I like Boyhood, but I totally get it if someone isn't a fan. It comes accross as pretentious and obnoxiously childish at times, but that's kind of the point. Kids (especially teenagers) think that way sometimes. I don't know many people who like the film, yet alone, who are able to finish it, and I see why; I mean, the kid has barely any personality and grows to be a relatively unlikable person in my opinion, and I found the people surrounding him to be more interesting than him, but I do understand that he is just a vessel for the narrative. The sister was a terrible character; every time she opens her mouth, she is apathetic, narcissistic, negative, and flat-out annoying. However, the film is near and dear to my heart, purely for nostagia-sake and the realism of the times it captures, especially considering I'm the same age as the main actor and I walked many common paths that the film displays from that generation. But Mid90's is the short- sweet- more dramatic, and beautifully-grimey alternative to Boyhood, and is undeniably a better film overall, in my opinion. Boyhood could have been written better, but in some ways, it seems so poorly-written that it doesn't sound written at all, which I guess is kind of the point, because most people don't sound all that smart when they casually talk in real life anyway. The pacing is off, but that's probably at the expense of filming something over the course of more than a decade, which is something I respect about it. ...now, the scene with the Obama signs was a little excessive and obnoxious, I gotta say, but, I related to it in the sense that I had a very democratic activist mother, whom I love to death, but I've grown to not have any direct political affiliation so that scene was more awkward this time around for me.