Most Boring Movie of All Time? Definite contender.

I don't find it boring per se, it's just hard to invest in it time-wise and emotionally, it requires more focus than the average film.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.

hah. this movie is art. its near perfect. great actors and directing. and yeah the photography is amazing.
one of my favorite films.
the girl is so beautiful but mad.
i never found it boring on any degree, there is always something going on and the suspense scenes work very well.
you exaggeration is apparent.
movies just are not made like this any more.
you must think that "todays" movies or even from decades ago are better where they are way over the top and theres just way to much thrown at you, it ruins the whole experience.

I generally like critically acclaimed films, and looked forward to watching this, but I found this awful. There's nothing wrong with its slow start, I just didn't find it interesting, particularly the dialog. An hour and a half of watching a sexually repressed character is too much. And as for Denueve's performance, does it really take much skill to look sullen for the first hour? While I can see that some viewers can enjoy examining symbolism and the psychology of the main character, it's not for me.

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I don't think it's boring.

However, I do think it has dated very badly.

With the exception of Deneuve (at least for the most part), the acting has a cheap 'Play for Today' quality, as does the dialogue; the shaky camera work feels like a bad appropriation of the nouveau vague aesthetic; and the loud music cues during moment of horror are cheesy due to both their shock value and their 60s jazz-lite style.

Throughout the film I kept thinking, "He made this 3 years after 'Knife in the Water'?! But this feels so much less accomplished..."

I actually think Polanski is one of the most over-rated directors ever. For example, 'Rosemary's Baby' takes a ridiculous concept, makes it very believable throughout the film and then messes up at the end with the ridiculous coven scene. 'The Pianist' is sentimentalist schmaltz, 'The Ghost Writer' is drab escapism (and again, the ending is ridiculous) and 'Carnage' is vapid pseudo-intellectualism.

I can't really remember 'The Fearless Vampire Killers', 'Macbeth', 'Chinatown', 'Frantic' and 'Bitter Moon', but I do recall not being very impressed for much the same reasons (e.g. flawed verisimilitude).

the only thing that keeps this film from being the very opposite is the fact that so much time has past. Many films have copied these scares over the years. Not to mention, obviously with the advancement of special effects and what not, a lot of these scares look outdated. That is truly the only negative thing (the passage of time), because the psychological aspect is perfect. The acting is superb as well.

If you find this film boring, I can't relate.

This is not a slasher/gimmick film exploiting the horrors, sufferings, and killings that the Deneuve character experiences and exacts. It takes time to set up the main character, her personality, her state of mind, the people in her life, and her living conditions. This is more of a character study. When she does experience her terror attacks and delusions later on in the picture, you feel a lot of sympathy towards this sad, repressed, lonely, and tragic character and also wonder about the effects of all this on her sister. Some people simply watch this movie for the shock sequences, expecting them to fill up the entire running time. Polanski's intention was not to make them sensationalistic nor indulge on her sickness for the whole film.

On the other hand, a similar film named Sisters (which I also liked, but not as much) devoted most of its running time towards the gimmick and mystery of the sisters and the killings.

Definitely slow for the first half. Also, the poor audio and accents make you want to crank the volume up to understand everything. But then you get blasted by overly loud doorbells and telephones.