Most boring movies

I didn't go to it when it came out because it looked boring. And that was when I was going to the movies all the time!

Tibetan Buddhism because very popular among Hollywood elites in the early 90s.

It had nothing to do with Pitt. Although he was compelling in it. The plot and the writing were very good and Brad Pitt was the vehicle to get it made. He was good in it though. He was also good in Meet Joe Black and Kalifornia.

And Interview with the Vampire also shows Pitts skills. And Thelma and Louise. I'm not a Brad Pitt fan but I can appreciate a good performance.

Once Upon a Time in America

English Patient

Gangs of New York

Last Year at Marienbad

The Road is the most boring film of all time.

Sweet Home Alabama.

I tried to like it, but I couldn't.

Blue Valentine

Inception

Dune

Lawrence of Arabia

My Dinner with Andre

Reds

Out of Africa

My Dinner with Andre wasn't only boring it was deeply pretentious. The pretentiousness of it made me ill.

The original The Blair Witch Project. It came out when I was in high school, a bunch of us went to see it. Some of my friends thought it was extremely scary, but me and one of the girls fell asleep half way through it.

Interestingly Siskel and Ebert loved it, r14. One of them put it on their Best Films of the 80s list.

Avengers: Infinity War.

I’m a teacher who works with kids, so I try to keep track of what they’re interested in. (Fortnite is a trial for me.)

Infinity War struck me as an endless series of cuts between actors who weren’t in the same room, plus a numbing number of explosions.

I’m not wholly against superhero movies. I enjoyed Black Panther as a cultural moment and Ant Man and the Wasp as a piece of froth, but A:IW just wore me down. I took about eleven sittings to reach the end.

The Thin Red Line: fell asleep twice and couldn't care less about the stellar cast.

If war could be this beautiful and lulling, I would vote to have it every year.

ROMA. Have you seen it? An hour and twenty minutes of, literally, someone doing housework -- hanging laundry, picking up after little kids. The last 30 minutes or so are eventful and somewhat interesting but, my God, what you have to endure to get to it just isn't worth it. The only cinematic distinction ROMA will have in the future is Most Started Least Finished movie in the Netflix library.

Paranormal Activity. Snooooooooze!

I remember seeing one as a kid that put me to sleep called Audrey Rose. It starts out kinda neat and then turns into the most boring courtroom drama you've ever seen.

I've never attempted to watch My Dinner with Andre and probably never will. Although I do like some of Fellini's films I just couldn't get into 8 1/2. I managed to finish it but it took several sittings.

Most Marvel movies bore me to death, a series of monotonous action scenes with cringeworthy comic relief strung together by exposition dumps, with minor character disappearing midway through. Topped off by fanboy laughter and shout outs that make me feel like I missed something important that makes me give up in frustration. Can't even enjoy the man candy as everything is CGI'd to death.

I rather sit through something as charmingly inept as Howard the Duck than have to sit through another bloated CGI fest that substitutes callbacks and comic book references for cleverness.

I’m a big fan of Stanley Kubrick films, but [italic] Barry Lyndon [/italic] though beautifully filmed and art directed, was too long, too slow, and the story not compelling.

Why did he cast Ryan O'Neal in that, R24?

Another vote for Last Year at Marienbad

Catch Me If You Can

Providence

R19 You're clearly an empty-headed imbecile if all you saw when you saw Roma was a woman cleaning house.

Barry Lyndon was a charismatic rogue type if I recall correctly. Ryan O’Neal could play that type, I guess. But I agree he wasn’t best for it. Did he affect an accent for the role? I don’t recall.

I was also disappointed by [italic] Roma, [/italic] maybe because it was over-hyped before I saw it. Yes, it captured the time and place in the Mexico City neighborhood of the story. But the story seemed very mundane to me. I couldn’t help but feel “is that all there is…?”

Wings of Desire.

La Belle Noiseuse. Almost four hours long. Agony.

