Most boring movie of ALL TIME

[CEE TEE]

Okay, I really tried- on two totally separate occasions.
 
Can someone who was able to stay awake more than five minutes while watching Winged Migration tell me if it was actually good???
 
I never fall asleep watching movies but man...Academy Award Nominee or not 

 

[BobSaysHi]

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All three of The Lord of the Rings
*duck*

grrrrrrrr...
 


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  Requiem was also terrible.  People are addicted to drugs.  The End. 
 

grrrr...
 

 

[tdockweiler]

Have you ever saw a movie and passed it off as terrible and a complete bore and then re-watched it years later and absolutely loved it? No?
 
It was with that way for me with several directors. I remember when I was 18 (now 31) trying to get into Yasujiro Ozu films. I started with Floating Weeds and then Tokyo Story. I was bored to tears by them at the time. I think maybe I was too young to appreciate them or relate to them.
 
I saw "Floating Weeds" again last year and was blown away by it. Loved every minute of it, never bored and now think it's one of the best Ozu films. I've now attempted to watch all his films, including his B&W silent comedies. My favorite of his is "There was a Father". The biggest negative about his movie is that I get them all confused! I can't remember which is which due to the titles.
 
I remember long ago I watched a Tsai Ming-Liang movie called "Vive L'amour". Basically it felt like it was a movie where nothing happened. I don't remember it well, just a long scene of a man hiding out in an empty apartment and sleeping under someone's bed. Towards the end  a woman spends an eternity walking through a park and then just sits down and starts crying. The end. What...?
 
I watched most all of his other films and starting liking them. How does that happen?! His best movie is "Rebels of the Neon God'.
 
I also forgot the movie boring movie I've ever seen in my entire life: It's "Ulysses' Gaze".
 
I remember being bored to death also by the german film "Wings of Desire" but maybe I was too young. I might watch that tonight. I love the Wim Wenders film called "Paris, Texas". It's one of the best blu-ray discs I own.
 

 

[_Stooge_]

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Have you ever saw a movie and passed it off as terrible and a complete bore and then re-watched it years later and absolutely loved it? No?
 
 

I had the same thing happen to me with some of Kubrick's films. I gained an interest in movies in high school, so naturally I saw movies like 2001 and The Shining. At the time I just didn't "get" his way of direction with the long drawn out scenes and periods of almost no dialogue. I think I just didn't have the patience at that age to enjoy the work. I can say now though, after re-watching his movies, that they have become some of my favorites.... especially Dr. Strangelove.
 

 

[revolink24]

A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove are probably my two favorite movies of all time.

I agree with Uncle Erik about Inception, though I enjoyed the Dark Knight, though I certainly didn't find it excellent. I actually preferred Batman Begins, with less pretentious soap opera-esque dialogue and artsiness.

Loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which surprised me, since I'm a huge fan of Tolkien and I expected the films, like most book adaptations, to be a terrible letdown.

 

[zotjen]

I think people are confusing "boring" with the following:
 
1. long
2. slow
3. confusing
4. movies you just don't like or have something against
 
If you want to see a boring movie, look no further than Gus Van Sant's Last Days, which includes a 10 minute scene where you get to watch Michael Pitt make mac & cheese.
 
 

 

[philibere]

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Have you ever saw a movie and passed it off as terrible and a complete bore and then re-watched it years later and absolutely loved it? No?

Yeah... that's what happened when I watched "The Dark Knigt" again and again and again. After about 5 watches I can certainly say that it's one of the best movie of that year. Plus, watching Avatar a second time had the other effect: found it long and boring though I absolutely loved it the first time.
 

 

[roadcykler]

As much as I like Stanley Kubrick directed movies, 2001: A Space Odyssey was kind of boring. It pains me to say so, but it was. Funny how opinions can be so vastly different. Cool Hand Luke is one of my all time favourite movies, one that if I see while flipping through the channels I'll stop and watch it from wherever it is to the end and someone here posted that it was boring and pointless to them. Different strokes, as they say.

 

[jax]

How are any of # 1&2 not a potential aspect of being "boring"? I guess I get where you are coming from on 3&4, being a bit more personal, but actually it's all rather personal whether anyone considers a film to have any of those qualities (or lack thereof).  If you are eliminating those four from the qualifications, exactly what would you use as a measuring stick of "boring" without them? 
 
There was a French film back in the 80's that I cannot recall the title of.  It was done largely in real-time and I believe it was around 6 hours.  It basically followed a few scenes of a woman's empty life (perhaps she was a prostitute...can't recall).  She ends up killing a john at some point.  Even that part was pretty boring. 
 
