Dancer in the Dark is probably the most crushingly depressing film I've seen.

This is going to sound awful and pretentious, but I thought that was the point. Of course I don't think it was supposed to be hard to get through, and I don't think the characters were supposed to be boring (and the performances, especially Patricia Arquette's, were great), but yeah, there's no real plot and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, the biggest (only?) problem with the movie for me is the way the mother's marriage to her professor is done - it seemed really unnatural compared to the rest of the movie, and I thought the later thing involving the war veteran (her student IIRC) was done way better.

But like what you like, obviously. I just like movies and I don't talk about them much on here.

i honestly had a feeling someone would hit me with "that was the point." that's honestly not the first time i was bored by a film only to be told later that i was meant to be bored by the film. well, you can call me simple, but even if it was intentionally boring that doesn't make me any more inclined to want to watch it.

i don't think Boyhood is intentional boring....but rather celebrates the mundane in life

honestly i watched it cause i heard about the gimmick where they had the boy basically grow up on film and i thought this might the relationships and **** within the film more authentic and interesting to watch. but if i'm being honest if you didn't tell me about this aspect of the film it wouldn't have stood out to me.. seemed like a run of the mill coming-of-age film to me

This one instantly comes to mind

Oh god, that killed me when I was a kid.

I'm not sure which part of the ending you mean but both the incinerator scene and the final scene with Andy and the little girl really choked me up.

Oh man, I just saw the mention for Toy Story 3, and I nearly broke out crying at the incinerator scene.

That's more what I meant. Like I said, I don't think it was supposed to be hard to get through and I don't think you're supposed to be bored by it, but I think that its lack of a central plot and its, as you say, focus on the mundane, could bore some people.

I watched Cannibal Holocaust for the first time when I was probably 13 or 14. Shook me up pretty badly.