Appalled at how UNINFORMED the writers are of the theatre industry

Could your concerns be examples of the unexpected virtue of ignorance. I'm not even sure that the entire movie is not a figment of Riggan's mind. He would not know too much about Broadway, would he?

"'Scuse me while I whip this out"
Blazing Saddles

"user-869-754778" -

Your complaint is a very common one that can be made about most-any movie to one some extent.

Of course, that is where it shows or does not show - the extent to which the movie does what you call 'lazy writing' and has been called plenty of names, many more accurate.

Anyway, while agreeing with you that any movie is better with all of these things zipped up tight, tight - it sure seems a disproportionate reaction for you to get so hung-up on what most laypeople do NOT even notice - so that you actually Disqualify the entire movie because of it!?!

That is 'pedantry' and, to some extent, we've read such complaints many times. Can you Forget or put those things aside and do your best to give the movie your full benefit of the doubt, honestly?

Just taking the first two, these are conversations people have, not blueprints or anything definitive. I heard the number of viewers as 800 and 1,000 at two different times. Both in preview. It's not full? They aren't people informed about the details of the audience so rounding is good enough.

Same for "half price." It's an off the cuff comment about not caring what these people think because they paid a discount.

When posted on the errors section here, both these goes into Character Errors. The character said something wrong. Does the writer not know? We don't know. We just know the character said it "wrong" but it's not a demonstrably huge failing of the film.


Since they had to rent some trucks to bring the production to Times Square for that scene, I'll bet they noticed that it's a couple blocks away. Wouldn't have had the impact (on social media, even in the film itself as that scene was visually very interesting) if he didn't go through there, so that seems a deliberate error in geography to propel the story. If that bugs you, okay.

"user-869-754778" -

Your complaint is a very common one that can be made about most-any movie to one some extent.

Of course, that is where it shows or does not show - the extent to which the movie does what you call 'lazy writing' and has been called plenty of names, many more accurate.

Anyway, while agreeing with you that any movie is better with all of these things zipped up tight, tight - it sure seems a disproportionate reaction for you to get so hung-up on what most laypeople do NOT even notice - so that you actually Disqualify the entire movie because of it!?!

That is 'pedantry' and, to some extent, we've read such complaints many times. Can you Forget or put those things aside and do your best to give the movie your full benefit of the doubt, honestly?

The writers are even more uninformed about how people fly. I believe they either need their wings on or have to stick their arms out in front of them and let their cape flap in the wind.

Rakot Namron was I.