Two that come to mind are The Natural with Robert Redford. I saw it in the theater around the time VHS recorders were becoming popular and all I kept thinking throughout the film was I wish I could Fast Forward this film.

The second film is Eat Pray Love. I enjoyed the book so I bought the DVD but it is so damn slow-moving I can't get past the first twenty minutes before I pop it out of the DVD player. I've tried multiple times to get through this film but it just bores the hell out of me.

R6, God, yes ... The English Patient. That was torture. I almost walked out, but I never walk out on movies and everybody said this one was so great. Then, after [bold] two hours and forty-two minutes [/bold] of agonizing boredom, it turns out that the big romantic climax is the hero betraying the Allies and helping the Nazis for luuuuv. At least, I think that's what happened. I was so overjoyed that the end was in sight, I may have misunderstood.

Probably not popular but I can't stand any Woody Allen or David Lynch films.

Also, usually any films critics love, I hate, and the movies critics hate I usually love. Go figure.

I was dissapointed over how boring Behind the Candelabra was. The acting was very good but there were large swaths of the film that were simply monotonous. There were a few funny moments however.

12 Years A Slave, I fell asleep a couple of times.

When we were still in single digits my parents would take me and my brother to see films like Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia and Fiddler on the Roof. I don't think Dr. Z or LoA were first-run because I would have been too young to remember anything. Anyway, these films went on for freaking ever. As an adult, I can appreciate the scope and beauty of these films but as a kid sitting in a dark theater, it was mind-numbingly dull.

To this day I remember these films through a child's visual imprint. Dr. Z was nothing but snow. L of A was nothing but sand and FotR was nothing but gray, dark and dreary weather with a few songs thrown in.

We have such different parents, R36. The only two films they ever took me and my brothers to was The Poseidon Adventure (at the drive-in) and The Towerjng Inferno (at a Sat. matinee). I was so young I thought Jennifer Jones actually died.

By the Sea with Pitt and Jolie. They should have paid the audience.

And Elaine Benes was right about The English Patient.

The Great Train Robbery in its original run.

The Prince of Tides. Blame "you know who" for ruining what was a good book into a travel log of her face, legs and hands all in glorious close ups.

The Beach, with Leo DiCaprio. The only part that kept me awake is the short sequence at link. I also enjoyed the song by All Saints.

OP, I remember hearing Seven Years in Tibet was super boring.

Another vote for ZHIVAGO. Very boring film, and this despite the cinematography, the musical score, etc. I hate it, and hate it even more for what it could have been. Maybe the novel was boring as well, or even more boring.

Angel at My Table

I loved Angel at My Table r43, but I'm also a big fan of Janet Frame's novels.

La Dolce Vita.

Melancholia.

"This movie was so popular at the time, but I'm guessing it was because Brad Pitt was in it."

It wasn't a big hit - so I'm guessing a lot of people felt the way you did

personally walked out of robin hood with costner and blue velvet...

weirded movie was "the cell" with lopez....

movie i couldn't wait to end "JFK" again with costner.. after 3 hours i was trying not to scream outloud "i don't care who killed kennedy now just get this damn movie over with!"... i mean it was the russians, no it was the cubans, no it was the c.ia., no it was the f.b.i., no it was the white southern racists, no it was everyone together, no it was none of them!.... remember a old man sitting alone upfront was actually sleeping and snoring a bit during this movie..

Out of Africa. Usually I love these period piece epics.....but this one bored me and I didn't care about the characters. Redford was so miscast.

Harry Potter or any of the Lord of the Rings films.

Hours and hours of tedious fantasy film.

Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.

A lot of Costner films, but esp. Waterworld and Dances with Wolves

Blade Runner 2049.

The last film of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I had avoided seeing the first 2 and when the last one came to theaters, I rented 1 & 2 and then went to see 3.

There were moments in that movie with that dweeb and the ring and I came soooo close to shouting out, "Just throw the fucking thing." I refrained only because I did not want to spoil the experience for others. And just when I thought it was ended, there was a whole other sequence.

