Which films which everyone else loves and finds deeply moving, made you wish you were with people who wanted to go to the pub while you watched them?

[Caligula]

Mine are:

Out of Africa
The Piano
The English Patient

Can't decide whether Out of Africa or The Piano were more hideously dull. And the English Patient was just bloody irritating - it was such a relief when he died.

Forest Gump is in a league of its own.
And I sat right through it-shame on me- because my friend and I were too cowardly to walk out.

Patronising, facile drivel.
The Phil Collins of the film world.

Ooh great thread. Good Will Hunting was dire. I do like Dead Poets, though.

The English Patient. Yawn.

Love Actually. Yawn yawn yawn

Titanic. A big pile of effing steaming donkey shite.

The English Patient, but I rather liked The Piano because it was so weird and you just had no idea where it was going. (Pruni, I'm agreeing with you again )

I couldn't stand Moulin Rouge or Donnie Darko.

And any Leonardo DiCaprio film apart from What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

I haven't seen half of these and can now feel smug that I didn't bother :)

I loved Donnie Darko as well though.

ooh I loved the english paitiont so romantic

agree about american beauty and titantic

Gladiator

god yes gladiator was so boring

ditto
titanic ...nearly walked out

english patient...fell asleep

a beautiful mind.....boring

love actually....predictable shite as bad a bridget jones crap

moulin rouge.....lasted about 20 mins then I turned it off

I loved The Hours,which dh thought was a load of old crapola.

LOTS!

Titanic - dumb ass. three hours long and the last hour is all water. just when you're desperate for the loo. i gave up and went outside to smoke cigarettes and got chatted up by two aussie blokes using the laundrette next door to the cinema.

The Piano - what was the point?

Breaking the Waves - disturbing.

American Beauty - so bad, I left to go to the bar in the mall w/one of my mates whilst we left the others to their fate.

I hired 'Notting Hill', b/c I knew it was gonna be shite but it was hire one, get one free down at Blockbuster.

I turned it off b/c all those stereotypes about the English pissed me off.

Three Kings - another one I turned off.

Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? - walked out

The Blair Witch Project - should come w/a warning if you've got a delicate stomach or are prone to motion sickness. I was routing for the witch as the end.

Agree with The Piano, most boring pointless piece of twaddle I have ever seen and by some cruel twist of fate I ended up seeing it twice!

Seriously, gegs, I mean, just to see shrivelled old Harvey Keitel's willy?

I can't believe I wasted my time on that drivel!

The Wings of the Dove, too. Or any Henry James pile of nonsense. So some people have money and others don't. BFD! Who the f*&k cares? Get a damn life and move on.

Dead Poets - "Oh craptain, my craptain"
Titanic - just shoite
The English Patient
The Last Emperor - won about 20 million Oscars but I fell asleep
Forrest Gump

English patint

Gladiator

and Is nored my way through Pulp Fiction at its release showing bored rigid (literally asleep) whilst everyone one else raved. Tales a VERY good film to keep me awake, now as then (can sleep in night clubs too).

Gladiator and A beautiful Mind Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

see i like a beautiful mind cos my dad and dh are mathematicians and i can make snurky comments throughout

lord of the rings (all three of them). Please god never again.
Titanic
eternal sunshine of the shockingly tedious mind (jim carrey I've warned you before, no, no, no)

but the number one "what a waste of time" award goes to......

Austin Powers

Ha
I read the title and immediately thought Dead Poets..

I'm delighted to learn I'm not alone.

The English Patient
Green Mile
A Beautiful Mind

BLEUGH

agree with most of these but loved "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?" the bit when the all get dragged off the train carraige by their chains - loved it.

watched swingers the other night, apart from realising that vincent vaughan was once very goodlooking though it was crappola.

Gawd, meow, Eternal Sunshine whateverthef*&k was so bad, I'd blocked it out!

SUCH utter tripe it's not true.

The Piano, definitely.

And - ahem - I have to say that to date I have never quite seen the point of Brief Encounter. I think I saw it when far too young and spent my time thinking 'oh, ffs, why don't they just get on with it and shag' whereas now I would doubtless appreciate its shaded nuances and gay subtext if I could only face watching it again.

oh shit, eternal sunshine, I bloody want that 3 hours of my life back.

dead poets soceity ditto. What a lot of adolescent bilge that was.

But first place must go to: The Lord Of The Rings

Now I have nothing against male bonding, in fact I think its great. I really think it helps men get in touch with their inner hobbit. But FFS, don't make me watch it too. Its a dickflick, thats what it is.

i have walked out on 2 films in my life

The English Patient
and
The Thin Red Line

agree also about American Beauty

Donnie Darko - aarrgghh!!