what "great" critically acclaimed films have put you to sleep?

[Drizzle]

Citizen Kane. I can respect its technical achievements but other than that I don't find it to be anything special. Come at me, snobs.

 

[harryoscop]

All of the LOTR movies.

 

[zephyrinthesky]

Lost in Translation was a slog to get through.

 

[Kane52630]

2001: A Space Odyssey



2010: The Year We Make Contact was a better movie.

 

[BoredGuy]

I saw a guy sleeping in the theater when I saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

I fell asleep in the theater for the first Harry Potter movie
I blame child actors

 

[hellified]

Star Wars. I find the first and second acts of the movie incredibly painstaking to go through.

Which one?

Star Wars.

Episode 4

you must be over 40 cuz only that generation remembers that episode 4 was originally just called...star warst:t:

 

[hellified]

inglorious basterds - I remember waking up at the half way point and thinking..is that mike myers?? then nodding back off then waking up a few minutes later.

killing them softly

 

[Finarfiniel]

I saw a guy sleeping in the theater when I saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

I fell asleep about halfway through The First Avenger the first time I watched it (I didn't see it at the theater, I'm talking about at home), but in all fairness it wasn't because I didn't like it (it is one of my least favourite MCU films though) but more due to the fact that I was genuinely exhausted and it was at that slightly draggy bit where they do the montage of Cap and the Howling Commandos knocking over all the Hydra bases.

Trying not to judge anyone who has said LotR too harshly...

 

[Gort Baringa]

Dr. Zhivago. Some of David Lean's other films are pretty hard to get through also!

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Lost in Translation for me.

For my older sister: Citizen Kane and The Pianist

 

[Lasirius]

Syriana

The Hurt Locker

 

[See Cap Run]

Is the non-redux Apocalypse Now worth watching or is it slow and boring like Redux?

 

[hellified]

Is the non-redux Apocalypse Now worth watching or is it slow and boring like Redux?

non redux is the same movie without the added scenes of the french plantation dinner, extended boat fuel/playboy model scene, extra captured in kurtz land scenes.

 

[lime]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Still, today I am amazed by the visual style and visuals in general of this movie...waaay beyond it's time. But it is so unbelivably boring. And I love slow ''boring'' films!

 

[Galactus123]

you must be over 40 cuz only that generation remembers that episode 4 was originally just called...star warst:t:

I call it that because that it was originally called. Even the wikipedia page says Star Wars.

 

[Tao43]

The Godfather films

 

[Pink Ranger]

you must be over 40 cuz only that generation remembers that episode 4 was originally just called...star warst:t:

WTF are you saying with "that generation"?! Get off my lawn!

 

[Abudefduf]

Ah, I'm glad someone finally made a thread for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. What a dull, uneventful waste of time that movie is.

 

[Xrated48]

The Thing- saw it in film class but it was early in the morning and i was tired. Haven't seen it since, i want to rewatch it though.

 

[hellified]

WTF are you saying with "that generation"?! Get off my lawn!

im 47 you get off MY lawn

 

[scarlet-witch]

Gone With The Wind.

 

[See Cap Run]

non redux is the same movie without the added scenes of the french plantation dinner, extended boat fuel/playboy model scene, extra captured in kurtz land scenes.

Thanks for the info! I just checked and the Redux was 3:23 but it felt so much longer than that in the theater!

 

[Rowsdower!]

Lost in Translation was a slog to get through.

God yes. I hate that pretentious pile of crap. Fans of that movie annoy the sh** out of me too. "OMG THE END OF THE MOVIE WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WHISPERED IN HER EARRRR?!!"

Hopefully it was,"This movie sucks. I'm out."

 

[JtheDreamer]

American Hustle.

Hated that movie. Never understood the appeal at all.

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I tried several times...

See I love movies trying to depict the finer intricacies ofthe mind. At the time I had also gone thru a bad breakup - so the movie really hit home.

 

[scarlet-witch]

Citizen Kane. I can respect its technical achievements but other than that I don't find it to be anything special. Come at me, snobs.

I almost went with this, only I didn't fall asleep during it. I just thought it was vastly overrated.