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.
Top of the list!
Another great category to think of is which actor/actress gave the worst performance you’ve ever seen.
The second or third Star Wars. Lots of shooting and flying and inane dialogue - I literally fell asleep in the theater.
Return of the Jedi. Yeah not great.
Very funny dialog!
Almost like something Mel Brooks would say or write.
RE: “Okay, after weeks of urging, he saw it and later angrily gave me this review:
“You are you an idiot!!! Stupidest damn movie I ever saw. First a bunch of monkeys are fighting each other and then one of them tosses a stick in the air that turns into a space ship. Then we see people landing on the moon and later a high pitch loud sound hits their eardrums and for some reason a couple of guys are on another spaceship going to Jupiter and a computer hijacks them.
“Then one of the space guys turns into a old man and the movie ends with a baby inside of a bubble circling Earth. It made absolutely NO SENSE and you are an IDIOT for talking me into wasting my time watching it!!!”
I can name 3 “guy musicals”
1. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
2. Paint Your Wagon
3. The Producers
Other then those three I agree with you regarding musicals.
I had read Catch-22 many times before going to its movie premiere in Atlanta. The dialogues were verbatim to the book. I mouthed the actors’ lines along with them. Neat.
I’m not familiar with “In Harm’s Way,” but the other two were not great literature. They were commercial, popular, whatever you want to call them, but not literary. I agree that they made great movies.
I can think of two. Time Bandits and Paint Your Wagon.
Wow, I hadn’t thought of “Time Bandits” in decades. I remember watching it in the early 1980’s. I don’t know if I would call it boring as much as really bizarre and...very British. It was one of those movies that I just sat there as the credit rolled and said to myself, “What the heck did I just watch?!? A kid, time travelling dwarfs, the Devil, God, a magic map and evil rocks in an oven?” Another movie I found very similar was “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” it had the same bizarre very British feel, maybe even more so then Time Bandits.
The idea was that the serial killer, who is mentioned earlier in the film, did not want others (Little kids) seeing how he tortured and killed his or her friends. Hence, he made the kid stand in the corner and not look back. I guess this was a reincarnation of such through the “power” of the Blair Witch.
Wall Street. 1987 version. We got up and walked out. Never saw the whole thing.
“Fantasia”! I saw it at the theater back in 1971. A family in front of me with a little daughter was there and the mom did nothing but trash talk the movie the entire time. The man looked cowed down while the child tried to enjoy the nuddie female centaurs.
I saw Time Bandits with friends who raved about it. I felt just like Elaine in that youtube video about The English Patient.
The 1979 movie Tess. It was absolute torture for an 8 year old boy at the time to watch this long movie.
Looking back my Aunt was childless, and was completely out of touch. I was into Star Wars at the time not broken love and drama in France in the late 1800s.
LOL!
I couldn’t make it thru the DVD of The Revenant.
They can’t all be classics.
I wouldn’t sit through movies of any Shakespeare work.
Pick just one? Ghandi? Zoolander?Unforgiven?
Battlefield Earth (118 minutes of my life I want back. And I was watching it at home on video).
Tango & Cash (I would still be apologizing to my date that night, if we were speaking).
Reds (I might have to give this one another chance. But it was sooo long in the theater).
Godzilla.
How anyone could sit through a mostly black screen and be entertained is beyond bizarre.
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