10 Brilliant Films That Were Intentionally Boring

When Nicolas Winding Refn's polarizing art house thriller, Only God Forgives, premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival it was met with a combination of head-scratching and flat-out boos. Critics at the time called the movie slow, dull, ultra violent, and quite confusing.

The follow-up to Refn’s critical lauded Drive is very hard to describe and very bittersweet to view. In the film, Ryan Gosling plays Julian, an exiled American running a Muay Thai boxing club (which serves as a front for his family’s drug smuggling operation) who discovers that his brother has been murdered. Upon hearing the news, their mother comes to town demanding Julian takes bloody revenge and his hunt leads him to Chang, “The Angel Of Vengeance,“ an ex-cop who’s taken it upon himself to take matters into his own hands.

One of the biggest criticisms of this film is the lack of dialogue and central narration, which makes it hard for some people to follow. While there is indeed a lack of central narration in the movie, the over abundance of powerful imagery, instead, helps to guide the story along. The film is designed in such a way that it resembles a dream or, more accurately, a nightmare. In that sense, Only God Forgives is a chilling, powerful success. Just think, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver got booed at Cannes in its day and it's hard to think of anyone who doesn't now consider it a masterpiece.

What say you? What other good/boring movies would you add to the list? Let us know in the comment section below.