Birdman

[PenFoe]

I saw Birdman and I just finished Boyhood but I have no idea what thread to post in.

[Tonker]

I saw Birdman and I just finished Boyhood but I have no idea what thread to post in.

Well, this definitely isn't the right place for Birdman shit, and if you want to talk about Boyhood or kids leaving home, Flannj and I would appreciate it if you'd keep it to yourself anyway.

[flannj]

So did anyone even fucking see this thing?

Is it any good? I have heard only from people who think it's just some visionary masterpiece and people so incensed at it for being pretentious garbage they walked out of the theater.

"Pretentious garbage"?  That is my kind of movie!  My TV has been trying to get me to watch it.  Maybe I will.

Stew didn't even see this? WHO SAW THIS MOVIE

I did and I liked it, Keaton and Norton were excellent.
But I liked The Grand Budapest Hotel and Boyhood even more.
The Theory of Everything was my favorite of all the best picture nominees.
(haven't seen Whiplash yet)

Saw Boyhood Friday evening. It's fine.  Nothing special in terms of story.  Amazing that they were able to keep the project together over 12 years. The last act seems partially culled from Before Sunrise.

Much as, in some ways, I'd love to watch it, I've been deliberately avoiding "Boyhood".  The prospect of watching a film about a kid growing up and leaving home scares the fucking willies out of me.

After four awesome Christmas days with a full house...

Just put the oldest on a train to go back downtown.
Palmed a hundred to the middle one for "gas" as he drives back to his apartment.
The baby daughter just left with friends until Thursday.

This isn't getting any easier.

Old buddy, it's not that I'm not interested, or that I don't sympathise: on the contrary, my heart bleeds for you... I just don't want to even think about it.  Ignoring problems is how you make them go away, right?

Thank goodness my son is going to be a toddler forever.

God, why can't there be a Cubs game tonight?