Question:
My votes here go to:
The Man Who Wasn't There - It's under two hours long but it seems about 3
Bottle Rocket - Only 90 minutes but it seems twice as long
And yours?
traffic .... havent actually got round to watching the last 3rd yet
the story moves far to slowly
Yeah that's a good one. But I wouldn't call it slow. It's such an interesting film.
The Searchers - half an hour shorter than The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, but it felt like half an hour longer.
dungeons and dragoons, which is also quite possibly the worst film ever made.
Guy Maddin's <I>The Heart of the World</I>, but I mean that as a compliment.
(It's only just over five minutes long, but crams in more than enough crazed invention and inspired ideas to fill a full-length feature)
The longest film ever made is 'Random hearts' staring Harrision Ford.
I had to eat the South American rugby team in the cinema just to make it to the end of the film!
"Amadeus Director's Cut" appeared to last about three days. Not a single necessary addition. In fact, the film was overlong to begin with and could have done with shortening. It's still one of the very few Best Picture Oscar winners to be worthy of the award though and I don't begrudge Forman his director's Oscar either. He should have left well enough alone.
"Doctor Zhivago" is slow to the point of narcolepsy. So is "Ryan's Daughter", although that one does have the comedy yokels and John Mills' awful hamming to enliven it.
As for "Dances with Wolves", well you get the idea.
unbreakable, traffic and hannibal to name a few
Sat in cinema watching Heat. That seemed like an age and was a real 'bum number'!!
(Jonny G prepares for the flaming that saying something bad about Heat is bound to bring :rolleyes: )
I actually thought that "Behind Enemy Lines" started to drag a bit in the middle.
Also, "Titanic" was FAR too long for anyone's liking - ship sets sail, ship hits iceberg, ship sinks, the end.
Originally posted by Mike
"Amadeus Director's Cut" appeared to last about three days. Not a single necessary addition. In fact, the film was overlong to begin with and could have done with shortening. It's still one of the very few Best Picture Oscar winners to be worthy of the award though and I don't begrudge Forman his director's Oscar either. He should have left well enough alone.
I don't agree that it was too long to begin with (strangely enough). But, other than the first scene with Kenneth McMillan (a joy, and a great prelude to the next scene), I agree that the rest was probably surplus to requirements. Especially the stuff in the dressing room. Originally Salieri knows Mozza has 'had his darling girl' after their first exchange. Now he knows it after he gets it in writing!
I wasn't exactly disappointed. But I hope Forman hasn't done a George Lucas and taken the original form of a beloved classic out of circulation.
Originally posted by FightForTheRight
Also, "Titanic" was FAR too long for anyone's liking - ship sets sail, Kate Winslet gets her kit off, ship hits iceberg, ship sinks, the end.
better :)
Unbreakable
Midnight Run
Traffic
Titanic
Starship Troopers (by about 129 minutes)
Originally posted by Tiffany Bradford
Midnight Run
:mad: :mad:
Originally posted by mr_woo
:mad: :mad:
I was wondering who would show up first, you or McD - thank God it was you :D
Sorry, but WAY too long :oh-hum:
Originally posted by Tiffany Bradford
I was wondering who would show up first, you or McD - thank God it was you :D
Sorry, but WAY too long :oh-hum:
I got two words for you........ ;)
Well McD can feel free to join me in berating you! :D :p
Oh well you can't please everybody!!
And for this thread, The Thin Red Line was far, far too long. 3hrs too long.....
/Turn on Old record/
Insider
Magnolia
So long that I never want to watch them again. :nono:
/Turn off Old record/
/Turn on New record/
Ali
Michael Mann is getting complacent ...
/Turn Off New Record/
..."Lawrence Of Arabia"... 200-and-some minutes which seemed (to me! to me!) like that many days...
..."Dr. Zhivago"... oh God, YES!!!... thank you Mike...
..."The English Patient" :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:
..."The Last Emperor" ditto
..."Titanic" ditto ditto
(...of course, in all fairness I should explain that the evening before I had watched the CC disc of "A Night To Remember" :clap: and the night before that I had watched a (shudder!) VHS tape of the 1953 "Titanic" - so perhaps I was waterlogged?...)...
...just plain overlong: "The Green Mile", "Meet Joe Black" (although Brad Pitt never looked lovelier!), "Apocalypse Now", and even more so "Apocalypse Now redux"...
..."Eyes Wide Shut" :zzz: ad infinitum...
...to name just a very few...
(signed) Tired-Of-Watching-Movies-? (...perhaps I should read a book...)
. . .