About the LOTR, I liked.

1. The Lighting of the Beacons scene

2. Sean Bean (he should have had Viggo's part).

3. Orlando Bloom, particularly the counting during the battle

4. And Sean Astin - the best one consistently through it all.

Hated 1. Viggo has the charisma of a turnip. The idea that whole countries would follow HIM into battle - not likely

2. Liv Tyler - Closeups but again no brain behind it.

Here's the "Lighting of the Beacon" scene - best scene of all 3 movies.

Out of Africa.

Field of Dreams.

Kramer VS. KRAMER

r14, bravo. Would Wallace Shawn have gotten ahead in show business AT ALL if his father hadn't been editor of the New Yorker?

Another vote for Wings of Desire.

R36, my parents loved movies and saw pretty much everything that had a wide release. They would sometimes take me along if they thought I would find the movie interesting. They did have the peculiar habit of going to big movies long after the first-run release; they hated crowds, I guess.

I was never bored, maybe because it seemed so grown-up to be going to a real movie - not a cartoon or kiddie film. I was 10, I think, when we saw Dr Zhivago. I loved it because I immediately developed a crush on Omar Sharif, so no boredom.

I was 6, almost 7, when we saw Lawrence of Arabia, which was long past its first run by then. I know the exact date because it was November 22, 1963. We got home and saw the big, black headlines on the Washington Evening Star on our front porch. I have a memory of that moment - of the look of sheer shock and horror on my mother's face - as clear as if someone had taken a snapshot. I remember my parents were upset that the theater management hadn't interrupted the film to tell the audience what had happened.

So, anyway, I saw a lot of long, grown-up films as a kid. (Goldfinger was another, when I was 8. I guess Mom and Dad figured the sexy references would go over my head, which in fact they did.) No boredom. And yet today, movies > 100 minutes long bore the hell out of me. There's something wrong with me that my attention span was longer at 8-10 years old than at 62!

I enjoyed the first part of Lord of the Rings, but parts 2 & 3 were redundant and unimaginative. What started as a cautionary tale of human seducibility and striving for power became an endless parade of different types of 'monsters', and in the end **SPOILER ALERT** everyone got rescued by eagles or trees or whatever. Boring.

All I remember of [italic] Lord of the Rings [/italic] was endless scenes of the band of hobbits trekking over the very green rolling hills of New Zealand. I think I fell asleep, but when I woke up they were still doing the same thing. Without this footage there would barely have been enough for even one film.

Fatal Attraction

Distant Voices, Still Lives (Though I am willing to give it another chance!)

English Patient for the win.

Only movie I've walked out of was the one with Nicole Kidman playing a local TV weather (?) girl who had her husband killed.

The Brad and Angelina movie where he's a writer and she lazes around in the rented flat and watches the young, beautiful couple having sex was just off and uncomfortable to watch. I wish I'd been able to walk out of that one.

Op types Chinese.

Contagion which a great cast couldn't save.

Children of Paradise

Three hours, with one of the characters being a MIME!

I liked Children of Paradise!

R68, If you did not like that, don't watch the six-hour La Commune (Paris, 1871). (The first couple of hours is mostly shouting and screaming...but it's good!)

Out of Fucking Africa. It was a pedestrian movie about a not particularly interesting person. It wasn't a good "slow" movie, just staring at something for 2 hours which is your run-of-the-mill middlebrow Oscar-bait extravaganza with no real artistic merit.

Noah. Almost walked out of it with a guy I was seeing.

I love David Lynch, but Dune is torture.

The Suspiria remake.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Dr. T and the Women, directed by Robert Altman. It's the movie where Farrah Fawcett jumped around in the fountain. The cast included an odd collection of actresses (Tara Reid, Kate Hudson, Helen Hunt, etc.) with Richard Gere as Dr. T.--so many actors with so little action.

