# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/101 "2019-02-02T00:36:01Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > _The Talented Mr. Ripley_ > > I saw this on a date back in 1999 and it was so boring I lost interest 20 minutes in. I think I just zoned out for the rest of the film since I couldn’t care less about any of the uninteresting socialites in the story. Even reading the wiki plot recap I got bored and didn’t finish. My date enjoyed Jude Law’s penis and that’s the only thing I remember about it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/102 "2019-02-02T00:37:34Z")
I’m gonna go with _My Dinner with Andre_. My friend dragged me to see it in college, and I can’t remember if I walked out or fell asleep, but either way it was terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/103 "2019-02-02T00:47:55Z")
My answer to this question is always yhe same: _My Dinner with Andre_. When this rwo hour eavesdrop premiered, Siskel and Ebert had fistfights with each other over who could praise it more. I guess a movie that dares to be different automatically gets points among critics. But if you’re going to make a movie about two guys talking, you might wanna…oh, I don’t know…film two guys talking in which at least one one of them has SOMETHING INTERESTING TO SAY! I got enough pretentious blowhards in my life. I suspect even I myself may be a pretentious blowhard. But that doesn’t mean I want to pay theater prices to listen to Hollywood’s idea of a pretentious blowhard for two solid hours. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/104 "2019-02-02T00:52:36Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I’m gonna go with _My Dinner with Andre_. > > My friend dragged me to see it in college, and I can’t remember if I walked out or fell asleep, but either way it was terrible. Ninja’d again, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/105 "2019-02-02T01:01:56Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Ninja’d again, dammit. Great minds think alike! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/106 "2019-02-02T05:27:54Z")
_The Deer Hunter._ I made it to the wedding scene (which I recall being glacial) and I was like, “I can’t take this anymore.” That’s the point where I skipped ahead to the famous ending. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/107 "2019-02-02T06:51:29Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > Goddamn Tarkovsky again! I was going to say people above are complaining about 2001 being boring. They should try watching Solaris, it makes 2001 seem like Starwars. “Solaris” was a lot less boring than “2001”. At least it had a plot. MHO, of course. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/108 "2019-02-02T06:53:33Z")
Another overlong foreign-film classic that I found boring: “Tree of Wooden Clogs.” However, the version I saw was subtitled; I think it really should have been dubbed. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/109 "2019-02-02T07:09:49Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Wings of desire (1987) was a close second. I liked it. Maybe I was anticipating Nick Cave and enjoyed it along the way because. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/110 "2019-02-02T12:25:17Z")
**Birth of a Nation**. Not because it is old. Not because it is silent. Because it is 3 hours and 13 minutes of tedium. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/111 "2019-02-02T13:23:38Z")
My wife made me sit through_Ladies in Lavender_, and afterwards admitted that even she thought it was dull. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510/112 "2019-02-02T19:58:14Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > **Birth of a Nation**. > > Not because it is old. Not because it is silent. > > Because it is 3 hours and 13 minutes of tedium. > mmm Tedious _and_ racist! Now there’s a winning combination… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-boring-movie/828510.md?page=5)