King f****** Kong (2005).
First movie that came to mind. There is absolutely
NO REASON a movie about a giant ape fighting dinosaurs and climbing the Empire State Building had to be 3 hours. It could have easily been trimmed down 30 minutes and maybe more. It actually is a good movie in a lot of ways, but I haven't watched it in at least five years because it is way too long for its story. There is absolutely no reason the Jimmy character was even needed.
I also imagine that
The Hobbit will be more of the same because PJ has taken a roughly 250 page book and turned it into
9 HOURS of movie. That is absurd. But I'll know for sure when I finally see the first third of that.
While I liked the movie, I found
Death Proof to be over indulgent in Tarantino style. The movie basically is a simple car chase movie that has literally 30 minutes of banal set-up that relies solely on cool Tarantino dialogue with no real plot or mounting tension. I enjoy Tarantino's dialogue, but it seemed so pointless and tiresome at even 100 minutes here.
Kill Bill is also probably self-indulgent, but I enjoyed both movies so I don't care.
I am not sure
Titanic is self-indulgent, but it is overly manipulative in trying to pull the audience's heart strings. The scene where Billy Zane starts shooting at Jack and Rose WHILE THE SHIP IS SINKING is the worst offender in being stupid and pointless and somewhat trivializing the real tragedy of the story.
If anyone saw
Hyde Park on the Hudson this year, that would certainly be a contender.
Dark Shadows was a hot mess because nobody bothered to see if the screenplay worked.
I think pretty much most of Kenneth Branagh's 1990s films, including the wonderful Shakespeares, were. Still, I enjoyed most of them.
Lol I just saw. Don't see how I missed it either.
