What is the most boring movie you have ever seen?
Pocahontas was better
Personally I prefer Dances with Wolves.
YES! I cannot understand why this movie gets so much love. Sure, the visuals are great, but everything else is straight up lame!
Yea, I thought it was a snooze fest too
avatar is cool 🥲
Agree, but the Disney ride is awesome imo !
Interesting. I normally hear so many people praising blue people Avatar. Me being one of them. The visuals were fantastic and the potential for world building is awesome. Thinking about it again, it does have a very generic story and nothing super redeemable about it aside the visuals which is all computer generated.
It was pretty awesome visually if you saw it on IMAX in 3D. One of the best visual movies. I can't imagine how painful it would be to watch it at home. The story was mediocre at best.
When it originally came out I saw it in 3D. It was visually stunning, but the story was so unoriginal I was cringing throughout. When they said the valuable resource they were after was called "unobtainium" I literally laughed out loud. One of the worst scripts for sure.
Dude Avatar 2 is amazing 💯 recommend
Skinamarink. I'm willing to accept that it's a much different experience in the theater but at home? Kept waiting for something to happen, gave it a solid 20 minutes and gave up.
Was reading the description "An experimental ..." stopped there. Experimental is a synonym for doesn't make sense.
There is a TVtrope called "20 minutes with Jerks" which is why I give horror movies exactly 30 minutes before deciding to bail.
I turned this one off. Nothing happens except us seeing shots of walls and doors. I didn't get it. But apparently some people do.
Yep 100% agree.
The Irishman. I was so genuinely excited for it, because I love DeNiro and Scorsese, especially Goodfellas. Wow, it was 3 hours of wondering how much time was left. I tried it a second time, wasn't any better.
It's truly a mystery to me how well received that movie was. Hours of old guys talking and the main old guy making up boring stories
La La Land
Unpopular opinion perhaps but Oppenheimer. I couldn’t finish it
Seems pretty popular. At least I've seen plenty of people share that opinion
I found it very dull after the A bomb test. His bureaucratic and political troubles were anticlimactic and uninteresting.
Yeah same. The movie was quite long for me.
Kind of by definition, I have no way of remembering that.
That would be forgettable, not boring
Les Miserables. Legit was falling asleep in the cinema
That movie seems to really split people into two categories. You either love it or find it boring. There is almost no-one in-between.
I'm on the "love it" side, but I can see how why others don't feel it.
I get downvoted for this all the time but it's a hill I'll die on.
Lord of the Rings
The only film I've walked out of the cinema from.
I had tough time getting invested in the books also. And movies were quite boring for me
I’ll upvote you for this and you won’t be dying alone on that hill. I have no desire to see any of those films ever again. I only saw them as my partner at the time was into it. I could not imagine even trying to read the books zzzzzzzzz
I couldn't get through it either. Seemed very slow and I didn't care about the rings.
Yep here too…dozed right off.  And I am fairly fond of the books. Â
Father went to the school he went to. My English teacher was taught by Tolkien at university, so it was surprising that I thought the movies were just ok, but the hobbit was boring af.
Maestro is cure for insomnia. Nothing like a movie that doesn’t show any career highlights, but mentions them in interviews
I remember watching "Black Swan" in a plane trip, and I didn't have time to finish it before landing. I was not too invested, so no problem. I just thought that movie had a very long introduction.
Years later, I decided to watch the end. So I skipped to where I had left it, and continue watching. It was then I realized I had barely missed anything. The long introduction is the movie.
Black Swan is so good ! Great thriller imo. What are some other thrillers you like? just curious ?
Let's see. I guess definitions can be fuzzy, but I'm not generally big on thrillers. Let's ask google for famous thrillers, and see which ones I saw and liked in here:
_ Prisoners (I strongly recommend it)
_ Gravity (need to be watched on the largest screen possible)
_ The prestige
_ Inception
_ Split (Also the follow-up: "Glass", even though it's not as good, it's still pretty good)
_ Joker
_ Léon: the professional
_ V for vendetta
_ The curious case of Benjamin Button
I'll go with 'The Thin Red Line'. I am a huge WWII amateur historian and movie fan, and I have heard more than one person sing the praises of TTRL, but, God, Terrance Malick movies can be so damn ponderous.