To be fair, I left the movie in frustration before it ended, so I didn't evaluate it, fully. Maybe I should try watching it again, now having a better idea of what to expect from an Altman film.

The Piano. I was praying to die.

Meet Joe Black

Citizen Kane

I fell asleep during the latest version of A Star is Born. I fought to stay awake, but what I was seeing wasn’t drawing me in.

Into The Woods.

Excruciating.

Gerry

Koyaanisqatsi. I still can't believe there were sequels to this as well. Honorable mention goes to The Exorcist II.

Dogville from 2004, starring Nicole Kidman. Total yawnfest from beginning to end. It was filmed entirely on a soundstage.

A Bridge Too Far

The Thin Red Line

The second Sherlock Holmes movie with RDJ

My mother took us to see The Longest Day when I was 7 years old. It was also the Longest Movie.

Cat Peole A Bridge Too Far Legends of the Fall Lost City of Z

Movies where I have never made it to the end (and I survived The Naked Prey): Dr. Zhivago Remains of the Day Barry Lyndon The Godfather (I'm deeply ashamed about this) that godawful Independence Day sequel The Molly Maguires From Here to Eternity I finished The English Patient -- never has treason been so dull.

Whoever said Blue Valentine and Fatal Attraction you need better movie taste.

I like Hitchcock but just can't make it through North by Northwest or To Catch a Thief.

Shindlers list

Call me by your name

Out Of Africa

The Bridges Of Madison County

She-Devil

The Iron Lady

Into The Woods

It's Complicated

Florence Foster Jenkins

Mama Mia!

(Most of you by now have figured out the common denominator, because you're bright.)

Star Wars.

The hobbit

The house of sand and fog- Love Jennifer Connelly but I wanted to kill myself

Swept Away

Phantom Menace

Life Itself

Jupiter Ascending

For those of you who saw “Into the Woods”: had you also read the book? I read it because I enjoyed “Into Thin Air” by Krakauer (same author). (“Into Thin Air” I had to take with a grain of salt, though.) IIRC, the subject of “Into the Woods” died in reasonable walking distance to civilization. Also, his car was found in operable condition not too far as well. The story was just not compelling to me.

MOON....i still don't know wtf it was about......

A QUIET PLACE: i hate movies with no dialogue.

R93, "Into the Wild" is a book and film about an idiot dying the Alaskan wilderness, and "Into the Woods" is a Sondheim musical about fairy tales.

Thank you, and please turn in your gay card on your way out.

Any Marvel film. Brainless wham-bam CGI pap for the puerile.

Enchanted April. The ultimate frau film.

Brokeback Mountain. The ultimate flyover f*g film.

The incredibles 2

2001: A Space Odyssey

I've tried several times, but can never seem to get through the whole movie.

jurassic world / jurassic world: fallen kingdom.

Tree of Life. I can tell no one else saw it because no one else has mentioned it.

Great acting can be tedious to watch particularly with a slow moving script. For me Remains iOd The Day..

Blue Velvet. I don't care how many great reviews it received (if it did), but I hated it.

Also Room With A View. I fell asleep.

[quote] I was dissapointed over how boring Behind the Candelabra was. The acting was very good but there were large swaths of the film that were simply monotonous. There were a few funny moments however.

They already cast a gay man as Liberace when Victor Garber played him right after he died. What was most disappointing about this film was that it was only after this that Matt Damon made that "gay actors should stay in the closet" remark. Fuck you, Matt.

One of the few things I remember about Blue Velvet is the rape scene. I don't think I've ever seen a more disturbing rape scene in a film.

I don't know how anyone could think Behind The Candleabra was boring. Multiple shots of Matt's hot ass alone!

R105.......you are so right....boring it was not. it was a HOOT.

The English Patient. And what the fuck was it about?

Immortal Beloved

High Art

I remember seeing Apocalypse Now in high school - i was so bored i counted the tiles on the ceiling of the theater. 13 rows, 117 tiles each row.

