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I agree with this :( by fabio 04/22/2015, 12:06am 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!


Holy shit was this thing Robert Altman does Radioland Murders. I wanted to say Aaron Sorkin for all the walk & talk, but even Sorkin never wrote dialog this bad.

I only made it up to Ed Norton's freak out. None of the movie was any better than the intentionally shitty play they were putting on. Was everyone gizzing over this for the same reason they gushed about The Artist?

What a fucking wasteland the Best Picture category has been for the past 20 years (with the exception of No Country). Compare that list to the winners prior to 1994.
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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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