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Heh, I loved most of the movies mentioned in the comments and I love old movies. I was expecting a lot more obscure cinema, not Godfather.
More controversially, I did find Lynch to be a boring film maker. I thought his more mainstream titles like The Straight Story (which I loved) or Elephant Man were the better of his work.
Also thought Yasujiro Ozu was pretty boring. I get his point, and I get how he plays with movement with smoke and wind and every scene is well thought out, but I couldn't get behind the stories he was trying to tell.

I actually watched the Godfather and Citizen Kane. They were exceptionally good films. Citizen Kane in particular was genuinely fascinating.

They aren't boring. While I am going to be honest and say that Citizen Kane isn't something I would put on regularly (even when it comes to movies from the period) anyone telling they are dumb is dumb themselves.

I did this with Citizen Kane. it's shit.

Blade Runner for me. Great themes, great plot, great visuals and music, horrendously boring and plodding. 2049 was better imo.

This is how I feel about almost every Coen brothers movie. Basic plot structure exists for a reason. That reason is because it's good, and it's satisfying, and it connects with something inside of us.

If you have a good artistic reason to depart from the expected structure, cool, great, I hope the risk pays off. But at some point these auteur filmmakers are just being lazy because they know they can get away with it.

Like in the Hateful Eight, when instead of revealing the twist in an organic way, within the confines of, you know, filmmaking, Tarantino just relies on blatant, unapologetic exposition. That's not clever. It's lazy.

A good filmmaker can say what they want to say while being entertaining and making sense.

And yeah, that's also how I feel about the Godfather. Lots of great scenes, but I didn't enjoy it as a film. A film should be more than just a loose collection of great scenes.

Harry Potter 6 for me. I could not get through this movie. I tried it about 5 times so far. Same with the book. I tried reading it at least 10 times including listening to it as an audiobook.

It's just insufferable.

(And don't worry, Rowling-haters, I of course pirated it except of the copy of the book that I got when I was a kid)

One wasn’t too… punchy. That’s why Two is a fan favorite. I like One for the world building and the character and story development. Plus, holy hell, the final rise to power stuff is always soooo satisfying. I loved how Modern Family riffed off it.

Shallow and pedantic -- Stewie Einstein

Upvoted because at first you were describing the auto-fellatio that is a Kubrick movie, but then you had to bring up the Godfather DX

I've always been curious about Citizen Kane. I haven't seen it. Is it boring too?