Falling Asleep In The Cinema

Only twice. Once when I was younger and we went to see Star Wars Episode 1 for a friend's birthday (I'd seen it the day before on pirate video...plus it was awful), fell asleep for about 30 mins halfway through the film.

The second time was during 28 Weeks Later, I'd just had a chinese buffet and got really, really bad being full tiredness so I slept for the first 10 minutes of the film, I was woken up by someone screaming. By god, I've never shot up from sleep so fast in my life.
 
I maintain that falling asleep in the cinema has nothing to do with the quality of the movie itself.

A darkened cinema, a comfortable seat...sometimes people don't actually realise how tired they are, and their lack of sleep (and who here can honestly say they always get the full 8 hours every night?) will often catch up with them during that moment.

And let's be honest...do people only fall asleep during movies they don't like?

It has nothing to do with the movie not holding your interest...I have been gripped by some movies and yet still struggled to keep my eyes open.

I have a good friend who is an absolute movie freak...he had a big screen tv, laserdisc player and an early form of surround system at home even back in the 80's, and went to the cinema practically every day.

But...at regular intervals, for about 10 - 15 mins at a time he regularly fell asleep during movies at the cinema.

I sat and watched Aliens in his house...and he was fast asleep after 10 mins and slept for the whole movie.

Alcohol of course plays a huge part...another friend of mine used to invite me to watch movies at his house. He would open a bottle of whisky, have a few slugs and within about 30 mins he was out for the night. I often used to go home and just leave him comatose in the chair.

I seriously think this whole 'bad movies putting you to sleep' thing is a myth...on a similar note it's right up their with the ridiculous concept of yawning because you are bored.
 
I've only ever fallen asleep once in the cinema during AI. Three of us went to see it and we all fell asleep. I felt the need to sleep creeping up and, given that I was thoroughly bored by the film, decided I couldn't be bothered trying to stay awake. I've seen it since and realised I hadn't missed anything.

My dad falls asleep in every film. And snores. Loudly
 
I fell asleep during the last resident evil film. I actually enjoyed the film but I was knackered, just holding on to my OH hand and in a very dark cinema sent me off to the land of nod, tWas only for 15ish mins so I still understood it (a bit)
 
The last film my husband saw in the cinema was about 10 years ago. He refuses to go with me as he always falls asleep.

I go about once a month and wouldn't like to waste my money by falling asleep. I wouldn't have minded falling asleep when Hachi: A Dog's Tale was on though!
 
I've never fallen asleep in the cinema, but some of my frienRAB have... one of them on several occasions :o

Sometimes it's because the film's crap. Other times, they're probably just tired :yawn:
 
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