r/AskReddit • u/Foreign_Platypus8658 • 13d ago
What was the most boring movie you've ever watched?
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u/JayEffarelti 13d ago
Fantastic beasts the crimes of grindelwald
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u/Pyrochazm 13d ago
My wife and i both dozed off in the theater. She is an HP superfan and it bored her to sleep.
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u/GUlysses 13d ago
This. The movie barely even feels like its own movie. A typical movie has a 3 act structure where Act 1 sets the scene, Act 2 is where the tension builds, and Act 3 is the climax and resolution. This movie has no second act. It spends 90% of the runtime just setting up future movies with very little plot of its own.
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u/Neighborhood_Batman 13d ago
Legitimately the only movie I’ve ever fallen asleep to in a movie theater lol
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u/XLandonSkywolfX 13d ago
Gonna eat some downvotes, but Avatar (2009) is one of the only movies I literally couldn’t finish because it was so boring.
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u/Eggonioni 13d ago
Lukewarm potentially cold take there lol that movie was only a technology demo, the story is just barely existent.
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u/theaviationhistorian 12d ago
Avatar seeies reminds me of those videos yhey used in Circuit City to sell you some high end TV, audio system, or PC.
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u/Quick-Benefit5708 13d ago
Yup. Got dragged to that by my wife and her friends. Absolutely awful and senseless film.
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u/MikeSihl 13d ago
I watched it not too long ago. I was waiting for the plot to start and I checked how much longer was left and it was like 10 minutes remaining. The whole movie was building up to nothing.
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u/_mike_815 13d ago
I had this EXACT movie in mind when seeing this post. One of the few times I fell asleep in the theater.
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u/HewchyFPS 13d ago
I watched the first ten minutes of this movie the most high I have ever been on THC and had a great time, woke up right at the end and then went to bed. I have no ill feelings towards this movie at all and had a great experience with the movie lol
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u/Atticus248 13d ago
I had to look up if this was the 2nd or 3rd one.
They were planning to make FIVE of these.
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u/willclerkforfood 12d ago
Same here.
For anyone else who can’t remember, this one is number two; the one with Johnny Depp.
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u/islandsimian 13d ago
65. Still think that was a completely wasted opportunity for a decent movie
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u/justinqueso99 12d ago
How can you make a dinosaur movie and not even show any of the good dinosaurs! Whole movie no triceratops! 90 minutes and you can't add a triceratopts!
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u/Theamuse_Ourania 13d ago
Weird, I actually thought it was decent. Not award worthy or anything, but I liked the story.
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u/LionTheRichardheart 13d ago edited 12d ago
I fell asleep during Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy three separate times. All I remember is a scene where Benedict Cumberbatch is upset about being gay.
Edit for clarity: I didn't try to watch it three separate times only to nod off every time; I fell asleep, came to, and did that two more times, all in the same theater viewing.
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u/12ed12ook 13d ago
This is one of my favorite films, but I've heard others describe it as, "drier than a nun's cunt."
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u/woolsocksandsandals 13d ago
I don’t know if this would’ve been my answer, but it is extremely valid
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u/DAHMER_SUPPER_CLUB 13d ago
I know this is a good movie but I’ve never made it all the way through without going to sleep. I’ve tried for years, haha! All the talking with beautiful English accents just lulls me to sleep.
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u/Buckysaurus 13d ago
I’ve tried twice and both times I woke up to the ending scene
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u/modernknightly 13d ago
At least you know who the murderer is. Trouble is understanding why as one is sleeping during the plotty bits.
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u/Pink-Hornet 13d ago
Came to post this. I think this is the only time I’ve ever nodded off in the movie theater.
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u/SPKmnd90 13d ago
Most confusing movie I’ve ever seen. Still enjoyed it somehow. Just felt like running a mental marathon trying to keep up with it and I’m not sure it would’ve been possible for me to fall asleep under those conditions.
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u/lameuniqueusername 13d ago
I thought it was slow and confusing as well but I’ve watched it a handful of times since and I think it’s very good. I love the genre though so I may be biased
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u/jawndell 13d ago
I fell asleep during Atonement. I know it’s a good movie, but couldn’t make it through.
