Thing 1

[just_the_things]

1. Watch every Academy Award best picture nominee from 2010 to 2015

I watched Boyhood just now. I liked it a lot. What a brilliant result from some epic and corageous story-telling techniques. It definitely deserves all the praise it's getting. While I'm sure it's not my favorite of the Best Picture noms this year, I certainly wouldn't mind seeing it win.

By the end of the movie, I felt like I'd lived a whole childhood with this character. Everything seemed so familiar to me, like I'd been living it with them. How incredible to tell a story that sucks people in due to the concept. But the story itself, once you're sucked in, is great as well. I always love a good coming-of-age story and sometimes it's the simple, every day things that can leave lasting impressions.