What is the most boring movie you have seen or a series that you couldn't watch anymore. Mine was the Matrix. I left.

[debm55]

But had to come back to get my son and his friends.

[Dulcinea]

1. I hated The Matrix too.

It bored me to death. My friend loved it, so I couldn't leave. Ugh. That was 2 1/2 hr I'll never get back.

[debm55]

2. I took my son and his friends to see it so I was in the same position. They were about 15. I remember the scene --they

fighting on the top of a train. I felt and it went on and on. I left. walked next door and got a hot chocolate, drank it and walked back to the theater. OMG they were still fighting on the train part.

[Prairie_Seagull]

3. That's it, you are off the xmas list.

As you may remember, I named by dog NEO.

I don't have an answer yet to your inquiry. Still thinking.

[debm55]

5. We have different tastes--what can I say?

And you have to admit that scene went on forever.

[Clash City Rocker]

65. I used to know a guy who named his son Neo

I kept my opinion of that to myself.

[Prairie_Seagull]

91. Hopefully a middle name.

Better yet a nick name. That would be something that may get unintentional chuckle at 60 yo.

[CanonRay]

4. Out of Africa

I fell asleep.

[debm55]

6. That's funny.

[CanonRay]

7. Also, The Last House on the Left

The only movie I ever walked out on. I found the gratuitous violence offensive.

[debm55]

8. I do too. TY.

[ailsagirl]

60. Offensive-- yes, boring-- no

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It was absolutely sickening. We walked out after 10 minutes.

This was Wes Craven's directorial debut. I'm amazed he got anyone to finance his subsequent movies.

FYI, Last House on the Left was refused a certificate for cinema release by the British Board of Film Censors in 1974, due to scenes of explicit and sadistic sexual violence and humiliation.

[mucifer]

9. Lord of the Rings. That movie just wouldn't end. I kept thinking "ok now it's gonna end" but noooo something

else would happen. Felt like a 12 hour movie.

[debm55]

10. I didn't feel that way the first time I saw it, But now I would agree somewhat,

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. One of my favotite film trilogies

If you have read tbe series of books, there would be a greater understanding as to why this trilogy is a classic.

Peter Jackson did an outstanding job undertaking the Tolkien books to film. Condensing as much as he could into script form, the costuming, sets, visual effects, was amazing.

I had the pleasure to meet one of the artists from New Zealand, a Prothstetic Designer, whose work on the Orcs and Uruk hai was visible. Norman Cates was a Guest of Honor at CONvergence in 2018. We had breakfast together and chatted for an hour.

I realize these films are not for everyone, as they are richly detailed. They are amazing in every respect for those of us who love Sci-fi and Fantasy.

[leftieNanner]

14. I loved LOTR books and the films

Hated what they did with The Hobbit. Too much gratuitous violence and making three movies out of the one book was just a money grab. Only saw the first one and left before the end.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

25. I read The Hobbit series as well.

It took was a detailed adventure thst took 3 films to tell, especially how Sarumon was a good wizard, until he was not.

The LoTR series was far better.

[leftieNanner]

26. The Hobbit is just one book

They invented the white orc in the films that is not in the book.

[RockRaven]

70. Azog (the white orc) is in the book, and isn't an invention, strictly speaking.

It's very brief, but Gandalf mentions Azog while speaking to Thorin in the first chapter, and Thorin responds by cursing his name.

However, the fact that he appears in regards to the main plot/action is contrary to the book. That much is true. By the chronology established by Tolkien's writings, Azog has been dead for decades by the time of The Hobbit -- he was killed in the same battle where a younger Thorin earned the nickname Oakenshield.

[leftieNanner]

72. Excellent information

Once again, I bow to the brilliance of the DU family.

[Xolodno]

93. The Hobbit movie is a classic example of studio's fucking things up.

...Peter Jackson initially said "No" as they wanted to do another trilogy (and he thought the most you could do was two, a third would mean getting more into a prequel for LOTR) and wanted to use CGI mostly to cut costs, there was basically no pre-production, so he walked away. Then they got Guillermo Del Toro to do it....then he left.

They got Peter Jackson by giving into some of his demands, but the clock was already ticking. The script wasn't finished, no storyboards for a number of scenes, etc. He even stated there were times he would just make things up on the fly (tell the actors to take an extra long lunch so he could figure what to do next). There are pictures of him on the set and he just looked exhausted and defeated.

