[Film] Films that sent you to sleep

[Weststander]

The English Patient. You don’t have to be English to watch it but you do have to be f***ing patient.

This.

UK-media hyped.

 

[Lenny Rider]

The Irishman, I think we were gaslit by the movie aficionados.

Bit harsh, it was ideal for Netflix however, so it can be watched in instalments.

For me it was Breathless, with Richard Gere, August 1983 Odeon Screen One Worthing. Pile of shit, thankfully missed the middle 30 mins, date wasn’t too impressed though.

 

[jakarta]

I don’t doubt. Judging them purely as films, bored me to tears.

I'm amazed by the Godfather, surely all the murder and mayhem would have kept you awake?

 

[vegster]

The Power of the Dog.

good f***ing lord. The critics and film intelligentsia were surely having a big in-joke, with their massive backing of this utter dirge. Shockingly dull film.

It was so mind numbing I had to have the plot explained to me on here..other than that, La La Land was awful, mentally switched off after 4 minutes.

 

[Rogero]

Sleepless in Seattle

 

[chip]

The Revenant

 

[The Clamp]

I'm amazed by the Godfather, surely all the murder and mayhem would have kept you awake?

Well, some of it woke me up in between all the mumbling exposition.

 

[Zeberdi]

I feel you might be watching the wrong sort of art-house films

I’ve been interested in early arthouse cinema since going through art college in the 80s, cutting my teeth on Ingmar Bergman, Fellini, Jean-luc Goddard etc - and as the genre developed through the 90s, Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-hsien, Bela Tarr, Warhol etc etc but I’ve just lost the will to sit through any slow-moving, high art movies at this time of my life - I am at the age where I think why would I be pretentious about film watching and watch films that were clearly not meant to be made to please audiences if they bore me?

Arthouse films are typified by antithetical tools such as slow-pacing, minimal dramatic content and shadowy protagonists. Akira Kurosawa was an art-house filmmaker and probably bucks the trend here in terms of typical art-house elements and is also one of my favourite filmmakers but again, I’d be bored watching his work now. If people are not bored by arthouse films, they are probably watching films that are not true ‘arthouse’ but have pandered in some way to mainstream audiences.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Mind numbing boring trash.

 

[Pevenseagull]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Mind numbing boring trash.

top 5 film of all time for me

However ...the remake of Solaris .... I have never got through that ... and I have tried.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I bumped into an ex recently and we had a chat about films that we had, and hadn't, enjoyed since breaking up. She thought "The Phantom Thread" was the most boring film she had ever seen. It's a good job we never married.

 

[curly69]

Dune old and new.

 

[Silverhatch]

No time to die. A real snoozefest

I fell asleep for that one too. However, it was more to do with some good grub, a couple of pints and a big seat in a warm Duke of York’s.

 

[The Clamp]

Another vote for Dune
I’ll add
Dr.Sleep (rather apt title)
Nope
Close Encounters

I do a lot of dozing in my armchair.

 

[Notters]

War Horse - had to turn it off after an hour. Am I missing something?

 

[MattBackHome]

Most recently, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, despite the LOUDNESS of all the songs and Javier Bardem's SHOUTING.

Cinema is a great activity with the kids if you want to grab 30 mins shuteye.

 

[BBassic]

Bram Stokers Dracula. Saw it at Kingswest in 1992. Only film I’ve ever walked out of to this day.

Similar(ish) for me.

Queen of The Damned on my 17th birthday with my ex-girlfriend who had become my ex by dumping me the day before.

Absolute shambles of a birthday.

 

[Questions]

Waterworld.

I fell asleep watching that and I wet myself.

 

[Questions]

Bit harsh, it was ideal for Netflix however, so it can be watched in instalments.

For me it was Breathless, with Richard Gere, August 1983 Odeon Screen One Worthing. Pile of shit, thankfully missed the middle 30 mins, date wasn’t too impressed though.

You didn’t tell your date you were an usherette…. I remember now x

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

There are some great films in this thread. You also have to watch a film in its entirety to be able to judge it property imo. I thought Moonlight was pretty dull and also Hereditary