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I thought The Age of Innocence was boring when it first came out, and I was 12. But seeing it much later, I absolutely loved it. I admit that I am a sucker for period pieces, but this movie isn't boring. It is one of those movies where it isn't about what is being said, but about what is NOT being said.

Meet Joe Black is fucking unwatchable. Except...

***SPOILER***

...when Brad Pitt gets hit by a car. And then a SECOND car. My brother and I watched that scene over and over and over and laughed our asses off. Mini-div - What is the most unintentionally funny scene in a movie?

While "No Country For Old Men" may have been slow moving, I thought it maintained enough tension throughout to keep it from being labeled "boring." The bleakness/starkness made me uncomfortable, but in the end I was able to appreciate it.

The Thin Red Line didn't see many defenders in the original comments, so I'll speak up for it. Not in any particularly eloquent way, just to say I enjoyed it. I'm fine with looking at a landscape for a while, which I guess is why I like Malick, along with Tran Anh Hung (The Vertical Ray of the Sun and The Scent of Green Papaya, if anyone is actually interested in the challenge of a slowly paced but beautiful movie).

I'm glad The Fountain did not make this list. The movie is absolutely beautiful and has provided many great conversations amongst my friends. Similarly to Donnie Darko, it allows many various interpretations and these have lead to some of my favorite late night discussions.

Also, I have to strongly disagree with the hate for The Fellowship Of The Ring. I was simply giddy when I saw this movie in the theatre. Specifically the first 30 minutes in the Shire. It was such a beautiful translation of the book onto screen that Tolkien, I'm sure, would approve.

I step up for There will be Blood. While it certainly wasn't action packed, Daniel Day Lewis' performance had me riveted. It's not without flaw, but I've watched it three times.

fucking shit.

Oh, "I drink YOUR milkshake!"

The Good Shepherd didn't make the list? That was pure dreck.

I like Legends of the Fall, but I can see how people would find it boring. It's not one of Brad Pitt's better films. Personally, I would defend anything with Julia Ormond.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is overrated, but not boring.

Dustin, I saw an article on Paste Magazine's website yesterday called "Paste Presents the Slowest Movies of all Time, Part 1." Coincidence?

Anyway, they listed The New World, Tideland, Empire, Barry Lyndon, and some others. Just thought it was interesting.

I can't watch The Thin Red Line. I keep trying to watch it, and end up falling asleep. I think I just have any patience for the director, because I've found all his movies much, much too slow. They're beautiful...almost lyrical in the way he repeats symbols...but to me, they're damn lullabies.

I don't find Titanic boring because it inspires too much disgust. Does that count as a defense? I mutter and grumble obscenities through the whole thing.

To me, 2001, Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are all feasts for the eyes in different ways. 2001 is my favorite of the three, and the only one I've seen more than once. Yes I've fallen asleep during it. But it's beautiful to watch when you're in the mood for it, and I like it because not everything is spelled out for the viewer.

I'm a Kubrick nut though, so I'm probably biased. And now to validate my declaration of Kubrickian love, I have to go put all of his movies on my Amazon wish list, because I just realized I only have The Shining on DVD...

I'm one of the people who mentioned There Will Be Blood as boring, but I still enjoyed it for the most part. Part of it was the overly-long introduction sequence. The other aspect that lead me to feel bored was the score. It produced so much tension and dissonance throughout the movie that I found myself expecting some huge event to occur. When that event was "I drink your milkshake!" it was a little disappointing. Not that that scene wasn't stellar and classic, I just felt I was worked up for something that never really got delivered.

In its defense, the scenes with the preacher and DDL with the preacher were all worth the rest of the movie to me.

No Heaven's Gate?! Shenanigans.

I'll defend "Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's godawful, but it isn't boring. It's too stupid and annoying to be boring. I feel many emotions as I yell, "Shut up, you stupid WHORE!" at the grossly overrated Audrey Hepburn, but boredom isn't one of them.

2001. No Country, Barry Lyndon.

They're all slow.....but you still want to find out what happens next.....and what'll happen now.....and what'll happen now....and man this is a long movie, I can't believe I'm still--oh! that was a surprise!

