If you are reading this, chances are you are bored right now. Fortunately, we live in a world where people no longer have to endure boredom - because there are thousands of TV shows and movies, as well as video games.
We present you with a list of 15 films that will not get old no matter how many times you watch them, even after you have memorized all the dialogues. Here's our list of the best movies to watch when you're bored.
On the needle
Director: Danny Boyle
Screenwriter: John Hodge
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald
Don't let boredom drive you to use heroin. Instead, you can live with this cute rag group of Scottish petty drug addicts inTrainspotting game. To Obi-wan KenobiEwan McGregorstarred in respectable roles such as this film's protagonist, Mark Renton, who, along with his drug addicts Begbie, Sick, Spud and Tommy, wreaked havoc on the lives of their loved ones in economically depressed Edinburgh in the early 90s. Not much happens, but it's definitely not boring. Basically, it's just a series of petty crimes, shitty behavior, dangerous drug use, impoverished depravity and despicable disloyalty - all in pursuit of a bag of skag with no hint of shame or redemption. Real excitement that will make you feel much better about your own problems (perhaps).
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Cast: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevin, Major Howard Ed O'Ross
What is your main problem?Oh yeah, yeah, you're just bored. Well,turn on masterpieceStanley Kubrick from a war movie to watch the supernatural artistic sergeantR. Lee Ermey. Hartman will tear up his boot camp platoon with a new one, and you'll be out of your stupor in no time. The classic, repetitive, and in many cases highly offensive dialogue is like an antidote to boredom, and the two-pronged approachFull Metal Jacket to the Vietnam War never disappoints, no matter how many times you watch it. Side A focuses on the aforementioned sergeant. Hartman, whose hardcore approach to preparing young people for brutal war is slowly destroying the soft mindVincentD'Onofrio.Private Leonard "Homer Pyle" Lawrence, with all the terrible memories that follow, is packed into the tangled PTSD brain of a wise burglarMatthew Modina Private J.T. "Joker" Davis as he wade knee-deep through the "shit" of the Vietnam War as a reporterStars and Stripes.
Ferris Bueller takes a day off
DirectorStory by: John Hughes
ScreenwritersCast: John Hughes, Tom Jacobson
CastCast: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sarah, Alan Ruck, Geoffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen
It is impossible to get bored watching one of the most flawless diamondsJohn Hughes « Ferris Bueller's day off", probably because the whole premise and plot of the film is a trio of tough Chicago rich kids who skip school in the name of metaphorical spanking. boredom with a hammer in the face. We're talking classic scene after classic scene and the best dressed kids of the 80s. Watching them on screen now (and, frankly, probably then), they seem like high society intellectuals compared to the mass of face tattooed Li'l Peep fans that have taken their place these days. Step into the role of the career-defining Ferris BuellerMatthew Broderickstay for the likesMia Sara,Alan Ruck andJennifer Gray positively manage their characters in what is arguably a high school comedy so good that no other high school comedies needed to be made after it. Plus a drugged cameoCharlie Sheen worth the entrance fee alone.
Mad Max: Fury Road
Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathuris
Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keys-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abby Lee, Courtney Eaton
Basically, it's one long, endless, and perfectly crafted action sequence, post-apocalyptic perfection."Mad Max: Fury Road" carry the thoughtful silence of the repressed Max RockatanskyTom Hardy and cold as a stone hard assemblyCharlize Theron.Bionic armed Furiosa. All of this takes place against a carefully crafted backdrop of brutal post-civilization wastelands and tribal warfare with (as always) precious and increasingly scarce natural resources. It is Joe's Regulatory Warlords, blood-weary War Boys and their cunning deathstaves against Mad Max and Furiosa's refusal to die as they facilitate the escape of Joe's five previously captive wives aboard Furiosa's battle rig. It's a complete escapism and immersion in the world and one of the best films of the last 20 years.
Difficulties in translation
Director: Sofia Coppola
Screenwriter: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi
Sometimes you get so bored that watching a depressing movie about loneliness, insomnia and existential crises somehow alleviates your boredom and balances everything."Lost in Translation", perhaps, are the epitome of such a film, which to some extent is a comedy, a drama, and neither at once. It centers around the debilitated American movie star Bob Harris, played byBill Murray, who took a job filming a commercial in Tokyo when his marriage ended in his home country. Every day at his hotel, he runs into charming Charlotte, a recent college graduate who is disappointed in her marriage to a famous photographer on a business trip to Japan. A deep but fleeting bond forms between the unlikely couple, their interdependence washing over each other in waves of longing and detachment.
