Your 5 interminable minutes of cinema

Allhallowsday · May 07, 2019, 01:42:47 PM

I caught the last few minutes of A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932) with GARY COOPER and HELEN HAYES on TCM today. I could not believe how packed full of drippy melodrama and impossible-to-believe acting 5 minutes of cinema could be... at her deathbed. He exclaims to an empty waiting room "She can't die!" meanwhile she utters to the hovering nurses and doctors "Don't tell him I'm going to die..." 'CAUSE SHE WANTS TO? Then he's beside her, she plays strong, and then she tells him "I'm going to die!" and then she's terrified to die... "I don't want to die! Don't let me go in the dark!" Then she's accepting and enlightened... rolls her eyes and finally dies. That is easily the longest 5 minutes I've ever sat through in a Hollywood movie.

What are your 5 interminable minutes of cinema ?

316zombie · May 07, 2019, 02:25:54 PM

the beginning of 2001, with the cavemen. it drives. me. NUTS!!

Allhallowsday · May 07, 2019, 03:08:58 PM

Quote from: 316zombie on May 07, 2019, 02:25:54 PM
the beginning of 2001, with the cavemen. it drives. me. NUTS!!

TCM just showed that again. The more I look at it, the more I like it, though I agree that film has interminable moments. I loathed it the first time I saw it. A movie I call motionless. Now this A FAREWELL TO ARMS had more words and acting in 5 minutes than 2001 has in the whole film!

Alex · May 07, 2019, 03:32:28 PM

The opening number of La La Land.

Allhallowsday · May 07, 2019, 08:48:15 PM

Svengoolie 3 · May 07, 2019, 08:56:04 PM

Several scenes in the otherwise excellent movie "interstellar".

LilCerberus · May 07, 2019, 09:05:28 PM

The musical sequence in Santa Claus (1959)

The Burgomaster · May 08, 2019, 06:30:19 PM

Any 5 minutes of the movie DUNE (1984). The movie is made up of 5-minute segments that each seem like 20 minutes.

Allhallowsday · May 08, 2019, 06:53:50 PM

Quote from: The Burgomaster on May 08, 2019, 06:30:19 PM
Any 5 minutes of the movie DUNE (1984). The movie is made up of 5-minute segments that each seem like 20 minutes.

I think I saw DUNE back in the video rental days.

RCMerchant · May 08, 2019, 07:00:10 PM

Any given 5 minutes from WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Holy Moly!

On and on and on -when I'm that drunk, I fall asleep!

Allhallowsday · May 08, 2019, 09:43:29 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on May 08, 2019, 07:00:10 PM
Any given 5 minutes from WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Holy Moly!

On and on and on -when I'm that drunk, I fall asleep!

I think highly of that film... and when you're drinking, before you go to sleep, I think you might get as loud, verbose, out of control, angry, crazy, sad, and funny... perhaps I'm wrong. What do you think?

How about any 5 minutes of LARRY BUCHANAN's "IT'S ALIVE" ... yes, the quotes are part of the title. Aye.

Talk about interminable...

Trevor · May 09, 2019, 04:47:18 AM

The ill-advised remake of Master Harold and The Boys: I left after the film had been running for an hour, then I discovered that I'd only been sitting there for ten minutes.

Alex · May 09, 2019, 05:10:52 AM

Jaws 4. I snuck in underage to see that one.

Into The Woods. Best sleep I have ever had in a cinema.

RCMerchant · May 09, 2019, 06:27:01 AM

Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 08, 2019, 09:43:29 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 08, 2019, 07:00:10 PM
Any given 5 minutes from WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Holy Moly!

On and on and on -when I'm that drunk, I fall asleep!
I think highly of that film... and when you're drinking, before you go to sleep, I think you might get as loud, verbose, out of control, angry, crazy, sad, and funny... perhaps I'm wrong. What do you think?

I don't know what your talking about...!

Allhallowsday · May 09, 2019, 10:27:32 AM

You wouldn't even hurt a fly.