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Talk about movies watching marathon!  :teddyr:

my best record is watch 4 movies within one day in my room
[Mommy's Epitaph, End of the World, Zardoz, Dog Soldiers]

how about you guys?  :twirl:

Last year I managed six movies:

 ~ The Giant Behemoth (1959)
 ~ The Monster That Challenged The World (1957)
 ~ It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
 ~ I Married A Monster From Outer Space (1958)
 ~ The Alligator People (1959)
 ~ The Fly (1958)

It was tough and I needed breaks between the movies but yeah, it was still fun.

Back in the 80s we did a few Saturday all-night marathons lasting to Sunday morning. The most was seven movies in a row.

seven in a row!
damn!
that time after I watched 4 it's 11 at night
I have plenty of time to watch one more
but my brain just tells me no haha

I have to force myself to get through three in a row. Most of the time I can watch one then I have to get up and do something else before I can sit down and watch another. Even then it is rare that I will watch more than two in a day. No way I could see myself watching seven films in a row.

A few years ago I would routinely watch 5 or 6 movies starting on a Saturday afternoon and going into the night.  Lately, my maximum has been 3 or 4. 

3.  Any more and I get restless and they start to blur together.  I really don't watch more than 2 back to back anymore. 

I'd be surprised if I can get through even one.  Even before kids, I'm one of those oddballs that stretch a movie out over a week. 

Two normally but I can watch three if I'm in the right sort of mood.

I'd say 3.

one time at the New Orleans Worst film fest, they did a marathon. I believe I sat through 9 movies! :buggedout:

In 1980's to 1990's 3 movies a night 3 to 4 times a week (we would rent movies from a video store and watch the back to back and then return the flicks the next day to rent somemore... )

1990's to1995ish, I've gotten selective and work/school made it diffictult at times to watch 1 or 2 movies in a week. Although there would be times (weekend) I would watch Godfather 1 and 2 back to back...  :buggedout:

1999 to 2003, Internet was a source of interesting movies to watch, although I was working (no life) and rpging on the weekends so I had time to watch movies (also slective) and watched about 2 to 3 movies during the weekend.

2003 and present (has beatuiful wife that enjoys bad movies)... although for the first 3 to 4 years we rented movies from blockbuster; view them from on demand and sometimes an old vhs tape so maybe 1 or 2 movies during the weekend... Currently we have Netflix so we are watching 1 movie day for almost 5 days a week.

If I had a whole day off to do nothing I could probably watch about 6-8.  But that seldom happens because I have things to do around the house.  Don't wanna but they gotta be done.

I've watched all of the Nightmare on Elm Streets (6 movies) in one day and all of the Planet of the Apes (5 movies) in one day and they didn't seem nearly as long as watching Scarface in one sitting.

oh! you remind me about planet of the apes!
years ago Im thinking of watch all of them in a day
but I never did,
maybe it's time to do

I had a weekend a few years back where I watched something like 12 movies in 2 days, so roughly 6 a day.  I started Saturday afternoon at around 1 and that lasted until just after midnight, maybe 1 AM.  Then did some stuff around the house, got some sleep, and on Sunday resumed and watched a bunch more.  And, it was an odd mix of movies too, which included:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ed Wood
Clerks
Gamera
Virgin High
No Holds Barred
and a few others.

The most at one time was six when I watched all the Star Wars films. A strange day indeed. Talk about pleasure AND pain.

But mostly I average at 2 or 3.

I was a participant in a b-movie marathon last year and got through 5 of the 6 movies chosen. I plan to participate again this year (provided it's going to be hosted; hopefully I won't come down with a sudden and very nasty head cold right in the middle of it this time).

When I was was younger and less busy, I would probably manage to get in as many as 6 or 7 movies in a row. Nowadays I'm lucky if I get in 3 in a week...

I did B-Fest one year, which is 24 hours of continuous movies, of which I missed maybe six hours to catch some shuteye. Never came close to that many movies any other time.

Used to be three was a typical rental for me on a Friday or Saturday evening in. My friends were about the same. If I was really in the mood to just curl up and watch movies by myself. five or six would be quite normal, either starting in the afternoon or going late. For added fun, I'd try to have a bit of a theme.

These days, one is pretty much the limit for an evening, if that, and only a couple a week.

I cannot resist commenting: when we were at university and living in the big city, my (future) husband and I once took in three movies in one evening/night - at three different theatres!  AND we walked/ran/took the subway from one to the next (no car).  It was a lot of fun.  It would have been 1980 or '81.  I'm not sure that it would be possible any more, as so many theatres have closed so they are not so close together now.

