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I just saw this yesterday and I thought it was fantastic. Probably the best I've seen this summer. It might have been 2 hours and 45 minutes, but to me the time flew by and I never once looked at my watch. That's always the mark of a great film to me. There are so many great things about this, of course the way they kept the same people and filmed them during twelve years. Another thing is I could identify with the guy in this as similar things have happened in my life.
Interesting, although please don't let this stop you. This article doesn't reflect any thoughts on the file, but share plenty about the author and where he thinks his aging a$$ fits in the contemporary world of film criticism. It's not so much a review as a session of navel gazing. That being said, I haven't seen the movie yet but hope to soon.
Indeed: I have always been cool to Linklater's films, have never connected emotionally to his self-involved characters and a slacker aesthetic that treats banalities as if they were words of wisdom.....we cannot escape who we are and what does or does not move us.
Heh. Sounds snotty, but comes off as misguided.
I'm pretty much the opposite of that critic, I've always warmed to Linklater's work, and much prefer 'talky' films to the latest superhero blockbuster.
I live in a really small town and probably won't get to see Boyhood until it comes out on dvd.
I am watching it now and it's pretty good,but I don't feel Patricia Arquette should have won any awards for her performance or Ethan Hawke being nominated since there are far better actors in the current list of films playing now. JMO...
I figured with Ethan Hawke in the movie, 12 years of kid over 12 real years, and 2hrs.44 min run time, that it would be talky like the Before series. I also watched Patricia Arquette on 'Medium' and she plays mom very similarly between this movie and that TV series.
Ironically enough, this movie started 12 years ago before the director even saw Arquette in Medium.
I had a question on the film plot:
Spoiler
There was a scene when Mason Jr. goes into the bathroom and two guys pick on him, maybe thinking he was gay, or maybe he was dating someone they didn't want him to date, or they were just being bullies being large while he was skinny. There wasn't a follow up scene to that scene of being bullied. I thought this would be a conflict, since bullies generally don't bully just once, but nothing else was shown. Mason seemed unfazed also and didn't discuss it with anybody like his dad, although he was an overconfident type of kid. Was the scene in the movie with nothing else odd?
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