Sometimes there is a particular movie that you've never made it through. Maybe you attempted once, twice, or three times to make it through something and you never have. This is where you tell of that three hour epic that bored you to tears.

Lately I've decided to go on a conquest to finish all these films that I started and never picked back up. Here are some I've finished and some I haven't


Gone With The Wind

Ahh the four hour civil war epic. Tried to get through in one sitting when I was 9. Not a good choice. Recently saw it again in two parts and I loved it. In fact I just started the book


Ben-Hur (1959)


Saw an hour of it when I was 7. Never finished, just finished it yesterday and yet again saw it in two parts and I loved it.


The Ten Commandments (1956)


Just plain avoided this one for its length. But I shall conquer it!


2001: A Space Odyssey


This is the hardest of the hard for me. I've attempted to see this three times. Still have never seen it. I just can't handle the apes hitting each other with sticks and extremely long and drawn out plot (if there is one). I'm planning on finishing this soon, or maybe next week, or next month, or....

The godfather....

lol. This was the first movie that came to mind after reading the thread title. One of these days....

Funny, I've seen 5 Francis Ford Coppola movies and not a one of them is a Godfather movie. It's hilarious to think how many movies I've seen in my lifetime yet I still haven't even started The Godfather.

The Deer Hunter.

By the time you get to the half way point, it seems a week has past.

Most boring movie on the planet.

that movie should definitely be seen in a three or four day span... Man is it long.... Never really saw it all the way through. I missed certain points, but couldn't go back and watch it.

let's see... Scareface- boring. I couldn't handle it.

and the godfather- again just boring.

there was another one that I can't remember... I might think of it later..

I've seen it all the way through, and I may be losing some geek cred for saying this, but it's just a crappy movie. The HAL part was enjoyable, especially seeing proper methodology of doing a space jump without a helmet, but the beginning and especially the end are just so incredibly terrible.

Anyway, I can't think of any movie I've consciously tried to see that I've not seen all the way through and then tried again later.

Edit: Oh, wait, I don't think I've seen Waterworld all the way through, but then again, like I said above, I don't really care to do so

Kingdom of Heaven, the one movie that actually put me to sleep. It was the most boring thing I've ever watched.

Don't bother.

I hope I don't get flamed to death for saying what I just said, seeing as the God Father is one of the supposedly greatest movies of all times...

Alexander. Made the mistake of paying to go see it, and was most disappointed to see it had nothing to do with battles and more to do with incist and bisixuality.

Luckily there was a power cut and we weren't subjected to the rest. Never bothered to finish it.

Even if that is so, I'm putting my movie cred into a serious dilemma if I haven't even tried to watch it. Considering it's only second to Citizen Kane on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list.

2001 is really an acquired taste. Honestly I don't think it even has a plot, just a couple of sub plots. It's more of a journey than a story. It probably would have been an hour long movie if they cut out all the excess and only kept the plot elements. I mean there's that one scene where it's nothing but a ship traveling to the moon for about 20 minutes. There's nothing there that adds to the story. It could have easily been cut down to about 2 minutes. But that's kind of like taking out all the singing parts in Disney movies. Which I wouldn't mind, BTW.

Napoleon Dynamite and Scott Pilgrim vs The World are the only 2 movies I never finished, and that I'll never want to finish.

Ben hur/spartacus/godfather/space odyssey I all managed in one sitting (and I really love 2 of those).

Most of David Lynch's films. Dune, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Wild at Heart, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive...I've long given up, I just can't stand his style.

I still haven't started watching the third Godfather film. I really enjoyed the first, the second was good as well but had some really depressing moments.

V For Vendetta. I think I got about halfway through, and that was with pausing it occasionally and doing other things for a while. What's the explanation? I read the book first.

I never got through "300". After there seemed to be a bit of hype about it and all the "This is Sparta!!!" trends, looked into it and thought it was something I would watch, so I got the dvd, but.. I ended up turning it off part of the way through. Tried it twice. Not sure if I just wasn't in the mood or if it just bored me.. still have the dvd around somewhere though.

Gangs of New York. Went with an ex and we left in the middle of it...

It's definitely worth watching all of Wild at Heart, I just watched it the other day and it was brilliant. Definitely don't watch Eraserhead though, that was... yeah.


The Godfather is pretty long and has some pretty boring parts, but it does pay off, same with The Godfather 2, which I thought was even better.


I can't get through any of Wes Anderson's films, they just annoy the hell out of me and I need to turn them off.

That's the one I came in to post, I almost killed myself out of boredom and stopped watching before I was halfway through.


Which ones if I may ask? I really love the first three, but never saw what was so great about Space Odyssey.

Ben Hur and Spartacus. I also enjoyed The Godfather, but not as much as Ben Hur and Spartacus.

As for Space Odyssey, I only understood its meaning after watching several videos explaining it. I then liked it, but I can understand why someone would find it very boring.

I agree with Ben Hur and Spartacus being the better of the three. Especially Ben Hur, it took my breath away when I first watched it as a kid.

I had to read the book and search the internet to understand Space Odyssey (at least I think I understood it at one point, I have forgotten most of it by now ). It's good, but I think that a movie should be able to explain itself. If it can't do that, it fails in the storytelling department.

I watched it a few days ago. Indeed, it is very very slow. Some scenes are definitely stretched out way too long, with the apes but also in space. And the last 20 minutes or so is mostly trippy visuals which leaves most of the plot open to your own interpretation.

I liked the part with Hal-9000 best. Wish it were longer. For something like that for an entire movie I guess I'll go watch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_%28film%29 again. Love that.

Joke?

Obviously

The killing myself part that is. I really thought the movie was dreadfully boring.