The compulsion to call things we don't like, boring.

Oh so anything can be boring. The word has no meaning then. I suppose The Matrix is boring. Pulp Fiction must be boring too. I suppose The Raid, Jaws, and Robocop are boring. 

I don't have any interest in skydiving, but that doesn't mean I'd call it boring. You don't have to be a shark enthusiast to understand cage diving with great white sharks isn't boring.

Yeah, they are not using the term properly as when I say something is boring, I truly mean it. so it's like watching paint dry and you have no further desire to continue because things that strain my interest a bit I can continue with the movie but after a certain point you turn it off and call it boring. NOTE: typically ill give a movie around 40min to be watchable on some level before turning it off and calling it boring but I almost always give a movie a minimum of 30min+ before writing it off (although I have dumped movies once in a great while before that 30min+ mark, but it's fairly rare).

also, I think there is a difference between 'dull' and 'boring' to as boring is pretty much the worst crime a movie can commit. technically, I have one lower rating (which is where my 1/10's come into play as my default bottom score is 2/10 which is reserved for movies I find boring and cannot finish basically) but it's quite rare something lands in that category which is why I generally refer to boring as the worst crime a movie can commit. but anyways, 'dull' tends to be something that's roughly in that 'below average' range or thereabouts.

p.s. I average around 1 out of every 14-15 movies I have seen over the long term that I could not finish due to boredom. so it's not like I regularly find movies to be boring but it does happen as it's not rare for it to occur. NOTE: but I suspect had I seen some of the movies I gave a 4-5/10 from many years ago, had I seen then today, I would not be surprised if a fair amount shifted back to boring status for me. but obviously, I am not going to waste my time re-watching average/below average range movies etc. so things will stay how they are.

here is pretty much my negative scores on my rating system which I think is pretty well balanced (and should be pretty close to just about everyone else who uses the rating system properly as in 5/10 is middle-of-the-road average and then scales up and down fairly evenly from there)...

5 = Average (Thumbs Down) (while ultimately a negative score, they typically don't waste my time.)
4 = Below Average. (these can be fairly dull but are not quite at that truly 'boring' range either overall)
3 = Failure. (I generally finished watching these but they are just bad)
2 = Boring. (I could not finish watching due to boredom and boring is pretty much the worst crime a movie can commit)
1 = Greatly Dislike. (very little I have seen is THIS bad)

NOTE: or for those who like very simple... movies I won't re-watch cannot score above a 5/10 for me and movies I will re-watch here and there as the years pass cannot score below a 6/10. I think that's the best way to gauge movies in general simply because any movies of any value will be ones you want to re-watch as to me it does not make much sense to give a movie a fairly high score only to never want to see it again and then you mostly forget about it and move onto the next one which speaks volumes about what a person truly feels/thinks about a movie which is why I feel my rating system is pretty good.

moviemouth

Who don't like a adrenaline rush? NOTE: I realize there are good kinds of that and bad ones though as the good ones make you feel great where as the bad kind pumps fear into someone.

it's one of the better feelings out there in general as going fast on say a fast motorcycle is just great.

But I think it did what it did pretty well.

so while I do agree it's possible to have a movie with plenty of action be boring, Crank (2006) is not one of those movies if you ask me.

p.s. but the 2nd movie I was surprised how weak that one was considering how much I liked the first movie at the time. like first movie at that time was a 7.5-8/10 and 2nd movie was a 4/10 which is a pretty large hit for me as that usually does not happen. but not long ago Crank fell to a 6.5-7/10.

I would not say that because I can understand how a action movie can be boring (it's happened to be here and there) as it's more of how things are done as some movies can have quite a bit of action going on screen but my interest in it is pretty much shot and on the flip side there can be some movies that are generally slow paced but be quite interesting.

but obviously what boring in terms of action will vary from person-to-person.

Yeah, but to me there is a difference between uninteresting (or thereabouts) and where your interest in it is completely shot. hence, below average vs truly boring.

because movies I tend to consider below average can start to strain my interest a bit but it's not to that point where it's crossed over into that truly boring status to where I cannot continue watching it.

so given that info... while I obviously can't see what another person is feeling when watching a movie I suspect there are some people who are quick to shift from 'average-ish to boring' without at least a little bit of in between and, if that's true, that's what I would have a problem with.

While I disagree that Jurassic World is boring. I do agree with you that 'bad' and 'boring' are separate things as that's pretty much my 2/10(boring) vs 3/10(bad) score. it's just in my experience if something falls below a 4/10 (below average) for me it's likely going to a 2/10 as that 'bad' rating is sort of a odd-ball thing for me as it's harder for a movie to achieve a 3/10 for me than all other negative ratings (negative ratings for me are a 5/10 and lower) besides a 1/10.

twothousandonemark

If I am reading what your saying correctly it seems you and I are reversed as it seems I put boring as a 2/10 and those films that are just bad a 3/10.

like I mentioned before... while I pretty much consider boring to be the worst crime a movie can commit, technically there is lower for me but it's very rare for a movie to achieve that status for me which is why a 2/10 is my typical bottom-of-the-barrel score as I tend to reserve 1/10's for movies I greatly dislike which it's basically very rare for me to find something THAT bad.

but with that said... if your 'I prefer boring to things I actually don't like' comment is referring more towards what I said about my 1/10's then it appears we are in agreement but since I was saying it's very rare for me to stumble into a movie that's worse than boring, I tend to consider boring the worst crime a movie can commit as a general rule.

NOTE: but usually once movies drop below average (i.e. 4/10) for me they tend to shift to boring status (i.e. 2/10) as that 3/10 score is sort of what I use for movies that I did not find boring but are just bad but these kinds of movies are rarer for me to stumble into.

@marilynluvstigger

I agree but that's not what the OP is referring to. he's basically saying some people are quick to call something boring even if it's only slightly uninteresting (and thereabouts) which is what we got a problem with.

jcush

I know that was directed at someone else but just to talk about your basic point here a bit...

I do think your probably right in that just about every movie someone will honestly find it to be boring. but... I do wonder if those people generally don't care for movies? ; because if someone generally does not like movies (like if someone starts finding a good portion of what they watch hard to finish I would tend not to count these people since it's likely these types of people don't have much in-between with movies as they are either pretty strong or boring without much in between.) they seem more likely to think something is boring than someone who's a bit more into movies in my estimations.

also, I would imagine some types of movies, like say those which seem to have wider appeal among a wider range of age groups etc, are much less likely for someone to find boring. like to give a couple of examples... Back to the Future (1985) and The Green Mile (1999) ; I would have to assume very few people would honestly find those to be truly boring to where it's like watching paint dry for them (i.e. they have basically zero interest to continue watching them and they turn it off) even though I could understand someone just finding them average-ish or something along those lines. but to reach that point were they are completely bored, I can't see many feeling that way about those movies.