Review of Boyhood

Boyhood (I) (2014)
7/10
Another One Of Those Good Movies With A Bad Ending
12 September 2014
Boyhood; a fairly entertaining movie. But it was just one of those movies were you get so connected with the characters and think,"Oh, I don't want this movie to ever the end." But when then ending comes around, your thinking "Huh? What? Who's that? What did she say? How did he reply? Damn, I mustn't have been listening hard enough." That was definitely me after this film.

The movie was filmed over 12 years; so we could watch the character's life from five to eighteen years of age. We see the hardships of the boy,As he tries to cope with growing up, seeing his father, watching his mum remarry about three or four times, and his sister. Seriously, you wouldn't remember the details either if you were sitting in the most uncomfortable seat in the movie theatre.

As you watch this, it starts to become suspenseful and scary, especially when Ethan Hawke's character grows a mustache (BWAAAH!!!!!!). You get connected to the characters, yet later you may have trouble trying to figure out what's happened off-screen. Usually I do't like movies like this; but this one was an exception.

So overall, if like movies like movies like 'Finding Neverland' (2004) then you will definitely like his heart warming twelve year epic (even if the ending really sucks). You definitely won't regret sitting in an uncomfortable chair for three hours either (just joking people, just joking...).
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