The Greatest Waste Of Your Time

Rating: 1/10 (15 September 2010)

It's more than a little frustrating that "Lawrence Of Arabia" is still considered a great motion picture... how long must we all pretend that this over-puffed, over-stuffed bag of sand is a good movie? It isn't- it's a terrible, slow-moving, monotonous, sleep-inducing, four-hour waste of time. There. I said it and I'm glad.
There's no deep analysis necessary here... endless desert sequences are supposed to carry a story about war and Arabs and blah, blah, blah... Sometimes the classics are classics... "Citizen Kane" is a great film, and if you don't know why, you should find out. "Casablanca" and "Gone With The Wind" are just as brilliantly entertaining today as the day they were released. Same for "The Wizard Of Oz."
But "Lawrence Of Arabia" is a long, dry, miserable waste of your time, pompous and bulletproof, a perfectly-crafted imitation of Cinema, an absolutely hollow and pointless experience, and a movie that should be avoided at all costs.
You've been warned.
GRADE: D-