Longest movie?

[Ki'esha Foxx]

This is kind of a two-part question.

First, what is the world's longest movie, if anyone knows?

And second, what is the longest film anyone here has watched. Miniseries don't count.

[Tayzlor]

The Cure For Insomnia (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284020/)

If it were up to me, it wouldn't count because it doesn't have a narrative.

The longest movie I've seen is either "Gone with the Wind" or "My Voyage to Italy".

[Cyd V]

I've heard that there are movies in India that are over 5 hours and that their average flicks are 3 hours long.

[zombievictim]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
The Cure For Insomnia (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284020/)


That's frucking ridiculous

[dman476]

I thought for sure Warhols **** would be it, but color me very wrong.
The longest film I've seen is probably Gone with the Wind as well.
Or My Voyage to Italy. Or LOTR combined.

[BorderEevilIII]

The movie that I actually sat thru and BOY was this movie long.......


http://images.tlavideo.com/images/catalog_gaybase/107485.jpg





200 MINUTES!:D

[X-Nightcrawler]

Cure for Insomnia is the definition of "pretentious indie film". Hilarious that IMDB review "It's nevertheless brilliant!"

[TrombonerDude]

I think the longest movie I've ever watched was "Gone with the Wind," but I might've forgetten one somewhere. "The Godfather Pt. 2" was pretty long as well.

[Tayzlor]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
Cure for Insomnia is the definition of "pretentious indie film".

It was actually orginally designed to reprogram the brains of insomnia victims.

[TylerDurden182]

The longest one I have seen is probably the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which clocks in at 251 minutes.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
It was actually orginally designed to reprogram the brains of insomnia victims. Oh.

In any case. As a movie it's pure pretension (isn't it about poetry and porn?).

[Monotreme]

It's not pretentious because I don't think anybody's actually watched it, nor are the filmmakers trying to prove a point. The film has no goal or purpose, besides a medical one (to cure insomnia victims), so I don't think you can necessarily say that it's pretentious.

I also don't think it's fair to count it as a film, since it can't actually be qualified as any type of film, not even a documentary.

In a more traditional sense:

Grandmother Martha runs 24 hours and 12 minutes.
Shoah is 9 hours and 26 minutes.
War and Peace is 8 hours and 31 minutes.
Satantango is 7 hours and 40 minutes.
Hitler: A Film from Germany is 7 hours and 22 minutes.
The Best of Youth is 6 hours and 40 minutes.
La Commune is 5 hours and 45 minutes.
And Quiet Flows the Don is 5 hours and 40 minutes.
Napoleon is 5 hours and 30 minutes.

Etcetera.

[JCPhoenix]

The longest ones I can recall seeng are Lord of the Rings: Two Towers Extended Cut (8/10) (223 minutes) and JFK: Director's Cut (10/10) (217 minutes)

And I may be the only person on earth who thinks that the extended cuts of the first two lord of the rings movies anyway actually made them worse rather than making them better.

[MacReady]

I sat through The Best Of Youth at a theater and only had a 20 minute break between the first and second part.

[FilmKing2000]

Originally posted by TylerDurden182
The longest one I have seen is probably the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which clocks in at 251 minutes.

Ditto. But, I loved every minute of it.

[sarah1980]

Originally posted by TylerDurden182
The longest one I have seen is probably the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which clocks in at 251 minutes.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Monotreme
It's not pretentious because I don't think anybody's actually watched it, nor are the filmmakers trying to prove a point. The film has no goal or purpose, besides a medical one (to cure insomnia victims), so I don't think you can necessarily say that it's pretentious.

I also don't think it's fair to count it as a film, since it can't actually be qualified as any type of film, not even a documentary. Since I don't need to rephrase, I'll just repeat myself.

"As a movie it's pure pretension." Otherwise, it isn't.

But how the hell is porn supposed to cure amnesia patients?

[dalomini]

Shoah is pretty long, too

[Monotreme]

The longest movie I have seen is Best of Youth, but it was in two parts on two seperate (but consecutive) days, so I don't know if that counts.

[Tony_Montana]

Longest I've seen is probably Once Upon A Time In America and Return of the King Extended. Godfather Part 2 and Lawrence of Arabia where pretty long as well, but I dunno if they where actually exceptionally long or they just seemed that way? I consider 'long' to be 2 hours 40 mins or longer.

[Lazy Boy]

The longest movie I've sat through was Branagh's adaptation of Hamlet. I can't remember four hours that flew by so quickly, though.

I've never seen The Best of Youth, although it has received many recommendations on this site as well as orgasmic reviews from critics.

[adamjohnson]

The longest 'real' movie I've seen yet in this thread is CLEOPATRA.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0056937/

Note the 320 minute directors cut.

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by zombievictim
That's frucking ridiculous

I agree and Iwish i could somehow get my hands on it.

[JayB18]

The longest movie I ever watched was Return of the King Extended Edition, although I usually watch it over two nights.

[KillBill]

The longest I have personally watched is Fanny and Alexander. Something like 5 hours right?

[zombievictim]

Well I consider the Lord of the Rings movies one really long movie (because I always watch them one after another anyways and they practically are) that would be my longest movie. I always use a Saturday a year to sit around and watch it for 12 hours.

[hatePiLL]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
It was actually orginally designed to reprogram the brains of insomnia victims.

i soo have to see that then. but the longest movie i ever seen... but never finished... seven samurai.

[hatePiLL]

[Weasel]

One of my teacher talked to me about a movie called "24 Hour Psycho", which lasted 24 hours and was basically the Hitchcock's classic movie "Psycho", but slowed down to make it last 24 hours (which is, if I remember correctly, the lenght of the action in the old movie). I think the director also wrote a new score for it and did something so we could hear or read the dialogue. I think the shower scene lasts something like 30 minutes.

[Addi88]

Gods and Generals was pretty friggen long too.

[riotstarter]

I know somebody already mentioned it, but next to that bloated piece of shit Cure for Insomnia, Shoah is easily next at like eight hours.

[mettt]

When i was younger i was told the longest movie was something 6 hours long about two people in a tent jus talking (does this ring a bell?)..
I watched the all the LOTR Extended versions in one go, something like 12hours..

[William Munny]

Superman Returns (not only long but painful to watch.)

[Tayzlor]

Originally posted by riotstarter
..but next to that bloated piece of shit Cure for Insomnia..

Have you seen it? You know, it's not fair to judge a movie unless you've seen it. :D


The "24 Hours Psycho" idea is as stupid as the idea to remake it.