An offbeat black comedy about an actor past his prime who desperately seeks to revive his career with a Broadway play. Throughout the film, he finds himself tried and conflicted by his family, his cast, his critics and a hallucination of himself dressed as the superhero he rose to fame for playing (Birdman).
My favorite thing about the film is the way it's shot. It's edited to give the illusion that the entire movie is one long take, and it does a great job at making the viewer connect with the main character's feelings. The actors gave great performances and the writing is perfect. There were so many lines that I wanted to write down in quotes so I could get em tatted on my left breast.
My favorite scenes:
the ending (which I won't spoil)
this scene where Riggan (the main character) gets clocked by his daughter (played by Emma Stone)
and this scene where Sam (Emma Stone) and Mike (Edward Norton) are having a conversation out on the balcony
(the line I really wanted to show isn't in the clip because God hates me)
Watch this movie if you haven't, or else your fave will be banned from US radio
I was there to push people beyond what's expected of them
This trailer pretty much tells you all you need to know about the movie
I need a transcript of every insult J.K. Simmons's character yelled so I can use them on the forum
This is my favorite one:
Spoiler Alert
You are a worthless, friendless, ******-lipped little piece of **** whose mommy left daddy when she figured out he wasn't Eugene O'Neill and who's now weeping and slobbering all over my drum set like a ****ing nine-year-old girl!
Now, for the final FATHER ****ING time... SAY IT LOUDER!
This film was absolutely beautiful. The premise might seem a bit uninteresting considering how many White people go on hikes when life presents them with ~problerms, but it was truly entertaining from start to finish.
I recommend that you all see it.
There's so much emotion here, and it's captured really well. You get a great sense of who Cheryl is and you can identify with the mix of emotions she feels out on the trail, alone. There are flashbacks of her past that play throughout the movie which expose more about her as the film progresses. There's eventually a point where the viewer realizes that she's not just some bored White girl who wants to go walking in the mountains. She is a broken woman who desperately wants to be whole.
There's not much I can really write about this movie because I'm too afraid of spoiling something for those of you who haven't seen it (as if anyone's actually reading this thread, LOL).
I really enjoyed this movie. Say what you want about Nolan, but sis came through on this one.
The special effects were breathtaking, and that damn soundtrack!! I think there was a moment where Hans Zimmer actually came into the theater and punched me in the ****ing face.
The ending was really corny, but I'm okay with it. I wasn't expecting this movie to be the
*~2001: A Space Odyssey of our generatioN!*~
It was a great science fiction movie with good acting and an interesting story.
That's all I really needed from it.
You think you'd be happy with a nice Midwestern girl?
When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head.
I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers.
The primal questions of a marriage:
What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?
What will we do?
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Definitely in my top films of 2014. David Fincher and Gillian Flynn need to make babies after this.
The movie is just one "OH MY GOSH" moment after another. Fincher's "Starbucks filter" cinematography works flawlessly here, coupled with Trent Reznor's twisted, noisy score.
If you haven't seen this yet, then you're a sick person and I want nothing to do with you.
Rosamund Pike is an icon and deserves a Nobel Prize.