Movies You Can Sleep Through Over and Over Again

Matrix 3.

Interstellar... well, if you turn the sound down, because otherwise it's too damn LOUD to sleep through.

Oh, God, thank you. Someone else who thinks LOTR movies are boring. I could barely sit through part of the first one on TV and couldn't believe they had made more.The reaction I get for this from grown men, even middle-aged men, is unbelievable.

-- The English Patient

-- Chocolat

-- Anything starring Sissy Spacek

All of the Godfather movies.

All "mob" movies in general with the exception of Goodfellas. That one I love. I think it had a lot to do with the soundtrack.

I have never been able to watch more than 30 minutes of any of the LOTR or the Hobbit movies without falling asleep.

My brother has the same thing happen when he's tried to watch ... crap I forgot the name of the movies ... it's the sparkly vampire movies, the ones with the nutso fans?

The New World (Terrence Malick)

I have fallen asleep on that movie multiple times.

2001. Never seen the ending or even the middle. What happens?

R6 the sparkly movies are indeed those pathetic movies with the nutso fans...search rpatz if you really dare to be amused, yet horrified.

R8 I saw the beginning as well. We need some one to fill us in on the rest, obviously.

A River Runs Through It (-alt. title: Had to Sit Through It)

Akira Kurosawa's "Ran", three times so far.

Believe it or not - Star Wars.

Saw it when I was young, and I remember saying I would have napped through it if it weren't so fucking loud.

LOTR!!!

I skipped all the theatrical releases and decided I would watch the first three on TV as a marathon. Little did I know that they would function like an Ambien/Valium cocktail for me.

I did watch all three, but it took about 22 viewing sessions, each one interrupted by drowsiness or outright unconsiousness.

For the last month I've tried to stream Breaking Bad. My app will play a series back to back automatically so I wake up in the morning 6 or 7 episodes in. I always fall asleep during the first episode. I think it's just a boring show that was overhyped.

Remains Of The Day. Brilliant acting but painful to watch.

Tarkovsky's "Solaris"

Most David Lean movies, while magnificently shot, are cinematic Ambien to me. And I love old movies.

Surprisingly, CASABLANCA doesn't hold up so well for me. I find it really talky and slow and cannot stay awake through it anymore.

Another vote for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

THE LIFE ACQUATIC. Haven't made it through once, after repeated efforts.

The most recent Spiderman movie. It was a struggle to stay awake during that mess of a movie. Andrew Garfield was just a complete cipher.

Fantasia

Snow White and the Huntsman. In fact I did just that.

You've Got Mail and Killing Them Softly.

Out Of Africa. We tried to watch it 5 times but never got through the ending.

To Wong Foo, Mermaids, and the entire Matrix trilogy.

The first Star Wars Movie. Couldn't get through it. Never went back for more.

Heaven's Gate, Dances with Wolves

"Van Helsing"

I love Hugh Jackman, and I tend to like monster movies, special effects movies, and summer pop-corn movies.

However, this movie was so inert, so boring, that to this day it's the only movie I've ever fallen asleep at while in the movie theater.

Fantasia.

Every movie mentioned here affects me the same way. Now that I've recovered from last nights hangover I can offer up a couple more that work like Ambien:

The Last of the Mohicans

Alexander

Apocalypse Now

The English Patient and pretty much every other film with an orange filter. Except China Town.

Eyes Wide Shut

Satantango

I went to see THE ENGLISH PATIENT in theaters in early '97 and promptly fell asleep. When I woke up two hours later, I remember feeling annoyed that it was STILL on! I tried to watch it three years later when it was on TV, but I fell asleep once again. Haven't given it a third try in the 15 years since.

Any movie based on a comic book.

And anyone over 30 attending one of those movies needs to get their head examined.

A friend of mine came over the other day to help me install a ceiling fan, and we got to talking about movies. He said that Dances With Wolves was one of his all time favorites. When I replied, quite simply, that I hated it, he almost let go of the fan, which would have been the end of me as I was standing right underneath it at the time.

Apparently I committed sacrilege. And when I realized how horrified he was I couldn't stop laughing.