In the end, even he said he hated the movie. I think if he was on it from day one and the studios just let him do what he wanted like they did before, would have gotten something much better.

[Shermann]

59. Agreed

I saw the Fellowship of the Ring cold in the theater. I enjoyed it but felt like I was missing something. I binge read all six books and they were a great read (I had read the Hobbit previously and had some familiarity with Middle Earth). Then I watched The Two Towers and The Return of the King and it was a totally different experience, it really clicked for me.

Then I got the extended editions when they came out and watched the whole thing again.

[underpants]

32. I saw one of them with my brother - huge LOTR fan

Small local theater. I never finished reading the books and when I saw the walking talking trees I remembered why. Put the book down right then.

[Ferrets are Cool]

56. Well, there is NOT a Lord of the Rings movie. But, if you mean Fellowship of the Ring, that is my #1 all time favorite

movie.

[electric_blue68]

74. Oh, not me! :D I even have the extended DVD versions.

[Bayard]

12. The stupidest and most boring movie I've ever seen,

"The Blair Witch Project." I'd have been really pissed if I'd seen even the part I did watch in a theater. Big hysterical snipe hunt!

[debm55]

15. I passed on that one. Glad I did because the reviews and regular people talk were not that great.

[chouchou]

158. The best part was toward the end, when they suspected the danger/witches were outside waiting for them....

...and the guy said: "It's been a long day and we're tired: Let's go to sleep"....and they did.
Brilliant strategy!

[rurallib]

43. Always #1 on my worst list

[electric_blue68]

75. Omg. :D Friends and I were at dinner and two of them were making fun of it...

One - she took tooth picks and stuck them in her mash potatoes to imitate that stick ?thing, or symbol.

I happened to be under some serious stress that was physically tensing me up. But we were laughing sooo hard that it was the first thing that relaxed me some!

Thanks for the memory. 😄👍

[Emile]

13. Chariots of Fire

[debm55]

17. Didn;t that win an Oscar for best picture? I didn't see it.

[Emile]

20. A lot of those award winning pictures are boring as hell

Chariots of Fire sucked

[AllaN01Bear]

44. i hated the theme . sounded like fingernails being dragged on chalkboard.

[rsdsharp]

16. The two I came closest to walking out on were

Clash of the Titans

Thin Red Line.

I found both to be crushingly boring.

[debm55]

19. Did you leave?

[rsdsharp]

22. No. I've never walked out of a movie, but I came close with those.

[underpants]

35. I agree on The Thin Red Line

How do screw up with a cast like that?

[rsdsharp]

40. Pretty good book, too.

From Here to Eternity is a classic movie from the first of the James Jones trilogy;, The Thin Red Line, not so much.

[Coventina]

71. Which Clash of the Titans?

I adored the 80s one.

I must have gone to the theatre to watch it at least once a week.
Matinees were $.25!!!

That was a glorious summer!!

[rsdsharp]

82. 1981. Harry Hamlin. We'll have to disagree.

I hated it.

[Coventina]

83. If everyone liked the same things it would be a boring world.

[Walleye]

18. I got tired of NCIS about five seasons in

And I saw 2001 a space Odyssey when it first came out in the theater, but I must’ve been on the wrong drugs or something, because I kept nodding off, and jerking awake at the crescendo in the soundtrack. Pretty cool though.

[debm55]

21. That's funny. TY

[EYESORE 9001]

23. Melancholia

I was rooting for the rogue planet by the end.

[debm55]

27. Didn't like it either.

[beaglelover]

85. OMG YES!!! That movie was so frickin' weird. The first scene was like 3 hours long.

When the planet finally crashed into the earth I was like, thank god it's over!

[Niagara]

24. The Godfather series.

I had attempted so many times to watch the first movie and I ended up falling asleep each time.


I changed my routine during the pandemic and tuned in to watch it early in the day and I finally made it through without sawing logs.

Eventually I was able to watch the rest of the Godfather series.


The other movie that I fell asleep during watching was The Samurai with Tom Cruise.
I have never attempted to try again.

[debm55]

30. I like the first Godfather. The others are a good way to put you to sleep-----boring.

[underpants]

28. Home Alone, Reality Bites, Gone with the Wind

Nothing happens in Home Alone until the last 20 minutes or so.

