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BOYHOOD blew me away
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:02 PM Author: Racy Nursing Home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041900) |
Date: August 1st, 2014 2:05 PM Author: deep crusty heaven wagecucks I've heard nothing but good reviews. Wish it had a better title. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041915) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:06 PM Author: indecent institution Exactly. Like Boyhead, for example. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041925) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:59 PM Author: anal stage more like Boybasket AMIRIGHT? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042262) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:09 PM Author: Dark den dog poop Supposedly the working title was 12 Years but that was abandoned after 12 Years A Slave came out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041951) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:05 PM Author: Cerebral shaky prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041919) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:06 PM Author: doobsian unhinged tanning salon rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041924) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:12 PM Author: peach becky spot It was pretty good. Really compelling and exciting to watch, but it's very much a Linklater movie so it wanders and meanders.
Getting a shotgun and a bible for your birthday is pretty 180. |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:13 PM Author: Shimmering Supple Dilemma Trust Fund Second year in a row that Linklater put out the best movie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041965) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:18 PM Author: Dark den dog poop I saw it three weeks ago and I am still thinking about it. It sounds silly or overblown to say it is a transformational film, but it has at least changed the way I think about movies in a way that hasn't happened to me since I was a kid. It's not for everyone, but it's one of those movies that I think less of people who don't like it. |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:23 PM Author: Shimmering Supple Dilemma Trust Fund Agree with you but I think I am losing a bit of reverence for the fact that it was filmed over 12 years. TV shows often film with the same casts over 7-12 or more years. It's not a common film device but it still makes you think about how much of the story is enhanced by the meta narrative going on as you see the cast aging over time.
If the same movie was made in 1 year instead of 12 with different actors playing the kids would you still think it was brilliant? |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:32 PM Author: Cerebral shaky prole i think the fact that it wasn't that is what makes it good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042069) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:42 PM Author: Dark den dog poop No. I'd think it was a pretty good, pretty Linklater film, but not mind-blowing. First of all, Mason is kind of a boring dickbag. When he was driving off to college, I asked myself why I even cared about this kid so much, and I realized it was because I really felt like I had seen him grow up as an actual person and not a trick of makeup or clever casting. Second, I don't think it would be possible to recreate the film over the period of one year. It's fucking pitch perfect on the small details that would inevitably feel just a little bit off or too called out if it were made like a traditional film- things like cars, clothes, and technology would be the result of choices made by the art director or set dresser to recreate a time, rather than contemporaneous choices or happenstance. The cell phones, for example, or the Mama for Obama lady, or watching the drunk baby landlord vid feel natural- curated, maybe, but not constructed. That relates to a criticism I've heard form people that didn't like the film that bothers me- they hate Mason's facebook moralizing and somehow think that it's a key to the film. It isn't- it's just a reflection of how people were thinking about facebook a year or two ago; it's not the key to the film or even all that important, it's the equivalent of Mason Sr.'s dumb anybody-but-Bush speech early in the film. So yeah, the passage of time is the thing that makes Boyhood great, and maybe any director could have stumbled into that idea, but they didn't. |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:45 PM Author: Cerebral shaky prole Linklater is the only one who seems to understand that people have a hunger for this kind of realism. I bet a lot of directors had the idea but thought it was too boring/pretentious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042162) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:56 PM Author: Dark den dog poop True. I talk about this film too much, and more than one person has said something along the lines of "if you give this idea to 10 other directors, 9 of them would make a better film." I doubt it. I doubt they could have avoided clichés like showing each year passing with a title card or shot of a calendar, or shoe-horning in all the important growing-up milestones, or giving Mason a teddy bear or some other totem he carries with him the whole time, or trying to make some kind of statement about life by connecting some dots from his childhood in the end, or a dozen other hack film tropes that would have made the gimmick of the film just seem like a cute idea. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042241) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:59 PM Author: Cerebral shaky prole yeah that's spot on. i really like how they didn't make him into anything special. he excels at something but they don't give him some ridiculous challenge narrative. they don't zoom in on whatever anguish he has. at the age we see him, he's confused, inconsistent, and quietly trying to make sense of the ordinary world like kids do. i said it in another thread, but a worse movie would have the ethan hawke character continually letting mason down and being a shit father forcing mason to become his own man. that doesn't happen, it's just a phase in his and his dad's life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042258) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 3:12 PM Author: Dark den dog poop I feel like the 12-year process let him cheat a little bit, because he didn't need to use the plot, such as it is, to make the whole thing hang together as a coherent film. he could just let stuff happen, so instead of "boy gets called a faggot in the bathroom, overcomes bullying and emerges as a fabulous butterfly who makes his bully fall in love with him," that scene is just something that happened. Makes a lot of other coming-of-age films seem like contrived bullshit in comparison. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042335) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 3:29 PM Author: Racy Nursing Home Wasn't that the point? There are no over-the-top epiphanies or cathartic moments. People are complicated. You are an asshole one moment in your life, get bullied in another moment, and exhibit great talent in another moment. There's nothing in life that strings it all together. The sum of the parts is what life is and who you are.
