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Originally Posted by John_W
I saw Birdman rather late, after they had brought it back for a second run at Spanish Springs sometime in January. The theater was packed and about an hour into the movie I was still wondering why people would say this was so great. It was different but that doesn't always mean it's good.
At about the one hour mark, Birdman returns to his dressing room and begins to thrash it about, throwing things here and there and dropping the F word over and over. The couple in front of us, got up and left, they were the only ones but I could see why they didn't like what was on the screen.
The next hour of the film Birdman started to do more of his supernatural effects plus the getting locked out in the alley scene in which he has to walk blocks around the theater to get back in, wearing just his underwear. Now, you'll understand why they did that routine at the Academy Awards, it was a take-off on that scene.
The second hour the film went from a 6 to an 8 in my movie scoring. It became a really good film and lifted the entire movie to a greater height. My only regret was the couple in front of us missed something really good. In comparison, I guess it came across kind of artsy in the way that Brokeback Mountain came across.
I gave Birdman an 8 but I gave American Sniper a 10, so I guess they did pick the wrong film to win.
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I finally got around to watching all of
Birdman and found it quite deep overall but not as good as
American Sniper. I will assume that the people on TOTV in 2065 will be having the same kind of conversation about these two films. They should last in other words.
I did not watch the Academy Awards unfortunately.
