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Most boring film you've ever seen?

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GunpowderGelatine · 05/05/2019 22:31

I'm watching On Chesil Beach and I can't remember the last time I watched a film this dull. Only sticking with it to see how they do the, ahem, early arrival part. Thinking about it the book was fairly shite too.

What's the most boring film you've ever seen so I can avoid nights like this Grin

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10inabed · 06/05/2019 23:15

Ten years a slave or whatever it was called. Ten years of being fucking bored at the cinema and a really crap ending.

PissOffPeppa · 06/05/2019 23:21

Quite a lot of these films I love Blush

Most boring for me was Manchester by the Sea. Nothing happens! It’s bleak, depressing and dull.

My dad dragged me along to see The Phantom Menace with my brother when it was released. It felt like it was never going to end

Ilovetea33 · 06/05/2019 23:55

Le Quattro Volte.
Italian art house film about a dying goat herder and his sheep. Got a great write-up in one of the newspapers so I decided to go and see it. Terminally boring. Couldn't quite bring myself to leave though because my feet hurt from traipsing around London for three days.

Graphista · 07/05/2019 00:16

"compared to the horror that is Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books." No way! I love this!

Shawshank redemption - dire!

"and one that I think was called The Piano - or there was a piano in the title or something."

If you mean

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThePianoo__
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Then I completely disagree, but then I do have a soft spot for Jane campion and I adore holly hunter.

Gravity - I will not watch unless Tess geritsen is properly recognised for the source material and appropriately compensated. Not holding my breath, glad to learn I'm not missing much.
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"and there was a film about a phone box which sent me to sleep"
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Was it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonee_Booth(filmm__)
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If so I agree dreadful BUT the same writer also wrote
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellularr(film)

Which is a fab little known psychological thriller/action film

Fell asleep in cinema watching this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered(19911_film)

But the one I really hated but had to watch (uni assignment) - warning controversial opinion

It's a wonderful life

Just so dire and depressing and badly written and emotionless twaddle!!

The interesting part was the lecturer I had re the assignment (wasn't his choice) also hated it Grin

Graphista · 07/05/2019 00:17

No idea why the bizarre underlining sorry

Ursaminor · 07/05/2019 00:32

WALL-E - saw it in the cinema and had a toilet break for as long as I could without the rest of the family getting anxious. So, so dull. Didn't want to go back in.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm · 07/05/2019 00:41

Little Miss Sunshine
Lost in Translation
Tron

Wearywithteens · 07/05/2019 00:55

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BitOfFun · 07/05/2019 01:15

I've really loved some of the films named Grin.

For me, it has to be either Knowing (I fell asleep, and was quite happy to never know), or The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford- tedious beyond belief.

mrsjackrussell · 07/05/2019 08:42

*oliversmumsarmy

Yes the music too for years. Grin

NorthernRunner · 07/05/2019 09:12

Yes to lost in translation which I thought I would really like as I saw after visiting Roppongi in Tokyo (where it’s filmed) but no I didn’t care for it at all.

whyohwhyowhydididoit · 07/05/2019 09:26

I came on to say The Revenant and am happy to see that so many of you agree.

Also every HP movie ever. The books are great but The films were awful. DC loved them so we went to them all and often twice but I slept through every single one.

jazzandh · 07/05/2019 09:26

Bringing Out The Dead and AI.....

IndigoSpritz · 07/05/2019 09:40

Tequila Sunrise and Half Moon Street are equally contemptible.

Hushnownobodycares · 07/05/2019 10:39

YY to Mr Turner.

So disjointed. So much incomprehensible grunting. So very looooong.

Pinkarsedfly · 07/05/2019 10:46

Mr Turner was just snot and saliva as far as I remember. Gross.

NewYoiker · 07/05/2019 10:52

Atonement

Hobbes39 · 07/05/2019 11:01

Roma. By the time something interesting did happen, I'd given up caring....

TonTonMacoute · 07/05/2019 11:14

I find a lot of big Hollywood movies incredibly dull. I much prefer European films, particularly French ones.

American Beauty remains a bad memory, and someone has just reminded me of Lincoln, although I didn't get past the first 15 minutes, so I'm not sure if that counts.

longwayoff · 07/05/2019 11:19

Mercifully I've forgotten the name of this, a friend bought me a ticket and pal-mailed me into accompanying her to the showing. A silent documentary film about a year in the life of monks in a monastery up a frozen mountain somewhere in Europe. It was long. Felt like a lifetime. Sigh.

Elderflower14 · 07/05/2019 11:19

I went to see a film about Charles Dickens about three years ago. It was so dull. I went with friends and struggled to keep awake!

Lovetunnocks · 07/05/2019 11:19

Lord of the Rings animated version. We went on a school trip to see it in 1978 and I can still remember the minutes crawling by. Most recently I was very bored by the second half of A Star Is Born - it was SO self indulgent. But I accept that I'm in a minority with that one.

SheChoseDown · 07/05/2019 11:20

Murder by numbers.

AllInADay · 07/05/2019 11:20

Peter's Friends

64sNewName · 07/05/2019 11:21

The Big Blue