I just hated Reality Bites.

Scarlett. Ugh.

[debm55]

34. Home Alone--boring. Scarlett and GWTW--boring and long. A long boring is terrible.

[underpants]

41. I forgot Pearl Harbor

At one point I think I started rooting for the Japanese.

The stuttering character. As the movie continued to get worse I thought - no, they aren’t going to have HIM be the one that runs in to alert everyone. Yep. They did.

Packed theater too. Best seats we could find together were in the 5th row or so. You try staring up Aykroyd’s nose for over an hour.

I thought it was over and then they started planning Doolittles Raid. I made noises that caused people to turn around. According to my wife, the couple in front of us stunk of weed AND Patchouli oil.

[debm55]

48. Great Post! Thank you.

[Arne]

29. Gangs of New York

incredibly vile and crude movie.

However I liked Escape from New York.

[debm55]

36. Agree. I feel asleep in the theater.

[JoseBalow]

67. I love Ernest Borgnine!

[Arne]

68. Kurt Russel

Snake

[JoseBalow]

86. and Adrienne Barbeau

[Arne]

88. hoot hoot

[Srkdqltr]

125. This should have been a stinker but it was a hoot.

Russel's Big Trouble in Little China was the same. Should not have been good but it was.

[JoseBalow]

132. I liked it too!

The idea of walling off Manhattan for a penal colony is great, and I always thought the glider on top of the WTC was a nice touch.

I didn't care much for Escape From L.A. though

But Death Proof was pretty good, when it really shouldn't have been

[bucolic_frolic]

31. I walked out on The Last Emperor

My attention span is about 1.2 hours, and I need some action.

[debm55]

37. I liked the first half, hated the second half.

[Polybius]

33. The Cell (2000)

We almost walked out of the movie theater. Maybe I'll give it another chance.

[debm55]

39. I hope you have a better experience. Doubt if you will--once a stinker always a stinker.

[jimfields33]

38. Eyes wide shut was the worst dreck I have ever

seen. I stupidly went to the theater. It sucked!!!!!!
Requiem for a Dream was just as bad.

Two horrid movies I unfortunately saw.

[debm55]

42. Eyes wide shot was horrible. Would have left but my friend was Tom Cruise groupie. I also didn't like Top Gun. Flight

scenes I loved. Acting and writing==terrible.

[Lemonwurst]

116. Agreed, awful

I barely remember it, but I do remember being surprised that it ended abruptly with no resolution to whatever plot I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt.

Hard to believe this was a Stanley Kubrick production. I just don’t get it, but I guess anyone at that level can fool themselves into thinking they can make hay out of horseshit.

[emulatorloo]

154. For what it is worth, Warner Brothers edited the film before it was released to get an R rating

I had the same reaction you did. But after I learned that it wasn’t Kubrick’s final cut, I wondered if that was the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Wide_Shut

Kubrick died of a heart attack six days after showing the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner Bros., making it the final film he directed. He reportedly considered it his "greatest contribution to the art of cinema". In order to ensure a theatrical R rating in the United States, Warner Bros. digitally altered several sexually explicit scenes during post-production. This version was premiered on July 13, 1999, before being released on July 16, to generally positive reviews from critics.[4] Box office receipts for the film worldwide were about $162 million, making it Kubrick's highest-grossing film. The uncut version has since been released in DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. Eyes Wide Shut has been included in several lists of the greatest films of the 1990s.

[rurallib]

45. Not even sure if this is the right name. I think it was "Almost Famous"

It had Chris Farley and David Spade, as I recall.

Took my daughter on a campus visit and we went too this movie. About 45 minutes into it we walked out into a massive thunderstorm.

[debm55]

49. Sorry about that.

[Dulcinea]

76. That wasn't Almost Famous.

Almost Famous is a great movie that had Billy Crudup & Kate Hudson, about a rock band.

[rurallib]

79. Thanks - whatever it was I almost immediately wiped it from my memory

[spooky3]

151. I liked that one, too. Nt

[AllaN01Bear]

46. one of my fave boring movies ,dark star.

most stupid tv series was the star lost. in my market they rebranded it as earth ark.
the best part of dark star was dolittle arguing with a planetoic bomb to keep it from going off whilst attached to the ship..
https://www.cinemah.com/altri/war/carpent.htm hey bomb, let there be light.

