Souless, boring, pretentious rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2015)

The title of this film should have been "Birdman: Or (Like Watching Paint Dry) (2014)".
I'm not sure I've ever seen a film that delivered nothing of the promise of the trailer. The whole film was painful to watch. I'm puzzled as to what people see in it or how anyone could describe it as having a "strong plot". Absolutely nothing happens.
It appears that any criticism of this film is met with :

You are too stupid to appreciate it - You need to watch it again to spot the story - You should stick to "Transformers" because you aren't capable of intelligent thought - You can only watch a film at face value - You need to be a super-smart hipster with a beard to get the plot

None of which applies to me.
It emphasises my conclusion that this is an Emperor's New Clothes event where lots of people have convinced themselves this film is amazing because it is trendy to do so. They are seeing redeeming features that aren't there because they want to pretend they are smarter than everyone else. In time they will realise and pretend they hated it all along.
The film's budget was $16M. Someone, somewhere must be sitting on $15M because there is no sign of it in this film. I really hope the fad will pass because any sort of film is better than more of this mind- numbing, tedious, hipster, lovee junk.
I am so glad I didn't get a chance to watch this at the cinema as at least all I lost was 2 hours of my life.