Boring Movies That Put You To Sleep

[Ginger]

Every single Michael Bay film. Except 'The Rock', but I was young and I didn't know any better. Also most Roland Emerich movies. Basically action films with loads of style but zero substance.

The last one I had a kip during in the cinema was Die Hard in Chernobyl or whatever it was. Nodded off somewhere in the middle and woke up just in time for Bruce Willis to yawn out "yipikayay...". A film so bad it put its lead actor to sleep.

 

[Silvercrest]

The Russia Houzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

This.

The The Fifth Element- I don't even remember what this mess was about, and I don't want to know.

And this.

And The Age of Innocence.

And Spawn.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

What about films like Lawrence of Arabia or Flight of the Phoenix films which are largely set in the desert?

I've never tried watching them, but I have fallen asleep watching True Grit (I LOVE Coen Bros. movies), The Thing and its remake, Unforgiven, Terminator Salvation (not saying much), and Back to the Future Part III (and the franchise ranks in my top three favorite movie series). Deserts just have a narcoleptic effect on me for some reason

 

[eyeresist]

I'm amazed some people dislike The Matrix. I assume they are very old

If you fall asleep during a movie, it is because you are suffering from sleep deprivation. Boredom by itself does not cause sleepiness.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I could never get pass the credits to "The Russia House."

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I'm amazed some people dislike The Matrix. I assume they are very old

If you fall asleep during a movie, it is because you are suffering from sleep deprivation. Boredom by itself does not cause sleepiness.

I didn't think the "falling asleep" bit of the thread title was meant literally, so, to clarify: no film makes me fall asleep. If they bore me, I just start watching something else.

As for the Matrix...well, I can understand people not liking it because it's dumb and dates and filled with story-wrecking plot holes, but I saw it in the cinema in 1999 and was, like mostly everyone, mind-blown by it. That feeling's still there, which is why I love this film to bits, even though it's pretty damn stupid.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I never liked The Matrix. One basic reason was this: They know the bullets are not real. They know this. So why are they scared of getting hit? People tell me that if they think they get hit by the bullets than that is as good as actually being hit, and, as a result, they would die. Of course, that's a huge leap of logic. Secondly, I go back to my point: when they go into The Matrix, they know it's all fake, including the Matrix!!

 

[Silvercrest]

Well... you could read it as: the physical interface needed to jack into the Matrix requires access to your entire nervous system, including pain receptors and the like. Anything short of that causes the virtual connection to fail because it can't get enough feedback from you to run the program correctly. It's an all-or-nothing, total-immersion affair. Therefore you're stuck with feeling pain and anything else the Matrix inflicts on you. You can disbelieve it all you want, but that won't stop you from suffering a massive neural overload when an Agent shoots you or a truck runs you over or....

"Bull!" I hear you cry. "There's no realistic reason you couldn't inject a partial version of yourself that leaves out pain sensors or anything else you want! 100% feedback isn't necessary! It might not run very well and you might be forever bumping into things or deaf or whatever-- but you'd be there and you couldn't be killed!"

My reply: Fair enough. So perhaps the reason is that anything short of a 100% simulation instantly stands out like a sore thumb to the Matrix program. It might not be able to do anything to you — but what if all it does is materialize an Agent on the spot as soon as your fake simulation appears? Any possible mission is immediately scuttled if there's an Agent following you around and interfering with anything you do. And meanwhile the Agent is gathering information on you.

In that kind of scenario, the only way you'd be able to sneak around the Matrix (and make it a heck of a lot harder for them to spot you) is by exactly duplicating a simulation — which requires total immersion.

I know, I know, it's total B.S. But isn't it all anyway?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Decent enough explanation.

I was perhaps a little harsh in my post.. it was enjoyable as a film. I liked the look of it, and it had one true surprise I never expected (which is rare for me seeing blockbusters) in the scene where he asks for his phone call and instead his mouth is sealed shut.

But the whole idea that they know it's a simulation going in is some general aspect of the film that is tough for me to get past to appreciate the danger. It's just my feeling...

 

[Silvercrest]

No worries, it's just another case of YMMV.

 

[Showdown]

Beowulf (2007)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_(2007_film)

One of the worst, most boring, stupid, tasteless, least faithful to the source material, film I ever have the displeasure to watch and fell asleep in.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

The Matrix
2001: A Total Snooze Fest
Interstellar: I want those 3 hours of my life back

 

[Random_Spock]

I'm amazed some people dislike The Matrix. I assume they are very old

If you fall asleep during a movie, it is because you are suffering from sleep deprivation. Boredom by itself does not cause sleepiness.

Nope I'm not very old.

It was just too out there. I might give it another try sometime though.

 

[eyeresist]

If you fall asleep during a movie, it is because you are suffering from sleep deprivation. Boredom by itself does not cause sleepiness.

I didn't think the "falling asleep" bit of the thread title was meant literally, so, to clarify: no film makes me fall asleep. If they bore me, I just start watching something else.

Good for you But if you read through the thread you'll find some people are being completely literal about this.

 

[gblews]

If you fall asleep during a movie, it is because you are suffering from sleep deprivation. Boredom by itself does not cause sleepiness.

No, but sitting in a dark movie theater with nothing else to do, sleeping is very convienient. Let me put it anoher way, I could (and have been) as sleep deprived as I could be in a movie theater, and stayed awake for the entire run of a movie that held my interest.

But the whole idea that they know it's a simulation going in is some general aspect of the film that is tough for me to get past to appreciate the danger.

Morpheus states very clearly early on, that one of the rules of this movie's premise is that if you die in the Matrix, you die in real life -- "the body cannot live if the mind dies" (or something like that), he responds to Neo's direct question about what happens if you die in the Matrix.

If you don't accept the premise then that's fine, but the movie explained this and it isn't a "plot hole".

 

[Epsilon-9]

Man of Steel BORING and far too LOUD NOISY!
Star Trek Into Deafness far too loud too many lens flares BORING!

 

[doubleohfive]

For the love of Christ, enough with the bitching about lens flares. It's been almost six years. We get it.

On topic: I know it's highly regarded, but I've never --not once-- been able to get through Punch Drunk Love.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Man of Steel BORING and far too LOUD NOISY!
Star Trek Into Deafness far too loud too many lens flares BORING!

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pdWAcK6Eh8[/yt]

 

[kirk55555]

2001: A Space Odyssey is the best example for me. I didn't literally go to sleep, but if a movie was going to put me to sleep it would have been this one.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

For the love of Christ, enough with the bitching about lens flares. It's been almost six years. We get it.

How about people quit complaining when someone brings up lens flares? We get that too.


The only time I ever fell asleep at the movie theater was during Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The cutie 2 seats down from me nudged me awake when the movie was over. I asked her if I snored. She said "just a little". How embarassing.