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It insists upon itself.

If you are a user of any mind altering substances, or have any interest in starting, it might be worth giving the movie or show another try in that state. Assuming your chosen goodies leave you coherent and able to form memories, lol.

And it's not just to put you in a good mood, though that certainly helps. Maybe it's just the spicy neurons in my case, but being high can qualitatively change the experience of how I relate to characters. (not extreme like empathy on / empathy off, sometimes things might just land different)

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

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

You should watch 2001 A space Odyssey it is exactly like this.

It is a historical documentary set in the early days of AI and Space Travel before SpaceX and ChatGPT, it's kinda neet to see how far we've came in such a short time though.

I feel like a lot of these films are important because they did something first. The problem is that it doesn't mean that film did it best.

Anybody ever read the Godfather book? It's... kinda weird. Every time a new character is introduced, it's goes into their sexual history. Like, do we really need to know Rocko is an attentive lover with a string of girlfriends that he has no trouble keeping satisfied before he goes and kills some dude?

And then there's a part of the book that is about.. How do I put this...

a woman getting a pussy tightening surgery.

It's the bridesmaid that Sonny fucks in the closet at his sister's wedding. She sought out Sonny, as did all the other women "with big mouths and wide hips" because he had a legendarily big cock and it was her only hope to get any pleasure, on account of her gigantic pussy and all.

After he dies, she tried to commit suicide. Not because she cared for him, she just figures she'll always be alone because no one else in the world will have a cock that will be adequate to work with her ginormous pussy.

But much later in the book, she's living at the family casino in Nevada, and her doctor boyfriend finally talks her into having sex and discovers her pussy is huge and convinces her that he knows a great plastic surgeon that can fix it. It walks through the consultation and surgery and everything. Not in explicit detail, but, like, it's so weird.

And there's weird comments like (not a quote) "Don't worry, doll. I do great work. I'll fix you up so nice he'll be calling me every day to thank me." Shit like that.

And it worked. After she has the surgery and they have sex, her doctor boyfriend immediately proposes to her.

So, anyway, yeah... I don't know why they left the great pussy tightening subplot out of the movies.

If you don't care for it, don't let people make you watch it.
No one (sane) will go "Oh! you have to go to this 4 hour 17th century italian Opera with me! You will love it!" .

You don't "have to" value any kind of art. If you don't, you don't. That said, it might be worth trying at least once, you never know if you find something that stays with you.

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)

It insists upon itself.

Mulholland Drive is terribly boring if you quit before two thirds of the movie.

Pulp Fiction is unironically worse than a Neil Breen movie

The Godfather is far from being a difficult movie to watch. It has a rich story, plenty of action, great scenes,... You want serious stuff? Try Nouvelle Vague French movies from Eric Rhomer or Jean-Luc Godard, German or Finnish movies where absolutely nothing happens and it's just people eating soup. Try Jim Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise. It's great, it's a classic, but you're going die out of boredom if The Godfather is already too much for you.

I have the opposite issue. I tend to only enjoy older films. Recent films tend to have this digital colour-graded look and a style of editing (millions of 1 second cuts) that make them pretty much unwatchable for me.

I really love films that take their time, both in plot and character development, as well as in how shots develop to establish the scenes. I also have a passion for photography and for me that’s a really big part of films. I want to see beautiful photographs that took a lot of time and experience to set up (and wait for the right moment, in the case of outdoor scenes). I love practical effects that were built and painted by hand, explosions rigged with real explosives, much more than CGI.

I think there is an issue with attention spans though. The modern films that I mentioned above seem to be ideal for people with short attention spans, whereas older films tend to be boring for these folks. This makes it hard for films to appeal to both audiences!

You know what my favorite food is? A plain pepperoni pizza. Absolutely love it.

You can take me out to dinner to the fanciest restaurant: five Michelin stars, the best trained chefs, the most expensive ingredients, the perfect ambience… and it would be utterly wasted on me. Because nothing beats a plain pepperoni pizza.

Some people are like that with movies. Even movies which are objectively some of the best ever produced in the history of cinema, will have people who don’t like them. And that’s perfectly fine.

And then, sometimes, you watch it years or decades later and it clicks. And other times you are just convinced everyone who likes it are saying so because critics like it.

Everyone in this thread is wrong.