As the title says what is the longest film you have watched? We are not talking multiple episodes of dvd box sets, I mean film. I ask because last night I watched the four hour version of Cleopatra with Liz Taylor and Dick Burton. And the version I saw was an hour short of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's director cut.

And boy did the film need editing. Still it was certainly epic in certain places.

That's 4 hours plus right?

I had fun sitting through that shit in Century City, though
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Maybe I'm just used to the faster pace of the 153-minute version but it plays much better...
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The first time I ever saw it was the redux version and I picked out every additional scene. they were bad, but they obviously fucked up the flow.

ummm...wait...what?

Jerk.

Match Point was probably the "longest" film I've ever sat through, except I'm lying, I actually got up and started doing chores around the house after a while because I got so sick of that piece of fucking shit crap film.

Ha ha, I haven't seen Match Point and probably never will now.

>Match Point was probably the "longest" film I've ever sat
>through, except I'm lying, I actually got up and started doing
>chores around the house after a while because I got so sick of
>that piece of fucking shit crap film.

It's one of the Good Wood movies (pause) and is arguably his best in a decade or so...
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bad acting, bad story, bad themes, bad photography, really bad fake ping pong playing, oh man it's so bad.

I guess if you're one of those people that really, really likes to fantasize about humping attractive Hollywood people (like, say, Woody Allen), you can get by staring into the vacant eyes of Scarlett Johansen and Jonathan Rys-Myers, but if you're looking to actually enjoy a film for its merits besides the fuckability of its leads, I recommend Die Hard.

fail. i didn't see what was so great about the movie either.

Once Upon A Time In America - 3 hours 40 mins

>Once Upon A Time In America - 3 hours 40 mins

I saw this last month and thought it was fucking brilliant. Jimmy Woods smashes it. But the last hour is all wrong but the first 3/4 are quite staggeringly good.

And compared to Cleopatra Once Upon A Time In America flew by.

for a film that long to do that is fucking incredible

and yeah Woods was great

My aunt forced me to watch it. Hyped it up to me for years, and then one day I visited and she forced me to watch. I don't know how I didn't fall asleep.

I would've said Seven Samurai but I broke that movie up over three days.

about 4 hrs, including an intermission.

Supposed to be like 7 hours or something. I actually think it got really good reviews.

Found it, Best of Youth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Youth

And an interesting list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_movies_in_history

by quickly. No arty dead time in the story. I watched the first 3 hours one night, then the last 3 the next. Each sitting felt like 100 minutes each. I found it really engrossing.

Don't know how the miniseries was split up on Italian tv, but you probably could find good spots to break up the viewing in each half.

I know it was at least four hours.

I watched all three extended editions in one day a few years back. It was pretty epic.

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and i was stoned at the time so it felt even longer.
what a crappy movie.

one 15-minute break, an hour dinner break, and a bathroom break. The movie's Satantango. I don't recommend it.

I've seen longer movies than Satantango, but watched them in multiple sittings spread throughout days. Sometimes even weeks.


But, the longest movie I saw in literally one sitting was A Brighter Summer Day coming in at a couple of minutes shy of 4 hours. Currently, my favorite film of all-time.

You should have said it was an Edward Yang film and you would have got a lot more response. Yi Yi is certainly a favourite among many peple on the board. Yi Yi is my second favourite film after Charade. Yi Yi comes in at almost three hours but i'll now definitely check A Brighter Summer Day, four hours will probably seem like a breeze.


>But, the longest movie I saw in literally one sitting was A
>Brighter Summer Day coming in at a couple of minutes shy of 4
>hours. Currently, my favorite film of all-time.

>You should have said it was an Edward Yang film and you would
>have got a lot more response. Yi Yi is certainly a favourite
>among many peple on the board. Yi Yi is my second favourite
>film after Charade. Yi Yi comes in at almost three hours but
>i'll now definitely check A Brighter Summer Day, four hours
>will probably seem like a breeze.

I can't wait to see people's response to the film when the Criterion comes out. ABSD and The Terrorizer are so different from Yi Yi that they might surprise / shock people.

I believe it was 5 hours strong.

it was well worth it but jesus, that movie is long. I've only been able to get through it once. BUt seen several key scenes many times

Saw Gods and Generals in the theatre with my civil war obsessed (at the time) lil nerd cousin.. horrible.

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8 hour experience. Wooden art-house theatre seats. My body did not love me after that.

First halved rocked. Second halve not so much...

benecio was there after the movie answering questions, it was opening week

and i had to go back a second time cause the wife couldnt go with me and i had to take her

It looks good. It might take me a few days to watch it all though.

The first halve goes by fast. And it's two 2hr parts with a 30 minute intermission. I saw it as a whole movie when it had that limited run in NYC. Went opening day with expectations high...

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It's really too bad that I didn't know the 2nd half was going to suck as much as it did. I figured b/c the 1st half was so good that even though it was going to be a different style it'd be just as entertaining.

the intermission was like ten minutes at the theater i was at.

not sure what the full run time was between both movies & the trailers in between.

that was little over 3 hrs.

with bloopers and gag reel


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A special showing of The Godfather: The Complete Epic, which showed Parts I and II chronologically about 12 years ago. Shit clocked in around 6.5 hours, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Also Redux, which felt every bit like damn near four hours. Return of the King and Alexander. All I remember from that one is my mom (yes, I saw Alexander with my mom) asking if it was almost over and me saying, "don't forget, they haven't even shown the elephants yet". all she could say was "shit". and my mom doesn't even curse like that.

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Return of the King: Extended Edition...never realized that shit was 4 hrs & 18 mins

I've all watched David Lean's films straight through. Lawerence of Arabia is a lil' over 3 and 1/2 hrs

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Dances With Wolves since tape broke half way thru making it an extra half hour longer

Otherwise Return of the King

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