Boring is the word

The Original Post author has an appropriate name "Blond" ... By the way, your opinion adds no value to the conversation.

"Nice double negative there! You do know you practically said the troll is successful?"


Nice misunderstanding of that person's post, taking it at only face value. It's a meme, you dolt. You might consider looking it up.




Additionally, all of the people complaining about how boring this film was, are simply suffering from residual lower-primate attention span. Added to that unfortunate shortcoming, they've also been conditioned, are are slaves to this conditioning. Action films and rapid-fire commercials have influenced them so greatly that they simply cannot respond favorably to anything else. More than 2 or 3 seconds between cuts immediately registers as "boring" in their minds.

It's not that these people are (a more than average level of) stupid, as the pretentious piggies love to say, and that they just "didn't get it". I think they got it, but they can't get around their conditioning, like the Pavlovian dogs.

Bell...equals food.
Long takes but no fights, robots, hyper-violence/sex, or acrobatics...equals boring.

It's been hard-wired.

A pity. But, that's the vast majority. Most everyone will indeed find this film boring, only a small percentage wont. Thankfully for the majority, there is plenty of James Cameron and Michael Bay films to keep their interest. Oh, and those Fast and Furious films too. Passive and mindless entertainment galore!

Eat up!

Possibly. To me this film is far more existential than a lot of slow paced Japanese Cinema, but it has that "vibe" to it.

Boring people usually throw around the word boring to describe things, especially films they don't understand.

Accurate? Do you mean it's exactly what he thought, or that it's exactly what you thought?
It was an interesting movie, but perhaps not for some that are under 30. Or someone who expected to see a different movie and was in a mood throughout because of it.

Shakespeare is great for people who enjoy it, but it's not the necessity that educators in North America insist it is. There are lots of writers from lots of different cultures writing about the human condition in a way that people may be able to relate to more easily, or might find more interesting, than Romeo and Juliet, Othello, or Julius Caesar.

God forbid someone find Camus, Dostoevsky, or Maya Angelou more substantial than Shakespeare.

Blonde2291,

I think you are confused with what the words reverence and worshiping means. Those of us who enjoyed the film do not worship it; well, maybe some do, so I can't speak for them. And if those same people post about their enjoyment, how is that any different from you posting your dislike of it? Don't make yourself out to be the victim by playing this card, like you are being attacked for no reason; this is an open discussion, one that you created.

Moving on...

Your original post was this:

I have watched B movies and badly scripted movies, but THX1138 is worst of them all. I can understand why it was not liked in 1971. A nightmare of the worst kind.

I expressed my honest opinion and I still believe that this is a very depressing, bleak and boring movie. Story development is very slow and it looks like a documentary for most of the time leaving the viewer wondering - what the hell is happening.

When people only see the surface of what they are examining, or in this case what they are being entertained by, and are only willing to stay within the confines of their own ego-driven intelligence, then of course things will be 'boring.' When this mindset is applied to a film like this, these people will ignorantly declare that 'there's no other story line' because they were unwilling and unable to look any deeper.