Doesn't mean you've gotta watch Barry Lyndon every week. It really is the slowest movie I've ever seen, but it was still worthwhile.

If it pleases the court, I'm here to defend the following... (There Will Be Spoilers)

9. Atonement
I thought it'd be a stuffy British period piece crossbred with a chick flick. Then again, I thought it was PG13 before I saw it, so that shows how much I knew on entering the film. It's an engaging meditation on guilt, and I was glad it shook out the way it did. The only way it would have been a happy ending was if it was a work of fiction, and Briony saw that even if it was just a fantasy, it was vindication for the spurned lovers. The ending and the soundtrack (Elegy for Dunkirk and Clair De Lune especially), are well worth the effort of watching.

10. Meet Joe Black
Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins work well together, Claire Forlani is hot, Marsha Gay Harden and Jeffrey Tambor should have a show together, and Jake Weber is one of my favorite supporting actors for this and Dawn of the Dead. Great ensemble, and just a generally pleasant movie to watch.

15. No Country for Old Men
Yeah, I fell asleep through it, but that's because it was the final film in the Best Picture Showcase of '08. (Which should have went to either Juno, or TWBB, so I could have slept without guilt.) What I do remember though is a slow, deliberate film that isn't so much a boiler as it is a simmer. Bad deeds are done, the ante is constantly upped, and the results are fun to watch.

17. Titanic
Not James Cameron's finest hour, but it still has greatness in it. I maintain if you trim it to a real time sinking film, and make the love story a B-storyline, you'd have something gutwrenching. It would have been more tragic if Jack and Rose never got together, and there are still parts of the bigger story that make me cry.

18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Yes, I liked it. Yes, it's very similar to Forrest Gump. But I still find it a beautifully shot, beautifully framed tale of life in reverse. If anything, this trumps Gump because (no offense to Zemeckis or Hanks) but Gump was played a little too hard for sobs and laughs at times. It wasn't human error that ends Daisy and Benjamin, it was cruel fate. (And don't get me started on Jenny in FG. Bitch got what was coming to her, and she thought she could keep coming back to Forrest as if it was all ok.) It has its flaws, but that ending gets me deep in the heart.

Bonus: Twilight
It was the best comedy of last year. I laughed, I snickered, I jabbed and jested. I would watch it again with the RiffTrax and I'd go see New Moon with a group of friends at Midnight just to run a Live MST commentary that crushes all the hopes and dreams of the Sparkletards that go see it.

Boring? Nothing's boring when you make up it's PORN NAME!!!! Here we go!

01. 2000 & Buns: Space Banging
02. The English Patient (I'm skipping this one)
03. The Vertical Pink Line
04. Transporners: Robohumping
05. Broken Flowers... uh... and Golden Showers?
06. New World (...this is harder than I thought it would be...)
07. There Will be Blood and... (okay, this was a dumb idea...)
08. The Age of Innocence (...seriously - I've got nothing.)
09. Atonement (...again, I have no... A-BONE-MENT! WHOO!)
10. Meet Joe's Crack (that one there's for the fellas who like fellas)
11. Eraserhead (...aaand back to nothing.)
12. The Hours (ditto.)
13. Lust in Translation (lamelamelamelame)
14. Thighs Wide Shut (oh, fer chrissakes, that doesn't even make any sense...)
15. No Cuntry for Old Men
16. Breakfast in Tiffanys
17. Titanic Weiner
18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Banging Broad Butts
19. Barry Lynd...
20. ...

I give up...

Obviously anyone who places 2001: Space Odyssey on a "boring film" list is an epic asshole and has no business running this type of site. Having said that There Will be Blood has to be one of the most excruciating experiences I've ever had...brrrrrother, I became suicidal.

I disagree with the following movies.

1. 2001: Space Odyssey
3. The Thin Red Line
5. Broken Flowers
6. New World
7. There Will be Blood
8. The Age of Innocence
9. Atonement
13. Lost in Translation
14. Eyes Wide Shut
15. No Country for Old Men
16. Breakfast at Tiffanys
17. Titanic
18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
19. Barry Lyndon

You should see these boring movies

The most boring movie ever made
Batalla en el cielo (Battle in Heaven)

Other boring movies
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pride and Glory

and there are many more boring movies that are better for this list then the ones you got.