The King's Speech

R110 Was "The Muppet Movie" more to your liking back then?

Stalker 1979 directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

It's considered a masterpiece but it bored the fuck right out of me.

I didn't give a shit about 'the room'

After I tried to watch it I lent it to a friend telling him it was incredible so he would watch it as a joke. He wasn't pleased.

The Snowman.

August Osage County

[quote] The King's Speech

I completely forgot about that one. Boring and forgettable. I even forgot it won an Oscar for best picture.

A Ghost Story

Another vote for The Tree Of Life

R113 I found Stalker a bit easier to get into than Andrei Rublev.

Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky

Antonioni's The Passenger Antonioni's Blow-Up

Meet Joe Black Unbreakable

Forrest Gump.

All that running.

And still more running.

Lincoln. I swear I thought it would never end but the guy I saw it with just ranted about Daniel Day Lewis the performance of a lifetime. My dad called me the next day and said "Don't go see that god damn Lincoln movie!" His girlfriend had dragged him to see it too (they're 80)

The Post. Hanks and Streep were like visual Ambien. Another one I was assured would stimulate my brain. Dad called that weekend too. "Did ya see that god damn Post movie yet? Slept all the way threw it." I'm gonna start listening to my Dad's movie reviews.

The Blade Runner sequel was a fucking awful trudge.

Reds

Master and Commander. This could have been a very interesting movie, but no. More like Masturbator and Commander.

R121, I love Antonioni's black-and-white trilogy and I think his color films just lack something those films have, even if they are aesthetically pleasing in their own way.

R127 Love M & C. I would call it boring at all

^ wouldn’t

R129, I watched it when I was 16 so maybe I would have a different opinion now (I'm 32 lol).

Avatar

More boring Brad Pitt films— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Tree of Life.

The English Patient owns this thread.

Definitely Avatar. I felt like I'd walked in on the 4th entry in a franchise without having seen the others. I couldn't tell you a thing about the characters or the story 10 minutes after it was over. If that's not the mark of a lousy, boring film I don't know what is.

^I love the English Patient.

There is nothing to love about it.

Anything by Sophia Coppola including the ones that I haven't seen.

I tried to watch that b&w film about the maid because there was a scene with a naked guy doing some martial arts thing, I didn't get past 20 minutes. Roma.

[quote] I tried to watch that b&w film about the maid because there was a scene with a naked guy doing some martial arts thing

Stick with porn and Arrowverse and let the people with IQ over 80 talk.

A.I. = D.O.A.

Die Another Day (007 movie)

Whoever said Moon can diaf. Rockwell’s ass brought it to life.

Quantum of Solace. Worst Bond ever.

Ran. Never has a war movie been so boring.

Magnolia for the final scene alone. If you know what I'm talking about, bless. If you didn't see it -- don't.

You can never underestimate philistinism of Dataloungers.

Anything with Meryl Streep

Iron Man.

My Dinner with Andre. There was a collective groan in the theater when

Spoiler alert

They ordered dessert

There will be Blood! I found it a slog. Like all Anderson movies it was slow and tedious.

Solaris (original)

The Passenger

A Man and a Woman

Casino. Can't identify with gangsters. They go through all that trouble to get money and then they spend it on tacky stuff. Repetitive scenes of screaming and violence, random use of pop music.

Citizen Kane is fast paced compared to 2001 and There will be Blood.

Reds and the Post - Those were interesting times. How did they suck the life out of those stories?

The Tourist - It's amazing that such a talented director can make such an awful movie. Still scratching my head.

The answer to this question is WALL-e. The thirst 30 mins or so is no dialogue. I dint know what it is about this movie but it is the equivalent to ambien for me. It’s a good movie. I read movie reviews and huge movie buff. I tried to watch it twice in the theaters when I lived in Chicago. Both times. I wasn’t tired but fell asleep. It’s so boring it makes me go to sleep. Good movie tho.