'Boyhood' Honest Trailer Is Not A Fan Of The Best Picture Contender

One of the biggest complaints we hear about Richard Linklater's Boyhood is that it doesn't have a story. There's no real strong narrative. If made this script in 12 weeks instead of 12 years, it would be terrible. Maybe all of that is true. But the movie was made over 12 years. It's not a movie about the story. It's a slice of life, a film whose form is saying as much, if not more, than the narrative. Either you buy into that or you don't and that's probably the line between people who think Boyhood is a masterpiece, or a piece of something else.

The Honest Trailer team seems to fall into that latter camp. There's some appreciation in their Boyhood Honest Trailer but, mostly, it's judging the film for something it isn't. Nevertheless, they've made a pretty funny parody of the song Hero by Family of the Year that makes the Boyhood Honest Trailer worth watching. Check it out below.

Here's the video via Screen Junkies

Where do you find yourself? On the side of brilliance or the side of the trailer, which acknowledges the feat, but doesn't enjoy it?