Review of Boyhood (2014) by Jorge S — 20 Mar 2016

Okay... So it's impossible to deny the scale and originality of "Boyhood"... but let's get real. There was no story. I sat in an Indie theatre for over two and a half hours watching somebody I've never met perform menial daily tasks.

.. and it's supposed to move me? I could wash dishes, fix pipes, smoke weed or snap pictures at home... and without having to pay for an overpriced movie ticket. This was a portrait of an ordinary boy's uneventful life.

.. and that's the problem. I've spent 23 years in my own unexciting suburban existence. Why would I want to spend 165 minutes immersed in someone else's boring, unextraordinary life? The answer is.

.. I don't. Patricia Arquette's acting and the spectacular soundtrack were really the only outstanding aspects of Mason's overrated and dull boyhood.