2001 The fuck

Quiz Show?

The Big Blue.

Jesus christ was that a huge French pile of shit.

Skitz, The New World could be titled The Nude World. Too confusing?

As one of the people who felt No Country for Old Men was boring, I wanted to like it. But it does nothing for me. I don't see what makes it so remarkable, and it's not just the lack of action, but the fact that I don't care about any of the characters. I felt bad for the wife, but otherwise, I could have cared less about anyone else. It just drags on, some dull stuff happens, and it ends.

What an odd list. I missed the diversion but would have put up "The Thin Red Line" as my own private hell. I also loathed "Lost Highway", that movie gave me a migraine. And I agree 100% with "Transformers 2".

That said, The Hours, Eyes Wide Shut, Titanic, There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men really don't belong on the list. I know Titanic bashing is in vogue here but calling that movie boring is a disservice. It may be cheesy, but definitely not boring.

Seems like a lot of folks here don't really like the actoring.

Hello??? Could someone please react to Skitzes wonderful piece of art? I lmao so hard at Meet Joe´s crack, I farted! Wow, symbolic....

I would defend There will be blood and Titanic (I loved the lin: "Who´s Freud? A passenger?"). And I still haven´t seen No country, but I´m looking forward to and I can´t belive that Javier Bardem is boring, he´s so terrifying, already in the trailer...

As an ardent fan of cloud gazing films in which nothing and everything happens at a snail's pace, I can't say I disagree at all with this list. As much as I love There Will Be Blood, it is a boring film for many if they aren't watching it as a masterclass on film scoring, acting, or cinematography. Eraserhead is a beautifully disturbed nightmare that many try to place meaning in that I genuinely don't believe is there. And No Country For Old Men is the closest I'll ever have to come to taking sleep medication as those first twenty minutes put me out every single time.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring, The Last Year at Marienbad, and The Box segment of Three...Extremes would also fit quite nicely on the list.

Also: Brad Pitt has really knocked this list out of the park! I make that three entries.

Hmm, let's start a fight, shall we? 'Cuz I don't see Wall-E on the list anywhere...

I like several of the movies on the list, but I could see how others would find them boring. You Breakfast At Tiffanys haters though, you I don't understand.

However - The English Patient. The nine hours it felt like I spent watching that movie? I would like them back. God that movie sucked and it would not end.

I'm so glad Legends of the Fall was mentioned; I thought I was the only one to think it was the most hair-tearingly, mind-numbingly, eye-blindingly BORING-ASS experience of my life.

The other film that still makes me shiver from boredom and cry from stupidity years after I saw it on a transatlantic flight, and which I hope you are all fortunate enough not to have seen, is Mr Holland's Opus. Jesus CHRIST.

I agree with almost all of this list. Atonement put me to sleep. No Country, I'm sorry, bored me. And while Daniel Day Lewis is a brilliant actor, There Will Be Blood was boring too. And long. I know that's not a popular opinion round here, so I'll go back to Lurk Land soon. Also--do not agree with Meet Joe Black being on this list. I think that is a wonderful movie and I could watch it again and again. Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt and Marcia Gay Harden gave amazing performances. Claire Forlani might not be in their acting league, but she sure is pretty to look at. That movie still makes me cry.

Legends of the Fall: Anyone who thinks this movie is boring is obviously a dude.

Titanic: Anyone who thinks this movie is boring is - once again - a dude. It was probably longer than it should have been and Billy Zane was in full effect with overacting splendor, but this movie wasn't boring.

Everything else was spot on.

uhm ...

I think there is a pretty obvious reason for this. The films that were critically acclaimed are more challenging, more complex, and require more attention from the viewer. I'm not here to put Kubrick and Stephen Daldry on a pedestal, or to play movie-snob at all the people who don't get There Will be Blood, but these films aren't made for mass consumption. What is really notable about this list is it is sort of a backlash against more complex films that got some media attention and, as a result, were exposed to a lot of people who didn't really appreciate them.

