The Blunt Reason Howard Stern Hates Birdman — cinemablend.com

Stern was discussing the Oscar race with late-night talk show host Seth Meyers, and decided to unleash on Alejandro Inarritu’s industry comedy. But Stern didn’t just give the movie a thumbs down. He full-on threw Birdman completely under the bus! Stern critiqued: Then again, I’m one of the people who fall into Stern’s camp, finding Birdman to be a pretentious exercise in stroking "actorly" ego. Which, I completely understand, is part of the point of the movie. If not the entire point of the movie. And that’s enjoyable… for about an hour. Then, in my opinion, the movie needed to shift gears and start dissecting something else. And I don’t think it ever got there. I have problems with the film’s ending. I would have preferred a Boyhood win (or, especially, a Whiplash win, but that underdog movie was always a Best Picture longshot).

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