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The most boring films ever. Really?

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Keawyeds said:
Did they have a list to pick from or was it whatever they could come up with?
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That's what I'd like to know. I'm guessing so as the NME link suggests that 34% picked The Blair Witch Project and I doubt that 34% of the public could remember it without prompting.

Guinness Guzzler said:
What was that f***ing film about a murderous tyre? That was boring and should easily be on the list
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I think it was called Rubber.
 
Ben Gardner said:
Someone at The Guardian has published the results from a survey (source unknown so far) as to which films the nation sees as boring. For me, there are one or two classics in there.

I wonder if it's because folk are becoming a bit impatient with everything these days? For example, I read that (musical) artists are now trying to get the hook into a song within the first 30 seconds, simply so it suits the Spotify generation.

Anyway, here's that list...

1. 50 Shades of Grey
2. The Blair Witch Project
3. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Transformers
6. The Postman
7. The Artist
8. Australia
9. Vanilla Sky
10. Seven Years in Tibet
11. Batman and Robin
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. The Matrix Revolutions
14. Showgirls
15. Far and Away
16. The Tree of Life
17. Noah
18. Meet Joe Black
19. Lincoln
20. Cleopatra
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Blatant clickbait
 
The Thin Red Line. Let’s try to shoe horn as many familiar actors into this plotless endless film and give them nothing to do.

The Happening. I’m still waiting for something to happen.

Lord of the Rings. Just like the books, walking, walking, walking ...

The Hobbit. Stretching a kids’ book into three full length films. Let’s fill it up with a load of cinema wanking - start by having the dwarfs hoy the plates around the house for fifteen minutes.

Titanic. Saw that on a plane on the way home. Made a ten hour flight seem like twenty hours.

There are loads of shit films out there but these come under the title of ‘boring’ for me.
 
Ben Gardner said:
Someone at The Guardian has published the results from a survey (source unknown so far) as to which films the nation sees as boring. For me, there are one or two classics in there.

I wonder if it's because folk are becoming a bit impatient with everything these days? For example, I read that (musical) artists are now trying to get the hook into a song within the first 30 seconds, simply so it suits the Spotify generation.

Anyway, here's that list...

1. 50 Shades of Grey
2. The Blair Witch Project
3. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Transformers
6. The Postman
7. The Artist
8. Australia
9. Vanilla Sky
10. Seven Years in Tibet
11. Batman and Robin
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. The Matrix Revolutions
14. Showgirls
15. Far and Away
16. The Tree of Life
17. Noah
18. Meet Joe Black
19. Lincoln
20. Cleopatra
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I enjoyed 2001 in its day and Lincoln is a brilliant film IMHO. Most of the others I haven't seen.
 
Rear Window, from back in the fifties when everybody stood up at the end for the National Anthem.
Gregory Peck, Richard Burr.
The whole film is centred around a guy sitting in a wheelchair watching another apartment window from his own back window.
 
lenshack said:
Rear Window, from back in the fifties when everybody stood up at the end for the National Anthem.
Gregory Peck, Richard Burr.
The whole film is centred around a guy sitting in a wheelchair watching another apartment window from his own back window.
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One of the best Simpsons episodes (Bart of Darkness) is heavily based on it so it gets let off.
 
lenshack said:
Rear Window, from back in the fifties when everybody stood up at the end for the National Anthem.
Gregory Peck, Richard Burr.
The whole film is centred around a guy sitting in a wheelchair watching another apartment window from his own back window.
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You mean James Stewart and Raymond Burr.

I thought that Hitchcock, the master of suspense, would have had a few plot twists like but the bloke who appears to be the villain from the start is in fact the villain. Not his finest work!

lurker said:
The usual suspects
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Now you’re just being silly.
One of the greatest fillums of the nineties.
 
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