When you say a film was boring what you really mean is that it doesn't engage your attention. Instead of taking this failure to appeal to you as a flaw in the movie you should know that it's probably just you. Of course there are bad movies out there, but they don't usually get Oscar nominations.

actually, the films were made for mass consumption. they may not be "mainstream", whatever that means, but I have no doubt in my mind that they were made so that a lot of people will watch them. they were green-lighted by a studio who wanted to either make money or gain some sort of reputation so that they can make more money. I know it pains us to think of art as a product, and it shouldn't be ... but when we're arguing about the merits of films being financed by giant studios then say that they aren't made for mass consumption, well that's like saying the people who make gatorade are really interested in providing us with a quality product.

also, Crash was nominated for an Oscar ... and won ... so yeah .... let's not give the Oscars too much credit

Wrong - this chick thought Legends of the Fall was a snore-fest.

2001 - agreed wholeheartedly. Abysmally boring.

My only disagreements? There Will Be Blood and No Country. Both had plenty of tension to keep them going.

What? No "Ninth Gate". That movie was SO horribly boring my wife still remarks about it (we'll be browsing for a movie and I'll pick something up and he'll remark, "Is it going to be like that Ninth Gate crap.")

I'm also going to defend "No Country for Old Men". While it was long, it was far from boring. The same can be said for "Thin Red Line". Watching it I felt like I had either gone insane or was just really, really high.

As for "There Will Be Blood", that flick was a steaming pile of DULL. I fell asleep numerous times and woke only to mumble, "This still isn't over?".

"Eyes Wide Shut" and "Lost in Translation" were both over-hyped crap (and too long and boring).

Just tell me that when you said this:

When Anton Chigurh appeared onscreen for only the second time, I turned to my husband and said out loud, "Oh, NO. Him again?

you were at home....

Posted by: Tarn at September 11, 2009 1:15 PM

Agreed. I cried for Mr. Andrews, I cried for Captain Smith, I cried for the kids in steerage and I even cried for the old couple. Nothing for Jack and Rose really. (Side Bar: I think I'll invent the "Titanic Scorecard", in which you tally up the points corresponding to the moments you cried at. The score tells you if you're human or if you're just a frakking cry baby. Automatic cry baby status if you cry at the end of the sequel, Revolutionary Road.)

"Submitted for your approval:
Syria"

Seconded

How is Capote not even mentioned in either of these threads? That movie was so long and boring that I sometimes feel as if I'm still watching it.

I have tried to watch Legends of the Fall five times. Five times I have managed to see the first ten minutes. Five times I decided to just make out with the guy sitting next to me. Four of those times I should have shut the movie off, kicked the guy out and gone for a walk.

Other boring-ass movies:

1. Ready to Wear
2. Public enemas
3. Dances with Wolves.

I would defend Meet Joe Black. I found that movie hilarious up until the end, then I cry like a bastard.

Still, it WAS like 3 hours long for no reason I can think of.

Agent Scully: Agreed. I was actually pretty miffed by the ending of TT; totally strayed from the books! But I didn't want to bring up my nitpicks, because overall I did feel that they were true to the spirit of the books.

i have a soft spot for audrey. breakfast at tiffanys is love

Disagree with so much-
2. The English Patient-one of my favorite films of all time, beautiful from start to finish and heart-breaking. Kristen Scott-Thomas is so freaking beautiful, and the longing between them, plus the end! Jeez...

4. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen-well, this was boring, and awful and pretty much incomprehensible at the end

7. There Will be Blood-seriously?! What was boring about this? The cinematography alone made it exciting. Best film of that year.
8. The Age of Innocence-man, I loved this movie. The acting, and the production design, and that moment Winona Ryder turns around and we see how conniving she is, awesome.
9. Atonement-just a beautiful film, heartbreaking.Plus, the editing is phenomenal.
10. Meet Joe Black-love this, so romantic, i know most people don't, but I think it's fantastic. Claire Forlani? Stunning...
11. Eraserhead-odd, yes, boring, no.
12. The Hours-come, on! The acting alone, Julianne Moore? Freaking amazing.
13. Lost in Translation-ok
14. Eyes Wide Shut-yeah, It was boring.
15. No Country for Old Men-not my favorite film of the year, but it wasn't boring, just overrated.
16. Breakfast at Tiffanys-hate this one
17. Titanic-Yeah, I'll give you this one
18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-ok, so you just don't like films that are about love, loss and longing(see English Patient, Atonement, above) This one killed me! The end, when she's holding him, man...just heart-breaking, plus the women in this are so damn good!
19. Barry Lyndon-ok
20. Legends of the Fall-whatever

And Edward Nigma-Fargo?! Boring? I almost had a stroke reading that.

Five times I decided to just make out with the guy sitting next to me. Four of those times I should have shut the movie off, kicked the guy out and gone for a walk.

Posted by: Sassy Rouge at September 11, 2009 4:16 PM

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You are a whore, madam.

the diving bell and the butterfly and Angel Eyes.

Hmm, let's start a fight, shall we? 'Cuz I don't see Wall-E on the list anywhere...

I'll see your Wall-E and raise you a 500 Days of Summer.

Fuck you, Fuck you all!

What an excellent example of why focus groups destroy film making. if the eloquents were the focus group for these films, the producers would have went back to the drawing board to spice these films up and instead of giving us some brilliant films with where characters and stories are carefully developed. On the positive side have more car chases, wacky sidekicks and clothes changing montages, and Katherine Heigle.

I can picture it now.

2001: Space Odyssey - with Robin Williams as HAL

There Will be Blood -new title "Blood, and There Will be More Blood

Lost in Translation - would be narrated by the folks from "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge"

No Country for Old Men - 10x the number of shoot outs and car chases, 1/100th the amount of tension, set in L.A. with a young cast.

Breakfast at Tiffanys - with Katherine Heigle (what the fuck was this even doing on the list?)

I don't like all of the movies on this list, but I'm sure those that do can imagine how hollywood would fuck up the rest of them. Really, you probably don't have to guess, eventually a producer will remake the movie and add the explosions and other shiny objects necessary to help your addled brains focus on the screen for more than 5 minutes at a time.

How is Capote not even mentioned in either of these threads? That movie was so long and boring that I sometimes feel as if I'm still watching it.

Maybe because some, like me, believe it to be one of the most engaging films of the last ten years with performances that don't have to scream "look at me" to be effective. Hoffman is chewey at worst in Capote, but Katherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., and the rest of the ensemble are so natural it feels like a documentary. And that ending? It gives me chills just to think about it. Brilliant, underrated film.

There are a lot of Canadian students who leave English class wishing that Mikey O. had never been invented. I've read enough of his books to know that I don't want to sit through any adaptaations.

Casa-Blank-Stare. I don't even know what it is, but I've tried to watch it five times, and all fives times I fell asleep within the first half hour. I don't even know how to explain it.

The only thing more dull than the film The Age of Innocence is the book The Age of Innocence. They should've just called it 'Hushed Silences' and let me take a bleach-y syringe to the carotid artery.

It seems like recently there have been a glut of 'What?: Brad Pitt Accents Edition'. The only scene out of Meet Joe Black that I've seen was the patois. Agape. There was something really embarassing about it--I was afraid that my (Jamacian) mother would catch me watching it and launch into a screed about looseness, or some such.

Lars and the Real Girl. For fuck's... they just kept indulging him and indulging him. Please, read 'Gogol's Wife' by Landolfi--HE'LL show us the way. And with that compound-chic faux-folsky sit-'n'-quilt circle stuff.

Lawrence of Arabia. You know how sometimes you can tell that you're watching something good, but would really like for it end? Put that in your pillars.

Anthony Hopkins. Okay. I'm not saying that he isn't incredible a lot of the time, but when Silence of the Lambs came out, and suddenly he was the 'Greatest! Actor! Alive!', we all forgot that he was a nigh on forgotten classical also-ran.

