Boooooring! What boring movies have you sat through?

[G. Wen]

What are the most boring movies you've sat through? Basically, movies where you're looking at your watch every 2 minutes? Mine:

3rd Matrix Movie: I just wasn't in the movie mood when I got outvoted by friends to see this. I remember looking at my cell phone every few minutes, taking extensive and extended restroom breaks, going out for 2 short walks, and when I came back, the movie wasn't even half way over!

The Conversation: I can never sit through this movie w/o falling asleep at some point. I guess it's just not my type of movie.

[The Non Human]

i'm usually good with avoiding boring movies on my own...i'm really selective about what i actually go out to the theartres to see. it's usually when it's something i'm pretty positive i'll be into. nine times outta ten i hit the nail on the head...i usually just roll the dice with cable movie channels so i can just grab the remote or turn off the tv....there are the few times though that i get 'dragged' to the bad ones. the butterfly effect and dead man on campus were two of the worst ones i had to sit through...characters i couldn't give a damn about, lame plots, failed attempts at humor etc...i was truly happy to escape the theartre after those ones....

*btw-no offense, but the cell phone light thing you mentioned is fast becoming a big movie pet peeve of mine..it's kinda distracting to me if someones near me doing that our in front of me...i just like how the movies are kinda an escape from all of the day to day craziness of our world today and when i see that stuff flashing around me constantly it just takes me out of the experiance a little....i realize people sometimes have schedules and times they have to check(or the reason for you're post-boredom) but still just gets to me a little....

[J-man]

I remember seeing the first Rugrats movie when I was about 10, and that it just didn't seem very good to me. I was bored to tears in no time.

When I went to see Osmosis Jones I also found myself bored and hating it. Funny thing now is I love it.

Although I used to be a fan, now I just cannot ever sit through LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring. It just bores me to tears now, as nothing exciting happens for a full hour.

Also, when I decided to watch The Godfather on TV, I only made it past the first couple of minutes. I don't really know why, but I just didn't like it.

[R-Taco]

I didn't dislike Ang Lee's Hulk movie, but it's the only movie that's ever put me to sleep...

[Beat]

Redbelt. Halfway through the nonsensical plot I started randomly riffing it. It was the only way to cope with David Manmet's hackneyed script.

[The Weed Of Cri]

I've noticed what is, for me at least, a strange trend. The most that I found most boring over the last few years were, paradoxically, nearly all action films. Those are the movies that are supposed to be exciting, but a lot of them have had nearly the opposite effect on me. I think it's because the modern action film genre itself has changed from big-scale epic stories (i.e.: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars) to ear-splitting video games where the players (those of us who sit in the theater) have no control over the game play. In movies like King Kong (the Peter Jackson version), Pirates of the Caribbean II and III, and Transformers, the action scenes are too long and repetitious, crossing over the excitement threshold and back into dullness. It doesn't help that the directors don't seem to know how to shoot a scene anymore (Transformers was especially guilty of this; was there one scene in that movie where it didn't look like the cameraman was having a grand mal seizure?). There are still some bright lights out there; Forbidden Kingdom didn't fall into the trap of trying too hard to be a bigger spectacle than everything else, and just tried to tell a good story. But these movies seem to be coming fewer and farther between, and as long as hucksters like Michael Bay continue to be the "in-demand" talents in Hollywood, things will get worse before they get better.

[mr.happy]

The LOTR and Godfather movies. I nearly nodded off just typing those two titles.

[Peter Paltridge]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Wow, that was boring.

I thought my pick would be controversial, but I can't top what Mr. Happy just typed up there.

[Joe]

Bicentennial Man and Waterworld really took the cake for me.

Though lately I'd probably agree with "The Weed of Cri" about a lot of the SFX loaded action pictures as of late. Especially stuff like Catwoman in which there is absolutley nothing plotwise, characterwise, or even thematically the many string of action sequences interesting or necessary. Just padding for a threadbare script.

[FightingDreamer]

There's nothing worse than watching an action movie that isn't thrilling or a comedy that isn't funny. Heck, I pretty much define any movie that fails to engage me in any way possible (and I mean any way) boring. They're the movies that just sit there on the screen and die. One of the most boring movies in the last few years for me was probably Annapolis, a movie that completely lacked in inspiration. To this day, it's one of the only movies to ever make me sleepy or made me check my watch, thinking "Good God, when will this be over?" Other boring movies of the past few years include Garfield and Eragon, which not even the great Jeremy Irons or an awesomely realized dragon could save.

[mr.happy]

I thought my pick would be controversial, but I can't top what Mr. Happy just typed up there.

I could be persuaded to take the second LOTR movie off the list. It was probably at least moderately entertaining, and the scene where Golum talks to himself was quite something.

Bicentennial Man and Waterworld really took the cake for me.

I thought nauseating was a better description for Bicentennial Man, but it at least kept me interested in so much as I wanted to see just how sickening it could possibly get.

Other boring movies of the past few years include Garfield and Eragon, which not even the great Jeremy Irons or an awesomely realized dragon could save.

They should have made a Garfield vs Eragon movie instead.

[HomeMoviesFan]

Lord. Of. The. Rings.

