Boredom in a movie is multi-faceted for me. I liked the boredom in the ultimate of boring movies, My Dinner With Andre....not so much in Dune 1 or 2. That's a completely subjective response....it just didn't hit my buttons.
Yes, for sure, boredom is limited as a criticism, but it's also an important one because one of the important tasks of a film maker for me is to NOT put me in the position of whether I am bored enough to ditch the price of a ticket and walk out. If I am in that position and I do walk out, I'm going to tell other people that and maybe post it on MoFo or social media. Movie studios want butts in the seats and and people who buy, stream or rent. Boredom doesn't help with that unless the boredom is so intense that it becomes a cult, like My Dinner With Andre.
The reality of the business and what's fascinating about movies, is the fact that a good movie has to be both Art (note the capital A) and entertainment and they're going to spend millions making it, so it's a big gamble too...art, entertainment and gambling all at once. In my local world, I do lots of things in the non-movie Art world, but those don't require me to spend a couple of hours in a seat in a Friday night out kind of event and won't require an artist to spend millions on crew and actors.
So, once all over again....a movie should NOT bore me unless it raises boredom to a cult (Andre again). If it does, it's not doing the job that I think I pay them for. I actually DO go to movies for entertainment, pacing, terse dialog and sometimes music, action, violence and danger. It's my alt-life. I don't like running from tornadoes (I have actually done that), but I do like watching Twister where other people run from tornadoes. Same thing with war, disaster, and crime.
Yes, for sure, boredom is limited as a criticism, but it's also an important one because one of the important tasks of a film maker for me is to NOT put me in the position of whether I am bored enough to ditch the price of a ticket and walk out. If I am in that position and I do walk out, I'm going to tell other people that and maybe post it on MoFo or social media. Movie studios want butts in the seats and and people who buy, stream or rent. Boredom doesn't help with that unless the boredom is so intense that it becomes a cult, like My Dinner With Andre.
The reality of the business and what's fascinating about movies, is the fact that a good movie has to be both Art (note the capital A) and entertainment and they're going to spend millions making it, so it's a big gamble too...art, entertainment and gambling all at once. In my local world, I do lots of things in the non-movie Art world, but those don't require me to spend a couple of hours in a seat in a Friday night out kind of event and won't require an artist to spend millions on crew and actors.
So, once all over again....a movie should NOT bore me unless it raises boredom to a cult (Andre again). If it does, it's not doing the job that I think I pay them for. I actually DO go to movies for entertainment, pacing, terse dialog and sometimes music, action, violence and danger. It's my alt-life. I don't like running from tornadoes (I have actually done that), but I do like watching Twister where other people run from tornadoes. Same thing with war, disaster, and crime.
There is nothing boring about My Dinner With Andre. Once again, people who like movies like that, don't like it because it's boring. This isn't hard to grasp.
Also art is under no obligation to be anything it doesn't want to be. And a lot of directors, thank god, don't agree with what you find entertaining. They make the kinds of movies they want to see, and the hope is others will as well. There is no template for what makes a movie entertaining or boring. Stop acting like a movie that happened to bore you was being negligent to some imaginary formula. Dune 2 is doing fine, and lots of people want exactly what it's giving, no matter how much you warn them it's just about a bunch of sand.