Posted on 10/01/2016 5:00:48 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
A few days ago I watched the 2015 movie, "Steve Jobs" on the Tube. One word description: BORING!!! Despite great material to work with, it was one big borefest. Aaron Sorkin's scipt was largely to blame. It didn't feel like real people involved talking. It came off as a platform for SorkinSpeak. You can always tell a movie he has written. It has his peculiar SorkinSpeak which consists of rapid fire chit chat signifying nothing.
Okay, that is my idea of the most boring movie that I have ever seen. What is yours? Remember, this doesn't mean WORST movie, only most BORING movie.
Except for the Nim game, which was probably the reason for the film’s existence. The Nim game explains everything between man and man and between God and man. Whoever made it up is a total genius.
Love your comment, though.
Both directed by Terry Gilliam, who was the only American member of Monty Python.
I thought Robin Williams was great in dramatic roles—he made a terrific bad guy. When he was doing comedy, I just wanted someone to sedate him.
I’m with you on Adam Sandler. I would add Melissa McCarthy to the list as well. Potty humor from a middle aged woman isn’t funny, just painfully disgusting.
From your reply I find myself feeling very relieved that I don't know who Melissa McCarthy is... Never heard of her. I skip all comedy movies these days because they always suck.
“Dances with Wolves” had one of those trick, cinema-centric endings: “He’s gone Injun!” Last time you heard that line, when you were a kid, you felt sorry for the guy who went Injun. In “Dances with Wolves” you feel sorry for the guy who says it.
I liked it. It’s historic, eye-opening. The way they did that scene from the only photograph of the Indians at war with the U.S. The scene where the Costner character communicates about the buffalo without words. The whole concept of the enemy as wild (to us) but beautiful, like a wolf. “Zero Dark Thirty” did the same with monkeys.
I don’t know if I would like it now. Things like that tend to get old, because the ideas are absorbed into the culture.
You missed the World Crime League !? Wow ! It was better than Leonard Part 2 and 4 !
Remember when Richard Burton did Hamlet in rehearsal clothes? No, you probably don’t, but that was considered daring back then, along with his jumping from floor to chair to table.
Getting way off topic here, but Ian McEwen’s new book “Nutshell” is Hamlet as starred in by an unborn baby.
Greatest anti-Communist line of recent times: “Your point, their village.” Worth it for that and one other line.
Oh that's easy. Matt Damon and that idiot Ben Afleck... In everything.
That was Kill bill part 2. Absolutely hated that ending. You really nailed that one. Completely boring, pointless and stupid dialog that runs on for eternity. Other than that it was a kinda fun movie. But the ending? Sheeeeit!
Brother from another planet. Thats what we got for sending “Danny the dog” to the video rental store alone.
Hundreds!
OK I’ll pick one.... um.....
Queen Kong
I have an Eyes Wide Shut story.
I was on the road a lot when HBO was playing this film and in every hotel, in every city I was staying I Forced myself to watch it, practically every night for almost a.month.
I never got it. And now I barely remember it. I wonder if seeing it at a theater would have made a difference?
What a great thread. A few random thoughts. I thought Buckaroo Banzai was terrific the first time I saw it but unwatchable the second time. Don’t know why. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought 2001 was an incomprehensible bore. I actually liked My Dinner With Andre. Thought it was very clever. I loved Chariots of Fire the first time I saw it and hated it when I saw it again decades later. All I could think was “What is the Jewish guy complaining about all the time? He’s got it great!” (I’m Jewish, BTW).
Roger and Me by that blob Michael Moore.
Only movie I ever walked out on.
“Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” Uma Thurman. One sick, boring movie.
I don’t believe anyone has mentioned Night of the Iguana. My parents dragged me to see this when I was seven, (I think). The whole time all I could think was “Why are you making me watch this terrible movie”. Maybe if I’d been older I would have appreciated it. I believe, however, that this film was the origin of the “tastes like chicken” line.
A couple of the most boring (and overall worst) movies ever made were ones I got up and walked out on:
“The Last Married Couple in America” — way back around 1980, supposed to be a comedy but just a God-awful dull sack of excrement!
“American Splendor” — around 2003, was supposed to become some cult classic about the “art” of underground comic books, starring Paul Giamatti, but this POS is so boring, stupid, and all-around horrible that there should be ritual executions of everyone involved in its creation.
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