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Weapxn

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Is Boyhood a good film or is the idea of it what makes it good?
I've got a bud who is pretty hard on films, and he had nothing but good things to say. I'll trust him when he says it's genuinely good. I understand where you're coming from though. I had the same question.
 

~Kinggi~

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Is Boyhood a good film or is the idea of it what makes it good?

Its idea is what makes it good, since the idea is the movie. I can only see it winning for the novelty of it. There was nothing particularly engaging about the story beyond the obvious success of chronicling a boy growing up.
 

Choomp

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Is Boyhood a good film or is the idea of it what makes it good?

Have it feeling it's the latter for most people. It's so simple and doesn't take on the normal conventions movies do now, and it's basically just someone's life, with nothing really too special happening in it.
 
I've got a bud who is pretty hard on films, and he had nothing but good things to say. I'll trust him when he says it's genuinely good. I understand where you're coming from though. I had the same question.
Yeah same here. The concept is interesting enough to watch it. But it would be nice if the movie itself was kinda good too.
 

newjeruse

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Is Boyhood a good film or is the idea of it what makes it good?
The two are inseparable in this case. Many films with the same plot would seem overly saccharine, but the concept draws you so close to the characters, it feels much more earned.
 
Is Boyhood a good film or is the idea of it what makes it good?

Both. It's a pretty great portrait of a child growing up just taken on its own but the fact that you're actually watching the child physically grow up over the course of the film elevates it into something really special.
 

vatstep

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Is Boyhood a good film or is the idea of it what makes it good?
I felt like it was the latter, but I seem to be mostly alone in that. I just felt like if the same story was told/directed in the traditional sense (with multiple actors playing the same character, or by using effects/make-up) that it'd be pretty average. That's just me, though.
 

overcast

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A lot of people love the Bad News Bear remake.

His filmography is kind of all over the place.
Dazed and Confused, Before trilogy, School of Rock, and Boyhood are vastly superior. Slacker is more interesting to me too.

I think many directors would kill to have had a career like his.
 

shwimpy

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