They Saved Hitler’s Brain. How could a movie with that title and that plot (hint: they saved Hitler’s brain) be so boring?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Watchmen bored me nearly to tears.
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.
+1. Tarkovsky’s Stalker is the cure for insomnia.
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.
The only time I’ve fallen asleep watching a movie in a theatre was during “Eyes Without a Face”.
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).
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.
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.
This is was I came in here to say. I could not make it through that movie. I tried.
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps the ultimate movie title for this sort of thing.
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.
Star Wars. Seriously. I saw it in the theatre when it was first released and fell asleep. I was really tired.