I've sat through movies that audiences have found slow. Ride with the Devil is one of my favorite movies of the year. The Straight Story is exceedingly bad in every aspect (save a decent performance from crusty old man Richard Farnsworth as a crusty old man). Lynch's direction poorly balances Lynchian humor with melodramatic sap. Quite awful, and I don't understand everyone's love for this tremendously overrated film.
Review of The Straight Story