As the day wore on the list grew even longer (John Wayne, American Sniper...you get the idea), so that by the end we just had to agree to disagree on pretty much everything.

Eyes Wide Shut and the English Patient.

A Space Odysssey

Everything already mentioned, except for Breaking Bad (fair enough, the first episodes are kind of slow, but it picks up BIG time). I'd watch BB on repeat over any of these tedious, overblown films.

I've never made it through Chinatown without dozing off. Last of the Mohicans or any other boring Hollywoodized historical epic. Anything by Malick, Nolan and Kubrick (except for A Clockwork Orange). I also find the Coen brothers' films very boring for all of the hype.

Far and Away - I've slept through it a half dozen times.

R38 you mean the movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman?

Anything starring Jack Nickolson., Babs Streisand (her big nose fills up 50% of the screen, her ego fills out the remaining 50%).

Yes, R39, that's the one.

It's cinematic Ambien to me.

I fell asleep during LOTR, too... in the theater.

LOTR is unwatchable.

A hundred years ago, a friend and I went to see "Alan Quartermaine and the Lost City of Gold" starring DL fave Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. My friend kept falling asleep, waking up 20 minutes later and thinking it had only been a second. It was the same scene over and over again. Explosion, run, chase, run some more. Next.

I felt sorry for Richard Chamberlain.

[quote]A hundred years ago, a friend and I went to see "Alan Quartermaine and the Lost City of Gold" starring DL fave Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone.

Are you bad at math? That movie came out in 1987. That's hardly 100 years ago. More like 28.

Boyhood just a big hunk of aimless humdrum it's like a trial with no murder no hung bailiff no high-strung witness it's just dull people some of them actors some not all of them struggling with the long limp bloodless content, I felt improperly fucked by the arrogant vacancy of it. I became just another victim walking out of the theater rubbing my sore ass. The Master also tortured my patience and robbed me of my time. Left Birdman after 15 minutes, I'm older now so time is more precious I won't let Birdman fully fuck me. Of course Malick tops the self-indulgent list and that's the only sad thing he tops. Sofia Coppola has never taken a shit, Daddy unwrapped all the tootsie rolls and told her she never has to.

I fell asleep during the English Patient. I woke up and they were in a cave. I used to have such a hard-on for Rafe.

Dances With Wolves is actually one that I have watched over and over. Open Range, too.

Stnaley Kubrick movies, The Graduate, Star Wars on the other hand...zzzzzzzz

Oh for fuck's sake.

No, dumb cunt at R45, I'm not "bad at math" it's just an expression.

Run Lola Run was like that for me. I kept dozing off and waking up and every time I awakened Lola was running from someone. I still don't know why she was running, because I was asleep during that sequence.

Gawd damn, those last three Star Wars pics, and all three LOTR movies were SO FUCKING DULL!

Never again!

Another vote for The English Patient and Babel - most boring movie ever made.

My movie Fraternity Row is really quite good.

The Exorcist 2: The Heretic. Boring as hell.

The Last Starfighter.

Far and Away. Just about any Tammy movie that's long is sleep inducing.

My Best Friend's Wedding. I'd about had it with Julia Roberts by then.

Lost in Translation. Why was this even made?

I nodded several times in Interstellar. But that annoying AnnE kept me awake!

[quote]I nodded several times in Interstellar. But that annoying AnnE kept me awake!

Yeah, she was the only good thing in that dreck.

Aronofsky's "The Fountain"

"A Serbian Movie"

"To Kill Mockingbird"

"Tender Mercies"

R33 = Judgy McJudgerson

I'm not a big comic book or comic book movie fan. I don't much care for fantasy or sci-fi either. I am over 30 and have seen quite a few of these films over the years. A few of them have been a lot of fun.

Having fun at the movies isn't a hanging offence, R33.

But comic book movies *aren't* fun, R58.

Boyhood owns this thread.

I fell asleep during one of the LOTR movies in the cinema. It was the only one of the trilogy that I went to see and my friends were very annoyed, furious and offended that I found it boring and sleep-inducing. After the movie was over they spent over an hour going on and on about what greats work of art and literature the LOTR books and films were, and I wanted to fall asleep again.

