Sleep Inducing Movies

[Starbreaker]

I don't really fall asleep at the theater, but I have fallen asleep at home watching all kinds of things... Pirates 2, Capote, There Will Be Blood... I try to finish them later though.

 

[gblews]

BATMAN..the one with Val Kilmer. I made it halfway and was gone.

Batman Begins is like Ambien for me. Has nothing to do with fatigue and everything to do with the movie's lack of charismatic hero and villain in a superhero movie. The kiss of death -- er, sleep.

 

[scotpens]

The original Russian version of Solaris. "Solaris" must be a Russian word that means "cure for insomnia." The only good thing about the American remake is that it's almost an hour shorter.

Any movie by Eric Rohmer or Henry Jaglom is like watching paint dry.

. . . I also dozed off during Saving Private Ryan. 'Course, I fall asleep on car trips longer than 20 minutes, during meetings, attending lectures, sitting at the DMV....

You don't by any chance suffer from narcolepsy, do you?

 

[RoJoHen]

BATMAN..the one with Val Kilmer. I made it halfway and was gone.

Batman Begins is like Ambien for me. Has nothing to do with fatigue and everything to do with the movie's lack of charismatic hero and villain in a superhero movie. The kiss of death -- er, sleep.

You know, as awesome as The Dark Knight is as a film, I fell asleep watching it when I bought it on Blu-Ray.

I like the universe they've created with these new Batman films, but I just don't find Christian Bale's portrayal that interesting (especially when he starts talking with his retarded Batman voice).

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

"The Sheltering Sky" and "Out of Africa" -- Zzzzzzz

 

[RobertScorpio]

I have to admit that when I watch LOTR on DVD, or the sequels, I get drowsy and enter a coma. They are great movie; but if watched, while stretched out on a couch, good luck!

Rob

 

[Dac]

Ive never fallen asleep at the movies, but the closest I've been to comatose was recently when watching The Book of Eli. My ass was so numb, it felt like i'd been sitting there for 8 hours....horrible movie....

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Movies where I can never get past the credits because I am immediately bored:

*The Russia House (And I'm a Connery fan)...
*The Age of Innocence...
*Nostalgia (A long Russian film)
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/L'eclisse (A French New Wave Film)

There is another on my mind; I'll post it, when the name comes to me....

 

[Sparky]

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture. Don't get me wrong i actually like the movie. But when I am tired or need to sleep I can put this movie on and be out before the Enterprise leaves space dock.

 

[RobertScorpio]

^^ I used TMP to put my son, when he was a toddler. If you have kids, and want them to fall asleep, this is the ticket!

Rob

 

[tharpdevenport]

"Shanghai Knights". The movie just fucking goes on & on FOREVER, and what's more -- IT'S NOT FUNNY OR GOOD. It was HORRIBLY tedious to watch (I stuck with it since there was litterally nothinbg else, and was interested in checking out Randy Edleman's score).

IMDB shows 114 minutes in length -- almsot two hours. This fucking steaming pile could have been trimmed down to to a Star Trek episode length, and nothing of value would have been lost, but even then it couldn't be saved.

 

[Winged Victory]

Transformers 2. One minute I'm watching the opeining credits and the transformers do all their transform-y stuff, and the next minute Shia and Megan are running around in the desert. I asked my friend what I missed and he said "Not much." I went back to dozing!

 

[Greg Cox]

Years ago I rented the world's most boring foreign film. Alas, I have forgotten the title, so I can no longer warn the world. Here's a description:

A lonely man is stationed at a remote train platform in the middle of nowhere. One day a woman gets off a train and refuses to leave the station. Who is she? Where did she come from? Why did she get off the train? Who knows? She doesn't even speak the same language as the protagonist, so they can't communicate.

Weeks pass. They stare awkwardly at each other, fight, feud, have sex. One day she gets back on a train and leaves forever. Why? Who knows? THE END.

Anybody know what film this was?

 

[RobertScorpio]

Transformers 2. One minute I'm watching the opeining credits and the transformers do all their transform-y stuff, and the next minute Shia and Megan are running around in the desert. I asked my friend what I missed and he said "Not much." I went back to dozing!

I saw this at the local drive-in with my wife as a double feature with STAR TREK. We missed Transformers 2 as well, but for entirely (ahem) different reasons; and when I saw it again at the theater with my son? I zonked out too and woke up when they were outside the temple or something...

Rob

 

[sidious618]

Years ago I rented the world's most boring foreign film. Alas, I have forgotten the title, so I can no longer warn the world. Here's a description:

A lonely man is stationed at a remote train platform in the middle of nowhere. One day a woman gets off a train and refuses to leave the station. Who is she? Where did she come from? Why did she get off the train? Who knows? She doesn't even speak the same language as the protagonist, so they can't communicate.

Weeks pass. They stare awkwardly at each other, fight, feud, have sex. One day she gets back on a train and leaves forever. Why? Who know? THE END.

Anybody know what film this was?

That actually sounds kind of cool.

 

[Greg Cox]

Years ago I rented the world's most boring foreign film. Alas, I have forgotten the title, so I can no longer warn the world. Here's a description:

A lonely man is stationed at a remote train platform in the middle of nowhere. One day a woman gets off a train and refuses to leave the station. Who is she? Where did she come from? Why did she get off the train? Who knows? She doesn't even speak the same language as the protagonist, so they can't communicate.

Weeks pass. They stare awkwardly at each other, fight, feud, have sex. One day she gets back on a train and leaves forever. Why? Who know? THE END.

Anybody know what film this was?

That actually sounds kind of cool.

On paper, maybe. Which is probably why we rented it. In reality, it was two hours of sullen people not talking in a cramped railway station, with occasional bouts of joyless sex. I suppose it was a metaphor for the inability of men and women to communicate with each other, but . . . zzzz.

 

[Reverend]

Years ago I rented the world's most boring foreign film. Alas, I have forgotten the title, so I can no longer warn the world. Here's a description:

A lonely man is stationed at a remote train platform in the middle of nowhere. One day a woman gets off a train and refuses to leave the station. Who is she? Where did she come from? Why did she get off the train? Who knows? She doesn't even speak the same language as the protagonist, so they can't communicate.

Weeks pass. They stare awkwardly at each other, fight, feud, have sex. One day she gets back on a train and leaves forever. Why? Who know? THE END.

Anybody know what film this was?

That actually sounds kind of cool.

On paper, maybe. Which is probably why we rented it. In reality, it was two hours of sullen people not talking in a cramped railway station, with occasional bouts of sex. I suppose it was a metaphor for the inability of men and women to communicate with each other, but . . . zzzz.

Sounds just like the sort of thing we get over here on late night channel 4. Usually Spanish, French or Indian. A lot of the ones that aren't pretentious, tedious, obscure or all of the above can be just downright weird. Weird like David Lynch would get up in the middle of it say "that's it, I'm done, this is creeping me out!" Of course being on C4 late at night makes them perfect sleep inducers.

 

[Admiral_Young]

The closest that I've come to falling asleep at a movie theater was when I was dragged to see The Haunting remake. OMG I've never been so bored in a theater during a movie. I felt like leaving or drifting off to sleep!

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

It was a decent movie and I made it through it at the cinema's, but The New World. That's one I rewatch parts of and start to get sleepy.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

In reality, it was two hours of sullen people not talking in a cramped railway station, with occasional bouts of joyless sex.

Hey! I did NOT give them permission to film my life story!