2112-Rob-2112 Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 What is the longest movie you have ever seen? I was spending the night at a friends house last night and he wanted me to see "Once upon a time in America" And that movie had to be the longest ive seen...we started it at 12 30 at night and it ended at 5 in the morning...ahhh it was looong! The movie I thought was ooook.....Way to long and it got pretty boring but the performances from De Niro and James Woods were pretty awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anagramking Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Probably Lawrence of Arabia for me. They even had an intermission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Gettysburg is a favorite of mine, I remember when they used to show it on TV, they would split it up into halves, 3 hours the first night, 3 hours the second night. Thats including commercials though, the movie is 254 minutes long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signals1982 Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Return of the King Extended Edition, 4 hr 10 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Grizz Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Voyna i mir (War and Peace)--Sergei Bondarchuk--1968 If you can find it, watch it. Admittedly, the 7 hour plus running time is pretty daunting, but consider the source material. This film deservedly won the best foreign picture Oscar when it was finally released in the U.S. The fact that a Soviet film was able to garner such an award during the height of the Cold War is a testament to its greatness. There are 3 intermissions to this, the Pangaea of all epic films, and each section draws the viewer in more than the last. The spectacle will blow your mind in a way that digital effects never will be able to do. To actually see the Red Army (and what looks like all of it) marching in costume over the expanse of miles into the distance will change any prior notions of spectacle you held. Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, whatever awed you before is chicken feed compared to the brutal grandeur of Bondarchuk's recreation of The War of 1812. There are beautiful interludes of excellent acting amidst extremely costly sets--it's a shame I don't know Russian because those subtitles chew up a lot of exquisite scenery. The characters are fully developed, the direction is inspired (no run-of-the-mill static camera work in any of this). They showed this in 70mm at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood last year. Before that it was 10 years without a screening in the U.S. We can't afford to let this shimmering prize of film history lapse. In a theatre, or if it is ever issued on DVD, this movie will deeply reward all those who watch it. There was nothing as grand as War & Peace before; there will be nothing on its scale ever again. Treasure this masterpiece...if you can find it. The US version was 6 1/2 hours, but in Russia it was originally over eight hours long. It took many years to make and even used the Soviet Army as extras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112-Rob-2112 Posted April 24, 2006 Author Share Posted April 24, 2006 QUOTE (anagramking @ Apr 23 2006, 07:08 PM) Probably Lawrence of Arabia for me. They even had an intermission. Once upon a time in america had an intermission also...it was crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Das Boot - 5 hours long and worth every minute of it. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/bauhaus92/das-boot.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestand Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 I had a party and had the "brilliant" idea to have Andy Warhol's "Empire" Running on the TV endlessly. We were all outside, so the 8 hour movie didn't really affect us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modest Man From Mandrake Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 In 1994 we rented and watched the whole Collection of the Stand. It was 6 hours long. I think it was on 4 VHS tapes. I know that was a miniseries but we watched it like a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushengal Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 About 2-3 years ago I watched a miniseries (from the 80's) that was shown on TV like a movie.... all 8 hours of The Thornbirds. (my mom watched it growing up, so she had me watch it with her) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaWanna Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Beaches Well it sure as hell felt like 8 hours long!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 (edited) The extended vesions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy are all very long. Do they ever show movies in theaters these days with an intermission like they used to? Two of them I remember in the 80's were Gandhi and Reds. Tess also might have had an intermission. I have a video of Shirley MacLaine's Out On A Limb which is about 4 hours, but it's unfair as it was a mini-series shown over two nights when originally broadcast on television. This is by far the best made for tv movie I've ever seen. Edited April 24, 2006 by rushgoober Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 I remember watching Gandhi in the theatre, and it had an intermission. Other long ones I've seen: Casino JFK Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director's Cut) Dances With Wolves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 QUOTE (rushgoober @ Apr 24 2006, 12:58 PM) The