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Re: Birdman by fabio 10/28/2014, 6:00am PDT
Vested Id wrote:

More like Birdy Rock :D :

Hope you love walk and talk, a director with a tin ear for dialogue, tinner ear for culture (hopefully you already know about Raymond Carver going in), a lot of real cool references, and unintended irony all over the place - a character who knows all the LINES and has a face full of LINES, a scene where it looks like two girls may make out then they do, a scene where two guys look like they might make out then they beat each other up instead. Whenever they remember the main character is supposed to be a little crazy things become more interesting, though they don't even come close to making sense of those parts at all, they're just there to give you a break from the incredibly familiar tropes and incredibly naked intentions.

It's a lot closer to movies like Radioland Murders and Oscar than you would think, with brief splashes of Amelie (the schizophrenia parts).

He lets you know right from the beginning what kind of movie this is going to be with a literal riff on the opening credits of Pierrot le Fou, for no apparent reason and in a cornier way than you could expect.

One take!


That's how I feel whenever I hear people go off on how great Robert Altman is. Not only is incomprehensible, overlapping dialog the most overrated innovation in cinema, but everyone acts like the long take in the opening to The Player was not only never done before, but that it was never done better and far less self-referential and masturbatory.
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Birdman by Vested Id 10/28/2014, 5:15am PDT NEW
    Re: Birdman by fabio 10/28/2014, 6:00am PDT NEW
        Re: Birdman by Vested Id 10/28/2014, 6:28pm PDT NEW
            I can't decide what i hate more about Boomer movie tastes by fabio 10/28/2014, 7:44pm PDT NEW
                How would anyone know they hated boomers if M*A*S*H was never made NT by Vested Id 10/28/2014, 10:58pm PDT NEW
                    The Big Chill NT by Fullofkittens 10/29/2014, 4:42am PDT NEW
    I agree with this :( by fabio 04/22/2015, 12:06am PDT NEW
    I gave up on this after an hour, and I sat through The Interview by Rafiki 05/02/2015, 8:40am PDT NEW
        A pure dialog movie with a tin ear by fabio 05/02/2015, 11:28am PDT NEW
 
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