I watched Birdman last night, and I mean I get it, I understand that it was intentionally contrived ... I'm no philistine, but I'm also no connoisseur and generally hate any and all major films in the meta genre. This was no exception. Putting the film's disgusting narcissism aside, from a story-telling standpoint, it was too linear, too predictable, and just too boring for me. I can see how it could be appealing to that insufferable hoard of idiots who have beards, won't shut up about how they were born in the wrong generation, are almost done with their screenplay, and include Oscar Wilde in their top 5 authors on their Facebook pages (no offense FearPb, you are on this forum and don't count anyway). This movie is the distilled essence of hipster masturbation. The fact that the movie is nothing but obvious self-inflicted pleasure is funny as shit if you know the plot. The irony is hilarious but I'm laughing at it, not with it. I dunno. Whatever.


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