boyhood is better

A 'poor mans' version means the storyline was similar. No where in this film did they show a young boy and his kidnapped mother locked in a shed together

Don't insult the movie Room, which is one of the best films of the last decade, with this piece of cow excrement posing as a full length film.

They're two totally different films and ideas.

I thought both were excellent films, but don't believe your comparison is valid. They are totally different genres, so to say that
Boyhood
"should have been done" like
Room
makes little sense.
They have in common attention to character's interior experiences and a subtext about the interplay of human agency and external reality, and that they are both "indie" films that got picked up by some of the theater chains and found a wider audience.
Boyhood
was not about "story" (which seems to be why many viewers didn't like it when they were expecting "story" in the usual sense), while Room is definitely a story, though an atypical one. I have to say the performance of the child actor in
Room
was
extraordinary
, probably the best performance by a
young
child I've seen since Tatum O'Neal in
Paper Moon
. Jean Pierre Leaud in
The 400 Blows
is up there too, but he was a teenager when making that film.

Boyhood was Slice of Life. No plot. Not your cup of tea, I'm guessing.