Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2014
MPAA Rating: R
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Leave a commentThe makers of Birdman portrayed the results of a life of dissipation and false reality brilliantly.
Including and especially the resulting dementia from alcoholism.
There hasn’t been a film or story like this since “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.”
Birdman should win every category it has been nominated for at the Academy Awards.
Seemed like it was written by a high school student and, while watching, I could never get over the uncomfortable way that it was shot…almost left more than once. The movie reminded me of other highly acclaimed but ultimately forgettable movies like The Crying Game and La Cage Au Folles. Artsy-fartsy to the extreme and not worth my time.
Fifteen minutes into the movie, I realized that I hated every character and no longer cared what happened to any of them (the only remotely sympathetic character was the ex-wife. I felt the same way about “Lost in Translation.” If you left all the F-bombs out of the script, the movie would have been only about half an hour long. The opening and closing credits felt like watching “Wheel of Fortune.” Otherwise, I really enjoyed it.