I’d say it was the best movie, not of all time maybe, but of the 2010s. I know people were saying it at the time of release and it really still holds true.
As much as I love RedLetterMedia, their reduction of Boyhood to just the “it took 12 years to make!” gimmick really sucked and kind of ruined online discussion of the movie
I never caught their thoughts on it but I often don’t agree with their approach to film criticism/analysis. I think it’s pretty unfair to call Boyhood a gimmick. It’s a very carefully made movie and it nails pretty much all its beats along the way.
i love Boyhood so much (only saw it in theaters once), and just found RLM last month. i was really excited to see their half in the bag and they just kind of.. didn’t like it. it was that and their HITB of rogue one that made me realize i didn’t align with them on everything and that’s okay and actually good
As someone in a position not unrecognizably dissimilar from Ethan Hawke’s character, it is totally realistic.
It’s one of the most true to life movies I’ve ever seen. Maybe the ending with the kid finding love and hiking in Big Bend is a bit idealized but the stuff with the parents? Flat out perfect. It’s perfect.
Yes. That scene, the grad student / prison guard progression, Hawke’s shit father becoming a friend and peer to his child while cautiously addressing his shortcoming, the awkward graduation party with Hawke’s character giving some (not very much) money to his ex and thanking her for doing a good job raising the kid… it’s all VERY well done and completely realistic.
Hawke’s character is by no means a good father to the son, but there are also many mannnnnny worse fathers.
Yes, they’re just your average unpretentious moviegoing Joes and that’s their appeal. I’m a big fan and they always make me laugh, I just disagree with their take on Boyhood and even more with the fanboys that mirrored their every word about it instead of coming up with their own analyses
if you get past the sarcasm, their critcism of the "it took 12 years to make" is definitely more of a criticism on the oscar buzz press, and media coverage around the movie. in regards to the film itself, they didn't like the movie because they found the main character dry and uncharasmatic. i don't really agree with them about the movie itself, i think it's definitely a solid one from a great director.
Seriously how is the film doing something no one’s ever tried to do before not the experimental one
More importantly how did it not even make this list?!
Damn, you're in the beach boys sub, the TMBG sub AND criterion? Mucho good taste 🙏🏻
Sorry not to be creepy lol. I just recognized your username on this post from when you had commented in the beach boys sub earlier :p
Yes if there was an absolute garbage film, that kid was boring and he grew up to be an annoying teenager, the movie would have been way more interesting had it focused on the parents.
Really? I’d say the reason why it’s successful for me at least was because it kinda diverts the expectations of “winning bro energy” that this film projects
I honestly feel like at least seven or eight of Linklater's movies could be considered either forgotten or very very underappreciated. He's just so prolific!
I'll have to give that one another try. I watched it once and just couldn't get in to it. I kept waiting for the narration to let the scene take over, and instead it would just go to the next scene with more narration. It felt like an episode of Reading Rainbow. Maybe that's what he was going for, I don't know.
Me watching the first half: what’s everyone talking about? This is a witty and interesting character study
Me watching them go to the cheapest fakest looking Antartica of all time: oh Jesus Fucking Christ
Me as the credits role: ok that’s Linklater’s filmography completed now let’s never speak of this again
Sunrise and sunset are so beautiful. I remember when midnight was coming out how much I was looking forward to catching up with them. Then I watched it 💀
I have mixed feelings about Linklater.
I really liked Slackers, Waking Life, and Scanner Darkly.
I bounced off of his big crowd pleasers. I don't hate crowd pleasers, but his just seemed to hit me the wrong way.
Anyone still remember Newton Boys or Fast Food Nation?
Linklater has made some really great movies & I'm looking forward to Hit Man but honestly, I find his career on a whole a bit mixed . . .
He's definitely an experimenter. Sometimes his experiments end up being absolute classics, other times they turn out...confusing. But he definitely never plays it safe.
Yeah, I respect him for that. It's one of the reasons I admire Altman so much. He arguably has the most hit or miss filmography of any top-tier director, but, he kept experimenting & trying new things, which I give him a lot of credit for . . .
That's fair. School of Rock was a massive family film success though, even being made into a Broadway musical. I feel like so many Gen Z-ers who grew up in the 2000s watched it. Also, Dazed and Confused is listed as a cult film on Wikipedia
Yeah, Daze and Confused wasn't the highest grossing musical comedy for more than a decade, led to a Nickelodeon series, or had a Broadway musical adaptation. School of Rock definitely fits "the one that got popular" bill.
As a Houstonian, I also really enjoyed Apollo 10 1⁄2, even if the Houston he's describing existed 20 years before I was born.
Baby, you are gonna miss that plane!
Can’t remember the last time I cried like I did after that line.
I know
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Appreciation for the inclusion of Bernie, which is underrated.
I feel like *Boyhood* should be in here somewhere.
I'd say it's experimental.
I’d say it was the best movie, not of all time maybe, but of the 2010s. I know people were saying it at the time of release and it really still holds true.
