Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) by Mancunian2014 — 13 Jan 2015

I went in to see Birdman with zero expectations and thank goodness I did. Aside from the lovely Naomi Watts and the newcomer (to me) Miss Riseborough, there is very little I could like, let alone tolerate, in this movie. The continuous camera rolling is really nothing innovative (way to copy Russian Ark, Inarritu...) so I don't understand what all the fuss over that was. Moreover, the film was simply loud with too much yelling, breaking and torturous drum-beat music. I had a headache after leaving the theatre. Just because it's "New Yawk and Broadway, baby" doesn't mean poor viewers need to be practically browbeaten into loving it with noise, aggression and uncontrolled emotions that are impossible to empathize with.

And of course the movie's failed plot line and tasteless attempt attempt to make light of a has-been actor's possible schizophrenia was probably a better idea on paper than in "real", cinematographic life. Birdman is really just the result of a film student not listening to his elders when they've said, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." And all of you should not watch this demnetia, whether you can or can't. Please do not feed this giant troll of movie that so many otherwise logical and nice people seem to love and urinate adulation over.