[debm55]

50. Thank you AllaN01Bear. Some movies--you have to wonder why they were made?

[Permanut]

47. The Office..

Great series, but when Steve Carell left, the synergy among the remaining characters just kind of evaporated.

[debm55]

54. Totally agree, Same with CSI--the original. Stop watching when the main actor left.

[Ferrets are Cool]

51. The French Lieutenant's Woman

I didn't walk out, but I couldn't tell you ONE thing about it now. Oh, I saw it in the theaters when it first came out in '81.

[doc03]

52. I remember one I watched a few years ago called Under the Skin. I never figured out what it was

about.

[gay texan]

53. "A streetcar named "Desire" n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

55. Wow. I would have lost money on that bet that ANYONE was bored with The Matrix.

[Shermann]

62. Solid movie start to finish, smart, suspenseful, revolutionary for its time but still holds up well. I'm with you. nt

[debm55]

97. Well, I hated it. and left. It was almost like one continuous scene over and over.

[PJMcK]

57. Twin Peaks

Lost
Twilight (anything with vampires)
Most sequels

[debm55]

98. Most sequels suck.

[ailsagirl]

58. The English Patient comes to mind right away

[Paladin]

96. It never ever fails to make a list like this one, here at DU.

I thought it was great. And the novel on which it was based is even better.

[Upthevibe]

131. ailsagirl ...........

I actually liked The English Patient but it's because I liked the love story and chemistry between Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas - I had a super crush on Ralph Fiennes.

Having said that, whenever I think of The English Patiet, this is what comes to mind:

[ailsagirl]

136. That is pretty funny!!

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I had heard so much about it that I fully expected to love it-- but I didn't.
Plus the theater got the times wrong-- it advertised it as being 90 min long, so I knew it would end soon, but when I found it was actually 2 hrs and 40 minutes, I panicked. Not really, but there was a man sitting to my left who pretty much took up the whole space between us-- so there was that. A thoroughly unpleasant experience. BTW, I hated Clockwork Orange, too.

[dflprincess]

152. I loved that scene

mostly because it's the same reaction my friend & I had to the movie only we behaved better.

[cloudbase]

61. Howard the Duck.

I got the double whammy. Japan Airlines showed it on my flight from Chicago to Tokyo, then again the next day on my flight to Singapore.

[debm55]

99. Lucky you. That movie stunk.

[SarahD]

63. NCIS Digital.

Or whatever they call it. I am just the wrong generation to get excited about coding.

[Deep State Witch]

64. Titanic

Not only did her heart go on, but the movie did, too.

[debm55]

100. Special Effects great. Acting was terrible.

[get the red out]

66. I watched 15 minutes of "Friends" when it first came on

Gagged a bit, then changed the channel. Never watched a minute of it again.

[Permanut]

80. Same here.

Six twenty-somethings pretending to be teenagers.

[debm55]

101. Same here.

[hedda_foil]

69. That Cold Day in the Park.

It came out in 1969, so I guess that's how long it's been since the most utterly, mind-numbingly boring film I've ever seen.

[debm55]

102. I don't think I ever heard of it. Must of been bad.

[hedda_foil]

130. Terrible in a nonsensical art-fliky, plotless way.

[debm55]

134. Thank you, I know what you mean.

[RockRaven]

73. Most police/prosecutor procedurals.

Especially the Law and Order, NCIS, and CSI spinoffs.

[debm55]

103. I tend to like them. I watch the Law and Order marathons on Sundays. and liked the original CSI

[electric_blue68]

77. Part of 2001 A Space Odessy on a second watch close to 50 yrs later!..

A funny back story

The movie theater still standing, hut used as a events place, community space, and concert hall. A rare movie.. .
It's the old last ultra fancy (a wild, perhaps over done Moorish style) movie theater in Manhattan. 2001 was the last film shown there in ?68.
I was mostly amazed by it.
Theater turn into a house of worship for most of the next 50 yrs.
.
Fast Forward... They're showing 2001 on a special tour with Keir Dullea, and interviewer for a post-movie session.
Well...
I thought I was going to "pass out" from boredom after about 5 mins or less each time they did a major switch in the Apes's story except the very last scene. It was almost physically painful!
Omg! 😄😄😄😴😴😴😴😴
Then the rest was better! 👍

[debm55]

104. Thank you for sharing.

[Lemonwurst]

119. Agreed, though I waited too long to see it

Despite all the hoopla, by the time I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey there had already been far more impressive futuristic movies made, and “Hal” just seemed trite and disconnected from the evolution of cinematic imaginings of scary computer intelligence.

