I wanted to like Moon, but I’ve fallen asleep to it three times.
The First Deadly Sin, one of Frank Sinatra’s last starring roles. Sinatra, playing a soon-to-retire NYPD detective, sleepwalks through an entirely suspense-free plot involving the search for a serial killer. Meanwhile, what little action there is stops every few minutes so Sinatra’s character can visit a local hospital and stare morosely at his bedridden, dying wife (Faye Dunaway). Te-di-um personified.
21 posts and nobody’s mentioned “2001: A Space Odyssey”?
(runs and hides)
Read the thread title thusly: Most boring mov. . . The English Patient!!!
I hated this movie. It probably tops my list of movies I should have quit on but finished for some reason.
I still joke about it. The movie where nothing happens and you regret ever seeing it.
Lost in Translation
I was begging for this movie to end because nothing friggin happens in it.
I got so mad at the whispering in the end because you could have at least said that louder and justified the past 2 hours
The most boring movie would have to be Paint Drying. It’s 10 hours and 7 minutes of footage of paint drying on a wall. Filmmaker Charlie Lyne created the film to force some hapless British censors to watch it in order to give it a rating of ‘U’ (Universal - Suitable for all).
Certainly not the most boring movie ever, but the one I was most surprised to be so dreadfully bored by was Avengers: Infinity War. I lke Marvel movies, and I had heard such good things about it, but it was just a constant merry-go-round of overblown action sequences, obvious CGI, and pointless drive-bys by everybody who’s ever bern in a marvel movie. The average Liberty Mutual ad is scintillating in comparison.
Or as we called it when it came out, The Motionless Picture.
Mrs. L.A. liked it. She says, ‘It’s a girl film.’
Ha! 
Oh, yeah. Forgot about that one.
The only movie I ever remember falling asleep during: Rent.
I wanted to like it. But the parts I was awake for bored the shit out of me to the point of anger. And then I fell asleep.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves managed to make Robin-freaking-Hood boring - but it did have an enjoyable performance by Alan Rickman.
The Tribe I can’t technically speak to the boringness of, since I was inspired to walk out after an hour. It used the interesting conceit of being filmed in Ukranian Sign language with no subtitles. Maybe someone less prosopagnosiac would have been able to follow the plot in spite of that, but since most of the characters were white teenage boys who dressed similarly and had the same haircut, I didn’t stand a chance. It also used the kind of extended, setpiece scenes that only work when there’s real substance to the plot to make them worthwhile.
Out 1 I didn’t even finish the first hour. I can’t tell you what it was about because I have no idea.
Eyes Wide Shut
Went with three other people, two of whom fell asleep. They managed to make an orgy scene boring.
Two nominees:
Waking Life: a series of monologues by people you’d regret starting a conversation with about whatever pseudo-profound nonsense pops into their heads at that moment. Meandering, boring, and pointless.
Gerry: Matt Damon and Casey Affleck wander in the desert for about half-past forever, barely speaking. Literally meandering, boring, and pointless.
A Passage to India. The only movie I almost walked out of. Instead, I fell asleep.
If we’re going the “kill the heroes” sort of route, Blair Witch Project has to be the biggest hype-to-absolute-boredom ratio I’ve personally endured. (And I actually quite enjoyed Lost in Translation.) I imagine 2001: A Space Odyssey will be mentioned at some point, but I also found myself engaged in that one. Blair Witch just bored the ever living shit out of me.
Because I am familiar with horses, the Horse Whisperer was more enraging than boring. My anger kept me awake.
Sucks. It’s one of my favorite movies! I think because I’ve worked from home, alone and lived alone for so long, I really catch the vibe from the movie.
I fall asleep to most movies so I can’t even suggest one here. I suck at movies. (But I stayed awake through Moon twice!)
‘The Weight of Water’.