This is also my choice. I remember there is a scene after a battle of fire embers flickering into the night sky. A classic closing shot. The theater I was in collectively started to stand up thinking it was over. There was another hour in the fucking movie
And this of course is the pinnacle of sacrilege, but both 'Blade Runner' movies are visually spectacular and outright brilliant, and the first was full-on revolutionary, and I have fallen asleep to them both. Probably more than once.
Saw it when I was a kid and it was torture sitting through it
I mean, you do you but that’s like your opinion, man
Titanic
If you are not into the Jack and Rose story, I get it, but how anyone could possibly think the sequence from iceberg to sinking is not just "boring" but "the most boring ever" is beyond ludicrous.
There might be a 'need to see it on the big screen' element.
I saw it on a small screen, but by a cold winter night when the heating was broken. So it was freezing cold in the room. Years later, I still don't know if that was the best or worst conditions to watch that.
For real
Bela Tar's Satantango followed by half the Marvel movies
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels
It was rated as the greatest movie of all time by Sight and Sound. It's made as an anti-film which basically means it is incredibly boring on purpose. It is 3+ hours of long shots of a woman doing house chores, with some short moments of actual plot thrown in. Yes, I "get" the point of it. It is not enjoyable to watch.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I get that it was supposed to be cerebral or whatever but it was so damn boring.
I liked it, it was so weird I had to keep watching to see what happens next
J. Edgar. I fell asleep so fast
Tried to watch aquaman....
"Blonde". I had to watch it in segments it was so boring. That's before you get to the other yikesy shit about that movie. Except Ana De Armas, I see why she was nominated.
Pi
People always hate my answer when this question comes up but Blade Runner
I'm with you on this one. I've tried watching it several times, but I just don't get the appeal.
I watched it several times thinking i must be missing something. And I also watched the different versions which people said would make a difference. It didn't. Boring film.
Miami Vice, The New World, The Fountain...
Actually, there was a whole two or three year period in the mid-to-late 00's where pretty much every movie was just a brief teaser of what Purgatory has to offer after death.
Thor: Love and Thunder
More terrible than boring
Absolutely criminal waste of Christian Bale
Space Odyssey 2001/10
I was going to mention 2001. I know nothing about 2010. It was visually impressive for a movie that old but 98% of it is just nothing. If you see the part where they approach the monolith, "HAL open the pod bay doors" and the weird thing at the end, you've seen the whole movie.
Ho, good one. I think it might actually be the only movie I started watching that I just gave up on. I usually watch any movie to the end, even when it's terrible. And in this case, I tried twice.
The English Patient. Elaine was right. 3+ hours waiting for the fucker to die.
The first 30 minutes of 2001 A Space Oddyssey is so boring I never make it past it to the supposedly great movie that follows.
Either the first 'Hobbit' film, 'Loser', or 'The Truth About Cats and Dogs'. All of them were boring, but for different reasons. The Hobbit was too long for not a lot happening (it took me less time to read the equivalent section of the book than to watch the movie). Loser was supposed to be a hilarious comedy, but there was no comedy in it at all. The Truth about Cats and Dogs was flat, predictable, with dull dialogue and characters.
Nothing will ever beat "womb"
Only God Forgives.
Spencer. It was painful
Stalker. I was really hoping he would throw the grenade into the magic wishing room, but even that didn't happen.
An ex dragged me to see "Becoming Jane" in the theatres, I was out within 20 minutes
The original Pride & Prejudice from 1940. Saw it in school about 28 years ago and still remember the pain of how bored I was.
The Hulk with Eric Bana. How do you make a Hulk movie boring?
It is the only film I walked out of the theater(90min in). I ended up sneaking into Dumb and Dumber To. Worst theater experience of all time
I watched an entire reel (25-30mins) of both Andy Warhol’s Sleep and Empire
I dare anyone to beat that
Daughters of the dust
A friend at uni wanted to see On The Road when they had it on at our student cinema. Didn't think it was possible to regret a £3 ticket that much - it's the only film I've ever considered walking out of.
The Assistant……nothing close to!
The Angel's Share
Recently? The Zone of Interest. I got about 80% through it. It’s just mind-numbingly slow and uneventful for most of it, the only interesting thing is the fact that this family is living in this picturesque village right next to a concentration camp, but largely nothing is happening.
47 meters down I fall asleep to it
Banned From Broadcast: Saiko -The Large Family.
After Midnight
Starship Troopers 2
I'm sure there are many others I have forgotten.
