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Author Topic: Falling Asleep During a Film? Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-11-2006 03:32 AM                  Have you ever fallen asleep in a theatre during a film you thought was really BORING? I have during: "The Lawnmower Man" "2001" Those have to be the worst God-awful ***BORING*** films EVER made! What are yours?  |  IP: Logged John Koutsoumis Master Film Handler Posts: 261 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Aug 2003 posted 06-11-2006 03:59 AM                     Don't ask me what the first "Tomb Raider" film was about. I fell asleep somewhere in the second reel and woke up about 5 mins from the ending. The Cinema was quite full too. Man that film was crap I also started dosing off at a screening of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" staring Errol Flynn and got very bored and sleepy (and actually nodded off a few times) with Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" which I saw in 70mm & six-track mag.  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 06-11-2006 04:12 AM                        I was screening the IMAX DMR re-release of Lion King a few years back. Usually I'm in the booth, but I had one of my guys up there and I got to be in the auditorium ... in the comfy seats. I don't know how much I snoozed, but I remember not knowing if the levels were good, afterward. Now, during an actual movie that I, say, paid for? I don't think I slept. I came close during Johnny Mnemonic, but I was sitting next to a girl I was interested in at the time, so her presence weakened that movie's narcoleptic powers.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-11-2006 04:30 AM                        The chief at an arthouse I once worked decided that he was going to work the evening My Night With Maud was screening. Being French, from the '60s and with a title like that, he figured there had to be some porn in it. The next morning when I came in, the assistant manager asked why the screen had 'gone off' for 10 minutes in the middle of the film. It turned out that when the chief discovered that the film in fact was about middle aged women sitting round a table, smoking and discussing philosophy, he'd rapidly lost interest, fallen asleep and missed a changeover.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-11-2006 09:51 AM                        "Look Who's Talking Too" Yeah - I know - why'd I watch it? It had to be screened and I had built the film. I went to sleep in the first reel and woke up during the credits. It was still in frame so I assumed it was built right.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-11-2006 09:59 AM                        Back in the late 70's I had an operator who had an all night job after he projected running a snow cat grooming runs on the ski area. After running the trailers he'd thread up #1, set the alarm on his early digital Timex, lean his back against the wall, put his head on the lamp table (behind the ORC M-1000 in a booth that was only 6' deep) and fall asleep to be awoken by the alarm to make the changeover. He did this regularly between reels for three or four winters and never missed a changeover. His nickname was (and still is) "Magic." Over 25 years later, Magic, who now is a physican's assistant and is inside 30 chests each week in Maine, still comes back to the Telluride Film Festival each August to be Chief Projectionist in the theatre he used to sleep between reels in. He tells me he no longer sleeps in projection booths...... but I'm never sure.....  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 06-11-2006 10:17 AM                     "The Ruling Class" (1971) starring Peter O'Toole. Not only did I snooze, but at every reel change cue, I would wish: Let it be over, let it be over... I snoozed through "The Empire Strikes Back" at my first viewing, not because it was dull, but because it was so LOUD! Thats a old topic here.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-11-2006 10:25 AM                     Star Wars Episode I because, yeah, it sucked that much.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-11-2006 10:33 AM                        Leonard Part 6 Bolero Bo couldn't keep me awake.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-11-2006 10:43 AM                     Empire Strikes Back SE.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-11-2006 02:51 PM                     quote: Bruce McGee I snoozed through "The Empire Strikes Back" at my first viewing, not because it was dull, but because it was so LOUD! Thats a old topic here. Funny, but it is amazing how a good comfy chair, putting your feet up coupled with a warm and beefy sound system played at a good volume (not cheezy multiplex volume) can do this.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-11-2006 03:07 PM                     In my case it was the story....  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-11-2006 04:13 PM                     Grey Gardens: The story of two crazy old ladies running around half naked through their broken down East Hampton mansion and cackling at the camera for two and a half hours! That's all I remember but I did wake up happy and refreshed... that the movie was over!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-11-2006 04:35 PM                        The only time for me was as a paid admission at EL CID, which is quite amazing given that it was such a big spectacle roadshow type film. I even cut last period class to see it but can't tell you what it was about other than every time I opened my eyes, I saw Anthony Quinn's 3 story high pretty ugly face and so I just closed them again. But then if you want to talk about all the films that at every changeover I said, "Make it be over....make it be over," The list would be longer than the longest credit crawl you ever saw (it's because I run a lot of "art house" films is why).  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-11-2006 05:13 PM                  I just saw "Bareback Mounting"...err I mean "Brokeback Mountain" on DirecTV. JFC! That sure is a candidate for falling asleep through. I'm soooo glad I didn't pay to see that SLOW, BORING, DUMBASS, STUPIT, CORNY(Cornhole?), movie in a theatre... I'd would have fallen asleep. Our Grand-Poopie-BAH told me the only parts he woke up for is when they showed the sheep. I didn't get what he meant...but that's not important right now.  |  IP: Logged

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