Movies that put you to sleep

[grude]

What movie do you want to watch, have even tried to watch, that just puts you to sleep?

Twilight series, my wife wanted to see these on a tip from her friend and we BOTH have been put to sleep several times. We now call it endless scenes of people staring at each other in the pacific northwest.

The Black Hole, I have tried to watch this movie THREE TIMES now and without fail I lose interest and start dozing, and I am a sci fi FREAK! Something about it is just very unengaging.

Ocean's 12, I was intoxicated the first time I saw this in a dollar theatre and gave up on trying to follow the bizarre fourth wall breaking plot(some actors are playing themselves playing characters?!) Well I tried watching it sober and it still annoys and I am usually put to sleep.

[Bryan Ekers]

I dozed during Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. There was that interminable sequence in the middle about a stolen comb or something.... yawn....

[kbear]

I have yet to make it all the way through any of the Lord of the Rings

[Little Nemo]

Quintet. I tried watching it twice and both times I drifted off. It's a really slow-paced movie.

[florez]

The English Patient.....zzzzzzzzz

[Rachellelogram]

Originally Posted by kbear

I have yet to make it all the way through any of the Lord of the Rings

I couldn't even make it through the Rifftrax of Lord of the Rings. And I love Rifftraxed-anything.

Movies don't put me to sleep unless I want them to, by the way. If I'm that bored, I put something else on. Unless I'm intending on falling asleep, in which case I'll put on a movie or tv show that isn't too exciting, that I already know inside and out. But that's not the same thing.

[drastic_quench]

Chariots of Fire and The Right Stuff.

Good movies, but if I'm sprawled out on the couch watching them, I'm done for. When my eyelids droop, unlike other films, I console myself that I won't be missing anything.

[Ranchoth]

This is going to sound really creepy, but...Nekromantik II.

Yeah, it's about what you'd expect. Infamous German made shocker/splatter/gorn movie sequel.

It's also boring. That, combined with the general lack of dialogue (and none of it in english), sedate pacing, and this sawing Phillip Glass-esque violin score, meant it was so boring it was actually relaxing.

I fell asleep twice trying to watch the stupid thing—and those were the best naps I ever remember taking. No nightmares or anything.

(That's gotta be one for the DVD covers—"a film so horrifying, it's like falling asleep in your carseat while your mom and dad drive home from Thanksgiving at your grandmas!")

[ThelmaLou]

Funny Girl
Also the first Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, I was visiting friends out of town and we went to see it in the theater, so I couldn't leave. Just went out to the lobby and paced with the other escapees.

[drastic_quench]

Oh, and the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. My god is that a dull and lifeless language. It's like the taupe of language.

[PalJuicy]

Every Harry Potter movie. Both of us. If one of the movies is playing, I'll say to him, "Feel like taking a nap? Harry Potter is on."

[corkboard]

I tried to watch Dr. Zhivago a couple times, and was asleep within 20 minutes both times. There's scene near the beginning on a train; I think I saw the beginning of it but not the end.

I had to watch Capote in three parts because I kept falling asleep.

[Cat Whisperer]

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture." At one point they are travelling by starship through the alien monster for about two years. Zzzzzzzz.

[ThelmaLou]

Originally Posted by PalJuicy

Every Harry Potter movie. Both of us. If one of the movies is playing, I'll say to him, "Feel like taking a nap? Harry Potter is on."

I found the first Harry Potter film riveting, but lost interest in the following ones.

[Hampshire]

2001: A Space Odyssey

[johnpost]

Auntie Mame, it always is shown late at night, padded with commercials to over 3 hours and boring.

[Laggard]

The Royal Tenenbaums and Dead Poets Society come to mind as sleep inducing films.

And it's my mom's favorite film ever but I've twice failed to make it through Dr. Zhivago.

[Roadfood]

Originally Posted by kbear

I have yet to make it all the way through any of the Lord of the Rings

Wow, I came in to say that. And I thought I was the only one.

Originally Posted by PalJuicy

Every Harry Potter movie. Both of us. If one of the movies is playing, I'll say to him, "Feel like taking a nap? Harry Potter is on."

Hey, now it's getting spooky. I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Harry Potter, too.

[Typo Negative]

Eyes Wide Shut

[stegon66]

Has no one here ever seen a Tarkovsky film?

[Lord Il Palazzo]

They Saved Hitler's Brain. How could a movie with that title and that plot (hint: they saved Hitler's brain) be so boring?

[janis_and_c0]

The Ten Commandments. And I love that movie. it's just so long. I think I've only see it all the way through once.

[KneadToKnow]

Winged Migration. That movie is f&cking Ambien with a Sominex chaser.

The first part of Alien can put me out, but I have to be ready to straight into a deep sleep, because if I'm just drifting, the later parts wake me up.

Also, more recently, I found myself unable to stay awake through both Tree of Life and Hugo, although on my second try I did make it through the latter.

[asterion]

Handily coupled with the why everyone hates Tom Cruise thread, Mission Impossible. I slept through most of it in the theater. I slept through it again trying to watch it at home. It's just so boring and the plot is so bad.

[Hazle Weatherfield]

The English Patient and Lawrence of Arabia. Was it a Seinfeld episode where someone was getting grief for not liking TEP? Rings a faint bell.

[jz78817]

Watchmen bored me nearly to tears.

[Miss Woodhouse]

The New World. If they took the camera direction out of the script it would have been five pages long. I fell asleep, woke up, and still had another hour to go. I took a second nap.

[AnalogSignal]

Originally Posted by stegon66

Has no one here ever seen a Tarkovsky film?

+1. Tarkovsky's Stalker is the cure for insomnia.