I don't exactly remember what it was but it was the Adam Sandler wannabe drama spaceman thing with the spider. I was so bored I cried twice. Nothing eventful happened. There was no plot. There was nothing entertaining about it. It was absolutely horrible
the perfume
The Piano, The Englishman, and A River Runs Through It are a few that come to mind. Extended soap operas and zoned out on all of them.
Fiddler on the roof. Took me 3 nights to finish it.
the one with joe keery driving in a car. sucks
GlenGarry Glen Ross.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarry_Glen_Ross_(film))
One of the rare movies I walked out on.
Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Star Wars, Son of Saul, The wonderful life of Amelie
Ad Astra, i love sci fi, i love Pitt but damn that movie was boring
Killer of flower mood
I usually dont give up on movies once I start them, but The Last Witch Hunter was unbearable. I just didnt really care for anything going on, the constant flashback drove me nuts. Another mention was the new Hellboy movie, I tried to watch it a few times but couldn't. It was just a mashup of the lore and overly gory for no real reason. Maybe its just the resentment I feel since I love the first 2 with Ron Perlman and the newer one falling into the "reboot" category.
Enigma. I remember renting it back in the 80s from a VHS rental store, and it was just so slow and boring. For years, my family used enigma as a codeword for extremely boring situation.
I should probably look up and see if it’s actually that bad or if we were looking more for a action-packed spy, thriller, and it wasn’t up to the level that we were looking for.
The whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking of the magic, the gathering storyline from the late 90s where the phyrexians invaded. It really just felt like a copy paste of that.
I think Driller Killer has to be one of them.
There Will Be Blood. Yawn.
Here we go:
Flight club .
Cats. Went it to it hoping for a train wreck and it was just long and boring
This film called Jurrasic Paws. Terrible. There weren't any dinosaurs until the LAST 10 MINUTES. Plus the animation sucked balls.
the witch
Swiss Army Knife Man
Dunkirk. For a war movie that shit was such a slog and had about the same visual appeal as a boiled chicken breast.
Titanic!
V for Vendetta.
Stalker. I know it's supposed to be a Sci Fi classic but nothing happens in that movie!
Birdemic. I can’t watch it without Rifftrax.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Koyaanitsqatsi, and the sequels
Midsommar
Couldn't tell you. It was so boring I don't even remember it.
Tha brown bunny
Arrival
Once upon a time in Hollywood
Once upon a time in Hollywood. Just some people walking around, nothing happens...
Dune. The same thing, but the actors look very, uhm... sleepy.
Tinker Taylor soldier spy - Jesus that was a waste of time
The Village—- fu shamalamadingdong
LOTR. So much walking, nothing really happens
Dune
Star Wars movies
The Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern. My father and I were SO into superhero movies, but both of us fell asleep during that one.
TROS
Girl with the pearl necklace.
Nope. It took so long to just...go nowhere.
Everything everywhere all at once.. don’t know what the hype was all about. watched it for a good hour then had to change it because how boring and confusing it was..!!
Oppenheimer- fell asleep when bomb went off and woke up immediately after.
This last batman, the one with Robert Pattinson...I was so bored
Cloud Atlas
My friend and I would take turns yelling variations of, "How is this not over yet?!"
Too many story threads, making it hard to get invested in any of them... and the idea of having multiple actors play different races should have been axed long before it hit the screen.
Gettysburg.
The battle scenes are epic at first but just drag and drag. I had to skip to the last 15 minutes to get through it.
Amelie
Good gracious, the movie wouldn't be so terrible if something actually happened in that snorefest
Borat. Scarcely a single chuckle in the whole shiteree. No wonder we never hear a word about Sasha Baron Cohen.
The Duchess.
Waterworld: saw it in theater, had a medium sized nap, woke up, and it was still on. Wretched. Though Jean Tripplehorn (sp?)was nice to look at.
Hate to break it to you, but that was a body double.
Went to see "P.S.: I love you" because my ex wife wanted to. Only movie I ever fell asleep in the cinema.
Any Star Wars movie. I just somehow can't. So boring.
Almost sacrilegious reading this as a rabid Star Wars fan. Although I’d have to say The Phantom Menace was pretty boring, couldn’t ever watch that one again.
Most of them, honestly
That's quite a take.
Avatar. ( blue people) literally fell asleep first 3 times I tried to watch it. Finally finished it but it was so boring.