Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)'s comments - page 2

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If you don't mention "amazing camera work" in your comment then you have no idea about camera work. Camera work was very good, single sequence shots were great. Did I mention camera work?
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Anyway, to the point, Birdman is a personal movie of the Hollywood industry. And so it is very understandable movie was honored by an Oscar. However, that doesn't mean an average movie watcher should praise it to the sky. Comments here are utterly overrated. Inarritu is a first class director with excellent pieces. Birdman is not in his top three. Additionally, I didn't like the fake sequence shots at all. The transitions via the walls were pretty boring to me.

5 years 3 months ago

danisanna

Bit pompous. Felt like a whole lot of talking about nothing.

7 years 1 month ago

Giacco

a truly amazing masterpiece.

7 years 9 months ago

zheller667

Loved it the first time. Read Film Crit Hulk's examination of the movie and my opinion has changed...unfortunately, the pretentiousness of Iñarritu and the disappointing hollowness of the movie lead it to be good, not great. I highly suggest reading FCH's examination, it's very well done. Birdman is still a fun ride, but I really wish I could dig deeper into it; unfortunately, nothing is there.

8 years 4 months ago

ClassicLady

The camera work and photography was phenomenal. The cinematography told most of the story. The staccato drumming and then harmonious music score gave it just the disjointed and powerful edge it needed to lift it into a chaotic and yet potent dialog between the self and mental illness. I don't think I truly understood all aspects of it or the points it was trying to make. But I grasped enough to know that this movie is a sleeper sensation.

8 years 8 months ago

affie

I truly don't understand why people think this movie is great. Can anyone plz explain it to me cause it really feels like I'm missing something. Yes, the camerawork was fuckin awesome, the acting, but what the fuck is the beauty of the story, I really don't see it. It almost feels like I wasted my time watching this, I don't wanna hate on this movie but I really don't understand it's greatness, also the ending. Wtf was that? I thought he was delusional thinking he could fly but then his daughter sees him flying in the end? I am really missing something here. Only the story keeps bothering me, the acting, the music and the camerawork was great, but WHAT THE FUCK AM I MISSING that I don't get why this received such a high rating?!?!
6/10

9 years 2 months ago

Francesco Leoni

It's worthwhile winning an Oscar. Brilliant and profound. About the camera work, which seems to have amazed everyone, I'd suggest to get over the technical fact (also because a fake long take with digital technology cant be compared on technical level and acting skills, with a movie, say, from '50) and appreciate the reason why this photography is so accurate. Here's an additional lens we could watch this movie with: in the era of superheroes movies, of internet, it's like there are no more certainties, no more authorities or figures to look at. We are searching for a higher form of humanity, an hypertrophic one, a deviated self to which we sacrifice so much on the altar of recognition and success, and in turn never being satisfied.

9 years 2 months ago

Limbesdautomne

It seems that Iñárritu tries to say us something, and then, we start to understand that, like his main character, it is mostly a hysteric and a incoherent speech.

Read more in French on La Saveur des goûts amers.

6 years 2 months ago

Natalee

The camera work amazed me but the story is very boring !! I wouldn't recommend this movie !

8 years 9 months ago

Rdgz_Dust_Speck

Critical Review in spanish / Reseña Crítica en español:

http://www.criticismo.com/birdman/

9 years ago

Yousef Mousa

Inarritu's absolute Masterpiece !!
Brilliant in every aspect especially when it comes to the camera work

9 years 3 months ago

Tiago Costa

Brilliant. Absolutely Fucking Brilliant.

Gosh Dammit, Michael Keaton.

The entire cast wow...

THE CAMERAWORK, THE EFFING CAMERAWORK!!!

This is just too great to put into words.

9 years 2 months ago

Borvaran

Beautifully well made, technically exquisite, but the plot, common, nihil nove sub sole.

9 years 3 months ago

The_Comatorium

What a show. I don’t particularly know what the show meant or if I was 100% into it, but what a goddamn show.

For those of you who aren’t aware, the film is shot in a way that looks like one long take. You can tell where the edits are, but the film chugs on like an engine through the entire run time. It didn’t come off gimmicky. It came off glorious. The fact that Emmanuel Lubezki was able to keep every single frame of this movie gorgeous as shit while still maintaining the longness of the shot is a true thing to watch. The film also had this rhythmic drum fill that permeated the entire film from start to finish. It was like a heartbeat, getting faster and louder as scenes unfold into chaos. It was such an opposite kind of feeling from the rest of Iñárritu’s work that it almost made me forget who made the film. His previous movies are all filled with depressing situations and heartbreaking performances. I laughed out loud in this film. I was having a fucking ball. The whole cast pretty much had be heaving. Well, maybe not Emma Stone’s character, but she was still sassy enough to give me a chuckle.

The acting is top notch. We’re going to see at least two major award nominations from this film. Keaton is the star. He is in nearly every scene and completely solidified himself as “back in form”. The film goes into a meta sense as I realized just how alike Keaton and his on screen character Riggan were. Both are actors who portrayed superheros in the 80s and have been away from the spotlight for some time. Both are trying to make a comeback and in the case for Keaton, he does, in a big way. The guy just hit it out of the park. Edward Norton steals every scene he is in. It reminds me a little of when Robert Downey Jr. got an Oscar nomination for Tropic Thunder because he was so goddamn funny. You could make the case for Melissa McCarthy as well but I don’t find her funny. Norton is going to complete that triangle. His character of Mike is so out of his mind that it can only be achieved by Norton, who is himself a lot like his on screen character. He was hysterical and also hammered in the scene chewing jobs just as well. Everybody else was fitting for their role. Emma Stone could sneak in the Oscars but honestly I felt her performance to be a bit overdone. Galafianakis was on point as always. I’ve considered him to be one of the best underrated actors for a while now. Watts finishes the top of the line up as she always does. She’s a professional and it shows.

The only reason I didn’t shower this film with praise is because there are so many subtleties in this film that I just can’t grasp them all right now. The ending left my head spinning a bit and there was a lot of dialogue I missed the meaning of because the film was rolling by my face at a million miles an hour. Will this affect my rating? Not really. It just makes this review a little shorter than usual.

See this film. It’s something that you’ll be thinking of for a long time and itching for a second viewing. I may have to see this again before it leaves theaters.

4.5/5

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9 years 4 months ago

nicolaskrizan

Vanitas!

https://beyond1001movies.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/1219/

8 years 2 months ago