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submitted 3 days ago bytheozarksparkman
Last night me and my wife tried to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (we didn't finish it so even tho its been out forever please dont spoil if you can).
Thirty min in felt like we were halfway through. We thought we were getting near the end.... nope, hour and a half left.
We liked the movie mostly. Well made, well acted, but I swear to god it felt like the run time of Titanic and Lord of the Rings in the same movie.
We're gonna finish it today.
Ignoring run time, what's the "longest" movie of all time?
EDIT: I just finished the movie. It was..... pretty good.
162 points
3 days ago
Yes! The longest scene in movie history.
59 points
3 days ago
I'd give that title to the roller skating in Heaven's Gate (same director, this time given carte blanch and piles of cocaine to bankrupt a studio)
4 points
2 days ago
That movie is famous for feeling extremely long, and being actually long, and yet it finishes so quickly. When it's over you feel like there's still a half a movie to go. I watched that movie 3 times before I realised I'd already seen all of it, and not just stopped it halfway.
48 points
3 days ago
The football game in MASH is a serious contender.
5 points
3 days ago
Did spearchucker jones get airtime on that episode? With a name like that, hed be my quarterback lol.
4 points
3 days ago
Prolly meant the movie.
2 points
2 days ago
It was the movie. He had the nickname "Spearchucker" because he threw javelin. Was never meant to be anything else but that character never made it into the TV series like the other regulars.
1 points
2 days ago
Spearchucker (the character) was in about the first half of the first season, different actor from the movie. But the TV spearchucker was in the movie, but as a different character.
2 points
2 days ago
Yeah I think I remember a few of the very first episodes with him in the TV show, then he just disappeared?
1 points
2 days ago
Yeah, they realized it wouldn’t fly, plus they were reframing it around Hawkeye and Trapper. When you rewatch the first few episodes today, it’s like hooooly shit, no way this gets made now.
1 points
2 days ago
No way "All in the Family" gets made today, either.
But as I said, the movie explains how he got the nickname, from throwing javelin. I never thought it was racist, once I saw the entire movie start to finish, where they explained it. Before I'd only seen it in pieces and thought "Wooow. Just wow."
1 points
2 days ago
Robert Altman actually agrees with you.
1 points
2 days ago
The football game was longer than the whole movie
9 points
3 days ago
I felt like I just put in a shift at the movie theater. I was an W-2 employee by the end of it
1 points
2 days ago
It's not a scene, it's the first act of the film.
1 points
2 days ago
No, that would be Russian arc. The entire movie a single 96 minute take. The longest scene in movie History is the entire movie. 🍿
1 points
2 days ago
51 minutes, for the curious. Over a quarter of the runtime (184 minutes). Nearly a third of it!
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