I watched the CC Traffic last Sunday and although i knew it was long and i'd watched it before it sltill flew by for me. Such and interesting premise with great characters.
Longest for me has to be something like the 'Godfathers', great, great films but you know you've a heck of a lot of story to go through when you just start to watch them.
A.I. - What a total watse of time, would have been over long at 20 mins :mad:
In fact, this movie is so long, I might still be there and the last 12 months could just have been a fantasy to kill time before the titles.
"Oh thank God, he's finally found the bloody fairy, surely it must be over now?"
Well McD can feel free to join me in berating you! :D :p
I wouldn't know where to start with just about anything on Tiffany Bradford's list!
And for this thread, The Thin Red Line was far, far too long. 3hrs too long.....
It wasn't thin enough.
Originally posted by Jonny G
Sat in cinema watching Heat. That seemed like an age and was a real 'bum number'!!
(Jonny G prepares for the flaming that saying something bad about Heat is bound to bring :rolleyes: )
No flaming but I sat thorugh Heat at the cinema and found the time whizzed by because of the sheer wuality of the film.
One film that was far too long was Mr Holland's Opus. I nearly walked out but didn't beacuse I was with a friend. Sadly after it had left she told me she wanted to wlk out but didn't beacue I was with her. ARRGHHH
Signs was very slow for me.
Originally posted by Hendrik
(although Brad Pitt never looked lovelier!)
I knew there was something I liked about you! :D
Brad is SEX ON TWO LEGS :nuts:
Originally posted by Dave L
A.I. - What a total watse of time, would have been over long at 20 mins :mad:
In fact, this movie is so long, I might still be there and the last 12 months could just have been a fantasy to kill time before the titles.
"Oh thank God, he's finally found the bloody fairy, surely it must be over now?"
We got the "Dumb-ass version!" If ever a film belaboured the point this was it. It made Zardoz look like an exercise in narrative economy.
The one film I've seen this year that really dragged, i.e. the never ending decent in purgatory type drag, was Monsters' Ball. Like many films there's a great one in there trying to get out, as was the audience by the end of the movie.
I'd agree with Bottle Rocket and I would've sworn that Rushmore was well over 2 hours when its actually just 90 minutes long.
Originally posted by Jonny G
Sat in cinema watching Heat. That seemed like an age and was a real 'bum number'!!
(Jonny G prepares for the flaming that saying something bad about Heat is bound to bring :rolleyes: )
I've got to agree with you Jonny. Although when I tried watching it again at home, I found it flew by in no time.
I'd also like to add:
SW Episode II (Thats 23 hours of my life I'm never getting back)
Unforgiven
Anything with Kevin Costner (apart from JFK, 13 Days, and The Untouchables)
Unbreakable. 10 hours long.
Don't look in the basement : took me 3 sittings to get through it all (and it's only 95 minutes!!)
Attack Of The Clones
The Thin Red Line :zzz:
The Green Mile - even when watched in fast forward it seems to take days.
Unbreakable, Titanic, Waterworld, Dances with wolves, AI, Spiderman
The Magnificent Ambersons seems about 2 1/2 hours, so I can well understand how it must have seemed like three or four films joined at the hip in its original 130-minute version.
All of Wes Anderson's films seem like eons longer than they actually are because the stories he tells are so intricate and concise, you're getting far more plot than you normally would in the same space of time.
Jackie Brown crawls by, but it's so suspensful and so much fun, it's one of the few films that lasts as long as you hope it will.
Once upon a time in America, seemed to be longer than it was.
Lost in Space seemed to go on for ages due to the fact that it was utter crap.
Braveheart
The English Patient
Heat
All seemed far, far too long when I saw them at the pictures. I'm willing to give Heat another go at home, but I'd sooner gnaw my own leg off than watch either of the other two again :/
~~stu
The Blair Witch Project was about 80-odd minutes too long.
In fact, this is one film that should never have been made. I'm sure Myrick and co. thought they were being *new* and *exciting*, but I thought it was just utter drivel.
When the film finished I just sat and thought about all the worthwhile things I could have done during the film's duration instead of watching that pile of crap.
Oh well. C'est la vie. :rolleyes:
I couldn't put my washing out in the back garden when it went dark cos of The Blair Witch Project!
Sad, but true!
Originally posted by mjb1975
I couldn't put my washing out in the back garden when it went dark cos of The Blair Witch Project!
Sad, but true!
I'm glad the film did something for you, but it did nothing for me. I really tried to dig it, but couldn't.
I just thought it was camcorder amateur hour myself.
it was another one of those films that split people down the middle - I think you either loved it or hated it.
Fairy nuff.
