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For me, “The Naked Island.”

It’s a Japanese film from 1960 about a group of poor people who live on an island. Every day they walk down the mountain and get water, then walk back up. After seeing them do this for what seemed like days, I finally couldn’t take it anymore and turned the thing off.

And I love “Last Year At Marienbad” and Eric Rohmer films, so it’s not like I need an action fix.

Haven’t seen either one of those. I don’t really count foreign films, because different cultures look at cinema differently. We see their films as boring, they see ours as shallow.

I finally watched Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa) last year. They talked way too much.

Even the Japanese Godzilla (1955) had way too much dialog. It’s a freakin’ monster movie, man! Stomp and Chomp!

For me, “The Naked Island.” It’s a Japanese film from 1960 about a group of poor people who live on an island. Every day they walk down the mountain and get water, then walk back up. After seeing them do this for what seemed like days, I finally couldn’t take it anymore and turned the thing off. And I love “Last Year At Marienbad” and Eric Rohmer films, so it’s not like I need an action fix.

I've always thought I was pretty immune to boringness in films (I also love "Last Year at Marienbad" and I made it through "The Naked Island"), but nothing prepared me for "India Song" (1974). Now THAT was boring! It took me two sittings to get through the first 30 minutes and then I just couldn't go on.

I made it through the 15-hour "Out 1", and it was quite an experience, but I wouldn't sit through those hours of watching actors do rehearsals again.