extended vesions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy are all very long. Do they ever show movies in theaters these days with an intermission like they used to? Two of them I remember in the 80's were Gandhi and Reds. Tess also might have had an intermission. I have a video of Shirley MacLaine's Out On A Limb which is about 4 hours, but it's unfair as it was a mini-series shown over two nights when originally broadcast on television. This is by far the best made for tv movie I've ever seen. The last contemporary movie that I saw in the theater that had an intermission was Branagh's 'Hamlet'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Apr 24 2006, 02:09 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Apr 24 2006, 12:58 PM) The extended vesions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy are all very long. Do they ever show movies in theaters these days with an intermission like they used to? Two of them I remember in the 80's were Gandhi and Reds. Tess also might have had an intermission. I have a video of Shirley MacLaine's Out On A Limb which is about 4 hours, but it's unfair as it was a mini-series shown over two nights when originally broadcast on television. This is by far the best made for tv movie I've ever seen. The last contemporary movie that I saw in the theater that had an intermission was Branagh's 'Hamlet'. Oh yeah, that DID have an intermission, didn't it??? That was in the mid-90's sometime - forgot about that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 I think Gods and Generals from 2003 had an intermission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 I would imagine that these days movie theaters that seem to be more about $$$ then ever before would NOT want intermissions. The longer a movie is, the fewer people can see a given movie per day, unless of course they use more than one screen, but that takes away from the income that can be generated from a different movie. With a long movie like the Lord of The Rings movies, I'm sure they didn't mind too much as they're so popular that they still make a killing, but with more artsy films that have a more limited audience, it's probably a losing proposition for them. I would imagine a more artsy 3+ hour film would tend to play at more independent and/or art house theaters anyway as the appeal might not be great enough to make it to a big money-making chain. Adding a 10-minute intermission just makes a 3+ hour film that much longer and eats away at that much more profit potential. This is of course all speculation, but it seems to make sense... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softfilter Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 QUOTE (Storm Shadow @ Apr 25 2006, 08:06 AM) I think Gods and Generals from 2003 had an intermission. And it should of had at least two more,What a struggle it was to sit through this close to 4hr piece of crap. This version of war is indeed hell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 I think Goober's comment about "theaters these days" is accurate. To wit: The latest Harry Potter film was VERY long, but theaters weren't offering an intermission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenshall Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Apr 24 2006, 11:05 AM) Beaches Well it sure as hell felt like 8 hours long!!! Have you seen Kevin Cosner in the POSTMAN ? now that movie did seem like 8 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midway Hawker Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 Lord of the Rings - Extended addition.. The whole thing. It's really one movie anyway. And yes, I've watched the whole thing in one day. All 12 hours of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 QUOTE (queenshall @ Apr 25 2006, 11:38 AM) QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Apr 24 2006, 11:05 AM) Beaches Well it sure as hell felt like 8 hours long!!! Have you seen Kevin Cosner in the POSTMAN ? now that movie did seem like 8 hours One of the worst dates of my entire life was seeing this movie. It was a second date with this woman, the first of which didn't go swimmingly, but well enoughI guess to garner a 2nd one. So, despite the horrible reviews, we decided to see this movie anyway. We got through about 30-40 minutes of it, and it was bad, but I was still somehow into it. My date decided it was too disturbing for some seemingly random reason and wanted us to go. I really didn't want to as I didn't like leaving movies in the middle unless it was painful, and besides, I knew this was my only shot for this movie and if we left I'd never go see it again. She was obviously upset though, so we left. Well, that was the last date we had as for some reason that really bugged me at the time and there wasn't much of a connection between us besides that. My prophecy has so far remained true as I've never ever seen the end of that stupid movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnalschick Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 Out of Africa- Although it was good, it was loooong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaWanna Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 The English Patient!!! Eva see that Seinfeld show with that movie?? Well I felt the same way as Elaine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirmshander Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 SHOAH - 9 hour documentary on the Holocaust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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