Most boring film ever?

[faginsgirl]

Hi.

Watching `Atonement` to me was really boring until the end when it came together (but it was a loooooong wait !).

I also remember watching `out of Africa` which was like waiting for paint to dry!

What do you consider to be the most BORING film ever made, and did you make it to the end?

Fagins girl.

[DB7]

I could slip into a coma watching The L-Shaped Room, and more recently Atonement bored me rigid.

[faginsgirl]

DB7, from what I`ve heard the book `atonement` is EVEN more boring than the film!

[DB7]

Originally Posted by faginsgirl DB7, from what I`ve heard the book `atonement` is EVEN more boring than the film!

But it's up for so many awards; I must have just been having a bad day. (the long Dunkirk scene is marvellous)

[orpheum]

Atonement was very poor.However yesterday i saw Over Her Dead Body,a rip off of Blithe Spirits.Avoid it like the plague.

[faginsgirl]

Also, `Boxing Helena` freaky yawn!

[batman]

Indochine with Catherine Deneueve and Fearless with Jeff Bridges. I fell asleep in the cinema during both of these.

Bats.

[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.

[Nita St. James]

Lost In Translation was the most boring film I have ever had the misfortune to try and sit through. On a boring scale of 1-10 it rates a 15.

[Tony Pendrey]

Sorry about this, but those endless Lord of the Rings films are just too much for me.

I was dragged to the cinema to see one, (possibly the 2nd one), after a few hours I just wanted to run screaming from the Odeon. All that "I am Shergar, son of Ragnor, son of Hagar, son of Elgar", stuff .

And I upset a bloke. The camera did a big close up of Bernard Hill and I said loudly "The bloody boat is sinking mate ! ".

[faginsgirl]

Not British, but I thought `The accidental tourist` was excuciating.

[dremble wedge]

The Deer Hunter: incredibly dull until the Russian roulette scene - although the Revels advert did that better...

[ProfMarcus]

Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend for me. I couldn't even walk out, since I was watching it courtesy of the University Film Club and it would have ruined my street cred as a Culture Vulture.

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by Tony Pendrey Sorry about this, but those endless Lord of the Rings films are just too much for me.

Absolutely. I loved the books as a youngster and after all the hype I expected so much and it was crushingly tedious, the Hobbits were nauseatingly nicey rather than humanly everyman. All the CGI was just mind-numbing rather than stimulating, with the exception of Gollum who came somewhere near to what I had imagined, plus he had some subtlety.

I've never read Harry Potter so I wasn't disappointed about that one.

When you compare these sorts of thing with something like Time Bandits they are just so poor.

Thank God Patrick McGoohan had the sense to keep well away from them....

[Wee Sonny MacGregor]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin Absolutely. I loved the books as a youngster and after all the hype I expected so much and it was crushingly tedious, the Hobbits were nauseatingly nicey rather than humanly everyman. All the CGI was just mind-numbing rather than stimulating, with the exception of Gollum who came somewhere near to what I had imagined, plus he had some subtlety.

Have to agree. In the 30s Tolkein, C S Lewis and Charles Williams formed a club called the Inklings which met every week at a pub in Oxford. They used to read extracts from their latest literary efforts to each other. C S Lewis is supposed to have commented on one of Tolkein's readings "oh no, not another effing elf".