Even Jackson's King Kong was more entertaining. I just have no idea how other people can sit through this and go, "man, this is so fast-paced and exciting!" Then again, Harry Potter and Princess Bride is about the only fantasy I've ever been able to stomach. Am I wrong to find them woefully boring?

The one example is a couple of summers ago when my friends decided to watch the three LOTR movies for three consecutive nights. The first one I was incredibly lucky and was whisked away by my nosy parents, but the last two I had to use clever techniques to get out of it. (and yes, sitting in the bathroom for twenty minutes is ten times more entertaining)

Seriously, I have to agree with Randall from Clerks II with this. It's just a bunch of traveling, then an action sequence, strung together by a thin plot. It works so well in a novel since the action is all dictated, but not so much with a film. Please, I would LOVE to know the secret ingredient to sitting through LOTR. And "having some intelligence and imagination" is not an answer...

EDIT: Mr. Happy is right. I was able to sit through most of Two Towers. But Return of the King?! Give me some Tylenol PM and I'll be happy...

[Baltofan]

I felt asleep while watching the Lord of the Rings cartoon.

[Ykwia]

Pirates of the Carribean 3

[Temple Fugate]

I guess for some reason I don't get bored as easily, since I was never bored by LotR, Matrix, Transformers, etc. Even Wes Anderson movies don't bore me. I greatly enjoyed the trance that Tenenbaums and Life Aquatic lulled me into. (Engaged Trance =/= Boredom)

There is a fear among some film critics that the faster pacing and editing of movies these days is weakening our attention span. I'm not sure that has any basis in truth, especially considering that most of the items on this list are more recent, rapidly-edited films. A lot of people were bored by Speed Racer despite its relentless racing sequences.

I'm going to compare two movies that have almost nothing in common: Transformers and Citizen Kane. Which one bores you more easily? Is it Citizen Kane with its long takes and slow-paced dialogue-heavy scenes, or is it Transformers with its monotonous tone of rapid edits and macho-talk? I guess to answer that question you have to figure out what aspect of a movie bores you: The pace of the plot, the quickness of the editing, the tone of the music, the caliber of the acting, etc.

The most recent movie that I can think of that bored me was Death Proof. Even the sharp Tarantino dialogue got repetitive after a while. Fortunately the ending made up for it, but my theater audience had dwindled down to almost nothing by that point. I would have walked out with them except my conscience forces me to watch a film to its end just to give it a fair chance.

[Infusions]

I didn't dislike Ang Lee's Hulk movie, but it's the only movie that's ever put me to sleep...

Funny thing, I fell asleep during The Hulk as well. But the only reason I did so was because my family took me to see the midnight premiere at a theater after we just spent hours at this themed resturant (Mars 2112. You start out on this space ship-esque ride and then get put into this huge flashy resturant and they had an arcade. ARCADEEEEE.) and I was so exhausted, I didn't really have any energy to watch it.

I don't really remember waking up though.

How did I get home.

[GregX]

Anyone who says "The Godfather" needs Ritalin.

Seriously, I hate the way movies are made now. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. If a film is allowed to breathe and actually focus on the characters, it is called boring.

I hate the MTV generation with a fiery passion.

[Movie06]

Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, The Godfather and Gladiator all seemed boring to me.

[GregX]

The Godfather:

Academy Awards:
1. Best Actor, Marlon Brando 2. Best Picture, Albert S. Ruddy 3. Best Adapted Screenplay, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Golden Globe Awards:
1. Best Picture - Drama 2. Best Director, Francis Ford Coppola 3. Best Actor - Drama, Marlon Brando 4. Best Original Score, Nino Rota 5. Best Screenplay, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Number 2 on the American Film Institutes's list of greatest films of the last century (just behind Citizen Kane).

It made US$5,264,402 in its opening weekend and went on to gross $81,500,000 in its initial run; nearly fourteen times its budget and marketing campaign. Re-releases boosted its North American total to $134 million.

It was beloved by the public and critics... something that doesn't happen so much anymore.

Yeah, really boring film.

[James]

Brazil - I've mentioned that one many times, so I won't bleat too much. Too long and felt like a very unfunny Python sketch fused with some seen it before big brother satire.

Death Becomes Her - Woeful film held together by some at-the-time amazing CGI. For the 10 minutes of effects, the extra 80 minutes were dull, dull, dull.

Pirates of The Caribbean - Wonderful performance by Depp, but the film dragged for me, offering nothing that visually tickled or dramatically titillated or enthralled.

Mad Max 3 - Legend of the Thunderous Snore - Okay, worst pun ever, barely even a pun, but for one of the worst films I've seen ever - barely a film, it seems suitable.

Matrix 2 and 3 were indeed very hard to care about. Almost turned off 2 after 10 very dull minutes and 3 only stayed on because I had a book and a remote too far to reach.

Dragonslayer - Could a movie be any slower. Killed me as a kid, trapped watching it slug on at the cinema.

Plan 9 From Outer Space - people like to say it's hilariously awful from start to finish - most of these people are ones who have managed 10 minutes. It is hilariously awful, but only for small slices. Trying watching the whole thing and some limb will be forced to drop off. Terrible. Impossible to watch and best pretending you have - as most probably do.