The Man Who Wasn't There - It's under two hours long but it seems about 3
Bottle Rocket - Only 90 minutes but it seems twice as long
And yours?
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traffic .... havent actually got round to watching the last 3rd yet
the story moves far to slowly
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Yeah that's a good one. But I wouldn't call it slow. It's such an interesting film.
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The Searchers - half an hour shorter than The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, but it felt like half an hour longer.
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dungeons and dragoons, which is also quite possibly the worst film ever made.
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Guy Maddin's <I>The Heart of the World</I>, but I mean that as a compliment.
(It's only just over five minutes long, but crams in more than enough crazed invention and inspired ideas to fill a full-length feature)
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The longest film ever made is 'Random hearts' staring Harrision Ford.
I had to eat the South American rugby team in the cinema just to make it to the end of the film!
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"Amadeus Director's Cut" appeared to last about three days. Not a single necessary addition. In fact, the film was overlong to begin with and could have done with shortening. It's still one of the very few Best Picture Oscar winners to be worthy of the award though and I don't begrudge Forman his director's Oscar either. He should have left well enough alone.
"Doctor Zhivago" is slow to the point of narcolepsy. So is "Ryan's Daughter", although that one does have the comedy yokels and John Mills' awful hamming to enliven it.
As for "Dances with Wolves", well you get the idea.
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unbreakable, traffic and hannibal to name a few
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Sat in cinema watching Heat. That seemed like an age and was a real 'bum number'!!
(Jonny G prepares for the flaming that saying something bad about Heat is bound to bring :rolleyes: )
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I actually thought that "Behind Enemy Lines" started to drag a bit in the middle.
Also, "Titanic" was FAR too long for anyone's liking - ship sets sail, ship hits iceberg, ship sinks, the end.
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Originally posted by Mike
"Amadeus Director's Cut" appeared to last about three days. Not a single necessary addition. In fact, the film was overlong to begin with and could have done with shortening. It's still one of the very few Best Picture Oscar winners to be worthy of the award though and I don't begrudge Forman his director's Oscar either. He should have left well enough alone.
I don't agree that it was too long to begin with (strangely enough). But, other than the first scene with Kenneth McMillan (a joy, and a great prelude to the next scene), I agree that the rest was probably surplus to requirements. Especially the stuff in the dressing room. Originally Salieri knows Mozza has 'had his darling girl' after their first exchange. Now he knows it after he gets it in writing!
I wasn't exactly disappointed. But I hope Forman hasn't done a George Lucas and taken the original form of a beloved classic out of circulation.
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Originally posted by FightForTheRight
Also, "Titanic" was FAR too long for anyone's liking - ship sets sail, Kate Winslet gets her kit off, ship hits iceberg, ship sinks, the end.
better :)
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Unbreakable
Midnight Run
Traffic
Titanic
Starship Troopers (by about 129 minutes)
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Originally posted by Tiffany Bradford
Midnight Run
:mad: :mad:
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Originally posted by mr_woo
:mad: :mad:
I was wondering who would show up first, you or McD - thank God it was you :D
Sorry, but WAY too long :oh-hum:
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Originally posted by Tiffany Bradford
I was wondering who would show up first, you or McD - thank God it was you :D
Sorry, but WAY too long :oh-hum:
I got two words for you........ ;)
Well McD can feel free to join me in berating you! :D :p
Oh well you can't please everybody!!
And for this thread, The Thin Red Line was far, far too long. 3hrs too long.....
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/Turn on Old record/
Insider
Magnolia
So long that I never want to watch them again. :nono:
/Turn off Old record/
/Turn on New record/
Ali
Michael Mann is getting complacent ...
/Turn Off New Record/
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..."Lawrence Of Arabia"... 200-and-some minutes which seemed (to me! to me!) like that many days...
..."Dr. Zhivago"... oh God, YES!!!... thank you Mike...
..."The English Patient" :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:
..."The Last Emperor" ditto
..."Titanic" ditto ditto
(...of course, in all fairness I should explain that the evening before I had watched the CC disc of "A Night To Remember" :clap: and the night before that I had watched a (shudder!) VHS tape of the 1953 "Titanic" - so perhaps I was waterlogged?...)...
...just plain overlong: "The Green Mile", "Meet Joe Black" (although Brad Pitt never looked lovelier!), "Apocalypse Now", and even more so "Apocalypse Now redux"...
..."Eyes Wide Shut" :zzz: ad infinitum...
...to name just a very few...
(signed) Tired-Of-Watching-Movies-? (...perhaps I should read a book...)
. . .
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I watched the CC Traffic last Sunday and although i knew it was long and i'd watched it before it sltill flew by for me. Such and interesting premise with great characters.
