Boyhood 2014 1080p

Boyhood 2014 1080p
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater
Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke

Storyline
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting.

User review:
This is not a good movie by any measure whatsoever. The popularity of reality TV has obviously spilled onto the big screen. Lets get the the good stuff out of the way. The acting is pretty good and the 12 year span of the story in which they had to perform was a novel and courageous accomplishment in spite of the glaring casting errors that were not evident until the kids stated to mature. That's it ! There is no plot, just a series of vignettes all without ending, a most frustrating feature of this epic. The first hour has to rank as one of the most boring in movie history. A moody little boy and his perky sister interacting very slowly and painfully in totally uninteresting little episodes of nothing but everyday boring life but with no endings to the episodes. Just as your interest is piqued – as in the vignette where the now teenager is punished by his photography teacher for not completing assignments. The boy hates football, so the teacher assigns him a weekend football game photo project comprising 300 shots, all to be categorized, developed and presented the following Monday morning. We see him shooting the game, the crowd the cheerleaders et al and, as with all of these little vignettes, are drawn in to the story. But once again, NO BLOODY ENDING ! We never find out what happens on Monday, instead we are transported a few years into the future for another never-ending vignette. If you like reality TV,then perhaps you are conditioned to this sort of pointless, plot less tripe. If not, go and watch this anyway, just so you can enhance your appreciation of real movies with plots.