Another example is when he gets invited to the party by that girl. We don't see what happens at the party. That's not what's important. |
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Date: August 21st, 2014 12:46 AM Author: Olive Territorial Internal Respiration 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26174259) |
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Date: August 21st, 2014 12:46 AM Author: Olive Territorial Internal Respiration 180. I like it here bros (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26174256) |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 2:30 AM Author: mildly autistic queen of the night agreed with all this. The movie works on many levels, one of which is the time capsulating
the Mason character is almost a caricature of that hipster dood in HS/college |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:53 PM Author: peach becky spot What was that Todd Solondz movie where 12 totally different actors played the same character? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042208) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:19 PM Author: doobsian unhinged tanning salon rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26041994) |
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Date: August 12th, 2014 3:59 PM Author: sienna corner Same (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26114096) |
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Date: August 12th, 2014 4:15 PM Author: razzmatazz church digit ratio alone cuz i anticipated crying like a bitch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26114234) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:27 PM Author: Wild base Did you catch the white-women-age-fast-and-get-fat theme? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042032) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:33 PM Author: Cerebral shaky prole bro i'd wreck patricia arquette at any age love that snaggletooth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042072) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:46 PM Author: Dark den dog poop same, but I think Bringing Out the Dead is peak snaggletooth boner for me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042174) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:51 PM Author: Wild base What would you pay for an orgy with Dakota Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, and Patricia Arquette? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042200) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:56 PM Author: Cerebral shaky prole uh yeah. throw about a dozen others in there too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042242) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 3:12 PM Author: Wild base That's not going to make it cheaper. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042340) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 3:00 PM Author: anal stage Elle Fanning > Dakota (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042268) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:35 PM Author: Soul-stirring lodge is it available on torrent yet? My TTT area doesn't show it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042085) |
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Date: August 2nd, 2014 1:30 PM Author: Umber stirring nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26047009) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 2:36 PM Author: insane zombie-like philosopher-king parlor The scene at the end when mason drives off to college hit me like a pile of bricks. Great song choice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042094) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 3:23 PM Author: Black gaping mood (halford) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042424) |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 12:39 AM Author: charcoal orchestra pit dopamine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26926033) |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 1:04 AM Author: Milky Rigpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26926167) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 5:53 PM Author: Trip Demanding Kitchen Legend But what about Warhorse!? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26042961) |
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Date: August 12th, 2014 3:47 PM Author: razzmatazz church digit ratio this movie left a strange taste in my mouth longer than my first dick did. also almost broke down in tears when that 'hero' song played. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26114029) |
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Date: August 14th, 2014 2:53 PM Author: Mewling Yarmulke Stock Car Linklater needs to do more drugs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26127479) |
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Date: August 14th, 2014 3:03 PM Author: Irradiated ticket booth coldplay fan really getting tired of this pedo spam (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26127550) |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 12:38 AM Author: Obsidian point tank it's great. don't remember if i've ever actually liked a linklater flick before. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26926028) |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 2:49 AM Author: passionate frisky hall personal credit line you don't like dazed and confused? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26926722) |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 2:52 AM Author: Obsidian point tank oh yea that one's not bad. but god boyhood is really the realization of his form. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26926726) |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 2:28 AM Author: mildly autistic queen of the night this was fucking epic
it's like a cleaner fictional US version of the 7 Up Series |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 2:32 AM Author: mildly autistic queen of the night my only "issue" with the movie was that the main characters just seemed so perfect and normal, while everyone around them was crazy/asshole/bitch (one exception was the wife of Ethan Hawke's character)
made you wonder why the hell Ethan Hawk and Patricia Arquette's characters couldnt stay together |
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Date: December 14th, 2014 2:45 AM Author: Obsidian point tank the ex husbands were a cartoonish and dumb yes. otherwise good stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633774&forum_id=2#26926710) |