Ok so I was bored yesterday and I saw "The Last Emperor" was on. I wanted to give it a try since I've never seen it, but I just couldn't force myself to sit through it. The subject matter is just looks so boring and uninteresting. And when I saw the 3hr 30 min. running time I was done.
Do you guys have Oscar winning/nominated films that you just can't watch?
Chariots of Fire is a film I have never watched or felt the need to.
I don't know how many times I've started watching Out of Africa, only to realize half-way through "this movie stinks!" It has to be the most boring and lifeless of all Best Picture winners. And Meryl Streep is not at her best in love stories and this movie proves it.
I've also never seen The Last Emperor and Gandhi. Most likely because of their length and being uninterested in their subject matter.
I've seen nearly all of the existing best picture/acting/directing/writing nominees, and as bad as many of them are, I have not found any that I didn't watch all the way through.
Originally posted by DoubleD: Ok so I was bored yesterday and I saw "The Last Emperor" was on. I wanted to give it a try since I've never seen it, but I just couldn't force myself to sit through it. The subject matter is just looks so boring and uninteresting. And when I saw the 3hr 30 min. running time I was done.
Tragic, though fortunately ADHD is a medical condition, treatable with powerful psychoactive drugs, although with gawd knows what sort of side effects.
The first time I got through like fifteen minutes of it, the second time I got through forty-five. I don't know why but I just can't pay any attention to it.
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There isnt an Oscar winning film I havent seen in it's entirety; including The Last Emperor, which I LOVE, Ghandi and Out of Africa. But there are a few I avoid watching repeatedly.
A Beautiful Mind Gladiator The Greatest Show on Earth Ben Hur The English Patient The Departed
But of course, I've seen the above multiple times anyways.
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Originally posted by GloFish: Chariots of Fire is a film I have never watched or felt the need to. I don't know how many times I've started watching Out of Africa... I've also never seen The Last Emperor and Gandhi. Most likely because of their length and being uninterested in their subject matter.
Amazing how some people feel absolutely no sense of shame, in fact, are downright proud, when admitting to ignorance.
I will say though that I saw The English Patient and Out of Africa in rough-cuts, in both cases without the score used and other things that were changed, and have never been able to rouse the enthusiasm to see the final forms.
I have the four-hour version of Dances With Wolves, but I disliked the release version so much that the longer version sounds unbearable. I do need to see the longer Last Emperor someday.
Originally posted by uncreativename: "The English Patient".
The first time I got through like fifteen minutes of it, the second time I got through forty-five. I don't know why but I just can't pay any attention to it.
"The English Patient" is just so awful. The sex scenes and Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche's performances are the only three reasons to watch this snoozefest. Kristin Scott Thomas is very lucky she got that nomination because her performance is about as interesting as an STD treatment.
I just can't stop a movie when I have started it. There may be some movies I don't want to see because I am not interested in them but once I started I finish it.
It is usually a policy of mine NOT to turn off a film after only watching some of it, but I made an exception for the rubbish that was "Munich".
I started "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and turned it off after 5 minutes, but only because I was too tired to watch a movie at that time. I'll pick it up again someday and watch it.
It took me two tries to watch "The Little Foxes". The first time I had no idea what was going on after 10 minutes, but I saw it again later in entirety and liked it. (Why couldn't Herbert Marshall get a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this film?)
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Originally posted by GloFish: Chariots of Fire is a film I have never watched or felt the need to.
I don't know how many times I've started watching Out of Africa, only to realize half-way through "this movie stinks!" It has to be the most boring and lifeless of all Best Picture winners. And Meryl Streep is not at her best in love stories and this movie proves it.
I've also never seen The Last Emperor and Gandhi. Most likely because of their length and being uninterested in their subject matter.
Whada ya know all of them are from the 80s.
I agree with all of these pictures. None of them interested me at the time and still don't today.
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Originally posted by DoubleD: Ok so I was bored yesterday and I saw "The Last Emperor" was on. I wanted to give it a try since I've never seen it, but I just couldn't force myself to sit through it. The subject matter is just looks so boring and uninteresting. And when I saw the 3hr 30 min. running time I was done.
Do you guys have Oscar winning/nominated films that you just can't watch?
If you found the theatrical release version of "Emperor" rather than the director's cut it is about 45 minutes shorter. If you rented that you would not only be seeing a shorter film but the actual version of the film that won best picture.
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I have never given up on watching a best picture winner, or even a nominee to knowledge, but there are many I would never want to see again. Some that come to mind...
Winners: The Greatest Show On Earth Around the World in 80 Days Cimarron Ben-Hur You Can't Take It With You Gentleman's Agreement The Long Weekend The Best Years Of Our Lives Braveheart A Beautiful Mind Mrs. Miniver An American in Paris (and I normally love musicals) Out of Africa Gandhi Midnight Cowboy Broadway Melody
Nominees: The Reader Five Easy Pieces Nashville (it was a total mixed bag with scenes and performances that work and others that did not at all) The Story of Louis Pasteur Norma Rea For Whom the Bell Tolls The Thin Red Line Darling The Accidental Tourist (probably the closest I came to giving up on a best picture nominee- and it's based on one of my favorite books) The Hours Ghost Dead Poets Society The Prince of Tides The Dresser Henry V (dir: Laurence Olivier) Tess The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Elizabeth Barry Lyndon Tender Mercies Z Coming Home A Passage to India The Longest Day Doctor Doolittle (the worst best picture nominee that occurs to me- by a mile)
And I am sure I could think of a lot more.
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