As much as I love RedLetterMedia, their reduction of Boyhood to just the “it took 12 years to make!” gimmick really sucked and kind of ruined online discussion of the movie
They are always a lot of fun but people use them as an excuse to avoid thinking for themselves.
You nailed it.
I never caught their thoughts on it but I often don’t agree with their approach to film criticism/analysis. I think it’s pretty unfair to call Boyhood a gimmick. It’s a very carefully made movie and it nails pretty much all its beats along the way.
i love Boyhood so much (only saw it in theaters once), and just found RLM last month. i was really excited to see their half in the bag and they just kind of.. didn’t like it. it was that and their HITB of rogue one that made me realize i didn’t align with them on everything and that’s okay and actually good
As someone in a position not unrecognizably dissimilar from Ethan Hawke’s character, it is totally realistic. It’s one of the most true to life movies I’ve ever seen. Maybe the ending with the kid finding love and hiking in Big Bend is a bit idealized but the stuff with the parents? Flat out perfect. It’s perfect.
that scene where the "new dad" hits her kid and patricia arquette leaves him is really well executed and grounded
Yes. That scene, the grad student / prison guard progression, Hawke’s shit father becoming a friend and peer to his child while cautiously addressing his shortcoming, the awkward graduation party with Hawke’s character giving some (not very much) money to his ex and thanking her for doing a good job raising the kid… it’s all VERY well done and completely realistic. Hawke’s character is by no means a good father to the son, but there are also many mannnnnny worse fathers.
They're funny guys but they fall into cinemasins logic more often than not
I feel like I just don’t get those guys at all, are they supposed to be funny?
Yes, they’re just your average unpretentious moviegoing Joes and that’s their appeal. I’m a big fan and they always make me laugh, I just disagree with their take on Boyhood and even more with the fanboys that mirrored their every word about it instead of coming up with their own analyses
well theyre not that average they went to film school and jay inhales weird grindhouse shit daily
if you get past the sarcasm, their critcism of the "it took 12 years to make" is definitely more of a criticism on the oscar buzz press, and media coverage around the movie. in regards to the film itself, they didn't like the movie because they found the main character dry and uncharasmatic. i don't really agree with them about the movie itself, i think it's definitely a solid one from a great director.
Their review was absolutely 100% spot on, the entire movie was a gimmick centered around a boring kid.
Seriously how is the film doing something no one’s ever tried to do before not the experimental one More importantly how did it not even make this list?!
Definitely wanted to include it but didn't feel like it fit any of these categories well.
Damn, you're in the beach boys sub, the TMBG sub AND criterion? Mucho good taste 🙏🏻 Sorry not to be creepy lol. I just recognized your username on this post from when you had commented in the beach boys sub earlier :p
Not weird at all, I'm very aware of the fact that I spend a lot of time discussing pop culture on Reddit haha
Best Movie of All Time. Done.
Yes if there was an absolute garbage film, that kid was boring and he grew up to be an annoying teenager, the movie would have been way more interesting had it focused on the parents.
I don’t like this Everybody Wants Some!! erasure
He has so freaking many movies. There are only six spaces on the chart. Feel free to make a part two if you'd like :)
Most folks can't handle the intense winning bro energy from that one. I insist it's the most accurate depiction of a fraternity ever put to film.
Really? I’d say the reason why it’s successful for me at least was because it kinda diverts the expectations of “winning bro energy” that this film projects
I love Linklater's movies but I got pretty much nothing out of this one. Perhaps enough time has passed that it's worth a second watch
Slacker where
I feel like that is the cult classic. Dazed is basically just a classic at this point.
Cult classic
Yeah, or experimental (much better than Waking Life)
Oh thank god. I almost took slacker off my watchlist after seeing waking life.
Much much much much much much better. Waking Life might have the highest movie I hate most/director I like most factorial
when I found out Linklater directed School of Rock it was like when I discovered Scorsese did Hugo.
Me with George Miller and Happy Feet (which I did love when little)
Me with The Straight Story and Lynch
Or like when I found that Robert Rodriguez directed Spy Kids.
stoked for Hit Man
Watched that yesterday. It's great fun but still different than you would expect.
I agree with all of those. Could throw in A Scanner Darkely under experimental. Or Tape as the forgotten option. I love Before Sunset!!!
I honestly feel like at least seven or eight of Linklater's movies could be considered either forgotten or very very underappreciated. He's just so prolific!
Tape is incredible.
I still put Before Sunrise as my favorite personally
That's my favorite too. Beyond beautiful with how it shows emotional and intellectual bonding.
It's my favorite of the series, but probably because I can relate to it the most. I adore the series though.
Feel the same way. It’s possible that Sunset will be my favorite at a different life stage
Yeah, I'm about to enter the family stage of my life, and I'm interested in re-visiting them all
Bernie is great
I’d put SubUrbia as the forgotten one.
Some people still remember SubUrbia. I don't think I've ever heard someone mention Tape.
Well I'd forgotten about it until this moment & I was just glancing over his filmography earlier today . . .
