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.
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 .
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.
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!!
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.
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.
“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.
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. 
MASH
Beetlejuice*
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.
dupe - sorry…
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Artist - The lovely soundtrack was like a down comforter and a strong sedative.
I like talkies.
**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.
: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: -
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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.
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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.
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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.