The Academy is wrong

Rating: 1/10 (31 March 2015)

Birdman is an outstanding example of why industry experts quite often get it wrong. The Academy crowned this movie Best of 2014 because of all the references to movies made by Academy members. Can't you just see it: "Hey Mort, that's a reference to my 1987 classic....Sure gets my vote!" Birdman is not entertaining. After seeing this drecky technical "masterpiece", my only emotion was that the makers of Birdman had ripped off 2 hours of my life that I will never get back. People: It is not innovation to depend on other peoples' work. Birdman is Batman. HaHa. Throwing stuff at the wall does not express emotion. Even the continuous shoot was done by Hitchcock decades earlier.
Tired, tedious and not in the least interesting, give this a pass.