Waking Life and The Science of Sleep got about 35 minutes of my viewing time combined.

Dirty Movie Name: 'Been Jammin' Butt-On'.
Disgraced?

"I’d like to see how many folks would defend any of the following movies, many of which I would put on my own personal list of dullest films."

This is a joke, right? A big ha-ha joke?

2001? No Country for Old Men? Barry Lyndon? There Will Be Blood?

These are straight-up, no kidding, essential film classics, especially the Kubrick.

Other films on this list are at worst decent, at best very very good.

Transformers 2 was probably a stinker.

I'd like to see how many folks would defend this site as a serious place to go for film commentary.

Am I the only one here who was bored to tears by Scent Of A Woman? I will never understand the love for that movie.

At first I was going to decry the presence of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' on this list. Then I remember when I watched it, I kept checking my watch to see when it was going to end. I loved it, but it kind of felt like it could have wrapped up several times before it actually did.

but I'm with the first comment, Commander Strikeher - watching and rewatching Brad Pitt go flying through the air is a hysterically funny way to waste and afternoon

You are a whore, madam.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2009 7:29 PM

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Whore is such a strong word. I prefer tart.

The word trollop makes me think of gargoyle snot. Perhaps we could compromise with 'strumpet'?

While I am not going to defend its integrity as a movie with plot or anything. You are watching Transformers wrong if it was boring.

schindler's list was really boring
i mean it was sad
but everyone in my class fell asleep

And although I did enjoy the shit out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, my whole high school class fell comatose half an hour into it. Probably not a wise choice to show Kubrick films to the high school crowd(exception would be honor students), seeing that most of the lot thought highly of Step Up and Meet the Spartans. I believe my parents may have accidently sent me to a mentally handicapped school, which would explain the coloring book I had to complete for my senior project.

Snuggiepants, be glad you made an incredibly WISE decision. You don't want your hopes in the younger generation dashed by their inability to watch anything void of nudity or CGI-somethings.

Titanic boring? But but but but it's Leo!

And I'll say it again: I HATE Terrence Malick. New World is not just boring, but terrible. It had nothing to say but "Hi I'm Terrence Malick and I went to film school." I have trees outside, I can go stare up at them pensively all I want.

No Country has action and tension that kills me every time. Not boring.

Atonement is straight up beautiful to look at. Not boring.

Transformers could only be a boring film if 1) I acknowledge that it's a film and 2) I watch it.

Oh Padame seriously, stop with the Godfather hate. Stop that RIGHT NOW.

This one list (and acommpanying thread) has done irreparable harm to Pajiba's reputation, in my opinion.

2001 at number one for boring?

WHAT. THE. FUCK?

Fuck you, cunts.

The more Japanese cinema I watch, the more I appreciate slow, thoughtful movies. If you've ever seen Nobody Knows or After Life, you know what I'm talking about. I appreciate a movie that takes its time and doesn't spell everything out in neon letters (I picture a blinking, "THIS IS A PIVOTAL SCENE).

I love Lost in Translation, even with its flaws. Just like I love Gosford Park (another movie that could be called boring).

But my reason for writing this is my extreme hatred of Atonement, which seemed to be a mastabatory excuse for the director to do a 20 minute one-shot scene on the beach. I could see no other point for it.

That is all.

I disagree with Atonement, The Hours and especially, Breakfast at Tiffany's. It kept me entertained enough as a 10th grader to dress up as Holly Golightly for Halloween and debut my cleavage to my guy friends for the first time.

Ok, I have to say this because I believe that it's awfulness makes it fly under the radar: Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End was boring as shit. Imagine, an epic movie that has a 2 hour lull in middle where deal after deal is bartered with little or no explanation as to where all of it was going. I had the unfortunate experience of seeing it twice in the theaters (I saw it once because I thought it might be entertaining then I was with a bunch of people who hadn't seen it the second time...or I am Just masochistic) and the only things that kept me awake were the liter of pop I was sucking down and my desire to see two creatively designed pirate ships blow the crap out of each other. I had to put toothpicks under my eyelids just to make sure I didn't miss the final battle only to have that ruined by a stupid ass marriage in the middle of a battle scene (and what was the deal with the giant black lady who turn into crabs? is this supposed to be some kind of social commentary?). Seriously, how do you make a movie about pirates so fraking (BSG bitches!) boring.