I watched the Lord of the Rings Extended versions all in one day, although I had to take breaks between each movie.

I had a couple of friends who would be up for multiple movies in the theatre. This would be going back to the early 90s. At least one night every weekend for a while, we'd catch an early movie and a late movie. That could mean walking down the street, or it could mean driving across Kitchener at high speed, depending on what was playing where. Apart from a drive-in, I don't think we ever had the opportunity to see three in a night. But I guess downtown Toronto would have offered more opportunities.

The way the showtimes are set up nowadays, it's hard to find one movie playing at the right time of day, much less fit two of them together. It was so much simpler for me when there was an early show, a late show and a weekend matinee that were always within half an hour of 2pm, 7pm and 9pm. You could just decide to catch a movie, and the only real question was which one you wanted to see. The time was fairly consistent, and planning an evening around it, with a meal and some other entertainment, was fairly easy. Or you could pretty much guarantee that if you caught the early showing of one movie, you could get to the late showing of something else, whether it was in the same building or across town.

True.  Those were the days!  As you say, the times made it made it easy.  Had to be at least 6-7 theatres within 'do-able' distance - and lots of eating places too.  All gone.  :bluesad:   We took in a lot of first-run films back then.  And there was always The Bloor for older flicks.

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As a side note: for TV episodes, I used to watch 4 or 5 consecutive episodes of THE SOPRANOS when I bought the DVDs.  Same with SEINFELD.  My wife and I would knock off as many as 6 episodes in a row.  Right now, we're working our way through boxed sets of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and THE OFFICE.  We tend to watch about 4 episodes in a row, usually 2 or 3 OFFICE episodes followed by 1 or 2 LEAVE IT TO BEAVER.

I once watched the entire first series of Star Blazers in one overnight marathon.

The past few weeks, my wife and I have been catching up on four seasons of Dexter, having only recently gotten around to checking it out. We usually watch two episodes in an evening, sometimes just one, and I think three on one occasion. We did the same thing with the first two seasons of Lost after our curiosity got the better of us and we ended up liking it. We usually set out to watch an episode, but without the commercials it only runs 40 minutes, so it finishes early enough that we decide to watch another one. It's gotten a little trickier with the fall season starting and other shows we want to watch, but recording and watching later makes a big difference. Cut the commercials out and you can fit three shows into two hours of viewing.

We are currently halfway through Season 4 of Dexter, having started at the very beginning of Season 1 and watching just about every weeknight. The intro has burned itself into my brain, but I will say it's a great way to watch a series. The story flows so nicely, and everything is fresh. I always hate it when we finally catch up and have to wait for weekly installments.

Two is more than enough.  I do have nights when IFC pops out a few Blaxploitation or the nearest facsimile, QUENTIN TARANTINO, and I'll watch 2 or 3... usually movies I've seen... sometimes TCM shows three movies that I may inadvertently catch most of... often films I've seen, but I do discover cool old gems that way... but, of late, I don't have much patience with any movie, they just capture my attention or not.  THE HEIRESS was on the other night, I ended up watching most of it.  It's probably OLIVIA DeHAVILLAND's best performance.  But I wouldn't have chosen to sit through the thing again, I just did.  And enjoyed it.  I've had 5 DVDs on the player for weeks... months... only upon request do I readily watch a DVD... so I have, but not lately by choice... I think 'cause I was disappointed in a slew of low-rent Horror films I'd bought that were... just boring. 

I'm probably one of a very small minority who misses the days when the audience standing for the playing of Oh Canada before a movie started. Not sure why I do. Maybe it just made the whole thing seem like more of an event. Or maybe it just seems like such a strange and excessive bit of formality in hindsight that I think it's cool.

doc. about world movie watching championship. 5 straight days of movies or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvw1QzpWTCg

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH 1:45 My eyes burn Lester! :bouncegiggle:

And let us not forget standing for "The Star Spangled Banner." When my father was still in the military, I use to be able to get into the movie theater on the military base, and they always played the American national anthem before the film started.

The last time I remember a civilian movie theater doing this was a drive-in theater near Tacoma, Washington, and that was over thirty years ago. And you can excuse me for not standing at attention.

As for how many movies I've seen . . .

On TV, it's four.  And I use to keep a list of all the times I saw three or more films on TV in one day.  But, that's been along time ago.

In the theater, the maximum number is two on a double feature, but there again, it's been along time since I saw a double feature in a theater.

About the only time I could find double features on a regular basis was when I had a drive-in within a reasonable driving distance. Long weekend Saturdays would usually have four or even five movies on the bill, showing from dusk until dawn.

Watched all three extended versions of Lord Of the Rings on a tuesday....so three movies a day.