# Most boring movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510 "2019-01-27T23:52:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/61 "2019-01-30T16:44:11Z")
Oh, a tie for this one. **Brown Bunny** , where we watch Vincent Gallo drive for 2 hours and where the otherwise exquisite Chloe Sevigny giving stellar fellatio couldn’t save it (As **Chef Guy** noted. )Then there’s **Glengary Glenross**. Oh, I have never wanted to throw objects at a screen more just so that something, anything, happens. Great cast , and a concept that could have been great. Booooring movie. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/62 "2019-01-30T19:25:23Z")
I haven’t seen some of the movies mentioned, but for me it was the “live action” version of Beauty and The Beast with Emma Watson. I’ve sat through a lot of bad movies but that is the only movie I’ve been to that put me to sleep, ever. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/63 "2019-01-30T19:39:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > When I watched it, I was like ‘_Just die already!_’ “More like English Impatient.” I’ve not read it, but the book has more vague themes of necrophilia. That might’ve spiced the movie up. > [@Max\_Torque](#): > > **Waking Life** : a series of monologues by people you’d regret starting a conversation with about whatever pseudo-profound nonsense pops into their heads at that moment. Meandering, boring, and pointless Not really boring so much as drove me to anger about how 14 year old “deep” this movie was. Just a pointless autofellatio the entire time. See also [del]What the Bleep Do We Know!?[/del] What tнē #$\*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!?, a shitty, pseudoscience movie by the director of GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up! My nomination is the American version of Solaris. Soderbergh is usually pretty good (except Ocean’s 12 was a mess), this wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/64 "2019-01-30T20:38:59Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > 21 posts and nobody’s mentioned “2001: A Space Odyssey”? > > (runs and hides) I was going to, but you’ve already done it. Boring, pretentious movie. I’ve never seen it through to the end. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/65 "2019-01-30T20:49:47Z")
_2001: A Space Odyssey_ is the only movie I’ve ever stopped watching half way through (more like half an hour into it). The only movie that’s ever put me to sleep was _Gosford’s Park_. My wife and I went and saw it in the theaters and I literally fell asleep, it was that boring. A year or three back I watched it again and this time stayed awake, but I still found it incredibly dull. Which is weird, because I think _Downton Abbey_ (created and written by the same guy) is some of the best—if not the best—TV ever made, period. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/66 "2019-01-30T20:53:19Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > _2001: A Space Odyssey_ is the only movie I’ve ever stopped watching half way through (more like half an hour into it). The Prehistoric segment is a bit tedious, though I didn’t find it quite so when I first saw the film back in the '70s. The bit between leaving _Discovery_ and winding up in the hotel room was… not ‘boring’, but seemed to be designed to be watched while under the influence of hallucinogens. I enjoyed all of the space stuff. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/67 "2019-01-30T22:29:27Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > _2001: A Space Odyssey_ is the only movie I’ve ever stopped watching half way through (more like half an hour into it). > > The only movie that’s ever put me to sleep was _Gosford’s Park_. My wife and I went and saw it in the theaters and I literally fell asleep, it was that boring. > > A year or three back I watched it again and this time stayed awake, but I still found it incredibly dull. Which is weird, because I think _Downton Abbey_ (created and written by the same guy) is some of the best—if not the best—TV ever made, period. I literally have to stop and watch _Gosford Park_ if I ever come across it, and every time I watch it I notice something I missed first time. I find it very funny and very sad. I stopped watching _Downtown Abbey_ after the first episode in the second season. Booooring aristocrat worship. Cardboard characters and ridiculous Victorian melodrama levels of plotting. Maggie Smith doing a cartoon version of her _Gosford Park_ character. Blech. The only movie that bored me enough to leave the theater was _Rollerball_. I know why James Caan’s career fizzled. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/68 "2019-01-31T01:02:33Z")
Stanley Kubrick’s costume drama “Barry Lyndon.” It might have been better with a more dynamic lead actor than Ryan O’Neal, but I doubt it. I saw it in a theater 40+ years ago (barely stayed awake) and occasionally have thought I should watch it again. Perhaps my opinion might change. Who knows? When friends who had seen it raved about it, I asked “What exactly did you enjoy most about it?” The universal reply: “The cinematography. It really looked nice.” Not much of a recommendation. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/69 "2019-01-31T01:18:54Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Stanley Kubrick’s costume drama “Barry Lyndon.” It might have been better with a more dynamic lead actor than Ryan O’Neal, but I doubt it. I saw it in a theater 40+ years ago (barely stayed awake) and occasionally have thought I should watch it again. Perhaps my opinion might change. Who knows? When friends who had seen it raved about it, I asked “What exactly did you enjoy most about it?” The universal reply: “The cinematography. It really looked nice.” Not much of a recommendation. Well, it is a bit slow, and O’Neal was a miscast, but I found the story interesting enough to carry the extraordinary cinematography. Not Kubrick’s best, but better than most directors would have realized the story. ETA: If I remember correctly, the whole movie was shot with natural light. And it looks wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/70 "2019-01-31T01:26:07Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > The only movie that’s ever put me to sleep was _Gosford’s Park_. My wife and I went and saw it in the theaters and I literally fell asleep, it was that boring. :eek: :eek: :eek: I’m sorry, my brain cannot process this statement so I’m just going to have to slide right over it. My nomination: _Thirteen Days_. Hard to maintain tension about whether the world’s going to end in a fiery nuclear explosion when it’s thirty years on and we’re still not dead. Also features Kevin Costner mumbling inarticulately in a weird accent. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/71 "2019-01-31T03:25:46Z")