Pulp Fiction
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis
Whatever you say about Tarantino or any of his films, you have to legitimately hate entertainment to say that "Pulp Fiction" boring. If anything, it's endlessly watchable, which feels a bit mystical. A three-part story that weaves around itself in non-chronological order before putting itself back together in a way that inexplicably makes more sense than if it were told straight out, varied, and well-executed enough that even after a dozen viewings, you can notice something new. And of course, the dialogue here instantly became a pantheon of American letters as soon as it was written on the back of a VHS box or whatever Tarantino was doing back then. You saw it. You probably like it. Watch it again if you're bored, you can't lose.
Unbaked
Director: Tamra Davis
Writers: Dave Chappelle, Neil Brennan
Cast: Dave Chappelle, Jim Breyer, Harland Williams, Guillermo, Diaz Clarence Williams III
Before the Illuminati hadDave Chappelle, he was an undoubted comic genius (and he might be more funny now, but that's a discussion for another day...).This is the best movie for Gen X and millennials. It's a plot revolving around four lifelong friends in New York whose relationship revolves almost exclusively around cannabis, see Chappelle's Thurgood Jenkins stumble upon some extremely raw nuggets at his job as a biomedical lab janitor. Thurgood gets arrested, his bricklayer friends bail him out, and all the while they are very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very. So, it's pretty clear what to do before, during, and after this movie so you don't get so "bored".
Billy Madison
Director: Tamra Davis
Writers: Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy
Cast: Adam Sandler, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel, Bridget Wilson, Norm Macdonald, Darren McGavin
Appropriateferris bueller day, Adam Sandler The game's play on a terribly spoiled ultra-rich man-kid named Billy Madison is another take on a fairy tale that revolves around someone whose only calling is boredom's ass whip. Billy Madison is a 27-year-old hotel chain heir whose father is retiring due to Billy's inability and disinterest in running the family business.Bradley Whitfordplays hotel chain executive vice president Eric Gordon, who appears after Billy embarrasses his father at a public function, after which Billy's father announces that Eric will take over the company. This is followed by a revelation from Billy's father that he has paid his teachers for passing grades over the years and Billy must graduate again in order for his father to consider him the rightful heir. This shit is stupid, and you might as well call yourself Miles Davis and pee your pants if you don't dial when you're bored.
Entrance to the void
Director: Gaspar Noe
Writers: Gaspar Noe, Lucille Hadjihalilovich
Cast: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Ed Speer
If you've ever wondered what it could be like to go on a week-long psychedelic tick, look no further thanGaspar Noe 's experimental arthouse hallucinogenEnter the Void. The film is set in the most surreal Tokyo nightclubs on earth. The movie is more like a first-person shooter where the goal is to confuse as much as possible rather than kill people. OscarNathaniel Brown, an American expat living in the slums with his younger sister Linda (Pas de la Huerta), and DMT, andTibetan Book of the Deadfactor into a storyline that is best experienced than explained. We're not telling you to smoke angel dust or take psychedelics before watching this movie; but such actions would surely cure even the most tiring boredom. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Being John Malkovich
Director: Spike Jonze
Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, Charlie Sheen, John Malkovich
Sometimes you just need to reconsider"Being John Malkovich to restore their faith in the world of extremely esoteric and strange art, which is also very good, being something that is sometimes created. Seriously, if you're even a little bored, take a look at this crappy debut workSpike Jonze with historyCharlie Kaufman, which gives a whole new meaning to breaking the fourth wall.Unemployed puppeteerJohn Cusack Craig Schwartz is in a doomed marriage to pet addict LotteCameron Diaz. He is hired as a clerk in a strange building, where behind a file cabinet he discovers a metaphysical portal leading to the actor's mind.John Malkovich.who plays a hyperreal version of himself. It goes on and on, but if you're still drooling with boredom over that description, movies may not be the answer for you.