Never made it through, and never regretted it.

[tblue37]

78. "Forty Carats"--the only movie I actually walked out of.

[debm55]

106. Thanks tblue37

[Polly Hennessey]

81. I fell asleep during The Sting. I was on a date, too.

All I remember is a bunch of guys playing pool. By the way, it didn’t hurt my relationship. I married my date. 🥰

[debm55]

107. My first date with this guy was to see The Sting. Movie was great, guy was boring.

[beaglelover]

84. Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Total snooze fest.

[debm55]

108. I liked it the first time I saw it. Would I see it again, no.

[HoosierDebbie]

87. Bad Boys II The only movie I ever walked out on at the theater.

I enjoyed the first Bad Boys so I thought I would like the second one. I'm glad I went by myself so I could easily leave. I was totally offended when the main characters were in a morgue and women in the morgue were nude. They were excited by dead women's boobs!

Top Gun II . I was at home, but I think I only watched about 10 minutes. Way too much testosterone! I originally liked the first one, but upon partially re-watching it, I came to the same conclusion about it.

The Big Lebowski. I watched it once long ago. I didn't get it. I watched it the other night to see if I could figure out the cult following. I still don't get it. The Dude wasn't so bad, but John Goodman drove me nuts! How could somebody shout and get angry so much? How could anybody choose to be around him, especially Donny!

[debm55]

110. My way of thinking-sequels always stink. Second, Top Gun-Maverick stinks and Tom Cruise is a wooden actor. and The Big

Lebowski, I watched at home , so I didn't have to walk out.

[Mister Ed]

89. The Age of Innocence. Directed by Martin Scorcese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfieffer, and Winona Ryder.

With that roster, you'd think it would have been a terrific movie. But all the way through it, I had to stifle the urge to shout out in the theater, "Good God this is boring!"

[debm55]

111. Agree with you, the actors are great, the film -boring.

[Lunabell]

90. Deadpool.

We watched an hour of it and concluded that if we finished it, that would be two hours of our lives we'd never get back instead of one.

[debm55]

112. HAHAHAHAHHAAH Love it. May I borrow?

[Lunabell]

139. My gift.

Have a wonderful day!!

[JoseBalow]

92. This thread makes me sad

Why don't you people like the things that I like?

[debm55]

113. JoseBalow, why don.t you like what I like. Anything with Tom Cruise in it. stinks, the Matrix is BORING.

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[JoseBalow]

122. Oh I didnt mean you specifically

I meant most everyone else in general in this thread LOL! I see so many movies mentioned that I liked. To each their own!

I actually like most Tom Cruise movies, especially Eyes Wide Shut (I just love Kubrick), but not a big fan of his Mission Impossible franchise. And I only watched the first Matrix, I was mostly unimpressed.

The only time I can remember ever falling asleep in a theater was during TRON.

[debm55]

140. I know JoseBalow. I watched half of the Matrix and walked out

[Xolodno]

94. Escape from LA

Only thing that kept me from sleeping was my constant rolling eyes.

I fell asleep on Battlefield Earth when a friend had a "bad movie marathon" party, first time I saw it...well, some of it.

[debm55]

114. Great, a bad movie marathon. Was anyone awake during it.

[Xolodno]

126. I think that depended on....

...the alcohol consumption.

[Srkdqltr]

95. Wonder woman. Just awful. I wanted to like it.

Female super hero and all. I liked Laura Kroft way better.

[debm55]

115. True, I wanted to like it, just couldn't.

[Lefta Dissenter]

105. "Gerry" 🥱😴

With Casey Affleck and Matt Damon. Literally no plot. Horrible. Boring.

[debm55]

117. Used to really like Matt Damon, but he has been doing some real stinkers. Casey Affleck, I'll leave my opinions to

myself.

[Different Drummer]

109. Final Justice.

I couldn't even make it through the MST3K version--it was that bad.

[debm55]

118. Did you fall asleep?

[Different Drummer]

120. I should have.

[BOSSHOG]

121. I can't remember

It was so bad I slept through it.