_The Thin Red Line_ and _Glengarry Glen Ross_ I’m ok with, but with _Barry Lyndon_, the quite impressive candle-lit interiors weren’t enough, at all, for me. Never saw _Eyes Wide Shut_ for fear of boredom. A filmmaker I had two issues with - Denis Arcand - made _The Decline of the American Empire_ - a yamnfest about a bunch of smug, arty types sitting around a table and pontificating facile platitudes, and _Jesus of Montreal_, another utterly pretentious confection that bored me likewise. Yeah _Solaris_ and _Stalker_ were quite glacial. Also: _Maximum Overdrive_ _Cocktail_ (ok - seriously) _Cocksucker Blues_ (shitty Stones doc) _anything_ Warhol attempted _Maid in Manhattan_ (first and only date constantly elbowing me to wake up) _8 1/2 Weeks_ _Arthur_ _Kids_ _The Rock_ _Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle_ _You’ve Got Mail_ _Four Rooms_ ok - I could, like, _really_ go on, here, but I don’t exactly have all day at this, so… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/72 "2019-01-31T14:09:07Z")
The art film **Last Year at Marienbad**. > [@](#): > > The film is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which time and space are fluid, with no certainty over what is happening to the characters, what they are remembering, and what they are imagining. Its dreamlike nature has both fascinated and baffled viewers; many have hailed the work as a masterpiece, although others have found it incomprehensible. > **[Last Year at Marienbad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad)** > > Last Year at Marienbad (French: L'Année dernière à Marienbad), released in the United Kingdom as Last Year in Marienbad, is a 1961 French New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.\[a\] > Set in a palace in a park that has been converted into a luxury hotel, it stars Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi as a woman and a man who may have met the year before and may have contemplated or started an affair, with Sacha Pitoëff as a second man who may be the wom... Michael Medved included it in one of his Worst Films of All Time books, and I have to agree. One of Medved’s comments still strikes me as hilarious – "The actors look as if they’re in a competition to see who can do the best imitation of a walking corpse. _actor’s name] wins hands down, because he LOOKS like a walking corpse. What bugs me more than it should is that, at one point, the characters play a variation of the game “Nim”, with one guy consistently beating the others. Nim is a straightforward mathematical game that you can easily calculate the winning moves for_, and I was playing around with it a LOT at the time I saw the film. So I was profoundly bugged by the fact that the guy who was winning all the time was playing in a blatantly stupid fashion, and that anyone who knew anything about the game should’ve beaten his ass. _Or was that the filmmaker’s point?_ To tell the truth, I was so bored by the rest of the film that it didn’t matter at all. \*[Nim - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim) ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/73 "2019-01-31T14:26:46Z")
[Koyaanisqatsi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_1) is an interesting film with music by Philip Glass. From wikipedia, “The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music.” I caught it in the theater as the first of a double bill. I found it fascinating, and loved it. The second bill was, IIRC, _The Blue Earth_. I can’t find anything under this title, so I’m not 100% that’s what it was called anymore. _The Blue Earth_ was _Koyaanisqatsi_ done by people who didn’t get it. At one point there’s about a 20-minute sequence of the sun rising on a farm. In real time. With nothing but ambient noise. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/74 "2019-01-31T14:50:04Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > [Koyaanisqatsi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_1) is an interesting film with music by Philip Glass. From wikipedia, “The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music.” > > I caught it in the theater as the first of a double bill. I found it fascinating, and loved it. > > The second bill was, IIRC, _The Blue Earth_. I can’t find anything under this title, so I’m not 100% that’s what it was called anymore. _The Blue Earth_ was _Koyaanisqatsi_ done by people who didn’t get it. At one point there’s about a 20-minute sequence of the sun rising on a farm. In real time. With nothing but ambient noise. Koyaanisqatsi played in the major first run theaters in Salt Lake City when I lived out there. After that, it showed up regularly at the art cinemas. People clearly liked the flick. Boring it wasn’t. But I’ve never even heard of **the Blue Earth**. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/75 "2019-01-31T14:55:32Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Koyaanisqatsi played in the major first run theaters in Salt Lake City when I lived out there. After that, it showed up regularly at the art cinemas. People clearly liked the flick. Boring it wasn’t. But I’ve never even heard of **the Blue Earth**. Blue Earth… Blue Planet… the title was something like that. Same sort of movie, but lacking energy and a good soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/76 "2019-01-31T17:18:42Z")
😕 > [@Patch](#): > > [Koyaanisqatsi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_1) is an interesting film with music by Philip Glass…I found it fascinating, and loved it. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > People clearly liked the flick. Boring it wasn’t. > [@Patch](#): > > [URL=“[Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_1)”] At one point there’s about a 20-minute sequence of the sun rising on a farm. In real time. With nothing but ambient noise. ok, ouch. That hurts. ---
**Author:** ![FatOrangeCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@FatOrangeCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatOrangeCat)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/77 "2019-01-31T19:23:14Z")
I can’t believe that no one has mentioned “Field of Dreams” yet. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/78 "2019-01-31T19:24:22Z")
**Birdman** **The thin red line** ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/79 "2019-01-31T19:51:25Z")
> [@FatOrangeCat](#): > > I can’t believe that no one has mentioned “Field of Dreams” yet. _What?_ :eek: But that was about baseb… Oh, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/80 "2019-01-31T20:49:03Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > 😕 > > ok, ouch. > That hurts. Just to clarify in case there’s confusion: _Koyaanisqatsi_ was really good, and **CalMeacham** and I agree on that. The second movie I saw that evening, _The Blue Planet_, was garbage. And I found it. It is indeed [The Blue Planet](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194234/?ref_=nv_sr_2). I don’t know how the hell it got 7.9 on IMDB. I wanted to rip it out of the projector. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510.md?page=5)