I definitely enjoyed parts of it. Keaton's performance was great and some really great dialogue. Unfortunately, I felt a little claustrophobic. Not sure how else to say it. Maybe that's what they were trying to get across?

Share your thoughts here.

11/2/2014 12:33:06 AM

Really, really good.

The nature of the film (being shot so it looks as if it were made in one take) makes it very claustrophobic. I felt the same way watching it, but I really liked it.

11/2/2014 2:43:28 AM

Isn't that just fitting. The best movie of the year, and I come to TWW and find crickets chirping.

11/7/2014 1:18:44 PM

The theater across the street from me didn't get it until today. Hope to check it out at some point before the weekend is over.

11/7/2014 4:19:13 PM

Keaton and Norton were both really good and I liked the style of the "one take" but I'm still surprised at the overwhelmingly good reviews. I was entertained but I'll be disappointed if it's one of the best movies I'll see this year.

11/8/2014 9:51:37 PM

Real good. Big ups to bus driver Stu Benedict as snooty media member.

11/9/2014 12:27:25 AM

11/9/2014 12:17:14 PM

good flick

2/1/2015 9:46:35 PM

Sorry bout the crickets, Banjo Man. I saw it at the Colony. It was part of my inspiration for this thread:

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=644192

I dug it. It definitely made me uneasy though--I was generally worried/anxious about the dude the whole time. Music was excellent. Edward Norton was extra good.

[Edited on February 1, 2015 at 10:13 PM. Reason : ]

2/1/2015 10:13:23 PM

he shoudlve flown around more though

2/1/2015 11:28:09 PM

AHA, yeah, it woulda fucked me up even more. I was like, "Is this it? Is it happening? He's doing it?"

Nope, just in his head.

Damn, this movie fucked up.

2/7/2015 7:35:52 PM

Saw this last night. Enjoyed it but the TV I was watching it on had the sound all weird so at times the music was louder than the dialogue so I had to strain to hear some things. Really impressed with the long takes.

So what was up with the ending? Up until that point I figured that all of the super powers he had were in his head but when his daughter looked up and smiled it implied he was really flying?

Also, did he actually mean to shoot his nose off or was he just trying to kill himself and missed? Earlier in the movie when they were rehearsing the play, one of them was talking about a guy and said "he tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the head, but he even got that wrong and ended up living" so I figured that would be foreshadowing but then I remembered that in one of his Birdman hallucinations, Birdman said "You could even get some surgery, maybe fix that nose..." which made me think he was taking that advice?

2/19/2015 11:56:02 AM

I assumed at the end that he was indeed able to fly.

Not sure about the intent of the shooting.

2/19/2015 4:53:01 PM

I interpreted the ending to be he had lost it and meant to kill himself but but missed, inadvertently causing the show to be a huge hit.

As for the final scene, it seems to me that after emma stone leaves to get a vase for the flowers he goes back into his imagination at that point and imagines himself flying (symbolizing his careers resurgence)

In reality i guess hes still laying there and she comes back in with the vase

2/19/2015 6:56:33 PM

2/23/2015 12:25:52 PM

2/24/2015 11:15:47 AM

definitely deserved best director.

I know the Academy loves this kind of film but I just didn't find it very entertaining outside of the way it was shot.

2/24/2015 2:49:11 PM

I thought he had killed himself but he didn't seem upset when he woke up. I kind of took it to be him buying into Norton's character's strategy of making it real (he said after one of the previews that the gun wasn't scary enough).

My interpretation of the hospital scene was that he really did jump, and the daughter was ok to see him find his release.

2/27/2015 4:15:12 PM