I didn't care about these people

Rating: 3/10 (3 November 2014)

Riggan apparently made a fortune as Birdman, drank it all away, and ran off his wife and daughter in the process. He wants to stage a comeback purely to feed his ego. I didn't care. I don't care. This is a movie about an extremely depressed, hallucinogenic man who eventually kills himself. Thrown in to fill the slow spots is an "I'm preggo, you don't love me" subplot; "you were a lousy dad" subplot; "you cannot get an erection" subplot; "I cheated on my wife" subplot; "I'm broke" subplot; "you have a nice ass" subplot; and a "girl on girl kiss" subplot. Or, maybe it's just another superhero movie. Who can tell? How many writers sat in separate rooms and each contributed 10 minutes of dialog? It's such a mess I can see why critics loved it. A lot of angst, a chance for the "haves" to sniff about their importance, but in the end who gives a blanking blank about any of these people?