Moments in tv, movies etc. where you thought "Why is this so boring?"

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Every once in a while you have a revelation that you're watching something completely unbelievable, amazing, astonishing and incredible that you've only ever dreamed of happening to yourself, but are just bored to tears. This thread is about those moments.

My example of this would be Spring Breakers, or more specifically a certain scene from the movie. After watching MovieBob's review of it and seeing it getting high praise also in many other places, I went in with all too high expectations. The movie was a total snoozefest from the 15 minute mark onwards, and one of the most boring films I've seen in a cinema. There's a moment in it where James Franco is having a threesome in a pool with Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson. Now, anyone who's seen Wild Things, or at least this scene from it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwTGKaLCeo] (NSFW) knows that pool scenes involving said activities can, and usually are, extremely erotic and arousing. And yet somehow Spring Breakers failed even at that. Afterwards I pondered a lot on why it is that a movie with so much randy stuff in it was so boring (answer: bad script and a near total absence of plot and character).

What sort of moments like this have you experienced?

captcha: meat with gravy. Thanks, captcha, for making me think of James Franco's semen-covered penis.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Off the top of my head, the "long-awaited" rematch between Gokuu and Vegeta in the Boo arc of Dragon Ball. It was just the same generic "energy blast, barrage of punches, repeat" fight that we'd seen 90% of the time since the Freeza arc. It's even worse in the manga, which was cut short and continuously interrupted by the far more interesting events that were happening with Gohan, Kaioushin (Supreme Kai), Bobbodi, and Dabra.

 

[happyninja42]

For me, the most recent example of this was in Sucker Punch. I think it was when the movie transitioned into the remake of The Beatle's "Tomorrow Never Knows". Or maybe it was just by the 3rd or 4th transition I stopped really caring about what was happening.

An older example was watching The Mummy. As I frequently told my friends..."We saw that movie at the $1 Movie Theater, and I would've preferred to spend that dollar on a coke." So boring, so dull, so...meh.

 

[JasonBurnout16]

Well I've just watched the finale of the first season of Homeland and I was really disappointed. This whole arc of "Is brody a terrorist or not?" has been really interesting and I really enjoyed the first 3 episodes of the season. The bit where Brody first begins to pray really had me gripped and actually had me sympathising for him to some extent. The finale just seemed... boring.

I think a large part of this is explained online in them not expecting to get a second season commissioned and that the plan was to kill Brody off.

 

[Parasondox]

I can't think of anything specific now but mostly when it comes to TV, its always series/season 2 of the most hyped shows that fail to impress and just drag ooooooooooooooooon. Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Stargate Universe, Prison Break and other shows. Actually same goes for movies. The second just doesn't continue the hype of the first. Hangover, I'm looking at you, you boring pile of blaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

 

[EyeReaper]

This pretty much happened when I watched the anime Nobunaga the Fool I mean, this should be the best anime ever. It has Nobunaga and Caesar fighting in giant robots, and blue hair Leonardo Da Vinci. The premise seems so great, but it's just so... not.

Also, the irregular at magic highschool, or something like that. another new anime that seems to be gaining in popularity. I don't understand why. I could hardly make it past the first episode.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Hm, with the exception of the last episode, I'm gonna say Katanagatari.

The anime has very beautiful and distinctive art that is well suited for some interesting visuals and great action, and within hour long episodes. How does it spend it's time? By succumbing to the Naruto-style "Give out excessive exposition in the middle of fights" syndrome for most of its runtime. When there is action, it looks awesome, for the 30 seconds they happen. The plot itself is pretty good and well put together, but most of the anime is the characters sprouting exposition, which frustrates me for a show with this kind of visual style as it rarely does anything with it. Now, I have nothing against dialogue heavy anime. the Monogatari series is one of my favorite anime series (Which this is from the same author of), but that dialogue was fun and interesting, and the anime made great use of its visual style.

The only time it caught my interest was with the last episode, which had a great mix of awesome action, plot, and had a great setup. If the rest of the anime was like that, then I would've enjoyed it way more, but as it is, it's a fairly boring series with a great finale. A lot of people enjoy the series, but it did nothing for me.

Also, Angel's Egg.

Visually, it's one of the most striking anime I've ever seen. I'm in love with the art style and designs. Too bad the movie is mostly landscape shots and running through fields and towns with only two characters with little to no dialogue. if Katanagatari had too much dialogue, Angel's Egg had too little.

 

[Timotei]

I recently saw Transcendence because I saw it had a horrible rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was expecting a funny-bad movie. Instead I found myself so disengaged from the film that both me and my friend fell asleep and were woken up 5 minutes after the showing had ended by an usher.

I also had trouble sticking with 24, Strike Back, or any other show that's trying to tell a "Modern day Bond with terrorists" story. When a show is constantly cranking up everything to 11 it gets pretty fucking boring and disengaging after a while. I found myself not caring the least bit about the "story of the day" like trying to find canisters of Macguffin gas or locating another bad guy with a shaved head and goatee.