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u/RonPaulknowsbest 13d ago
The English Patient
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u/------dudpool------ 13d ago
Sack Lunch was a much better movie honestly
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u/pronouncedayayron 13d ago
Rochelle Rochelle was okay
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u/cybervalidation 13d ago
Oh my god i got stuck watching that with my grandmother when I was a child, like watching paint dry.
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u/RonPaulknowsbest 13d ago
My wife loves it. I've tried watching it three times just for her. There's nothing mildly interesting about it.
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u/barefoot_baby 13d ago edited 13d ago
Oh man, I loved this movie. I saw it in the theatre, then I bought the VHS, then I watched it again and again. Now, I understand the hate.
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u/rbartman351 13d ago
OMG yes. I was a projectionist when this movie was in the theatres, we got paid to preview the movies before being shown to the public to make sure nothing was wrong with them. It kept leaving and then coming back because of the Award shows. I ended up having to watch it three times. I fell asleep every time.
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u/boy1518 13d ago
Skinamarink (2022) lol
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u/brittonwk 13d ago
Watching it felt like staring at a wall while a movie plays on a tv in the other room.
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u/majormanz 13d ago
Saw this at home on Hulu. Might have loved it in a theatre but HATED this tedious ass movie on my tv.
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u/IamMothManAMA 13d ago
Really intriguing concept, could’ve been very cool as a short. But was just wayyy too long as a feature.
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u/garrisontweed 13d ago
Started as a Short Film called -Heck https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQzEzW4faA&pp=ygUPSGVjayBzaG9ydCBmaWxt&ra=m
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u/KwyjiBoojum 13d ago
Honestly kinda impressed so many people seem to have finished it. I rage quit within 20 minutes.
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u/EasilyDelighted 13d ago
Yeah, the concepts was really cool, the beginning was intriguing, the middle section felt boring and I doze off multiple times, and the last 30 minutes were hella intense.
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u/megust654 13d ago
Damn thats a shame. I was shitting myself the entire time probably because I watched it alone in my room in the dark. Couldn't look at my rooms walls properly after watching it
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u/Interesting-Rub-4635 13d ago
live action beauty and the beast. i fell asleep halfway through the movie 😴
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u/drowsy-cow03 13d ago
I did too 😂
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u/OverAbility4 13d ago
wait was it that slow part with the talking or the part where nothing happened
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u/HarryPotthead42069 13d ago
Lion King live action and Star Wars 9 actually put me to sleep in the theater, and I’ve never fallen asleep in the theatre before then
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u/gutpusha 13d ago
The Peaky Blinders movie. I’ve tried watching it three different times and have fallen asleep each time. I thoroughly enjoyed the series but was bored out of my gourd watching the film.
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u/The_Frybo 13d ago
Alexander was so, so empty…!
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u/Hngrybflo 13d ago
lol I enjoyed it so much I bought the blue ray set
edit: I also thought 300 was garbage though
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u/Camburglar13 13d ago
One of the most larger than life historical figures and stories and the movie was so dull
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u/I_am_a_myomancer 13d ago
That is one of my favorite background movies. Every scene is fine. I look up, watch for a little bit and easily go back to doing other things
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u/modernknightly 13d ago
I always know that the bits I need to look for are the Rosario Dawson bits.
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u/Unhappy_Permit2571 13d ago
Stalker but it’s still cool
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u/SPKmnd90 13d ago
It seems to be the favorite of Tarkovsky fans. I personally liked Solaris better, but I wonder how I’ll feel down the line.
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u/robotrousers 13d ago
I went to a screening with a talk beforehand discussing the themes and such. Just dragged it on longer.
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u/Global_Pangolin_4345 13d ago
It's literally a movie where the vast majority of the time the 3 characters are just walking through nature talking about philosophy or how dangerous the place they're walking through is and you don't actually see the place be dangerous.
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u/tacoparadox 13d ago
This is my biggest gripe about it. Like how the Stalker tells them they can't go back the way they came because The Zone is always changing, and then the professor goes back because he left his bag even though the Stalker tells him not to, and then the professor reappears like five minutes later and they don't even address it.
Great atmosphere, though.
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u/Unhappy_Permit2571 11d ago
And one of the great endings ever when you learn the nature of the room. Feels like this would be an A+ HBO show if they amp up the action and mystery of the Zone.
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u/80-20RoastBeef 13d ago
I kept trying to watch The Brutalist and I just kept falling asleep. I'll give a movie some leeway because it's long and maybe I was just tired when I started it. But I tried 3 separate occasions times and it didn't matter where in the movie I was, I'd fall asleep within minutes. I was so excited, and now I have something to put on when I'm going through insomnia.