Longest for me has to be something like the 'Godfathers', great, great films but you know you've a heck of a lot of story to go through when you just start to watch them.
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A.I. - What a total watse of time, would have been over long at 20 mins :mad:
In fact, this movie is so long, I might still be there and the last 12 months could just have been a fantasy to kill time before the titles.
"Oh thank God, he's finally found the bloody fairy, surely it must be over now?"
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Well McD can feel free to join me in berating you! :D :p
I wouldn't know where to start with just about anything on Tiffany Bradford's list!
And for this thread, The Thin Red Line was far, far too long. 3hrs too long.....
It wasn't thin enough.
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Originally posted by Jonny G
Sat in cinema watching Heat. That seemed like an age and was a real 'bum number'!!
(Jonny G prepares for the flaming that saying something bad about Heat is bound to bring :rolleyes: )
No flaming but I sat thorugh Heat at the cinema and found the time whizzed by because of the sheer wuality of the film.
One film that was far too long was Mr Holland's Opus. I nearly walked out but didn't beacuse I was with a friend. Sadly after it had left she told me she wanted to wlk out but didn't beacue I was with her. ARRGHHH
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Signs was very slow for me.
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Originally posted by Hendrik
(although Brad Pitt never looked lovelier!)
I knew there was something I liked about you! :D
Brad is SEX ON TWO LEGS :nuts:
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Originally posted by Dave L
A.I. - What a total watse of time, would have been over long at 20 mins :mad:
In fact, this movie is so long, I might still be there and the last 12 months could just have been a fantasy to kill time before the titles.
"Oh thank God, he's finally found the bloody fairy, surely it must be over now?"
We got the "Dumb-ass version!" If ever a film belaboured the point this was it. It made Zardoz look like an exercise in narrative economy.
The one film I've seen this year that really dragged, i.e. the never ending decent in purgatory type drag, was Monsters' Ball. Like many films there's a great one in there trying to get out, as was the audience by the end of the movie.
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I'd agree with Bottle Rocket and I would've sworn that Rushmore was well over 2 hours when its actually just 90 minutes long.
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Originally posted by Jonny G
Sat in cinema watching Heat. That seemed like an age and was a real 'bum number'!!
(Jonny G prepares for the flaming that saying something bad about Heat is bound to bring :rolleyes: )
I've got to agree with you Jonny. Although when I tried watching it again at home, I found it flew by in no time.
I'd also like to add:
SW Episode II (Thats 23 hours of my life I'm never getting back)
Unforgiven
Anything with Kevin Costner (apart from JFK, 13 Days, and The Untouchables)
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Unbreakable. 10 hours long.
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Don't look in the basement : took me 3 sittings to get through it all (and it's only 95 minutes!!)
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Attack Of The Clones
The Thin Red Line :zzz:
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The Green Mile - even when watched in fast forward it seems to take days.
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Unbreakable, Titanic, Waterworld, Dances with wolves, AI, Spiderman
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The Magnificent Ambersons seems about 2 1/2 hours, so I can well understand how it must have seemed like three or four films joined at the hip in its original 130-minute version.
All of Wes Anderson's films seem like eons longer than they actually are because the stories he tells are so intricate and concise, you're getting far more plot than you normally would in the same space of time.
Jackie Brown crawls by, but it's so suspensful and so much fun, it's one of the few films that lasts as long as you hope it will.
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Once upon a time in America, seemed to be longer than it was.
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Lost in Space seemed to go on for ages due to the fact that it was utter crap.
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Braveheart
The English Patient
Heat
All seemed far, far too long when I saw them at the pictures. I'm willing to give Heat another go at home, but I'd sooner gnaw my own leg off than watch either of the other two again :/
~~stu
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The Blair Witch Project was about 80-odd minutes too long.
In fact, this is one film that should never have been made. I'm sure Myrick and co. thought they were being *new* and *exciting*, but I thought it was just utter drivel.
When the film finished I just sat and thought about all the worthwhile things I could have done during the film's duration instead of watching that pile of crap.
Oh well. C'est la vie. :rolleyes:
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I couldn't put my washing out in the back garden when it went dark cos of The Blair Witch Project!
Sad, but true!
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Originally posted by mjb1975
I couldn't put my washing out in the back garden when it went dark cos of The Blair Witch Project!
Sad, but true!
I'm glad the film did something for you, but it did nothing for me. I really tried to dig it, but couldn't.
I just thought it was camcorder amateur hour myself.
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it was another one of those films that split people down the middle - I think you either loved it or hated it.
Fairy nuff.
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