re: Movies with really good ideas as the basis, that didn't work in reality

Boyhood. I had to see it when I heard how it was filmed. It was awful.

Timeline/Progressions hard to follow

Mother wasn't that great as a mother and had very few redeeming qualities. I am not sure she was involved in one thing her kids did and it showed bc they were pretty empty characters. They tossed in random moments or comments to make her seem so great but it was choppy, superficial, cheap and hard to buy into.

Random political crap thrown in.

Hard to even figure out the point was except for someone to attempt to make artsy people feel like they are really great kids??? I'm not sure.