Favorite long movie.

Svengoolie 3 · September 21, 2019, 08:27:39 PM

Ok the term "long movie" is arbitrary, so let's define it as 2:15 or more.

I'd say interstellar, Cleopatra and the 10 commandments

indianasmith · September 21, 2019, 10:55:03 PM

THE LORD OF THE RINGS extended editions for sure!

ralfy · September 21, 2019, 10:59:48 PM

Napoleon (1927)

For multi-film sets, The Apu and Human Condition trilogies.

ralfy · September 21, 2019, 11:00:34 PM

And Bondarchuk's War and Peace.

Rev. Powell · September 22, 2019, 11:57:46 AM

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968).

LA DOLCE VITA (1960).

Kusturica's UNDERGROUND (1995). 170 minutes in the theatrical cut, edited down from a 320 minute director's cut (that played on TV in episodes).

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1965) is about 3 hours long.

Like the LOTR movies too.

bob · September 22, 2019, 01:58:01 PM

This is an impossible question for me to answer because there are so many longer films I consider among my favorites.

Here's just 10 of them:

Lawrence of Arabia

2001: A Space Odyssey

Scarface

Das Boot: Director's Cut

Pulp Fiction

Seven Samurai

Eyes Wide Shut

Ben-Hur (1959)

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Shining

Ticonderoga 64 · September 22, 2019, 03:27:54 PM

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Allhallowsday · September 22, 2019, 03:39:38 PM

Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 22, 2019, 11:57:46 AM
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968).

LA DOLCE VITA (1960).
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Both favorites. Also, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA ... SPARTACUS ... BARRY LYNDON ... DR. ZHIVAGO ...

bob · September 22, 2019, 10:55:39 PM

Here's 10 more:

Stalker (1979)

Solaris (1972)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Judgment at Nuremburg

Once Upon a Time in America

Casino

Amores Perros

A Clockwork Orange

The Godfather

The Godfather Part 2

Gabriel Knight · September 23, 2019, 06:22:43 AM

Quote from: indianasmith on September 21, 2019, 10:55:03 PM
THE LORD OF THE RINGS extended editions for sure!

Ever done the three movies marathon? It's a unique experience.

Done it with both LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT sagas. I simply can't have enough of that.

Alex · September 23, 2019, 09:04:20 AM

Quote from: Gabriel Knight on September 23, 2019, 06:22:43 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on September 21, 2019, 10:55:03 PM
THE LORD OF THE RINGS extended editions for sure!

Ever done the three movies marathon? It's a unique experience.

Done it with both LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT sagas. I simply can't have enough of that.

Have you tried both trilogies back to back? I haven't yet myself.

Gabriel Knight · September 23, 2019, 09:58:29 AM

Quote from: Alex on September 23, 2019, 09:04:20 AM
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on September 23, 2019, 06:22:43 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on September 21, 2019, 10:55:03 PM
THE LORD OF THE RINGS extended editions for sure!

Ever done the three movies marathon? It's a unique experience.

Done it with both LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT sagas. I simply can't have enough of that.

Have you tried both trilogies back to back? I haven't yet myself.

We're talking about a whole day in the Middle Earth, only a madman would do that.

I'll maybe try it out when I get vacations.

In all seriousness, after a 10 hours movie spree I end up tired and with a pain in the back. I could do it with an amazing setup of perfect couch and giant TV, but sadly I don't have that... yet.

Leah · September 23, 2019, 01:03:13 PM

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly; 7 Samurai, and Dr Zhivago. Generally long movies do nothing for me. I watched 7 Samurai and Dr. Zhivago fora couple of classes and was thoroughly enjoyed. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly was something I wanted to see.

Rev. Powell · September 23, 2019, 01:28:13 PM

I also agree about the long Sergio Leone, David Lean and Akira Kurosawa movies.

ER · September 23, 2019, 03:21:41 PM

David Lean's films are all excellent, Kubrick's movies can run long and are all masterpieces, especially 2001, Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut. D.W. Griffith's Intolerance impressed me, as did Leone's unhurried Once Upon A Time In America, but maybe my favorite long film is Gone With the Wind, which has incredible characters with motivations that fascinate me with every viewing.

In 1994 I saw a good but achingly sad Indian film from I'll guess the 1950s that ran almost five hours and for the life of me I can't recall the title now, partly because I was in a hospital when I saw it and my dad got it for me on VHS from a university library, but it was actually amazing.

It was about a widow in impoverished rural India trying to raise her two sons in Raj times, and one son was brilliant and wanted to be a doctor so he could help people in his village, and an English judge saw he was intelligent and wanted to educate him and send him to England, but it turned out he was also interested in sexually abusing the boy, which happened and the boy saw it as an acceptable burden to bear to get to school, so he told no one about the ordeal.

The other son was more wild but loved his mother and went and turned bandit to rob travelers on the road to get money for her, and wound up (spoiler) hanged by the same judge who'd sent her older son to England, so the mother threw herself on the boy's funeral pyre and died with him, convinced her older son would never return to India once he got the chance to live in England, and nothing was left for her.

Instead the older son returned a few years on as a doctor, dressed in nice English clothes, intending to support his mother and help local people, only to find out the rest of his family was dead, and he learned how and why from an old neighbor woman, so he attacked the judge in his house, by then an old man, and for this the Indian doctor/older son was beaten by English police and thrown into prison to work seven years of hard labor in a quarry for the crime of lifting his hand to an English official.

So, depressing but deeply involving.