2014 Awards and Critics' Lists

[Pop Trash]

There seemed to be an internet (and possibly irl) backlash brewing against Boyhood. A lot of casual movie fans on other sites were calling it "Boringhood" (lame) or calling out the really awkward scene with the Hispanic plumber guy (not-so-lame and justified even if the total running time of that little subplot is about five minutes).

[MadMan]

I still want to see American Sniper. Do I have to sit through The Theory of Everything? It looks so dull. At least Imitation Game has Bendict Cumberbatch.

So yeah I would have been fine with the majority of the BP noms winning. I'm not sure why backlashes even exist. Kind of silly really.

[Spinal]

There seemed to be an internet (and possibly irl) backlash brewing against Boyhood. A lot of casual movie fans on other sites were calling it "Boringhood" (lame) or calling out the really awkward scene with the Hispanic plumber guy (not-so-lame and justified even if the total running time of that little subplot is about five minutes).

Considering the film's larger accomplishments, that is absurdly nitpicky.

[Pop Trash]

Considering the film's larger accomplishments, that is absurdly nitpicky.

I agree, but Indiewire wrote a whole thinkpiece about the racial 'problems' of Boyhood. I thought it was absurd (other than that one character who is barely in the movie), but I'm just saying there were criticisms of it coming from different angles leading up to the Academy Awards and I think that derailed Boyhood's frontrunner status.

[number8]

Hahahaha. So it wasn't a teleprompter malfunction.