[debm55]

147. HAHAHAHHAHAHAH

[sakabatou]

123. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Nearly fell asleep in the theater.

[debm55]

148. That bad, oh my.

[sakabatou]

149. I mean, yeah, the cave paintings are great, but by god the movie is boring

[Zambero]

124. Brazil

The one with the high-tech antique typewriter.

[debm55]

150. Was it an art film?

[Zambero]

167. I can't say for sure

since I slept through most of it! I would say, possibly yes.

[debm55]

168. Hahaha-funny

[yourout]

127. Ad Astra...

God it was awful.

[debm55]

174. Was it a Movie or streaming?

[captain queeg]

128. Some Eddy Murphy "comedy" with farts every couple minutes

About 10-15 minutes in my wife said “one more fart scene and we’re leaving”. Didn’t make it 5 more minutes.

[debm55]

133. Did they give your money back?

[captain queeg]

137. We didn't ask, the wife was in a huff. Apparently many in the audience thought is was funny.

[debm55]

141. Sad that is how he gets his laughs, What talent does that take.

[captain queeg]

145. He is talented but he sure has been in some real stinkers.

He does the donkey for Shrek. I think he does a great job.

[debm55]

146. Yes, I really liked the donkey in Shrek, He did a very funny character without the farts,

[Haggard Celine]

129. Dude Where's My Car?

I was with a friend and we both sat through the whole thing. We were waiting for something to happen, and it never did.

[debm55]

135. That' a bummer.

[LudwigPastorius]

138. "Interiors"

Woody Allen trying to be Ingmar Bergman.

Despite the stellar cast, it's just an hour and a half of people looking into the distance and being depressed.

[debm55]

142. Did you stay or walk out?

[LudwigPastorius]

161. It was a rental, and I watched it to the bitter end.

On the upside, when I hit the sack afterwards, I went out like a light.

[mentalsolstice]

143. Tree of Life with Brad Pitt

I walked out, got a coffee and waited in the lobby.

I enjoyed the first Top Gun because I was an Anthony Edwards fan. The second one I couldn’t walk out on because we watched at home. I was so distracted by Tom Cruise’s jet black hair, I mean c’mon he’s supposed to be like 30 years older. I liked him in his earliest movies (Risky Business was a hoot), but when he started with that CS crap he became unbearable onscreen and off.

[debm55]

144. Agree, with you 100%

[Jarqui]

153. As a boy, Lion in Winter ..nt

[debm55]

157. I have seen it as a college student and loved the acting. Maybe another chance?

[emulatorloo]

155. Dunno why, but never really connected with the Harry Potter movies.

Didn’t get the hype, but I am a weirdo lol.

[debm55]

156. Read the books to my son. Husband and son went to see movie. I remember the hype and didn't get it either.

[Jeebo]

159. The Deer Hunter.

That movie is, in my humble opinion, the WORST Best Picture winner of all time. I saw it in the movie theater when it was a first-run. When was that? It must have been 1979 or 1980. The whole first half-hour of the movie was just a bunch of godawful NOISE, not exactly something that would get me into a receptive mood to watch a good movie. And then, the rest of the movie was grim, brutal, ugly, offensive. I didn't walk out on it, but that is the only time I ever saw it, and I will NEVER watch it again. Yuck.

Some of the other movies in this thread are boring just because they're bad movies. But there are some that are supposed to be good, and those are the ones that I think this thread is supposed to be about. There are too many of them for me to be willing to spend that much time commenting on them, but I would like to comment on a couple.

Somebody mentioned 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think that is one of the best science fiction movies ever made. I think it should have won Best Picture, in fact. There's a depth and profundity and intelligence behind that movie that gets overlooked by many. Overlooked, unnoticed, unappreciated. Or simply ignored. I have heard the criticism that all of that stuff that happens at the end of the movie is just too bewildering and incomprehensible. But I think that is one of the important points of the movie. If we humans encountered an extraterrestrial intelligence that was THAT far ahead of us, wouldn't we find them bewildering and incomprehensible? Do our dogs and cats understand us and our behavior? Actually, they probably understand us better than we would understand an extraterrestrial intelligence like the one in that movie. Did you notice those shots during that sequence of David Bowman slowly going mad? The man's mind was being seriously blown. I think 2001 is a GREAT movie. It's one of those movies that I can't NOT watch when it comes on the cable movie channels. And it NEVER bores me.