[Mr. Accident]

I've fallen asleep during is Breaking Dawn. I only watched it because my girlfriend wanted to. I think I got to the part where they're on the island before I zonked out from sheer boredom. Tell me the other movies aren't as boring, as I promised her a movie marathon of them once Breaking Dawn pt 2 comes out.

Fell asleep during Zombie Apocalypse the other night. You'd think a zombie movie wouldn't be boring, but that one was.

[hogarth]

The only time I've fallen asleep watching a movie in a theatre was during "Eyes Without a Face".

[billfish678]

2001 A Space Odyssey.

I missed it in the theater. So, years later it starts showing up on TV ( but still before the days of common Vcrs). Now, this movie is right up my alley. But there is a long segment at the end which is probably the video equivalent a drug trip. Now, once this movie started showing up on TV, it was always towards the end of night.

Now, after the drug trip part, it sorta gets back to a normal movie and you see the ending.

But because of the lateish time it started, the long nature of the movie and the drug trip aspect of the movie I ALWAYS fell asleep when the drug trip part started. And then I'd wake up later when the National Athem was playing and there was a video of some guys raising a flag or something right before the channel went off the air.

I think was post 1990, and possibly well after that, that I finally saw the whole ending of that damn movie (and one of my favorites BTW. I Just couldnt stay awake through the drug trip part).

[Chefguy]

Harry Potter. Never made it through even the first one. Blade Runner used to put me out, but I finally got through it, which was worth it.

[FordTaurusSHO94]

Cars has put me asleep all three times I tried to sit through it. I don't know what happens to the town. I don't care either.

[Aeris]

Originally Posted by florez

The English Patient.....zzzzzzzzz

This is was I came in here to say. I could not make it through that movie. I tried.

[UncleRojelio]

One of our favorite Mexican food restaurants is right next to one of our favorite movie theaters. One night we ate a nice dinner at the restaurant and then proceeded over to the theater to see Goodnight and Goodluck. I fell asleep before the opening credits. My wife, a night owl and ardent movie buff, also fell asleep. Therefore, there was no one to nudge me in the ribs when I started snoring.

[Barking Dog]

Originally Posted by Hampshire

2001: A Space Odyssey

You too huh? I cannot for the life of me sit through this film with out being passed out and snoring. Every. Single. Time. And I have reeeally high boredom threshold. I swear, it must be something subliminal. Maybe I'm the Manchurian Candidate, and 2001 is my trigger.

[FrancisCastle]

I took the kids to go see Puss in Boots. I only made it about 10 minutes in before I was sleeping and they woke me up when it was over. It was ok though, they got to see the movie and I got to take a nap.

[drastic_quench]

Originally Posted by UncleRojelio

One of our favorite Mexican food restaurants is right next to one of our favorite movie theaters. One night we ate a nice dinner at the restaurant and then proceeded over to the theater to see Goodnight and Goodluck. I fell asleep before the opening credits. My wife, a night owl and ardent movie buff, also fell asleep. Therefore, there was no one to nudge me in the ribs when I started snoring.

Perhaps the ultimate movie title for this sort of thing.

[grude]

Sita Sings The Blues-

Look I understand this was a one woman production basically, and a darling of the open source community. However the sequences with the old blues songs are simply boring, the animation is uninspired and dull, and every song sounds the same. I fell asleep half way in.

However the commentary by the three shadow puppets was the highlight of the movie for me, their clever poking of holes in the mythology was great. I would watch a two hour movie that was nothing but the puppets explaining and commenting on Hindu gods and myths.

[TriPolar]

Star Wars. Seriously. I saw it in the theatre when it was first released and fell asleep. I was really tired.

[Dr. Girlfriend]

I am so glad I'm not the only one who couldn't stay awake through Harry Potter. I tried to watch the first one, out like a light about 20 minutes in. I tried to watch it again later on, same thing happened. Never tried to watch any of the others.

[Craz3d117]

Oddly enough, the only movies I've fallen asleep during were Transformers 2 and Battle:LA. They were just so horribly uninteresting in spite of their action sequences .

[Taomist]

I have fallen asleep during The Rock every...single...time I have watched it. Never saw it in the theater, but I can honestly say I've seen it...sort of...in bits and pieces at various times.

[Taomist]

Originally Posted by TriPolar

Star Wars. Seriously. I saw it in the theatre when it was first released and fell asleep. I was really tired.

Lol, same! My dad took us out on a school night to watch it, and I didn't make it.
Luckily I saw it later in music class...go-go-go awesome music teachers with friends who work in the movie theaters!!

[Fear Itself]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture." At one point they are travelling by starship through the alien monster for about two years. Zzzzzzzz.

The first time I saw that, I was on magic mushrooms.

"Is this real life???? Is it going to be like this forever????"

Much longer than two years.

[Stelios]

I didn't fall asleep (don't think I've ever fallen asleep during a movie, come to think about it) but both the original Star Wars and Once Upon A Time in America bored me to tears. I was literally in pain by the end of them. I've given them both a second chance, but, nope. It's the same each time. Oddly enough, I'm a big fan of Leone's other work, and I thought The Empire Strikes Back was fantastic.

[Amaleen6]

"The English Patient"--I felt like Elaine in "Seinfeld": "Die! Die already!"

Also, there's some Jane Fonda movie from the 70s/80s called "The Morning After." Both times I rented it, I fell asleep. That was enough.

[stegon66]

+1. Tarkovsky's Stalker is the cure for insomnia.

To be fair, Tarkovsky's films can be quite intoxicating if viewed in the right frame of mind. If not, zzzzzzzzzzzz......

Either way, the driving scene in Solaris is overlong.

[Scarlett67]

M*A*S*H

Beetlejuice

[FairyChatMom]

Twice I tried watching Hitchhiker's Guide, twice I fell asleep. I wasn't bored, just exhausted. I should probably try again when I'm better rested.