Are you unfamiliar with the concept of "opinions"? Everything you're saying is your opinion. It's not the Word of God, as you seem to believe it is.

Often, and generally not here.

There are plenty of bad movies that a). won Best Picture and b). Are liked by most of the public. Not saying that Birdman is one of them, just that that's kind of a bad way to debate someone's points (it's slightly above "Yeah, well… shut up!").

Of course, the fact that I had to be reading his Letterboxd reviews to understand that that's what he meant doesn't speak too highly to how well Mike makes his point above. I still really like him as a reviewer, though.

Also, Mike actually liked Birdman on the whole, and his Letterboxd review suggests that the only thing that really bugged him about the single-take conceit was it continuing through several days (hence, his complaint being about the multiple-day element of it, as opposed to just "grr Birdman one take bad!").

I have (unfortunately) read the work of Kyle Smith (although I didn't know about his hatred of liberals), namely his review of And Everything is Going Fine where he took the courtesy of pissing on Spalding Gray's grave in print form, with only the barest mention of the film itself.

The camera operator was probably crippled by the end of it.

I knew it was you, D'Angelo. You broke my heart.

I thought it was hilarious and wonderful, and I love the movie and am still annoyed by how thoroughly negative the consensus on it is on the sites I frequent.

Yeah, it works as the eye of the audience, following one character doing their thing, quickly shifting over to another character, and so on. It's fitting that it starts cutting again after the eye of the audience is directed back on itself.

At least he's got a big part in the new Ang Lee movie coming out.

You're in luck, The Grey was released in 2012!

I wanna bet half of that was spent on blow. At least half.

I wouldn't say anything about this movie is a good sign, but yes, the fact that the white lady playing a caricature of a Native American is the best part of your movie is a particularly bad sign.

From other reviews, it sounds like she's the only one trying to give an actual performance here.

Yeah, I'm just waiting for Nathan to cover it in the future, because it sounds like it has absolutely nothing for anybody.

She hasn't seen any of those movies, but she has seen the house that they bought her.

That actually happens pretty often in the business, and the reasoning is almost always "I'm scheduled to do another movie now, get someone to take my place". However, I would not be surprised if Seamus McGarvey left solely because he couldn't take this shit anymore.

I was never really worried about Sorkin's script, because any problems with Sorkin have exclusively been in the TV arena, with all of the movies he's written being, at the very least, pretty good.

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