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Babydoll
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« on: September 04, 2002, 06:13:23 PM »
What "bad" movie has been the longest running movie in history?  

I got to thinking about this while watching my daughters shows over and over again.
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Vermin Boy
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2002, 06:21:56 PM »
Do you mean in terms of running time, or in terms of enduring popularity? The longest movie ever made, IIRC, was a European student film called "The Cure For Insomnia," which consisted of 72 hours of the filmmakers telling jokes, eating, sleeping, etc.
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raj
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2002, 06:23:01 PM »
Longest running, as in been in the theaters continuously the longest?  Gotta be Rocky Horror.

That brings up a good idea, theater owners, instead of showing the latest Batman bomb, should schedule a Friday/Saturday night B-movie fest.  Maybe they do it elsewhere, but not by me.
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« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2002, 06:41:00 PM »
Andy Warhol's hours long film of the Empire State building comes to mind.
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Dano
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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2002, 06:49:17 PM »
Rocky Horror probably, although I have heard that Plan 9 Outer Space has been playing continuously SOMEWHERE in the USA since the 1960s.  Don't have anything solid to back that up other than I've seen it do a month here or six weeks there at local theaters in my area (DC) periodically.

As for the longest first run...  How bad did you think Home Alone was?  I ask because I think that movie's initial release lasted like 8 months.  Frankly, the kid cracked me up, but I know a lot of people hated it.
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Babydoll
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2002, 08:48:10 PM »
I mean though the years.  Not the rumming time of the movie.
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Vermin Boy
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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2002, 09:14:03 PM »
Ahh, check... "Un Chien Andalou," maybe?
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J.R.
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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2002, 11:28:06 PM »
Plan 9 would probably be the most enduring, as many video stores still rent it out at a healthy clip. By the way, I would love it if a theater would show B-fests. I've been blown away by the amount of B-flicks playing when I've visited big cities.
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« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2002, 12:08:01 PM »
Not the rumming time of the movie.

Would that be how much rum it takes to survive the whole movie?  (longer movies require more steady infusion...)
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« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2002, 12:21:15 PM »
I don't know about running, but Roy Scheider once said that Jaws holds the record as the single most WATCHED movie of all time (factoring in tickets and videos sold, ratings on television etc.), for what that is worth.
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Babydoll
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« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2002, 08:27:57 AM »
Is there a B-Fest?  If so, what is it ( what do you there)?
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