Love Kubrick - But NOT This!

Rating: 2/10 (25 November 2016)

I admit at the outset that I saw this movie in a theater about 40 years ago. But I haven't forgotten it, and not in a good way.
After "A Clockwork Orange," I was stoked to see Kubrick's next masterpiece. A student of mine at the time told me that her dad said "Barry Lyndon" was the most beautiful movie he'd ever seen. That made me even more stoked.
At the theater, I recall waiting for something to happen. Yes, I knew it wasn't going to be like "Clockwork Orange," but I still believed that something would actually happen.
All I remember to this day are scenes that dragged on interminably. Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson sitting in a coach while he smoked a cigar or something, as she daintily waved the smoke away. This scene seemed to go on for hours, though I'm sure it lasted maybe just a minute or so.
Yes, the cinematography was beautiful, but the movie was beyond boring. By intermission, I really just wanted to leave. But I remained because I thought that maybe the second half of the film would be better.
I was wrong.