Most boring film ever?

I didn't realize Constant Gardener was a John Le Carre story - I think it was the intrigue, the not what it seems element.

I liked it on several levels.

One thing I thought was a cheap shot, though, was when they made it look as if she'd had a black baby, as if she'd slept with the black doctor she spent so much time working with. It just irritated me, because I fell into the trap, and wondered.

Lightwizard: Look, it has been scientifically proven that the most boring movie ever made is The English Patient. Now stop trying to be evenhanded and fair and openminded and just admit it!

I repeat: I loved The English Patient!





So there!

I totally agree with you on that, Paaskynen. Stealing Beauty was a huge disappointment & I'm a big Bertolucci fan! The Conformist has to be just about my favourite film of all time. And I really loved The Spider's Strategy. Stealing Beauty was, well ... downright silly!

Speed. Yep, so boring. Hardly any action at all. Yawn, yawn.
Same goes for the Die Hard movies.

Give me Magnolia every time!
And the English Patient was ok. I felt they could have made it more exciting by adding another three hours of developing romance.

So many in Hollywood and bollywood too. Most boring film I remember watching is when I was small about 10 yrs old. It was animated film Alice n Wonderland by Disney.

It made me confused for a while in the beginning and then yawn and sleep next.

I absolutely love cartoons (even now when I am 24), but that film was too childish and slow without surprises and lots of ambiguity. I didn't like that Alice in Wonderland fairy tale adaptation by Disney.

Rest all fairy tales and their Disney Adaptations were supreme.

Last night I watched "Silent Hill". The members at "Blockbuster Online" had given it 3/5 stars. OK, pretty good. Some horror, some supernatural. It sounded like a good "escape" movie.

I cannot remember a more boring, amateurish or more laughable film than Silent Hill. In the hands of a good director, it might have had something going for it, but as it was, it was a ridiculous piece of crap.

Funny thing, it had an "R" rating. Seems to me that this is the kind of film that is great for the 12-14 year old crowd. Beware, and don't waste your money.

When Harry met Sally.

I'd like to see your lab tests on this!

Wilso, I'm not interested in sitting through "When Harry Met Sally" again, a trifling comedy with one great scene that is anti-climactic (!) to the rest of the film.

Brokeback Mountain, a film that would never end...

Ahem. So to speak.

A more tedious piece of self-important crap I have yet to view, I'm happy to say.

I was involved with someone who, whenever I said something (or someone) was ugly, would reply, "No, it's not." Well, ugliness, like beauty and boredom, are in the eye of the beholder.

I think if someone posts that a movie is boring, it is because they think it is boring. I found Speed and Face Off boring! I would never have gone to those pictures on my own and went with someone else. I found Da Vinci Code sleep inducing. Others like them.

It is alright to say, in response to the statement, Movie XXX was boring, that's too bad, I enjoyed it. However, one can not and should not say that Movie XXX is not boring. The matter is subjective! You can not argue an opinion.

You're very right -- what one person finds boring may be engrossing to another person. If one doesn't understand the art of filmmaking, they're not searching for the soul of a film, just how much it keeps their attention. They likely don't regard film as an art and it's place in the arts has always been somewhere near the bottom. It's because of all the commercial drek like "Snakes On a Plane" that features a box office favorite star, but the script is action movie hack writing, mind boggling silly premises and makes me want to gag in the poporn box.
I can like a good artful action film like "V for Vendetta" but also like a good non-idealistic action film (I'm a sucker for even the second-rate Bond movies). There is action in "V" but it has a focused purpose. Only a few Bond films can come close to claim that attribute and "To Russia With Love" is still the best of the Bonds, despite all the CGI extravaganzas in recent years.

But, in the right mood, sit me down in front of a film like "The 400 Blows" which would be tedious for some and I'm in heaven.

I just saw "Scary Movie 4" and, despite its rap, it could not make me smile after 2 glasses of Beaujolais. Only at the very end (after 2 more glasses and some aged Swedish Präst cheese and Swedish unleavened bread with red beet salad) could it move the corners of my mouth slightly. Surely, it poked fun at various movies, but it simply wasn't funny or engaging. Is it me?

No, you're not. The worst of the lot -- could not finish watching it as I was on my second Pinot Noir and it didn't illicit even a smile.

Well, now you are on the trail of what I had to say when I wrote, many months ago, about reviews written for the mass audience as opposed to reviews written for film goers, or book reviewers who let their readers know a book isn't literature by calling the author a "good storyteller."

I don't seem to get the connection -- a film is more often criticized for poorly written storytelling in the scripting. There are only a handful of American films produced each year which could be called "art films" and they are reviewed by the very same critics who review the Hollywood machine products. Maybe those who follow a film critic like Andrew Sarris, now with The New York Observer, might gain some insight into film making they won't get from Richard Corless at Time Magazine. Sarris initiated the concept of the film auteur. He still reviews the fodder along with the choice domestic, independent, foreign and documentary films. What critic are you thinking of that exclusively reviews films for "film goers?"

Of course, foreign films are another story but even those studios, like those in Bollywood, are cranking out pop-culture entertainment.

Here's the Sarris top-ten list for 2005:

http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/sarris.html

The majority of other high calibre film critics has remarkably different lists even if a few of his choices show up on other top ten. The most obvious exclusion is "Brokeback Mountain," the one film on the majority of film critic's top ten list and the one film that is more often number one.

When the author of a book is called a good storyteller, the reviewer is saying all that the story is all there is. That there's nothing of literary merit. Nothing to sink your teeth into. The book has been put into a category.