 

[Vigormortis]

I'm sure I'll get flak for this, but...

Game of Thrones

Every time I've been talked into sitting down and watching the show I find myself feeling incredibly bored by the end of the episode.

Maybe it's because it's like so much other dark fantasy I've seen/read before. Maybe it's because I'm not that into pure sword-sorcery-style fantasy. Maybe it's because overt, gratuitous sex and violence just aren't a selling point for me.

I'm not sure. I can appreciate the fan-love the show/series gets, but it just bores me to death. :/

 

[The Wykydtron]

I suppose Devil May Cry 3. The combat was just... Boring? I guess? The enemy design was generic as hell and the find key > open door repeat mechanic kills all sense of flow. I'm not so into swag weapon switching combos I just used the three sword combos and some boss specific weapons. The ice weapon was good in that 2v1 boss fight, you can burst down one instantly if you get it right. I remember that one because it took me forever to beat it. Imma say something outrageous and say that the DMC reboot was better than DMC3. There, I said it. Come at me. The game didn't have the weapon limit so you could switch between 4 weapons on the fly in any fight and I liked the blue and red enemy designs. Also the scythe was sick as fuck as were the rest of the visuals.

Basically once you realise that you can literally win DMC3 by abusing generous jump invincibility frames it gets even more boring. The relationship between Dante and Vergil, while not the best, was enough to singlehandedly carry me through the game to the end.

I just find games that only have one attack button hard to get into in general, Bayonetta is definitely very DMC in style but I had a lot of fun with that game since I had two attack buttons plus the dodge. The dodge is what makes Bayonetta Bayonetta. One of the best mechanics ever added into a fighter.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

The Matrix actually, that part where Neo's fighting dozens of Smiths with a pole. After a couple of minutes I was getting distracted, and I thought to myself "What? The Matrix has incredible action scenes. How is this boring?", but it was. I think it may have just gone on too long without momentum. Didn't feel enough like Neo was actually smashing people around with a pole.

I'm sure I'll get flak for this, but...

Game of Thrones

Every time I've been talked into sitting down and watching the show I find myself feeling incredibly bored by the end of the episode.

Maybe it's because it's like so much other dark fantasy I've seen/read before. Maybe it's because I'm not that into pure sword-sorcery-style fantasy. Maybe it's because overt, gratuitous sex and violence just aren't a selling point for me.

I'm not sure. I can appreciate the fan-love the show/series gets, but it just bores me to death. :/

Your free sample of flak is on the way, you should expect it soon.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The fight scenes in The Raid.

Yes, I know a lot of work probably went into these scenes, but just watching two dudes flail their arms at eachother for 10 minutes is fucking boring. I love a good fight scene, but a good fight scene needs some eb and flow, and some variety, not just 'slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, kick, slap, kick, slap, kick, slap, kick, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap'.

During the final climactic fight I literally just started tidying up my room, because it lasted so fucking long with so little happening.

 

[shootthebandit]

I found lord of the rings to be pretty boring. I feel asleep during the first one and I was sort of phasing in and out of 2 and 3. The effects are superb and the landscapes are amazing but I wasn't to keen on the fact it was very dialogue heavy. Ive covered this in a thread before but I really need to sit down (preferably with someone who is a massive fan) and re-watch it again. Being a little older and wiser now I think i'd probably understand it a bit more and get into it

I found the new godzilla movie to be extremely tedious. I dont really think much happened and there was a lot of build up to not very much. The effects were good and it was pretty but it just didnt hold my attention. I wasnt even expecting much and it still disappointed me

 

[FPLOON]

Recently... [Almost] every episode of Salem... (Why am I still watching this again? Oh right... Witches and shit...)

Other than that... uh... the Nickelodeon original movie Jinxed? (Still can't believe that movie was released on my birthday...)

 

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Also, Angel's Egg.

Visually, it's one of the most striking anime I've ever seen. I'm in love with the art style and designs. Too bad the movie is mostly landscape shots and running through fields and towns with only two characters with little to no dialogue.

Wow I felt the same way about this little obscure piece of animation. Funny enough I don't regret watching it at all. But I wonder why I felt say the opening of Wall-E was more exciting than Angel's Egg. Maybe I'm just not into abstract symbolism.

I agree with a commenter before me that sated anything that goes on for far too long. Long animes in general like Bleach and Naruto are a good example of this especially if they have repeated themes.
Though I liked it, I thought Monster grew tiring after sometime.

Some examples of things that was boring and I flat out didn't like includes Superman Returns and Ang Lee's The Hulk. They had no business being as dull as they were.

 

[shootthebandit]

I thought dexter got a bit tedious too. I just stopped watching because it was the same every episode