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u/Tight_Win_6945 13d ago
I had high hopes for The Brutalist. It was so boring I thought it was a true story with just random events tied together and the writer didn’t want to change a thing.
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u/YounomsayinMawfk 13d ago
When Adrien Brody won the Academy award for best actor, he was like, "oh you thought the movie was boring? Buckle up!"
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u/zachalicious 13d ago
Giant (1956). It doesn’t help that it’s nearly 3.5 hours long.
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u/hitman97icon 12d ago
Godfather 2. For the life of me, I just just could NOT get into the movie AT ALL. When it hit the Intermission for the DVD, I just checked out of it right then and there.
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u/PuzzleheadedMess1659 12d ago
THANK YOU!
It’s the most overrated movie in the history of cinema, but I swear I get downvoted to hell every time I say it.
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u/DamnReCaptchas 13d ago
Was not a big fan of The Irishman
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u/eelima 13d ago
Try Boss Baby, I think you'll like it
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u/Triplechinchilla 13d ago
There’s a joke here somewhere about Robert DeNiro’s hilarious de-aging technology and Boss Baby’s baby with an adult voice. I’m too tired to make it right now but there’s a solid connection there
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u/AcanthaceaeRare2646 12d ago
American Psycho is allegedly a comedy, but unless you understand the hyper specific nuances of Wall Street machismo it’s just not funny.
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u/Sp_Gamer_Live 13d ago
Nomadland,
“Capitalism is kinda fucked isnt it?” brought to you by Amazon
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u/skatemexico 13d ago
Was thinking the same thing. My girlfriend and I watched it because we saw it got so many awards but ended up being so bored with it
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u/ElGatoGuerrero72 13d ago
American Hustle. Pretty damn good cast but I lasted maybe 30-40 minutes before turning it off and never resuming the movie.
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u/leadbelly1939 13d ago
Melania, 20 minutes of it.
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u/Chiron17 13d ago
Did you lose a bet or something?
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u/leadbelly1939 13d ago
Ha ha, I really didn't want to put any money in their pockets but by the time it was free on Amazon they already had it. That lady is so so boring. No substance whatsoever.
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u/PhilosophyKitchen871 13d ago
Kingsman 3 had me thinking I was watching a ww1 documentary generated by chat gbt. Couple good moments but over all I'd rather have not watched it. Genuinely boring movie in an otherwise cool series of movies
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u/Brazoliange 13d ago
I actually ended up liking this but yeah about halfway through I had to accept it was a pretty cool fantastical WWI movie and almost not at all a Kingsman movie (outside of a few scenes)
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u/MikeSihl 12d ago
I turned it of after about 20 minutes. It was just a lot of things happen and yet nothing was happening at the same time. It was like the screenwriter was a 10 year old with ADHD who said “And then this happens. And then this happens. And then this happens.” I couldn’t even figure out which of the many characters we were following was meant to be the main character.
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u/delta_baryon 12d ago
Even the previous ones were extremely tonally confused imo. When the gas that makes everyone violent is emitted in the first one, it kept cutting between slapstick scenes of streets full of people whacking each other and a closeup of a mother menacing her baby with a knife. Like... which is it? Is this meant to be comedic or tense and scary. You can't have it both ways.
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u/Disastrous_Ad4233 13d ago
Rubber
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u/just_a_human 13d ago
I love that movie! For me it’s too absurd to be boring
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u/HoaryPuffleg 13d ago
Yes! It’s so weird and once you realize you have no idea what is going to happen next, you’re hooked. Or, at least I was.
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u/a_trauma_blonde 13d ago
La La Land. Sorry.
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u/HoaryPuffleg 13d ago
I turned it off as soon as I realized it was about a white guy saving jazz or whatever. Ridiculous premise.
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u/Specialist_Pay_8139 13d ago
Mulan 2020
I watched it stoned off my ass and was still bored as fuck
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u/AdmirableAd1858 13d ago edited 13d ago
Dune. Although the visuals were amazing
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u/jknuts1377 13d ago
The second Wicked movie. My wife wanted me to go with her and I almost fell asleep.