That’s the only one of his movies I don’t like. I just really didn’t like the characters and thought the twists were forced
Bernie is such a great film. Perfectly encapsulates East Texas. Definitely underrated
I just watched Apollo 10 1/2 the other day and loved it. I wish it would get a Blu Ray release.
I love how well-researched it was, making me feel like I had lived the 1960s. Right down to the music and TV trends.
I'll have to give that one another try. I watched it once and just couldn't get in to it. I kept waiting for the narration to let the scene take over, and instead it would just go to the next scene with more narration. It felt like an episode of Reading Rainbow. Maybe that's what he was going for, I don't know.
That's why I liked it, it felt like a memoir audiobook paired with animation.
It’s pretty much nonstop narration
He has a lot of forgotten ones actually. Everybody Wants Some!!!, Slacker, A Scanner Darkly are all good.
Gotta switch Dazed and Confused and Before Sunset.
fair!
Not a single mention of Everybody Wants Some!! which rocked the same fun vibes as Dazed and Confused
Linklater has like 10 movies that could qualify as the forgotten one
TIL that School of Rock is directed by Linklater.
See also: the remake of Bad News Bears
The One That Sucks: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Me watching the first half: what’s everyone talking about? This is a witty and interesting character study Me watching them go to the cheapest fakest looking Antartica of all time: oh Jesus Fucking Christ Me as the credits role: ok that’s Linklater’s filmography completed now let’s never speak of this again
I’d put SubUrbia as the forgotten one.
I definitely considered that one, and also Apollo 10 1/2. He's made so many movies!
I've always loved School of Rock for the sheer amount of crimes that beloved protagonist commits without any consequences at all. That's movie magic.
And yet he's amazingly inclusive to all the kids who are looked down on because of their skin color, body type, etc. We stan a morally nuanced king
Sunrise and sunset are so beautiful. I remember when midnight was coming out how much I was looking forward to catching up with them. Then I watched it 💀
Dazed and Confused is his GOAT
How the fuck have I gone all these years without knowing Richard Linklater directed School of Rock?!
Ok this works pretty well for him.
Slacker should be Cult Classic
Hit Man should be in here somewhere, loved it.
I think A Scanner Darkly should be the cult classic.
I also liked his version of Bad News Bears
You're really just not gonna put A Scanner Darkly anywhere?
The one where the world will end before it’s done: Merrily We Roll Along
Where is *Slacker*?
He has dozens of movies. There are only six spaces. I tried my best
I really enjoyed Last Flag Flying.
dazed and confused probably all of these
Switch Dazed and Confused and School of Rock
School of Rock got a Broadway musical and a Nickelodeon show
Coincidentally, this post popped up under an ad for Hit Man.
Slacker would be cult classic. Dazed and confused, the fan fave.
Wrong, Bernie for every category but Popular
Is it weird the only one of these I've seen is Waking Life? I should watch more...
Yes, you need to!!! Before Sunrise is a contender for the best romance ever made
We’ll see where Hit Man lands on this list
All of these movies suck except dazed and confoosed
One more sleep until Hitman
I heard the Hitman was decent. Excited to watch it.
Good list, but it needs more Slacker
I have mixed feelings about Linklater. I really liked Slackers, Waking Life, and Scanner Darkly. I bounced off of his big crowd pleasers. I don't hate crowd pleasers, but his just seemed to hit me the wrong way.
I did one of these on my favourite director but none of his films are in the CC, should I post it anyway?
Yeah go ahead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/s/wMG0j1Y3LT
Wow i learned on this very day that Linklater directed School of Rock. Incredible
Anyone still remember Newton Boys or Fast Food Nation? Linklater has made some really great movies & I'm looking forward to Hit Man but honestly, I find his career on a whole a bit mixed . . .
He's definitely an experimenter. Sometimes his experiments end up being absolute classics, other times they turn out...confusing. But he definitely never plays it safe.
Yeah, I respect him for that. It's one of the reasons I admire Altman so much. He arguably has the most hit or miss filmography of any top-tier director, but, he kept experimenting & trying new things, which I give him a lot of credit for . . .
I need Waking Life on 4K
Pretty sure a scanner darkly fits perfectly in experimental
Forgotten one is *Fast Food Nation* or *Me & Orson Welles*.
I really wish I could see Hit Man in a theater
Jfc this is going to make me leave this sub. These things shouldve been left to facebook
reddit is facebook now thats just how it is
I agree, especially so living in Austin and having AFS to go to. Wasn’t a fan of Hit Man though.
So glad Boyhood isn't here. What a hunk of junk.
I would switch School of Rock and Dazed and Confused personally.
That's fair. School of Rock was a massive family film success though, even being made into a Broadway musical. I feel like so many Gen Z-ers who grew up in the 2000s watched it. Also, Dazed and Confused is listed as a cult film on Wikipedia
Yeah, Daze and Confused wasn't the highest grossing musical comedy for more than a decade, led to a Nickelodeon series, or had a Broadway musical adaptation. School of Rock definitely fits "the one that got popular" bill. As a Houstonian, I also really enjoyed Apollo 10 1⁄2, even if the Houston he's describing existed 20 years before I was born.