Why are people saying this is so bad??

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2015)

I saw Birdman, twice, and am starting to wonder if I saw a completely different film than anyone else did. I loved it. The performances were spectacular. The directing, writing, score, and cinematography were all perfect. Literally everything was amazing. Don't listen to all the Birdman haters out there, watch this movie. There are so many reasons to watch it. I think the reason that so many people are hating on this movie is because it is not what one would expect when walking into it. It is, and I cannot stress this enough, not what one would expect from any movie, let alone a Best Picture winner. I watched this in the theater the first time I saw it and after I had seen it I walked out saying "What the f**k just happened". It was not at all what I had expected I would be seeing. When I saw it the second time, at home, I was able to fully appreciate all of the comedy, weirdness, and general coolness of the movie, because I knew what to expect. For all the people who didn't like this movie, try watching it a second time, you'll probably like it a lot better. Also try to take this movie for what it is, a comedy that satires the Hollywood machine. It is that, and nothing more than that. Don't try and turn it into a "piece of existentianalist art, that is as much funny as it is beautiful", watch it as a movie, not as a Van Gogh.