Boring??? I've found a few movies boring:
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh 1996)
I hate to describe a film as boring but I was bored with Secret & Lies and that's the truth. Everything felt so artificial, so much like a daytime TV soap opera. There was barely 90 minutes of relevant story here, which leaves an additional 50 minutes of added padding. Hence part of the reason I was bored.
Rules Don't Apply (Warren Betty 2016)
Warren Beatty playing Howard Hughes the mentally ill, reclusive billionaire was actually pretty good. I mean lets face it, Warren Beatty often comes across as a space-cadet and that's a perfect fit for Hughes. To bad the script was so boring or this might have worked.
Deepwater Horizon(Peter Berg 2016)
Remind me to never watch another Peter Berg directed movie!
after 47 minutes into the film we finally get to the action....I thought this is where the film gets good! Ha, the most boring action scenes I've seen, sure the fireballs were big, but true action comes from narrative, not CG...and thanks to the director's ADD style of video game editing, we don't have time to care about the workers on the oil platform.
What a crappy, crappy style of film making.
This was one of the most boring films I've seen. Every single shot is a close up, I could hardly tell what was going on. I mean, yes I know it's a sub and it has confined space...but the director/cinematographer who decided to use a plethora of extreme close ups in attempt to give a felling of confinement...should go back to film school.
The Lady in the Van(Nicholas Hytner 2015)
I was bored by this...and by all rights this should have been a film I loved. The story is right up my alley...with what would seem to be a quirky British film with a wonderful actresses and based on true life events. But gads! was this boring. I blame the boredom on a major disconnect from the characters on the screen.
...we experience the film from the writer's viewpoint and damn is he a muddling, boring character. I would say he's one dimensional, but the director went with the idea of having the actor play two version of himself. Because according to the film the writer is of two minds, both boring.
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh 1996)
I loved the subject matter which was right up my alley. In fact I expected to like this. The two lead actresses were good too.
I hate to describe a film as boring but I was bored with Secret & Lies and that's the truth. Everything felt so artificial, so much like a daytime TV soap opera. There was barely 90 minutes of relevant story here, which leaves an additional 50 minutes of added padding. Hence part of the reason I was bored.
Rules Don't Apply (Warren Betty 2016)
Deepwater Horizon(Peter Berg 2016)
Remind me to never watch another Peter Berg directed movie!
after 47 minutes into the film we finally get to the action....I thought this is where the film gets good! Ha, the most boring action scenes I've seen, sure the fireballs were big, but true action comes from narrative, not CG...and thanks to the director's ADD style of video game editing, we don't have time to care about the workers on the oil platform.
What a crappy, crappy style of film making.
Black Sea (Kevin Macdonald 2014)
This was one of the most boring films I've seen. Every single shot is a close up, I could hardly tell what was going on. I mean, yes I know it's a sub and it has confined space...but the director/cinematographer who decided to use a plethora of extreme close ups in attempt to give a felling of confinement...should go back to film school.
The Lady in the Van(Nicholas Hytner 2015)
I was bored by this...and by all rights this should have been a film I loved. The story is right up my alley...with what would seem to be a quirky British film with a wonderful actresses and based on true life events. But gads! was this boring. I blame the boredom on a major disconnect from the characters on the screen.
...we experience the film from the writer's viewpoint and damn is he a muddling, boring character. I would say he's one dimensional, but the director went with the idea of having the actor play two version of himself. Because according to the film the writer is of two minds, both boring.