The Lord of the Rings movies. I kept hearing about J.R.R. Tolkien's novels when I was a kid in the 1960s, and I was looking for some more science fiction to read, so I tried those. I couldn't even get a third of the way through the first one. I did manage to get through The Hobbit, but it was a slog. That was when I discovered the difference between science fiction and fantasy. I love science fiction, but I don't care much for fantasy. There has to be some connection there with reality. That connection is there with science fiction. Well, good science fiction, anyway, which is about how real people in the real world would behave when interacting with fantastical events. But I don't see that connection in fantasy. I have to be able to suspend my disbelief, and I just cannot do that with fantasy. That's why the Lord of the Rings trilogy does nothing for me, neither the novels nor the movies.

I saw The Matrix once. Actually, less than once, because I couldn't get all the way through it. I can't even describe why it didn't do anything for me, it just didn't. Maybe I should give it another chance.

-- Ron

[debm55]

175. I agree with your views. I do have to tell you that scene at the beginning the wedding was filmed down the street from

our home. I saw it when it came out==depressing movie. I saw it once. when it came out and will never see it again. When we bought our home in 1983 m the realtor drove us around and pointed out the steep street where Pacino was running nude. I did not like.the film' Thank you for posting your very thought views.

[TlalocW]

160. Sunset Boulevard

I took Theater Appreciation as a throwaway elective in college. One lecture class about themes; one nigh class where we watch the movie, and then write a paragraph about it. Get your A.

Maybe it was my being young or whatever (though I do like old movies) but that and Citizen Kane just made me grind my teeth.

For a treat, the professor showed us Rocky Horror and invited his theater friends to help give us the Rocky experience, but they went overboard. They literally ripped the toilet dispenser off the wall in the bathroom to get the rolls. They brought eggs and would throw them at people entering and exiting the room to use the bathroom, and they hit a guy sitting next to the door who flipped his desk over and stormed out. One of my Spanish professors showed up to talk to the theater teacher about something, and I did yell, "Siéntate, pedenjo (sit down, asshole)!" at him. The next class, he apologized to everyone and said if it was any consolation, he spent a couple hours cleaning up the classroom after his friends abandoned him.

[ailsagirl]

162. It's a classic BUT...

I don’t think I could watch it again.

[nuxvomica]

165. I enjoyed both "Sunset Boulevard" and "Citizen Kane" as a kid

Because I thought they were horror movies. Try that mindset and you'll appreciate them. They are still among my favorite movies.

[GuppyGal]

163. Jurassic Park

[debm55]

169. Agree

[EverHopeful]

164. Is a ballet comment okay in this post?

I hope so because I feel fine leaving a movie or switching off a TV show but walking out on a ballet would upset too many people.

The first time I was subjected to Romeo and Juliette, I didn't know if it was too long or it just seemed like it because every time I woke up, it still wasn't over.

I agreed to endure it again to give it an honest, fully-awake, chance.

It's shown up in our subscription again this year and I will be first in line on the first day of ticket swap because I will NEVER put myself through it again.

[debm55]

170. That's fine, You're honest, Hope you get your tickets swapped. They do that here too/ Two things you want to see and

then a performance that is long and boring. That is why we stopped our performance subscription, Also no ticket swaps.

[nuxvomica]

166. Any Netflix series written/directed by Mike Flanagan

Including, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnght Mass. They are supposed to be scary but they are basically just over-padded yawn fests where people sit around talking about their problems at length. The dialogue is tiresome and woolly, the plots, strained, and the characters all talk in the same voice. Oddly enough, I enjoyed his movie Doctor Sleep, but that was probably because of Stephen King's writing and Ewan McGregor's acting.

[debm55]

171. Thank you. I will remember that

[ailsagirl]

172. I enjoyed the book by Shirley Jackson-- I'm unfamiliar with the miniseries

The film I saw (The Haunting) had its share of chilling moments-- especially when the two women are in a bedroom asleep and they awaken because there's something trying to get in (doorknob slowly turning, banging on door, etc.)

The Haunting was made in 1963 and was in black & white, which I prefer. Definitely worth watching.

[debm55]

173. I will check Netflix out. TY.

[ailsagirl]

176. It doesn't seem to be on Netflix, but I could be wrong

Here's a link to the movie, The Haunting. You can watch the trailer, etc. there

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/