Long boring movie

[Beattie]

What's the longest most boring movie you have ever seen? For me, it's either Das Boot or Gods and Generals.

 

[Capone]

Hope Floats....only movie I've ever fell asleep watching in the theater.

 

[SaltBoy]

The Kenneth Branaugh version of Hamlet. It's a four-hour snooze fest.

 

[FFactory0x]

Now i fell asleep in Sixth Sense. I thought that sucked

 

[Aharami]

some old indian movie

 

[SaltBoy]

My FIRST double post. w00t!

 

[Czesia]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x
Now i fell asleep in Sixth Sense. I thought that sucked

Well, I didn't think it was that bad, but I think they could have done a lot more with it. I was disappointed, they lost the opportunity to do something great with a cool concept.

 

[yobarman]

third lord of the rings... sorry, but towards the end i was ready to bounce

 

[Rilescat]

Mona Lisa Smile.....MOST BORING MOVIE EVER...it is only like 1.5 hours long and by 10 minutes into it I was just completely bored stiff. 12 hours of Wheel of Fortune wouldn't have felt so damn long.

 

[Jzero]

Waterworld. <- WINNAR!

 

[Anubis]

Das Boot is awsome!!!!

that being said....
Gone With The Wind - id rather Kill myself then sit through that again
Le Mis - play or movie, both suck

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Waterworld. <- WINNAR!

That dude in teh movie that rings teh bell and yells smokers when they attack the compound is a professor at my school

 

[StageLeft]

I thought this was another thread about the boondock saints.

 

[zimu]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I thought this was another thread about the boondock saints.

YABST?

 

[gistech1978]

Das Boot was good.
Titanic was long and boring.

 

[Beattie]

I liked Das Boot too, just that it was long and it dragged on needlessly in the middle.

 

[LordJezo]

How about The Postman?

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

The first LOTR was just brutal IMO. That is the worst offender I can think of in the last few years.

In general I think there has been a disturbing trend in recent years toward under-editing movies, so they are often pointlessly long and dull. Even some strong movies (Open Range is a recent example) have been dulled down by 15-20 minutes of unnecessary material that doesn't further the plotline. God knows there are some very long movies that are gripping (Magnolia comes to mind), but all too many filmmakers seem to think their movies MUST be 2-3 hours long, whether or not they have the requisite amount of material to sustain the length.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Don_Vito
The first LOTR was just brutal IMO. That is the worst offender I can think of in the last few years.

In general I think there has been a disturbing trend in recent years toward under-editing movies, so they are often pointlessly long and dull. Even some strong movies (Open Range is a recent example) have been dulled down by 15-20 minutes of unnecessary material that doesn't further the plotline. God knows there are some very long movies that are gripping (Magnolia comes to mind), but all too many filmmakers seem to think their movies MUST be 2-3 hours long, whether or not they have the requisite amount of material to sustain the length.

I was gonig to conclude that you must obviously require a movie to be all action with little in the way of plot development, but then you said you liked magnolia, which was a horrendously boring movie (to me), so now I have no conclusion

 

[Redviffer]

Originally posted by: Beattie
What's the longest most boring movie you have ever seen? For me, it's either Das Boot or Gods and Generals.

You have to see Das Boot while your underway on a submarine, it'll keep your interest.

 

[zimu]

this is turning into a long boring thread abotu long boring movies.

 

[iamwiz82]

Citizen Kane. Yuck... :frown:

 

[Electric Amish]

Meet Joe Black

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Skoorb


I was gonig to conclude that you must obviously require a movie to be all action with little in the way of plot development, but then you said you liked magnolia, which was a horrendously boring movie (to me), so now I have no conclusion

Actually my main beef with LOTR is that the plotline is incredibly simplistic - you could easily summarize the plot of the first film in one paragraph - and there is no real characterization (you really don't learn anything about the main characters, other than that, well, there are two hobbits, a wizard, an elf, a dwarf, etc., nor does the film give you any reason to care about them), so the movie really lacks anything interesting that would justify its extraordinary length.

I loved the LOTR books when I was 10 - I read them each several times - but I was definitely less well-read at the time. To me the main strength of the books is that they draw out an interesting and organic universe, and the story, while very simple, is fundamentally interesting. The movies don't give me this (at least not the first one - I still plan on seeing the later two at some point).

Tolkein was more or less completely lacking in the ability to craft characters IMO, and in hindsight I find the stories unsatisfying. This is the main reason I dislike nearly all sci/fi and fantasy as an adult - it seems to me that many authors resort to creating fantasy worlds because they lack the ability to create thinking, feeling characters that generate empathy in the reader.

By contrast, I found Magnolia an incredibly emotionally rich, authentic story with interesting, lifelike characters who act and think like real people. I thought the movie was absolutely gripping, and even at 3 hours plus I was sad to see it end.

 

[BornStar]

The Royal Tenenbaums. Ugh