You want to know real hell? I had to READ that trilogy over the month of January to fulfill some graduation requirements.

I know what HELL IS!!!!!!!!

R59, are you our resident short-bus rider on the loose again? You'll never get a husband if you keep acting like such a dumb cunt, dear.

R62, I condole you, but that's weird. What sort of program requires LOtR to graduate?

^^^ 10th grade, of course.

The English Patient

THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Nope r60. That dubious honor goes to Chariots of Fire!

The best 2 hr. nap EVER!

'Mulholland Dr.' and 'Blade Runner'

Most John Wayne movies.

Ooops, sorry! I misread it. I thought that this thread was about 'Movies you can see over and over again', that's why i wrote Mulholland Dr and Blade Runner, which are films i absolutely adore.

When I saw The Legend of Bagger Vance in the theater I fell asleep about 2/3 of the way through it

The Big Chill(aka The Big Snooze)

The first two Bored of the Rings flicks (I didn't even bother to see the third one).

Boyhood.

I wished that Her had put me to sleep, but I was too angry that critics were raving about such an obviously godawful piece of shit.

Yes, Chariots of Fire

Picnic at Hanging Rock. At the theatre, I did sleep through all but the first 20 minutes.

The Big Chill and Terms of Endearment are two of the worst films of all time.

Boyhood. Mama Mia. Anything with "the Shnozz" Streep.

All Star Wars and the current crop of Avengers, except the first Capn America which isn't bad.

The latest Annie. Anything Oprah has a hand in.

All of the Star Trek movies with the original cast.

Anything with Ms. Clooney.

Japanese and Chinese films. Sorry.

Nearly everything Disney cranks out.

But they should advertise The Big Chill and Terms as sleep aids.

My Dinner With Andre. Once it was available for home viewing I rented it. Every time I tried to watch I was asleep about 10 minutes in through the entire film. I think I tried watching it about 4 times and fell asleep each time.

A few years ago I caught it on tv and not only stayed awake throughout but really got engaged in the story. It was on tv again in the past year and once again it was a snoozer.

That's the only film with that track record for me but many of the movies mentioned here bore me so much I get distracted by other things (like logging into DL) and the movie becomes background noise.

Accidental Tourist. Comforting

When I was used to sleeping with the TV on, and I didn't have cable, I would go to sleep to The Ring with Naomi Watts, loved to sleep with northern exposure on,any of the Lord of the rings are good

I 'rented' something called 'the wind that shakes the barley' for about 2 months, tried to watch it over and over, I still haven't seen it

The Clooney mention reminded me of Solaris, starring George Clooney. I did sleep through that.

King Kong 2005

Meg Ryan movies.

Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias.

R77 I agree with all you posted except Mama Mia - for some reason that movie holds my attention...I think it may be the lack of chemistry between most of the actors but it is always a funfest to me to watch the strangeness that unfolded throughout.

My partner just reminded me that Birdman should win this thread. He is correct.

Out of Africa

Anything by Woody Allen.

The Hobbit movies

(but not the LOTR movies)

the shining

big fish

Another vote for LOTR! Went to see it with my mom Christmas Day 2011. Both fell asleep. Never bothered watching the other two. The first movie went on and on about nothing.

The recent LES MISERABLES movie. Now, I enjoy musical theater and some opera, but wall-to-wall singing doesn't work on screen. It's too fatiguing! Like when a movie features too many action sequences (e.g., Jackson's KING KONG remake). It gets tiring after a while.

Meet Joe Black

I don't think these films are boring, I just never stay awake:

The Exorcist (not boring but I've never seen the complete film)

2001 (could be boring to some) I always fall asleep mid-film and wake up when he turns into a giant baby.

Out Of Africa.

Harry Potter

Saving Private Ryan

Citizen Kane owns this thread.

Dune

Mulholland Drive

Blue Velvet

Midnight in the garden of god and evil

Blade Runner (both versions)

Nell

Add me to the Star Wars snoozefest.