Waste of time

To me, this movie is perfection.

Crappy film

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I had great expectations for this Alan Parker movie that I have been meaning to watch for years. In my opinion, it is a classic that everybody should watch once but I also have mixed feelings about it. The plot is fairly simple. When 2 childhood friends come back from Vietnam among the casualties, one has lost it, the other is disfigured and will try to connect to his friend and bring him back from the crazies. In terms of harsh topics, Birdy is no testing ground for Parker. With this movie, the director deals with post-war mental and physical trauma as well as the struggle to fit in as a high schooler. On one hand, the combination of the Peter Gabriel-made soundtrack and the flying camera shots really convinced me. On the other, I thought it beats around the bush for quite a while. Nicolas Cage's monologues are a bit sketchy even though his overall performance is good. Matthew Modine makes a convincing quiet and deranged bird-lover. As I'm no war-movie enthusiast, I appreciate the fact that Birdy only shows a few war scenes. The plot is largely based on childhood flashbacks. Birdy is a good movie and I get satisfaction and personal pride to have watched it. 1 reason to watch: very few war scenesRead it here: http://squeerelist.blogspot.com/2013/06/birdy-1984.html

Over 2 hours of film ending with 2 of the lamest 2 jokes. "There wasn't anything I wanted to say" and the suggestion he had tried to fly.Nothing happens of any significance and the story of what broke birdy was covered in literally 30 seconds.In short Mathew's obsessed with birds and his life was rather dull before he turned into a mute. Cages character is of a cool man about town who's character wouldn't have spent a minute hanging around with Modines unless they were stuck on an island, even then I wouldn't bet on it.I guess you're supposed to think at the end of the movie they are going to go back to acting like teenagers again ?

I have only one thing to add about this movie, which I just watched for the first time. It has the MOST PERFECT ending of any movie ever! Those who say detracting things about the ending must not get it, must not have been paying attention! The director has been building up, so expertly, an incredible sense of tension whether or not Birdy's old neighborhood buddy will be able to reach his shattered mind. In the last split second, we find out. The abruptness is not a "gag"; it sums up the tale perfectly. Jeesh! Just think about it, would ya?...What a great, realistic, thoughtful, touching flick! AND WHAT A GREAT ENDING!

A special trip beyond masks and illusions, innocent lies and slippery politeness.A film about truth and its orations, about the honest manner to live and to trust, about the cruel relation with the past and about refuges.Fight against the Angel and image of world.The passages of memory and recreation of golden age.Exploration, with depressing flavor, of a fragile way, touching corpses of dreams, waiting and deconstructing old facts in a personal puzzle.It is not a film about pain, desire, war, mental illness or friendship. It is not a Vietnamese drama or film about birds."Birdy" is pledge for discover the sense of yourself. A beautiful trip in the nooks of innocence and appearances, a form of spell without magic lights.Birdy is Don Quixote ,prince Myshkin or Oblomov. The passion for birds is not a hobby or mask of frustrations but only manner to escape beyond an unintelligible universe.The interpretation of Modine is brilliant. And Nicholas Cage- great actor in the skin of a delicate character.Splendid film and object of profound reflection.In fact, instrument of catharsis.