Most boring film ever? - Page 3 - Britmovie

batman · 08-02-2008, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Moor Larkin

Surely they only needed a day........ Or did they have a lot of ice-cream to sell.........

and popcorn

They did it it about 4 sessions IIRC .... probably so that people could discuss it in the bar and get pissed enough to watch some more of it.

Bats.

silverwhistle · 08-02-2008, 05:46 PM

I agree about Blow-Up; also Unbearable Lightness of Being. With less sex and more of the politics, the latter would have been a more involving film.

GRAEME · 08-02-2008, 06:24 PM

I have to agree with a lot of the films so far mentioned.

I'd add the outrageously hyped The Thin Red Line. I nearly walked out. Yes, I know it's practically sacrilidge - but this is a ponderous, dull and pretentious piece of filmaking. Sam Fuller, Robert Aldrich, Peckinpah, Kubrick... Any one of their films has more to say than the entire (rather meagre) output of the overpraised Mr Malick.

batman · 08-02-2008, 06:35 PM

Spielberg's Amistad. Zzzzzzzzzzz

Bats.

christoph404 · 08-02-2008, 06:36 PM

I really like "Blow Up", its one of my favourite films! On a purely visual level it is interesting to me and I like the strange atmosphere of the film.I guess that is the magical thing about the visual Arts, the way some people can be moved by a painting or a film or a sculpture and others left stone cold....or bored! Its that difference of opinion or preference or the different things we look for or expect in a film that enables much of the debate and discussion that takes place here on the forum...long may it last!

Dave Rattigan · 08-02-2008, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by christoph404

Its that difference of opinion or preference or the different things we look for or expect in a film that enables much of the debate and discussion that takes place here on the forum...long may it last!

Nonsense. People who don't share my opinions are clearly wrong.

tali122 · 08-02-2008, 08:38 PM

2 movies that shocked me more for how shockingly boring they were rather than their content
Straw Dogs
Audition

christoph404 · 08-02-2008, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Rattigan

Nonsense. People who don't share my opinions are clearly wrong.

nice one.....

dremble wedge · 08-02-2008, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by GRAEME

I'd add the outrageously hyped The Thin Red Line. I nearly walked out. Yes, I know it's practically sacrilidge - but this is a ponderous, dull and pretentious piece of filmaking.

It certainly was a chore watching that, I'd completely erased it from my memory...

David Challinor · 08-02-2008, 10:11 PM

what a terrific thread...where to start? Prospero's Books with John Gielgud - awful waste of time....Lord of the Boring Rings definitely. When I was young, Rex Harrison's Dr Doolittle was dreadfully overlong. My mum (1925-1998) recalled my dad dragged her to Quo Vardis in the 1950s and was very very bored .... can't agree with stuff on Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line here though. I like his film making.

Windthrop · 08-02-2008, 10:35 PM

The Life Of David Gale and Pay It Forward were both very lethargic films that did little to enhance my opinion of Kevin Spacey.

penfold · 08-02-2008, 10:38 PM

Well, I loved Prospero's Books and The Thin Red Line.....
.....but I have seen some right dodgepots in my time ....in an attempt to redress the balance of my usual evangelical praise of silents....I give you The White Hell of Pitz Palu. Leni Riefenstahl stars in a Bergfilme, a popular genre in 20's Germany, and common to many, three people end up slowly freezing to death on an Alp. After the first two hours in NFT2, you are envying them....Worse than that, though, was one seen in Italy about five years ago; a Romanian feature-length drama-documentary from 1920 on the perils of syphilis. Less fun than it sounds....

aphra · 08-02-2008, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Rattigan

Evidently no one's seen Bela Tarr's The Man from London, then.

Few shots last less than ten minutes, and they generally consist of a camera moving at roughly an inch per minute around the spectacle of an old man eating soup. And those were just the exciting bits.

Surely Bela Tarr's WERCKMEISTER HARMONIAK (2000) was even more boring...

