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@Index how long is the longest movie you've watched if you don't mind my asking?

288 minutes / 4 hours and 48 minutes (As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty by Jonas Mekas... long title too, lul)

followed by Love Exposure by Sion Sono which is 237 minutes (i highly recommend checking this one out)

i wouldn't be surprised if Nish has seen Satantango btw, which is 432 minutes long.

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You were sayin'?

You don't just provide internet links to prove your point. You use actual arguments.
The movie is a romance but also talks about prejustice and discrimination against the lower classes.
I actually liked that movie because even if the story it presented wasn't true it showed the tragedy of the Titanic rather than it being in the backround. At least that's how I see it.

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i wouldn't be surprised if Nish has seen Satantango btw, which is 432 minutes long.

I have seen it, because I loved Werckmeister Harmonies by the same director, Bela Tarr. I did enjoy Satantango but I will never watch it again. I watched it with some college friends during our holidays. As an experiment, it was 7 intriguing hours, but we did occasionally stop for toilet breaks, cigarettes and coffee. But I liked it a lot.

I'm amused to say this isn't even the longest movie I've seen. That honour goes to Shoah, a 10 hour documentary about the Holocaust that we also saw in one sitting (but with breaks, again).

The longest cinematic feature film I've seen is either Satantango OR War and Peace. I'm not sure which one was longer.

The last movie i watched was the Independence Day movie. the first one, not the one that came out first today

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I have seen it, because I loved Werckmeister Harmonies by the same director, Bela Tarr. I did enjoy Satantango but I will never watch it again. I watched it with some college friends during our holidays. As an experiment, it was 7 intriguing hours, but we did occasionally stop for toilet breaks, cigarettes and coffee. But I liked it a lot.

I'm amused to say this isn't even the longest movie I've seen. That honour goes to Shoah, a 10 hour documentary about the Holocaust that we also saw in one sitting (but with breaks, again).

The longest cinematic feature film I've seen is either Satantango OR War and Peace. I'm not sure which one was longer.

Have you heard of Lav Diaz (director)? He's this Filipino director that made an 8 hour long black and white movie and they're marketing it as if the fact that it's 8 hours long shouldn't matter if you want to truly appreciate a good movie (or something like that). I want to watch it for the sole purpose of shitting on it. Being that guy that watched an 8 hour long movie just to shit on it is a title that I'm weirdly attracted to.

If I ever do this endeavor, would you think watching such a long movie alone would be better or would watching it with others be better (assuming I can actually convince someone to watch it with me)?

I know him. I've met him briefly. He was part of a South East Asian Film Festival in Malaysia when I was a young student there almost exactly 10 years ago to the month. I haven't seen any of his longer movies though, I only saw some of his short films that he was exhibiting there.

I think if you plan to shit on something 8 hours long, it HAS to be with someone else. Otherwise you'd go mad from boredom. I personally prefer watching long movies with friends because it keeps things light, and it feels like less of a burden. But having said that, I do have friends who prefer watching long movies alone, because they can control the pace of it. They can pause when they want if they watch it alone. So you just need to figure out which type of movie fan you are.

i've had that movie downloaded and on my to-watch list since 2014.

however there are a lot of extremely long films based on history/documentary that i *do* want to watch but find myself struggling to achieve the level of interest really required. that ended up being one of them.

others:
- How Yukong Moved the Mountains
- Star Spangled to Death
- Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
- Taiga (Ulrike Ottinger)

i've been interested in watching these for a long time because they seem like very good movies, but i've yet to actually reserve a day, sit down, and do it.

long movies have to be about the meaning of life or taking upskirt pics for me to immediately watch them

It's actually just released this year, it's called "A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery". The one you're talking about might be "Melancholia". I really want to get behind a local film maker that's as decorated as he is but he's making it really hard by making all his movies unimaginably long. I get that he should pursue his creative endeavors however he wants, but I just wish he dreams up a concept that's at most 3 hours long because at this rate I might never watch anything he makes without hating the fact that my whole day is going to revolve around something that I might not actually even enjoy as much. Like, I can watch an entire 24 episode anime with that time.

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I know him. I've met him briefly. He was part of a South East Asian Film Festival in Malaysia when I was a young student there almost exactly 10 years ago to the month. I haven't seen any of his longer movies though, I only saw some of his short films that he was exhibiting there.

I think if you plan to shit on something 8 hours long, it HAS to be with someone else. Otherwise you'd go mad from boredom. I personally prefer watching long movies with friends because it keeps things light, and it feels like less of a burden. But having said that, I do have friends who prefer watching long movies alone, because they can control the pace of it. They can pause when they want if they watch it alone. So you just need to figure out which type of movie fan you are.

Yeah I usually prefer watching movies myself so there wouldn't be so much talking but I would probably need to have someone with me to keep me sane. If I ever watch it it's probably going to be with someone else. The main issue there though is finding someone willing to watch it. Do you ever have to convince anyone to watch them with you or is it mostly with other people in the film industry that would actually be willing to watch?

I watched it with a bunch of film students when I was in college, so yeah we were all young and eager.

interesting.. i didn't know he's directed a number of super-long movies rather than just one. i thought you were talking about "Evolution of a Filipino Family"

Does anyone here really like Blade Runner? I watched it very recently.

blade runner might be one of the most brainless movies i've ever seen in my life barring comedies. video game tier plot. i wasn't expecting something so hollow.

it would've been pretty easy to drastically improve the movie, though. just have the protagonist and his hoe commit suicide together at the end. that would have a lot of meaning. instead, we get literally the laziest shit possible. but you'd also have to delete the part where he basically rapes her, because what the fuck? was that supposed to be hot? this is why i need feminism



im not even against style over substance btw. i fuckin love drive

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blade runner might be one of the most brainless movies i've ever seen in my life barring comedies. video game tier plot. i wasn't expecting something so hollow.

While I wouldn't exactly call it brainless since I've seen far more egregious examples, I'd have to say I agree. I was really underwhelmed by the premise of it, especially when I saw a few people tout about how sophisticated it was.

it would've been pretty easy to drastically improve the movie, though. just have the protagonist and his hoe commit suicide together at the end. that would have a lot of meaning. instead, we get literally the laziest shit possible.

I didn't mind how it ended, but I wouldn't object to other endings. That being said, having them kill themselves in the end is probably the stupidest possible alteration to be honest.

Which version did you watch Raptor? Original or Director's Cut?

I enjoyed it visually but I remember being very underwhelmed by it, except Rutger Hauer's epic speech at the end before he dies in the rain.

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Which version did you watch Raptor? Original or Director's Cut?

Final Cut actually. Which supposedly follows Ridley Scott's complete vision of the movie from what I understand. There's like 8 different versions iirc.

I enjoyed it visually but I remember being very underwhelmed by it, except Rutger Hauer's epic speech at the end before he dies in the rain.

That's actually exactly how I feel about it. I think I remember Hauer's speech by heart, but I think it's mostly because I had heard it before I watched Blade Runner and didn't know it came from this movie.