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Originally Posted by WorldBoFree
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
(Birdman was my favorite of the year though)
K. I need to see that movie...
Because I can't think of ANY movie that measures up to Birdman. The dialogue, the pace, the acting, the music, the fact that every single character is both awesome AND ****ed in the head, the foreshadowing, the surprises in typically obvious spots, the room for interpretation throughout, the insanely ballsy ending that could have destroyed an otherwise great film (but instead made it legendary art imo), etc.
I felt like I was on a ride throughout. I mean it was completely effortless to watch ime, like the director was just massaging my brain and perfectly dosing me with some crazy drug for 2 hours. And then boom- it ends, the ride/massage/drug trip is over, and now I'm REALLY thinking...
And I love what the movie got me thinking about/all the messages I received. And more importantly, I love how the movie went about being about something incredibly basic yet also incredibly important/unsolved by the masses since the beginning of time. It never forced anything on me, just hit me with "a bunch of tiny little hammers", and then finally it mashed me over the head with a sledge hammer as the credits began to roll.
***Edward Norton's responses to Emma Stone's two questions (one about her ass, one about what he would like to do to her) were just stone genius/I will never forget them I'm pretty sure.
Grand Budapest has some huge shoes to fill imo. The only other movie in recent memory that took me on a cool effortless ride and then smashed my brain in at the end was The Drop, but even that movie doesn't compare to Birdman imo.