Lord of the rings trilogy
Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis, Sean Bean
IN many respectsPeter Jackson did the impossible in not only completing the critically and commercially lauded adaptationTolkien 'sLord of the Rings. Even if you hate fantasy, you have to acknowledge the achievements of Jackson and his team in film.Game of ThronesAnother thing is whether people will care about it in 50 years. Middle-earth is a hallowed land, groomed and here to stay with the likes of Amazon paying hundreds of millions of dollars just for the rights of Tolkien's capricious offspring. Jackson didn't have that luxury; he had to prove it the hard way, and there can be no more detailed or impeccably laid out universe than Tolkien's. The fact that Jackson successfully grasped the biblical scope of Tolkien's mythology on screen is reason enough to wonder why anyone could be bored at all. Just start writing like Tolkien!
Holy mountain
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Screenwriter: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Ramona Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page, Bert Kleiner, Valerie Jodorowsky, Nicky Nichols, Richard Rutowsky, Luis Lomeli
Mind-melting surreal fantasy courtesy of a Chilean avant-garde filmmakerAlejandro Jodorowsky.the kind of thing you wear as a flustered teenager when your friends gather to smoke cloves in the basement while your parents aren't having lunch. It's also a great moving wallpaper that can be set in the background, foreground, or wherever you need to fight boredom. It begins with a thief stretched out naked in the desert as flies swarm in his face like a heap of dung. Like much of the movie, his character is a tarot card: The Fool. He soon befriends a little man with no arms or legs who represents the Five of Swords, and they join forces to entertain the masses in the nearby town. Locals notice the thief's resemblance to Jesus Christ and start casting his body out of wax, selling life-sized crucifix molds. From that point on, things get weirder and weirder and weirder until – bam – you suddenly don't get bored anymore.
Gray gardens
Directed by: David Maysles, Albert Mayles, Ellen Hovde, Muffy Meyer
Cast: Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale
The only documentary on this listAlbert and David Mayslesa masterpiece of direct cinema follows the deteriorating lives of a mother and daughter who shut themselves off from the world in an abandoned East Hampton mansion that should have been condemned long ago. After living in isolation and poverty for more than 50 years, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Beale became famous for their relatives (aunt and cousin, respectively) of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In their estate in the Gray Gardens, the Beels accumulated worldly possessions and created their own world, frozen in time and space, while the rest of humanity moved on and left them behind. The Maysles' steady and unobtrusive approach as they are slowly pulled into Beale's crazy universe is a testament to the fact that one can just show up and film what's going on.
The Big Lebowski
Director: Joel Coen
Screenwriter: Ethan Coen
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro
If, due to some unholy curse or an extended period of comatose state, you have somehow failed to seeBig Lebowski, whatwell, your prize is to watch this original slacker crime comedy fromthe Coen brothers at the height of their cinematic glory.Inspired by the worksRaymond Chandler, Jeff Bridgesbrings middle-aged marijuana and bowling enthusiast Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski to life in a way that leaves no doubt that this was the character he was born to be. From the jump, the Dude is involved in a failed attempt to shake out, he is attacked by two thugs in his Los Angeles bachelor apartment in a case of mistaken identity (they were hired by the ex-wife of another - The Big and Rich - Lebowski to forcibly raise money). From there, The Dude and his bowling buddies, expertly portrayedJohn Goodman andSteve Buscemiare diving down a rabbit hole for which they are not quite prepared in their futile attempts to outsmart the orbit of larger-than-life ne'er-do-wells who have suddenly been introduced into what was ordinary existence. Another one you can watch 100 times and still enjoy. Boredom is cured.
Square box
Director: Ken Shapiro
Writers: Ken Shapiro, Lane Sarason, Rich Allen
Cast: Chevy Chase, Richard Belzer, Ken Shapiro
This low-budget 1974 independent comedy sketch is one of the dirtiest and most offensive films of its kind. For the most part, it consists of proto-reports "Saturday Night Live, dedicated to the counterculture of that era, with exclamation marks such as very greenChevy Chase and investigatorRichard Belzer following the investigation of the murders. In many ways, this is a time capsule that probably should never have been made. That's what makes it so wonderful. Parodies of2001: A Space Odyssey, Belzer as a washed up clown Bozo, a silly parody ad, Chase posting fake news for the first time, a sketch about a company called Uranus Corporation that makes Brown 25 space age polymer... it has it all, and probably too much. Too much. However, you won't get bored watching it. Perhaps upset, but not bored.