GRAEME · 09-02-2008, 01:49 PM

Death In Venice...

ican · 09-02-2008, 01:49 PM

Oh dear, nothing can stop me doing this...... The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is at the top of my list of the most boring films.

08-02-2008, 05:46 PM	#32
silverwhistle Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Glasgow Posts: 516 Country: iTrader: (7)	I agree about Blow-Up; also Unbearable Lightness of Being. With less sex and more of the politics, the latter would have been a more involving film. __________________ "Trust me, I'm a doctor...!"

08-02-2008, 06:24 PM	#33
GRAEME Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Coventry Posts: 626 Country: iTrader: (0)	I have to agree with a lot of the films so far mentioned. I'd add the outrageously hyped The Thin Red Line. I nearly walked out. Yes, I know it's practically sacrilidge - but this is a ponderous, dull and pretentious piece of filmaking. Sam Fuller, Robert Aldrich, Peckinpah, Kubrick... Any one of their films has more to say than the entire (rather meagre) output of the overpraised Mr Malick. Last edited by GRAEME; 08-02-2008 at 06:27 PM.

08-02-2008, 06:35 PM	#34
batman Chief Member OBME Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norwich Posts: 12,779 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (8)	Spielberg's Amistad. Zzzzzzzzzzz Bats. __________________ Bats. I am MacIntyre from the silver metal planet .... I have come to look at your beautiful countryside.

08-02-2008, 10:35 PM	#41
Windthrop Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: North Yorks Posts: 4,065 Country: iTrader: (0)	The Life Of David Gale and Pay It Forward were both very lethargic films that did little to enhance my opinion of Kevin Spacey. __________________ That's the joke that killed the Music Hall

08-02-2008, 10:38 PM	#42
penfold Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Bristol Posts: 2,739 Country: iTrader: (0)	Well, I loved Prospero's Books and The Thin Red Line..... .....but I have seen some right dodgepots in my time ....in an attempt to redress the balance of my usual evangelical praise of silents....I give you The White Hell of Pitz Palu. Leni Riefenstahl stars in a Bergfilme, a popular genre in 20's Germany, and common to many, three people end up slowly freezing to death on an Alp. After the first two hours in NFT2, you are envying them....Worse than that, though, was one seen in Italy about five years ago; a Romanian feature-length drama-documentary from 1920 on the perils of syphilis. Less fun than it sounds.... __________________ Bit of a Bay Window, what??

08-02-2008, 06:36 PM	#35
christoph404 Moderator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: London Posts: 1,327 Country: iTrader: (0)	I really like "Blow Up", its one of my favourite films! On a purely visual level it is interesting to me and I like the strange atmosphere of the film.I guess that is the magical thing about the visual Arts, the way some people can be moved by a painting or a film or a sculpture and others left stone cold....or bored! Its that difference of opinion or preference or the different things we look for or expect in a film that enables much of the debate and discussion that takes place here on the forum...long may it last!

08-02-2008, 08:38 PM	#37
tali122 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: brum Posts: 151 Country: iTrader: (0)	2 movies that shocked me more for how shockingly boring they were rather than their content Straw Dogs Audition

08-02-2008, 10:11 PM	#40
David Challinor Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Reigate Posts: 185 Country: iTrader: (0)	what a terrific thread...where to start? Prospero's Books with John Gielgud - awful waste of time....Lord of the Boring Rings definitely. When I was young, Rex Harrison's Dr Doolittle was dreadfully overlong. My mum (1925-1998) recalled my dad dragged her to Quo Vardis in the 1950s and was very very bored .... can't agree with stuff on Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line here though. I like his film making.

09-02-2008, 01:49 PM	#44
GRAEME Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Coventry Posts: 626 Country: iTrader: (0)	Death In Venice...

09-02-2008, 01:49 PM	#45
ican Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: North West Posts: 87 Country: iTrader: (0)	Oh dear, nothing can stop me doing this...... The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is at the top of my list of the most boring films.

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