Boyhood (2014)

I'll tell you why so serious

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I have never related more to a movie in my entire life and that might be why I adore Boyhood. Richard Linklater used the same actors over the span of twelve years to make this movie and it is not just a gimmick. He captures small things that we tend to forget about while growing up, or, for adults, watching your kids grow up. Sometimes the child acting is rough around the edges but Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette are spot on and phenomenal. If someone else didn't care for this movie because it didn't touch them, I could even understand why, but this movie pounds through a very profound message. Our lives are all made up merely of moments that fall on top of one another. Sometimes you don't feel as you expect to in each moment, but at the end of it all, all these little moments add up to a life and reflecting on it all can be quite daunting. A lot of the deep messages come straight out of the mouths of the boy, Mason, and other side characters. This can be interpreted as bad writing, but when I look back to not so long ago when I was his age, I can see the similarities in our thinking. He talks like a lot of teens do and watching him makes you think about your own past and present angsty moments. Linklater specializes in films that portray realistic characters with realistic dialogue in realistic situations. This allows the audience to emotionally connect with his films. Boyhood is something special because there is at least one character for everyone that they can identify with. The movie is 2 hours 45 minutes but it flies by just like life does. This movie is nostalgic for anyone who grew up in the 2000s and is touching in so many ways. Boyhood is a modern classic.

It's a beautiful movie. It's a privilege to be drawn in 12 years. It was so beautiful to see it. It's a different experiment. Although it lasted for 2 hours and 40 minutes and went to an ordinary drama consistency, it was not boring. It was even fun and nice. It's a long film I wonder. I did not regret it. The characters could not be emphasized much. Apart from that everything was nice.

Watching this movie reminds me of how I don't really understand when people say "Life's Short" and this movie really explains the meaning behind it. Mason Jr.'s life went by in 2 hours and 45 minutes and (if you thought this movie is about MJ's life through his memories) how he only remembered the bad stuff and the things he did. He lived his life because the only way he found happiness is through enjoying the bits of life there is as things decline rapidly from his environment to his peers. really this movie explains why Life is Short and you have to make the most of your time as nothing will be left after you did everything you're expected to do (graduation of high school, college, jobs, marriage, love, sadness, happiness, life)

Not at all bad and well worth a watch. The main strength is seeing children growing up and people ageing in the same film, which is remarkable. But that for me was also the weakness, in that it was trying to cover events over such a long period of time that it was very episodic, and not able to focus enough. You have to be on your toes to pick up the bits of dialog that tell you what's happened since the last installment, and I'd agree that parts of the script felt a little contrived. For me this would have worked better as a 10 or 12 part series, which would have done more justice to the material, and it could have been epic.