{"id":2703,"date":"2014-10-28T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2014-10-28T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T16:16:53","slug":"birdman-lays-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/birdman-lays-an-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdman Lays an Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/birdman.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2704\" alt=\"birdman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/birdman.jpg?resize=570%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"570\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/birdman.jpg?w=570&amp;ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/birdman.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a>Nora Ephron was our neighbor when we lived in New York. \u00a0 Once, when I complained about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CB4QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.playbillvault.com%2FShow%2FDetail%2F9568%2FPlenty&amp;ei=h7tPVMjvLIW0yASfrIDIAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4h5x0JVNBK1fc-_nTZFreV8LYPQ&amp;bvm=bv.77880786,d.aWw\" target=\"_blank\">PLENTY<\/a>, a play I had seen and hated, and its \u00a0&#8220;such good reviews&#8221; she responded, &#8220;you need to learn to read between the lines; some things get &#8216;good&#8217; reviews just because reviewers think they are <em>supposed<\/em> to like them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As usual, she was right. It&#8217;s ironic that <a href=\"www.birdmanthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BIRDMAN<\/a>, which got so many good reviews, (and has an excellent cast) includes a scathing diatribe, possibly the best speech in the film, from a reviewer. \u00a0This showy, weird, kind of pathetic film deserves no less.<\/p>\n<p>I never read reviews until after a I see a film because they reveal too many plot points and great lines, but in this case it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered; the praise is pretty universal. \u00a0But I&#8217;m a pretty open audience and it touched neither me nor my companion. \u00a0Unless you are feeling intellectually fashionable or like burning ticket and popcorn money, see something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nora Ephron was our neighbor when we lived in New York. \u00a0 Once, when I complained about PLENTY, a play I had seen and hated, and its \u00a0&#8220;such good reviews&#8221; she responded, &#8220;you need to learn to read between the lines; some things get &#8216;good&#8217; reviews just because reviewers think they are supposed to like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/birdman-lays-an-egg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birdman Lays an Egg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,6,28,2932],"tags":[2944,2933,2789,520,2940,2939,2937,3416,2943,2936,2934,2942,73,2938,1619,2941,2935],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-culture","category-film","category-theater-2","tag-microblobmondays","tag-birdman","tag-broadway","tag-cinema","tag-critics","tag-edward-norton","tag-emma-stone","tag-film","tag-film-critics","tag-lindsay-duncan","tag-michael-keaton","tag-movie-critics","tag-movies","tag-naomi-watts","tag-new-york","tag-superheros","tag-zach-galifianakis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-HB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}