Oscar Movies for 2015
Here is my challenge and it must be completed before February 22, 2015 before 8:30 pm est. Or, considering how long the Oscar show is, I might have an extra week, February 29 (get it?), 2015 to complete the challenge. I will be watching all the Oscar movies that I can for the next two weeks and commenting on them. Wish me Strength and Fortitude and a lot of $5.99 matinees!
I saw Birdman yesterday.
That's Michael Keaton doing his Batman Voice, but it is Batman playing Birdman, see the TWISTY there?
And there were many times in this movie that I wanted to say, "Just Cut IT OUT!"
This is a movie about Narcissistic Schzoids who are actors. They are all saying "Look at ME ME ME!" And they are not that interesting some of the time. The major line in the play that Used-To-Be Birdman, but Way-Too-Old-For-That-Shit-Now, Rigor Mortis (the Michael Keaton character), wrote and is Starring! in ON BROADWAY! (Don't forget it! The movie and its characters don't let us Forget It? Never!)---the major line is "Why doesn't anyone LOVE MEEEEEEEE?" And I got the answer to it way before the Airy Denoument of the movie, "Why don't you Love Someone Other Than Yourself, You Noseless Prick!" Get it? "NOSELESS" for "KNOWS LESS and cares even less for anyone other than himself"? That is a pretty good pun and homophone in English for a Spanish Speaker. Alejandro González Iñárritu directed and is credited with some of the writing for this film.
The acting is good all across the Hallowed Boards of Broadway. Naomi Watts plays a broad whose catchphrase is "I'm on Broadway!" That can't be an accident. And the camera work is fun and different. The movie is supposed to be one long master shot take. It isn't, of course, but if I ever see the film again, I will be looking for the subliminal cuts. And the infinitely long take of the movie is another hit on the infinitely MANY cuts that Action Films do these days. There is a sequence (may I call it that?) toward the end of the film that mocks the Michael Bey Action Film of half second subliminal cuts. Iñárritu does just as much and just as well in one long take (but the film is supposed to be One Long Take) and has fire fights and helicopters firing, womanned by Helicopter Moms and a Nasty Dragon who could take on any Game of Thrones Pussy Dragon, sorry Kermit the Green Dragon but the Truth must be told, and Rigor and the Birdman all in one take and almost in one frame of the camera. That was Pretty Damn Good and to the Ironic Point.
The other thing that caught my wandering eye (other than the wandering camera) was the Broadway play. It was said by Rigor to be based on a short story by Raymond Carver. I am not familar with Mr. Carver and his work, so I kept thinking that Rigor was saying, "Raymond Chandler" and I have read most of his work and could not recall four people sitting in a pale green kitchen drinking and talking about "Love" for any length of time. Mr. Chandler would have put a butcher knife in someone's back pretty quickly before the dialog got to "tell a boring story" length.
The technical aspects of the film were interesting and unique, but I'm still not impressed by the story or the characters.
I saw Birdman yesterday.
Click to viewThat's Michael Keaton doing his Batman Voice, but it is Batman playing Birdman, see the TWISTY there?
- This is a movie full of TWISTIES!
- Michael Keaton~Batman~Birdman!
- Edward Norton~The Hulk but not Lou Ferrigno~Pain in the Ass (which is what the Hulk is) Prick.
- Emma Stone~Mary Jane~Girlfriend who must be Rescued of Spiderman (who is a lot like Birdman but without the Feathers)~Disaffected Youth Drug Addict Running Daddy's Errands because she has been rescued by Rehab.
- Zach Galfinakis~Without Fern.
And there were many times in this movie that I wanted to say, "Just Cut IT OUT!"
This is a movie about Narcissistic Schzoids who are actors. They are all saying "Look at ME ME ME!" And they are not that interesting some of the time. The major line in the play that Used-To-Be Birdman, but Way-Too-Old-For-That-Shit-Now, Rigor Mortis (the Michael Keaton character), wrote and is Starring! in ON BROADWAY! (Don't forget it! The movie and its characters don't let us Forget It? Never!)---the major line is "Why doesn't anyone LOVE MEEEEEEEE?" And I got the answer to it way before the Airy Denoument of the movie, "Why don't you Love Someone Other Than Yourself, You Noseless Prick!" Get it? "NOSELESS" for "KNOWS LESS and cares even less for anyone other than himself"? That is a pretty good pun and homophone in English for a Spanish Speaker. Alejandro González Iñárritu directed and is credited with some of the writing for this film.
The acting is good all across the Hallowed Boards of Broadway. Naomi Watts plays a broad whose catchphrase is "I'm on Broadway!" That can't be an accident. And the camera work is fun and different. The movie is supposed to be one long master shot take. It isn't, of course, but if I ever see the film again, I will be looking for the subliminal cuts. And the infinitely long take of the movie is another hit on the infinitely MANY cuts that Action Films do these days. There is a sequence (may I call it that?) toward the end of the film that mocks the Michael Bey Action Film of half second subliminal cuts. Iñárritu does just as much and just as well in one long take (but the film is supposed to be One Long Take) and has fire fights and helicopters firing, womanned by Helicopter Moms and a Nasty Dragon who could take on any Game of Thrones Pussy Dragon, sorry Kermit the Green Dragon but the Truth must be told, and Rigor and the Birdman all in one take and almost in one frame of the camera. That was Pretty Damn Good and to the Ironic Point.
The other thing that caught my wandering eye (other than the wandering camera) was the Broadway play. It was said by Rigor to be based on a short story by Raymond Carver. I am not familar with Mr. Carver and his work, so I kept thinking that Rigor was saying, "Raymond Chandler" and I have read most of his work and could not recall four people sitting in a pale green kitchen drinking and talking about "Love" for any length of time. Mr. Chandler would have put a butcher knife in someone's back pretty quickly before the dialog got to "tell a boring story" length.
The technical aspects of the film were interesting and unique, but I'm still not impressed by the story or the characters.