Seven Years in Tibet
Dead Man
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Elephant
*Broken Flowers
Melinda and Melinda
*Lost in Translation
Showgirls
The Waterdance
Bodies, Rest and Motion
The House of Mirth
Forces of Nature
The Comfort of Strangers
The Golden Compass
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Illuminata
Congo
The Spanish Prisoner
The Invasion (2007)
*No Country for Old Men

*I agree with three out of the 20.

Granted, I pulled the other 17 out of thin air; there are so damned many from which to choose, though, aren't there? To each her own. No particular order -- though I must say, "Seven Years in Tibet" came immediately to mind (Seven Years in A Movie Theatre, I called it then and there and for all time), as did Jarmusch's "Dead Man." Funny, two of his films on the list. I do admire his work, but I don't much LIKE it. Dug "Coffee and Cigarettes," but then, was that because of Blanchett? Depp's presence didn't make "Dead Man" any more tolerable...

Anyhoo.

So it seems that all of the the tasteless fucks came out of the woodwork for this particular comment diversion. I really have nothing more to add, except that you all deserve to die. Painfully.

Bonus: Twilight
It was the best comedy of last year. I laughed, I snickered, I jabbed and jested. I would watch it again with the RiffTrax and I'd go see New Moon with a group of friends at Midnight just to run a Live MST commentary that crushes all the hopes and dreams of the Sparkletards that go see it.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at September 11, 2009 12:45 PM
Oh! doctor! I swoon at your words! Things that make you go....gack!...was that movie..and i read that crappy crap book...and the movie was just as crap...so cheers Sparkletards! insert evil laugh...

I remember going to "New World" and literally falling asleep and taking a nap on the chairs in the theater and from all the nature sounds and whole lot of nothing going on. By far the most boring film I have ever seen in my life. Ditto for "Atonement",not a bad start but as soon as it gets to the war sequence it's extremely yawn inducing and then everyone dies at the end so it's totally fucked too.

terrible list, many of the films (2001, there will be blood, lost in translation, no country for old men, the new world, barry lyndon) on here are great if not fantastic. i think this list says more about the people that contributed to it than the films included.

oh yea barry lyndon was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo borring!!!! and no country for old men and there will be blood!! 2001 was good just slow, ive never really fallen asleap in a movie before. you could argue patlabor 2&3 are borring because its mostly talking till the robots arive , i cant think of anything else

I actually agree with most of this.

I fell asleep when I saw 2001:A Space Odyssey. And I saw it in 70mm at The Egyptian.

Every time I try to watch There Will Be Blood I can't get past the first 20-30 minutes because I am so bored. Sure, the rest might be better and I'll admit to not having seen the rest of it, but if I have attempted to watch a movie four or five times and can't get past the first 20-30 minutes, then it is boring.

There Will Be Blood bored the crap out of me too. And I went in with really high expectations. But I was never given any reason to care about any of the characters or why they were doing anything or what was happening to them.

Where I take issue:
The Hours. I didn't find a single second of this boring. I thought picking up the strings of what connected each of the stories was fascinating.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. One of my all time favorite movies.

Titanic. Oh come the hell on everyone. You may not like the movie, but trying to claim it is boring is just utter horseshit.

I know 2001 is a sacred cow and everything, but let's face it, the first hour was pretty damn boring. Also, as long as I live, I will never, EVER understand what anyone liked about There Will Be Blood. And I'm a life-long cinephile who has seen all the classics, both old and new. Even if I don't care for a particular movie, I can usually see what others might like about it. To me, it was 2 hours and 40 minutes of absolute torture.

Ridiculous. Boring simply means you didn't like it, not that it put you to sleep. This is just a list of movies you didn't like, not ones that are categorically boring or bad.
For context you should have listed your top 10 favourites. I'm sure we would have all laughed at those (as choices, not comedies) as well.