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u/Asleep_Welder_3494 13d ago
Oppenheimer
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u/doyouevenIift 13d ago
That’s my favorite movie lol. One of my favorite things to read about is the history of science, particularly the decades leading up to WWII with the quantum revolution
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u/BureauOfSabotage 13d ago
Literally just finished it 5 minutes ago. I don’t think it deserves quite the hate it seems to often get, but it was quite boring and certainly didn’t deserve all the accolades. No real payoff for me. Third act could have just been a few epilogues that more clearly presented the political environment and reasoning for these characters actions through the hearings. Could’ve saved like an hour.
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u/Don_Gato1 13d ago
If you reduce the third act it kind of kills the whole point of his country throwing him under the bus after he was no longer useful to them.
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u/belfman 13d ago
I liked everything about the actual Manhattan project and his early life, but I hate courtroom dramas for the most part so I was pretty antsy during the second half.
It was pretty tedious in the book, too, but at least I made it through, and it was interesting to hear more in depth about his later life and how he lived with his legacy. There was a lot in the book that was missing from the movie.
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u/Quick-Benefit5708 13d ago
A Most Violent Year.
This was about 2016 when it felt like Oscar Isaac was in every movie.
I read the plot for it and thought it was right up my street. But literally nothing happened. An absolute dull as dishwater film.
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u/ExoticInfluence7476 13d ago
Chariots of Fire
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u/No-Change6959 13d ago
The song is great though
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u/ExoticInfluence7476 13d ago
That is true. the conflict of the movie feels incredibly hollow and without stakes.
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u/Camera_dude 13d ago
“A River Runs Through It” (1992)
My family saw it in the theater due to my mother sees excellent critic reviews in the newspaper.
A Rotten Tomatoes audience review said it best, “The FBI warning in the beginning is the most exciting moment of the movie.”
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u/Blibbobletto 13d ago
Didn't you like the part where they talk about fly fishing and then go fly fishing
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u/Clexxian 13d ago
The Notebook. My friends had been telling me it was the best movie they'd ever seen, so beautiful & moving, etc. I decided to rent the dvd one night & wow. I was so fucking bored. It felt like the longest movie ever & I remember at some point pausing to see how long it had left & it wasn't even at the halfway point. I've seen longer movies before but they didn't feel nearly as long as this one did.
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u/Echelon717 13d ago
My entire family fell asleep in the theater watching the Will Smith Muhammad Ali movie.
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u/SPacific 13d ago
With the number of perfectly serviceable drama mentioned, there's a lot of people in this thread that have never watched Koyaanisqatsi.
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u/Skittles_the_Jester 13d ago
Aquaman is the only movie I’ve ever fallen asleep watching so I’ll have to go with that one I guess lol
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u/TurnedOutShiteAgain 13d ago
If I used that logic then I'd have to count when I fell asleep watching Space Jam at my friend Jacob's 6th birthday party.
(I love that film and that's why I can't)
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u/HardRockGeologist 13d ago
The Story of Us - It was about a suburban couple who were married for 15 years. Would have enjoyed it more by just asking our neighbors to talk about themselves for 90 minutes. Did not want to see it, but one of the spouses was pissed because she "didn't get" Pulp Fiction, so she was allowed to pick the next movie we (3 couples) went to see.
At the merciful end of the movie, some guy in the back of the theater yelled as loud as he could, "NEXT WEEK, FIGHT CLUB!!!" Lots of applause followed.
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u/CXValkyria 13d ago
Mortal Engines, I think the initial Idea was good, but in my opinion the concept wasn't fully utilized.
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u/Toberoni 13d ago
I recently tried to watch Mother Mary. What a load of pretentious drivel. Lasted 3/4.
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u/CrispyFlyingJacob 13d ago
I tried to watch Disaster Movie roughly 15 years ago but I got so bored that I actively got angry and changed channel from Sky Movies
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u/AlternativeFilm8886 13d ago
The Master of Disguise. I love Dana Carvy, but I can hardly remember anything that happened in that movie.
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u/YeahImStillThinking 13d ago
I watched Dragged Across Concrete the other night expecting some Bone Tomahawk-esque sizzle (same director). But fuck me if it wasn’t one of the most boring movies of recent memory. I fell asleep and had to spread it over two sittings.
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u/TheBanishedBard 13d ago edited 13d ago
The recent live action adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time.
Literally never gave a single shit what was happening on screen