Posted on 10/01/2016 5:00:48 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
“2001: A Space Odyssey”
Your father absolutely gets it! I had the LP for years & loved the music, but when I saw the movie many years later I thought, is that all there is to it? The strapped in passenger with his arms dangling weightlessly was too hokey!
The English Patient.
Out of Africa.
But the absolutely MOST boring film I ever saw was a 1980 movie called Times Square. All I remember was Tim Curry as a New York dj and two teenage girls who at some point started throwing TVs off of rooftops in New York City. I may be blaming the film, but I came down with a case of food poisoning from dinner earlier that evening and actually threw up in the theater. It’s all just an uncomfortable blur.
2001 A Space Odyssey is the most dull and boring movie ever made. To this day I cannot understand why that is considered a great movie.
No mention of BARRY LYNDON yet?
Moon with Sam Rockwell? (2009)
I think he finds out he’s a clone?
***Rocky Horror picture show***
Never been able to get through it. Way too faggoty for me!
What the hell is your problem?
Who is laughing?
I haven't been a "boy" in 70 years and I am not a monkey!
Quit drinking and posting
Too funny!
It was the best line in the film when the alien from planet 10 across the 8th Dimension (John Lithgow) said that to the hominid (human -Jonathan Banks).
LOL. One other thing about Leos is they can be quite amusing.
Anything from M. Night whats-his-name. Booooooring.
And Yes, The Sixth Sense sux.
Walked out of the Blues Brothers movie.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Or any Le Carre based movie.
“Devil Girl From Mars”, 1954. Spent 3rd & 4th grade overseas with no TV (saved my mind, all I did was read books) & returned to watch nothing but Grade triple-Z science fiction flicks on the boob tube that summer of 1958.
95% psychological drama about who was brave enough to accompany Space Dominatrix on her flying washing machine back to Mars. Only good part was its blowing up on liftoff. British accents didn’t help.
Oh that one is up there for sure
I loved Water World.
I’m pretty sure I’m the only one.
Johnathon Livingston Seagull comes to mind...The Way We Were...There are too many to count...
No, that movie Moon sounds lively compared to the one I’m thinking about.
I tried googling it but my search terms aren’t working:
what’s the name of that movie about a man and his ear boring
futuristic
It’s not a good search apparently.
I don’t much care what the name of it was. It was just so strange watching it and thinking, “This is considered one of the great movies of the year?” So I kept watching. And then, since they kept showing his ear, I kept watching trying to figure out what it was about his ear that was so important they kept showing it. And then I started wondering if it was the same man because the ear seemed to be changing and I thought maybe they’re using another actor for part of this.
Crazy.
THE DAMNED (I think Visconti was the director).
S-l-o-o-o-w as molasses. And perverse — took place in the early days of Hitler’s Germany. The main character was a gay guy who at one point goes to bed with his mother. The only interesting scene was the infamous gay orgy where SA chief Roehmer was killed, along with his party fellow members.
I recall many films that weren’t boring — rather, pointless or overrated. I never understood why they were so praised. ET comes to mind. (Actually, most of Spielberg.) I hated PULP FICTION.
Some films like THE ENGLISH PATIENT were visually pretty but sterile. I left the theater thinking, “So?” This is, in fact, a problem with most contemporary films — the past 20 years. They lack emotional edge or something. Most of them fail to engage me. The so-called “art films” leave me snoring in the theater.
Also, there are others I initially enjoyed but outgrew — DANCES WITH WOLVES. I was more liberal or apolitical then. Or maybe ditsy.
Which is another problem — the PC message. I am leery of any left-wing agenda. Same with contemporary fiction — I am sick of feminism or dysfunctional characters.
It’a makes the ganglia TWITCH!
Barton Fink is a classic for me. I have seen it at least three times.
Agreed. Adam Sandler is unwatchable. And when he starts speaking baby talk I can’t focus on anything except various techniques that might result in his permanent removal from harming society further.
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