# Movies that put you to sleep **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881 "2012-04-25T04:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/41 "2012-04-29T18:55:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Craz3d117](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c4cdca/32.png) [@Craz3d117](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craz3d117)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/42 "2012-04-29T19:40:39Z")
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 . ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/43 "2012-04-29T20:04:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/44 "2012-04-29T20:06:17Z")
> [@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!! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/45 "2012-04-29T20:15:32Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Stelios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Stelios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stelios)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/46 "2012-04-29T20:26:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Amaleen6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@Amaleen6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaleen6)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/47 "2012-04-29T20:49:37Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/48 "2012-04-30T00:41:15Z")
> [@](#): > > +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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/49 "2012-04-30T02:07:28Z")
_M_A_S_H Beetlejuice\* ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/50 "2012-04-30T10:32:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/51 "2012-04-30T10:33:36Z")
dupe - sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/52 "2012-04-30T11:51:28Z")
[Away from Her](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_from_Her) did me in. Otherwise, I don’t think I’ve ever fallen asleep during a movie. (Granted, I’d only had like 1 hours worth of sleep the night before, but that’s not too uncommon for me.) ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/53 "2012-04-30T15:31:37Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > \>snip!\< > Either way, the driving scene in Solaris is overlong. 😃 I’ve tried twice to watch Solaris. Within the first 15 minutes each time I’m out like a light. The Divemaster got through it the last time. He said he’d have preferred the nap. Inception. Major yawn twice now. Put me out in the first half hour and dozed all the way through it. The second time it was lather, rinse, repeat. Currently not planning a repeat attempt of either movie. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/54 "2012-04-30T16:27:23Z")
Now days almost any movie can put me to sleep, but I remember that “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” put me into a coma. Was there any good nudity in there? I must have slept through it. The Seinfeld episode on “The English Patient” kept me from ever watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/55 "2012-04-30T17:01:42Z")
I don’t go to the cinema often, and I never keep watching a film I’m not interested in, so thus far I only once fell asleep during a movie, and that was watching Tim Burton’s _Planet of the Apes_ in the cinema. It was a very boring film, and I must have been at least somewhat tired. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/56 "2012-04-30T17:02:24Z")
I can’t remember the name of it, but it was that movie that came out about eight years ago, was based on a comic strip, and used selective color during filming. Sin City, maybe? I think Brittany Murphy was in it. And almost any action movie puts me to sleep, because there’s only so much chasing and explosions without any plot advancement that I can watch before I just get bored. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/57 "2012-04-30T17:28:51Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > I can’t remember the name of it, but it was that movie that came out about eight years ago, was based on a comic strip, and used selective color during filming. Sin City, maybe? I think Brittany Murphy was in it. > > And almost any action movie puts me to sleep, because there’s only so much chasing and explosions without any plot advancement that I can watch before I just get bored. Yeah. I like Sin City, and own all the graphic novels, but that was a slog. Ditto for Grindhouse. ---
**Author:** ![pinkyvee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6de8d8/32.png) [@pinkyvee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkyvee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/58 "2012-04-30T17:43:22Z")
The Artist - The lovely soundtrack was like a down comforter and a strong sedative. I like talkies. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/59 "2012-04-30T17:45:12Z")
\*\*Scubaqueen’s \*\*post just reminded me that I nodded off during _Inception_. It’s not that I hated it exactly, I just gave up on trying to figure out what the heck was going on and I couldn’t make heads or tails of the overly long snow shootout scene so I went to dreamland. Or did I 😉 I’ve attempted to watch _The Other Bolelyn Girl_ three times and fallen asleep each time. Odd because I love the subject matter but something about it knocks me right out. My go to movie when I want to fall asleep is _The Ring_. After seeing it dozens of times I don’t find it scary anymore but the blue filter and beautiful score make it creepily relaxing. ---
**Author:** ![Kiyoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kiyoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiyoshi)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881/60 "2012-04-30T18:09:19Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > I can’t remember the name of it, but it was that movie that came out about eight years ago, was based on a comic strip, and used selective color during filming. Sin City, maybe? I think Brittany Murphy was in it. > > And almost any action movie puts me to sleep, because there’s only so much chasing and explosions without any plot advancement that I can watch before I just get bored. :eek: are you my twin?! No-one seems to understand how, in my mind, **action = boring**. Asides from doing nothing to advance the plot, I think maybe, action sequences move too fast for my brain to process, leaving me with no clue about what’s happening… In response to the OP, I offer these three highly rated films: - 1. _The Godfather_. I actually started a thread some time ago about how boring this three-hour mumbleathon is. So I’m fully aware that no-one agrees with me. But this is the single most boring film I’ve sat through…I was literally in pain by the end of it. 2. _The Dark Knight_. I’ve tried a few times to watch this, but I’ve never been able to get past the first half hour or so. For starters, it’s full of action sequences, so I can’t keep focussed and I start daydreaming. Secondly, the sound mixing is **terrible**. It goes mumblemumblemumble\*\*\*\*LOUDEXPLOSION!!!\*\*\*\*mumblemumblemumble. So I miss most of the dialogue. So, I don’t know what the story is, and to be honest, I really don’t care. 3. _Kung Fu Panda_. This one is a problem, because my best friend **loves** this film, and I daren’t mention in front of him that I find it dull. But good grief, if you were to look up “mediocre” in the dictionary… Now, I’m fully aware that it’s a kids’ film, but that’s no excuse. The plot is paper-thin and predictable, the characters have no personality, the jokes are unfunny and the pacing is **abysmal**. I don’t understand how this film is supposed to keep a child engaged. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-put-you-to-sleep/619881.md?page=4)