"Begotten" is a film with no dialogue and no sharply focused image, and much of the imagery is rather abstract and entirely unrecognizable.  It is entirely in B&W and has a rather grating, disturbing soundtrack.  The entire film is quite disturbing.  I don't know that I'd call it "boring" but I'd bet a whole lot of people walked out on it.  I found it quite beautiful at times, but also very disturbing.  I seem to remember that some critic at Time called it one of the ten most important films of the decade.  It begins with this quivering, abstract, aberrant and rather gruesome visage of "god", disembowling himself and bleeding to death. Apparently the entire film can now be viewed on YouTube here.  I won't post scenes here as they are largely disturbing. There are plenty of isolated scenes  on YouTube as well if you do a search on "Begotten" (some have music that was added by the poster - the movie does not have music...just a gristly, vibrating soundtrack with some organic sounds mixed in).  The director, E. Elias Merhige, went on to direct a few Marilyn Manson videos, to bring this back to music.  Boring?  The screening I went to had at least half, if not more, of the audience get up and walk out before it was halfway through.  Here's the trailer which is pretty benign but representative of the visual content, if you have a remote interest, but don't want to view the bulk of the film, or extended scenes.  One of the review quotes is very telling: "Makes 'Eraserhead' seem like 'Ernest Saves Christmas'!"
 
 
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I think people are confusing "boring" with the following:
 
1. long
2. slow
3. confusing
4. movies you just don't like or have something against
 
If you want to see a boring movie, look no further than Gus Van Sant's Last Days, which includes a 10 minute scene where you get to watch Michael Pitt make mac & cheese.
 
 

 

 

[oqvist]

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grrrrrrrr...
 



grrrr...
 

x2 growl lol.
 
Dunno which one. It´s probably a movie I didn´t finish
 
A well received one is Marie Antoinette. a girl living a princess life in a castle. It´s all in pink and nothing ever happens.. Supposed to see some dekadence but not even that. But then I didn´t finish that movie.
Lars Von Triers Antichrist fit well. But again didn´t finish that one either. Melancholia I would expect to be even worse.
 
A movie I finised and rate very highly 9/10 is A new World. Very slow pace but the imagery is so beautiful and it´s a nice story even though the pace is slow

 

[zotjen]

 
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How are any of # 1&2 not a potential aspect of being "boring"?

 
 
"Long" and "slow' definitely have the potential of being boring but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be. Some people have mentioned Kubrick's 2001 as boring. While I do consider it a slow movie (meaning there are extended scenes with not much action), I find it visually arresting and fascinating so it holds my interest each time I watch it.

 

[jax]

Well that's exactly my point too - one person's boring film is another's top ten.  I find "Begotten" visually compelling, but half the audience clearly did not.  Someone actually might be entertained by the likes of, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", or, "Tetsuo: Iron Man", while others might find these harping on the same tedious, unpleasant point over and over, for no compelling reason.  Some also might find either utterly revolting. 
 
So what does, "mean it will" necessarily be boring.  Perhaps check the definition:
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bore

²    /bɔr, boʊr/ Show Spelled [bawr, bohr] Show IPA verb, bored, bor·ing, noun
–verb (used with object) 1. to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.: The long speech bored me.


–noun 2. a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.

3. a cause of ennui or petty annoyance: repetitious tasks that are a bore to do.

 
 
This makes a good case for my previous, Andy Warhol, nomination.  But I'd bet no one here, including me, ever watched it. 
 
I can think of numerous films in my own top ten that have many scenes that do not have much action.  None are boring to me, obviously.  I find many action-packed films intolerably boring, but that isn't always the case at all for me either. 
 
 

 
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"Long" and "slow' definitely have the potential of being boring but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be. Some people have mentioned Kubrick's 2001 as boring. While I do consider it a slow movie (meaning there are extended scenes with not much action), I find it visually arresting and fascinating so it holds my interest each time I watch it.

 

 

[Uncle Erik]

I wasn't a huge fan of "2001" when I was a kid, but I find it gripping now. Picked up the Blu-Ray version a few months back and have watched it a few times. There are no unnecessary scenes, no wasted dialog and it still looks gorgeous.

Not to derail the thread, but Kubrick influenced my turntable purchase. J.A. Michell designed the "Discovery" spacecraft in "2001" and that cool turntable in "A Clockwork Orange" is a Michell Transcriptor. So, in addition to the technical merits, I had to have a Michell deck.

Back to movies, I also enjoyed LoTR more than I expected, though I prefer the extended versions. I fault them a bit for leaving a lot of the fun stuff out and mostly having the action bits. I know there are constraints for movies and that not everything can be included. However, I like the books more because there's a rollercoaster of terror followed by the characters having a good time. The movies paint a grimmer story than it actually is.

 

[revolink24]

You have a Michell? Man, I'm jealous. I, like you, have wanted one since seeing A Clockwork Orange.

Also, the Probe 16, which is the car used in A Clockwork Orange. Only three were made, and only one or two is in good shape, but man they are the epitome of cool cars of the late 60s.

 

[ldtboyl]

that movie about chun-li and The watchmen