Most boring film ever?

I find quite a few movies boring, including Apocalypse Now, The Sixth Sense, and too many to list. Some films that are not so popular are good fare for me.

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Why, edgar. You didn't like The Sixth Sense? I loved it, Texas. As for Apocalypse Now, that was too dark for me. Didn't Like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, either.

Eyes Wide Shut was awful.

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Lash wrote:

OH! You didn't like Apocalypse Now!!!

I found the atmosphere & the tension created in Apocalypse mesmerizing, but was so let down by the ending .... Marlon on his grungy cave, mumbling something incomprehensible about "the horror"... Laughing

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Isn't The Sixth Sense Bruce Willis?

Strike one.

Is this the film in which something happens to Bruce and right after, someone says, "Some people don't know they are dead." Transparent attempt to fool us.

Strike Two.

Long vapid scenes.

Strike three.

I was soon wandering in and out of the room, and finally turned it off.

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I bet you don't like scary movies, edgar.

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"Eyes Wide Shut" was convoluted and arcane the first time I saw it. Wasn't sure I liked it until the third viewing and I picked up on the subtle nuances Kubrick is famous for. I actually didn't think hiring a real life couple was all that smart, though. Kidman upstaged Cruise consistantly. I think a lesser known pair of actors would have improved the film but who am I to second guess one of the top ten directors of all time? It is a film that is baffling on the first viewing for nearly anyone.

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Generally, Mr. Wizard, I don't care for Tom Cruise, but I thought he did a good villain in Collateral; consequently, I almost didn't watch The Last Samurai, but the Japanese actors were fantastic, and literally made the entire movie.

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Letty wrote:

Generally, Mr. Wizard, I don't care for Tom Cruise, but I thought he did a good villain in Collateral; consequently, I almost didn't watch The Last Samurai, but the Japanese actors were fantastic, and literally made the entire movie.

He was good in "Collateral" and he was remarkably good in "War of the Worlds."

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Letty
I like some elements of the scary in a story, but a full blown horror movie puts me to sleep in a hurry.

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Immortal Beloved. Not just boring, but overdramatized.

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Lightwizard wrote:

"Eyes Wide Shut" was convoluted and arcane the first time I saw it. Wasn't sure I liked it until the third viewing and I picked up on the subtle nuances Kubrick is famous for. I actually didn't think hiring a real life couple was all that smart, though. Kidman upstaged Cruise consistantly. I think a lesser known pair of actors would have improved the film but who am I to second guess one of the top ten directors of all time? It is a film that is baffling on the first viewing for nearly anyone.

Kubrick could make some really great films, but also some really inexplicable casting decisions. For a film that has duels, love affairs, war, and general scalliwaggery, Barry Lyndon is one of the most boring films I've ever seen, and a great deal of the blame lies with Ryan O'Neal, who is just awful in the title role. It's a beautiful film (as befits a movie that won Oscars for cinematography, art direction, and costume design), but the pacing is so laborious, and O'Neal is so extraordinarily bad, that I think I could have gotten the same esthetic experience by looking at a Watteau painting for three hours.

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I don't know if I should admit this or not, but the most boring and totally useless waste of film that I have ever watched was Open Water. I can only be thankful that I did not pay to see this piece of crap in the theater. This movie tops my list for both bore-factor and just plain bad movie-factor.

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Amen, CoastalRat. I wouldn't call it boring, but frustrating with a terrible ending just like Jack Nicholson in The Pledge.

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joefromchicago wrote:

Lightwizard wrote:
"Eyes Wide Shut" was convoluted and arcane the first time I saw it. Wasn't sure I liked it until the third viewing and I picked up on the subtle nuances Kubrick is famous for. I actually didn't think hiring a real life couple was all that smart, though. Kidman upstaged Cruise consistantly. I think a lesser known pair of actors would have improved the film but who am I to second guess one of the top ten directors of all time? It is a film that is baffling on the first viewing for nearly anyone.

Kubrick could make some really great films, but also some really inexplicable casting decisions. For a film that has duels, love affairs, war, and general scalliwaggery, Barry Lyndon is one of the most boring films I've ever seen, and a great deal of the blame lies with Ryan O'Neal, who is just awful in the title role. It's a beautiful film (as befits a movie that won Oscars for cinematography, art direction, and costume design), but the pacing is so laborious, and O'Neal is so extraordinarily bad, that I think I could have gotten the same esthetic experience by looking at a Watteau painting for three hours.

I think it was Pauline Kael who called it a "moving coffee table art book."

Kubrick's directing style is to let the actors do their thing, much like Robert Altman. The recent interview of Gary Lockwood and Kier Dullea
on High Defintion on the INHD channel attested to this fact. Letting Ryan O'Neal "do his own thing" is a big mistake -- he could never do his own thing and required a strong actor's director to even come close to a good performance. I still love the movie for it's production design (it was just on the INHD channel in a beatiful print and hi-def). The revolutionary candle-lit scenes for which Kubrick won an Oscar for inventing a new lense/filter system, are extraordinary. It is methodical storytelling which is Kubrick's forte. I never thought it was as bad as some critics portrayed it even with O'Neal's uneven performance. It's average Kubrick which is still better than most of the movie fare offered every year. I will watch "The Killing" and "Paths of Glory" multiple times, while I would not make any special effort to revist "Barry Lyndon" after seeing a pristine print in hi-def.

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Eyes wide shut was 100% horrific!!!!!!!
But I 100% recomend the book.

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There are two camps on EWS, just like "The English Patient." Ya either love it or hate it. The critics disagree that it is "horrific," with an 82% favorable Rotten Tomatoes rating for the Cream-of-the-Crop Critics:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eyes_wide_shut/

Even the IMDb user rating isn't bad at 70%

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/

It's just not a film for everyone, especially those who are not receptive to Kubrick's style of directing. My first viewing was, "What the hell is this?" having read the book it was taken from. But Kubrick thinks cinematically, it's in his blood. His "Lolita" pissed off the author because he rewrote his script to turn it into a satirical viewpoint of the original novel.

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Edgar -- I saw The Sixth Sense with a former boyfriend who was totally stunned at the end to learn Bruce Willis' character had died. I thought they telegraphed his death with the scene in which the mother and Willis were sitting at the same table ABSOLUTELY NOT RELATING TO EACH OTHER.

Frankly, I find most so-called action and/or disaster movies boring because, as my kids say, I can not suspend my disbelief.

I recently watched, "The Picture of Dorian Grey," which I enjoyed in my pre-teen years. I thought it insufferably long. Many older movies do not hold up, largely because of the acting.

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"Suspend my disbelief?" I believe that's an oxymoron. Very Happy

I thought Hurd Hatfield was excellent as Dorian and the major members of the cast handled their parts well, especially George Sanders:

George Sanders .... Lord Henry Wotton
Hurd Hatfield .... Dorian Gray
Donna Reed .... Gladys Hallward
Angela Lansbury .... Sibyl Vane
Peter Lawford .... David Stone

Don't miss it if you can. Very Happy

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the most boring film I ever saw was Not Tonight Henry (in the 1960s), because it was a an extremely soft porn production, and I was told that it was a devastatingly horny hard core film with an interesting story. I was the victim of a practical joke.

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"Paris, Texas"

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