Don Vito Corleone
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Was that movie long? I recall it being 90 - 105 minutes or so. I found it a little glib, but very clever, fast-paced and funny. I would call it a 3-star film. I could imagine someone not liking it due to its glibness, but I can't imagine anyone being bored by it.
Originally posted by: Don_Vito
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.
What are you? Some kind of crappy movie critic?
LOTR was never intended to be the story you want. It was written as mythology and allegory, neither of which is dependent upon character development.
Don Vito Corleone
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What are you? Some kind of passive-aggressive dime-store nihilist, who feels compelled to post snide, negative comments on every subject?
I was, after all, posting things related to the topic at hand.
HomeBrewerDude
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Wow, it's only 109 minutes long. I thought that it was around 150-180. I was bored stiff throughout that entire movie. I didn't laugh once. It's always possible that it's one of those movies that you have to be in the right mood for, but for some reason, I doubt that.
daniel1113
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When Harry met Sally. It was so damn boring. I was also very young at the time so maybe that's why, but I never liked it.
Whitecloak
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The recent remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Good God almighty that one was one boring ass sh!t fest. I was so restless I was squirming in my chair and considered leaving to go sit out in the lobby while my family finished up that cinematic disaster but I endured it to the very bitter end.
Anything with Hugh Grant puts me right to sleep.
Other WiNnArs:
The Craft
Gerry
Last House on the Left
Not all of them may have been long, but they made me start nodding off within 20 minutes. Once I'm asleep it doesn't matter if the movie is 90 minutes or 3 hours...
Other WiNnArs:
The Craft
Gerry
Last House on the Left
Not all of them may have been long, but they made me start nodding off within 20 minutes. Once I'm asleep it doesn't matter if the movie is 90 minutes or 3 hours...
Don Vito Corleone
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Really? I thought that was a great movie. IMO Duvall is definitely in the top 5 or so living actors, and that was a brilliant performance.
man i was so bored by the end of lord of the rings 2, were i with people i knew better i would have left. that horse had like 5 minutes of solo screentime, i'm sure some of that could have gone.
other long and boring movies: 2001: a space odyssey, and solaris (the old russian one).
I don't know about longest but most boring is easily The Whipping of The Christ. That movie SUCKED.
I'm fairly convinced that what constitute a "long boring movie" is not the movie itself but the attention span of the viewer. Any movie that the subject matter, plot, and character development does not interest the viewer, it will be considered needlessly drawn-out and boring.
Maybe I'm getting older, but I'm finding out that a lot of the top movies I enjoy are usually longer movies. My attention span has improved vastly. I use to like mainly action, comedy, and other fast-paced movies, but movies that leave longer impressions on me are usually 2+ hours in length. I've seen too many movies now that I felt way too short for any sort of plot/character development. Some examples of movies I truly enjoyed are Titanic, A.I., Gladiator, Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, LOTR (all of them), Legends of the Fall, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Tombstone, Seven, Aliens, and the Abyss.
Maybe I'm getting older, but I'm finding out that a lot of the top movies I enjoy are usually longer movies. My attention span has improved vastly. I use to like mainly action, comedy, and other fast-paced movies, but movies that leave longer impressions on me are usually 2+ hours in length. I've seen too many movies now that I felt way too short for any sort of plot/character development. Some examples of movies I truly enjoyed are Titanic, A.I., Gladiator, Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, LOTR (all of them), Legends of the Fall, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Tombstone, Seven, Aliens, and the Abyss.
How can you find Das Boot long and boring? Long, yes, but it usually kept up a good clip.
For me, I found Solaris (remake) boring beyond belief! I want my money back that I spent on the ticket. :| Only 100 min long, but it felt closer to two hours. Man, how could so many talented people make a movie that just sucked so hard?
AI was... well, the last 20 min bored the piss out of me as it was the STUPIDIST ending possible and adheared neither to the spirit nor the story of what came before it. If it were Kubrick directing that, then it might have been good as we would have got the real moether back, not the kid's fantasy mother. The middle had a lot that dragged, too.
The Maltese Falcon also sucked, IMO. The plot bored me and Bogart came off as a complete asshole.
Xtro. It was a sci-fi movie, British I think, that did a good job of boring me to tears. I just so lost interest in it. Its incoherence helped there, too.
Star Trek 5.
As for Don_Vito who was saying that movies have to be 2-3 hours long, those are in a very small minority. I'd guess that closer to 90% of all movies are only 90-100 min long, and a lot are starting to be shorter than that. Most don't even hit two hours now (req length for a good movie, IMO) due to thin plots and the fact that theaters want to be able to show them as often as possible.
For me, I found Solaris (remake) boring beyond belief! I want my money back that I spent on the ticket. :| Only 100 min long, but it felt closer to two hours. Man, how could so many talented people make a movie that just sucked so hard?
AI was... well, the last 20 min bored the piss out of me as it was the STUPIDIST ending possible and adheared neither to the spirit nor the story of what came before it. If it were Kubrick directing that, then it might have been good as we would have got the real moether back, not the kid's fantasy mother. The middle had a lot that dragged, too.
The Maltese Falcon also sucked, IMO. The plot bored me and Bogart came off as a complete asshole.
Xtro. It was a sci-fi movie, British I think, that did a good job of boring me to tears. I just so lost interest in it. Its incoherence helped there, too.
Star Trek 5.
As for Don_Vito who was saying that movies have to be 2-3 hours long, those are in a very small minority. I'd guess that closer to 90% of all movies are only 90-100 min long, and a lot are starting to be shorter than that. Most don't even hit two hours now (req length for a good movie, IMO) due to thin plots and the fact that theaters want to be able to show them as often as possible.
Don Vito Corleone
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Huh? That's one of the greatest films ever made. I saw a cleaned-up copy in Cinescope when I was 16 or so, and it blew my mind even at that age.
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