heyzeus wrote:Birdman winning over Boyhood is like Jimmy Edmonds getting elected to the Hall with Willie Mays sitting on the shelf waiting.
Change Edmonds to Puckett or even Dimaggio, and I'm 100% down with this analogy.
It's not that I think Birdman is undeserving. I thought it was a great film. Many years, I'd fully support it winning a Best Picture. But not over Boyhood.
I can tell you the exact moment Boyhood lost the Oscar: When boy as an 8th grader is drinking beers with those high school seniors and throwing saw blades at sheetrock. Give me a day and I could find better actors then they used for that. Distractingly bad.
Wasn't Boyhood the favorite?
I didn't watch but I heard JK Simmons speech on the radio this morning. Awesome.
go birds wrote:I havent seen Birdman but i find it hard to believe it was as good as the amount of awards it won would suggest.
It's good. The cinematography is great, and Michael Keaton is great. But the concept of the movie itself, well, the movie thinks it is more clever and original than it is. Oh, theater is an art to be passionate about, and making movies is hard? Neat.
TimeForGuinness wrote:Would Boyhood be just as good if it didn't have the "filmed over 12 years" gimmick?
I haven't seen it so maybe it's obvious, but I've been trying to think about what you get out of doing the movie that way that you don't by just casting a few different ages and doing it all in one go. Haven't come up with a great answer yet. I think pretty highly of Linklater though, so I'm inclined to think he's got a good reason.
If you have diffferent actors playing the same person you don't truly believe those actors are the same character since they're not entirely the same looking no matter how good of casting as you can get. Plus not only is Ellar Coltrane's character aged correctly over that time frame but also Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette's characters too.
ive probably posted/mentioned it before but theres a clip of siskel and ebert, maybe even a few, when they are on letterman and they just rip the academy. saying that most of them dont see the movies, they ask others opinions, give ballots to spouses, etc.
