10 Movies You Can Never Finish

10. Gone With The Wind

Gone with the Wind is unquestionably one of Hollywood's all-time great melodramas, a sweeping epic whose contributions to cinema cannot and should not be denied, but surviving its 238-minute runtime without drifting off to the land of nod is no easy feat.

Compounding the inherent difficulty of sitting through its near-four-hour length are a number of factors.

The pacing is molasses-slow, it's full of problematic and dated elements when viewed today, and its heart-on-sleeve melodramatic storytelling and acting prove incredibly wearisome over such a lengthy time investment.

Perhaps more than any other film, Gone with the Wind harbours a reputation for putting audiences to sleep and requiring multiple viewing attempts to actually make it to the end - if at all.

As indisputably gorgeous and well-aged as the film's lavish production might be, in a contemporary context where its sense of spectacle isn't quite so rare, just sitting down and watching it feels like a major effort.