# Movies that do NOTHING for you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489 "2008-10-18T03:11:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/21 "2008-10-19T18:38:47Z")
The Godfather. To me, it’s thee most boring, drawn out movie ever made. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/22 "2008-10-19T21:30:53Z")
**Against All Odds**. I got the DVD a while ago, because I remember having liked the movie when it came out, but I watched it, and it turned out to be a huge steaming pile of meh. I didn’t empathize with the dim-bulb football player whose main hobby seemed to be coming up with new and interesting ways to screw his life up. I didn’t empathize with the whiny spoiled rich chick who felt sorry for herself, because she was so rich and beautiful. I didn’t empathize with anyone there. They were all either evil and amoral or dumb as a box of hammers. I didn’t _hate_ it, but I just watched the entire movie waiting for something to affect me one way or another. About the only thing I liked was the soundtrack, and that’s because it was cool to flash back all those years to when this movie actually came out. You could not get away from this song in 1983. It’s not like I particularly enjoyed the song. I’ve actually sat through this movie several times, though. It’s perfect as background noise to study by, because nothing in this movie is more interesting than whatever I happen to be reading, and not even the lousy dialogue really distracts me. On edit: Forgot **Napolean Dynamite**. A movie about . . . absolutely nothing. And I agree with **Children of Men**. Nothing _horrible_ about the movie, but I just couldn’t get into it. ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/23 "2008-10-19T23:33:28Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > _American Beauty_ did nowt for me. Ditto. I was encouraged by several friends to watch this movie. They told me Kevin Spacey was so fabulous in his role and I just had to see it. I watched it and was underwhelmed. Nothing. Like I’d spent 90 minutes watching the evening news. Well, actually, I find the evening news more interesting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/24 "2008-10-20T01:56:59Z")
Another Kevin Spacey movie: “Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil”. Wasn’t great, wasn’t terrible, just meh. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/25 "2008-10-20T02:00:33Z")
_Slapshot_ has a couple of hysterical scenes, but the vast majority of the movie is lame and boring. Do I have to turn in my Canadian citizenship now? ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/26 "2008-10-20T04:13:40Z")
I know I’ll get pitted for this but the whole LOTR trilogy was the best sleeping pill that I have ever had. This includes hard liquor and other medication. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/27 "2008-10-20T12:01:11Z")
For me, it is more likely that a movie falls into this category than not. Some I really enjoy, some I really hate, most are just there. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/28 "2008-10-20T12:22:18Z")
_The goggles_. Did nothing for me. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/29 "2008-10-20T12:36:20Z")
Agree about \*\*Napoleon Dynamite American Beauty Donnie Darko Lost in Translation The English Patient\*\* I’ll add (to the horror of many, I’m Sure) \*\*The Usual Suspects Highlander\*\* (even the original) **My Dionner with Andre** ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/30 "2008-10-20T14:21:06Z")
**Brokeback Mountain** I was seriously bored throughout this one. Was just the fact that they were gay supposed to somehow make it interesting? If it was two straight cowboys they’d be the most boring characters on screen. If it was a cowboy and a cowgirl it would just be some pretty scenery lame love story. Yeah, yeah, it was the fact that it was “forbidden love” that people around them didn’t accept that caused the drama. but I’ve already seen enough “forbidden love” movies about race, age, class, etc. This was just another one with some uninteresting main characters. ---
**Author:** ![Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frustrated_Wonderer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/31 "2008-10-20T14:29:19Z")
The whole Rocky series. Don´t hate them, but I would not watch them if there was anything better to watch in another channel. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489/32 "2008-10-20T14:42:38Z")
**War, Inc.** - John Cussack basically playing Martin Blank again (but not really) in a kind of Gross Point Blank meets Idiocracy. Meh. **Shoot em Up** - Clive Ownen and Paul Giamatti in what basically amounts to a 2 hour Guy Richie / Quinten Tarrantino / Robert Rodriguez style running gunbattle. It was entertaining and all, but still kind of “meh”. > [@gravitycrash](#): > > Any slash movies such as Saw or Hostel type movies. They just make me sick. It’s like violent porn that is somehow rated R. I agree. Actually, I saw Hostel when I was vacationing in Scotland with the GF. I turned on the TV in the middle of the night because of the time difference and I came in a few minutes into it. Having never seen it before, I thought it was a stupid and cheesey made for Euro-Cinemax ripoff of Hostel. Turns out it was actually Hostel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-do-nothing-for-you/468489.md?page=1)