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CasanovaZelos 05/14/19 12:37:57 PM #224:	ZenOfThunder posted... What did everyone here think of Boyhood? I really wanted to like it but I just think it was so boring, it felt like the movie had ended 5 times but Richard Linklater kept wanting to add some more scenes. It definitely would have benefitted from being shorter. The subject material was definitely not compelling enough to stretch over that runtime, eventually the charm of "they filmed this for 12 years!!" definitely wore off. The main kid was a pretty awful actor but it was a gamble casting a kid so I kind of give them a pass. Patricia Arquette really hits it out of the park though. People keep bringing this up as one of their favorite movies of the past decade and I have no idea why unless you were absolutely enamored with the concept. Beyond just the production, Boyhood offers a rather uncommon take, at least for American cinema. It really is just a slice of life story, and the use of the same actors for such a long time reinforces this idea. Like, I don't think this is a hit for being 'compelling' in the way a narrative-focused film is; it's an exercise in excess, focusing on the bits that are commonly cut when people are trying to make a more striking narrative. So, for me, it's compelling in a different way, as an exploration of a life in full, even the parts that don't seem to 'matter' (as they very much do for the characters). It's fun to compare it to Linklater's Before trilogy, which seems fueled by the same concept of watching time go by, but where Before simply checks in every 9 years and shows the entirety of a key day, Boyhood flips it and explores the little moments between. There's a contradiction in detail here, where Before skips nearly all of the central relationship but dives very deep into single moments, while Boyhood captures the blur of a childhood in full. I think Boyhood would lose its purpose if it was shorter. --- Film essays and reviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/foolfantastic Board 8's Top 250 Games 2016 Edition: https://casanovazelos.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/b8top250/ <cite>CasanovaZelos posted [p:921881010] in General Mo... [t:77535770]...</cite> <quote><cite>ZenOfThunder posted...</cite> <quote>What did everyone here think of Boyhood? I really wanted to like it but I just think it was so boring, it felt like the movie had ended 5 times but Richard Linklater kept wanting to add some more scenes. It definitely would have benefitted from being shorter. The subject material was definitely not compelling enough to stretch over that runtime, eventually the charm of "they filmed this for 12 years!!" definitely wore off. The main kid was a pretty awful actor but it was a gamble casting a kid so I kind of give them a pass. Patricia Arquette really hits it out of the park though. People keep bringing this up as one of their favorite movies of the past decade and I have no idea why unless you were absolutely enamored with the concept.</quote> Beyond just the production, Boyhood offers a rather uncommon take, at least for American cinema. It really is just a slice of life story, and the use of the same actors for such a long time reinforces this idea. Like, I don't think this is a hit for being 'compelling' in the way a narrative-focused film is; it's an exercise in excess, focusing on the bits that are commonly cut when people are trying to make a more striking narrative. So, for me, it's compelling in a different way, as an exploration of a life in full, even the parts that don't seem to 'matter' (as they very much do for the characters). It's fun to compare it to Linklater's Before trilogy, which seems fueled by the same concept of watching time go by, but where Before simply checks in every 9 years and shows the entirety of a key day, Boyhood flips it and explores the little moments between. There's a contradiction in detail here, where Before skips nearly all of the central relationship but dives very deep into single moments, while Boyhood captures the blur of a childhood in full. I think Boyhood would lose its purpose if it was shorter. --- Film essays and reviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/foolfantastic Board 8's Top 250 Games 2016 Edition: https://casanovazelos.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/b8top250/</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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