While this year's Oscar buzz was going on, I decided to revisit last year's Oscar babies while no one was looking.
I started with Birdman, which got rave reviews and won pretty much all the Academy Awards - picture, director, screenplay, cinematography. As with so much Oscar-related stuff, I can't figure out what this movie was besides lots of Hollywood navel-gazing. I think they all liked it so much because it's about them (as if there isn't enough of "them" in the news and tabloids).
The one thing I can appreciate are the parallels with real-life Michael Keaton. The movie is about a washed-up movie star who made his name playing a superhero. He's making a last-ditch effort to save his career by staging a Raymond Carver short story, which is a way-out-of-left-field creative project for him. Sound like the story of the former Batman now making a movie called Birdman?
Bottom line: skip it.
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