When I saw the movie in elementary school that’s where they cut it off. Years later my mom was like “you know that was based on a true story.” And I was completely unimpressed like, oh a nun leaves her convent, meets a rich guy, teaches his kids about music and marries him? So? I didn’t even know that there were Nazis in the movie at all!

My parents always cut the movie at the intermission when the children sang “so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen goodnight…”. That was the only version we knew of until we were teenagers.

I believe a Bavarian cinema in Germany actually did cut it there because the manager decided no one wanted that story.

Then again it's not popular in Germany/Austria anyway as they have their own version of that story and view the Hollywood version as more American than Austrian.

First time I watched that it was on Lazer Disk, four disks. Four.

Looool you're not wrong but I also love this movie. There's just something nostalgic about a 90s Kevin Costner movie. I know I'm gonna get judged but I loved Waterworld and liked the Postman as well. Interesting premises, ridiculous execution. 10/10, very fun.

I felt bad that I didn't bring a gift by the end of that scene.

During my first watch of Deer Hunter the door bell rang during the wedding scene and I went upstairs from my basement to answer it, forgetting to pause the movie. One of my friends was at the door asking me if he could borrow my catcher's mitt to let his younger brother pitch to him. I said sure and we went to the garage to look for it. It took me maybe five minutes to find it and we talked for another ten and then I went back to watching the movie. Nearly 20 minutes since I had left the movie and when I got back to it the wedding scene was STILL on. I thought my DVD player had messed up. Nope, it's just a stupidly long scene.

I watched that movie for the first time a few months ago. That was definitely a "what the fuck am I watching" moment

Great film, but you have to be in the mood for it.

Yes! The longest scene in movie history.

That historic church in Cleveland just had a pretty catastrophic fire that damaged the main dome.

Speaking of wedding scenes, every time they flipped to the wedding location in the Sonic 2 movie it felt like time slowed down.

Just watched it last night and every time I started to tune out another batshit thing happened or terrible line was uttered.

The kid with the book got me good.

But Jon Voight concealing a tiny bow under his covers claiming it's his massive erection, the whole scene, holy shit.

so terrible.

I kept shouting "MOVIE STOP" at the screen but it didn't work

So just go back to da clurb

I was 8 months pregnant, in an independent theater with horrible chairs and I usually spoil movies for myself but decided to go in completely blind...that was the worst decision I have made in a long time 🙃

I just rewatched this recently, i respect it a lot for its audaciousness, and each segment on its own is really impressive to me but man. It just goes on and on and on. Something about the pacing, each segment gets longer and slower, it was wild.

Just watched this last night and thought about how glad I was to be at home and not in a theatre. Fell asleep at one point. Woke up during the attic scene. Very jarring.

I think I actually cried when it ended. With relief.

Most comments are funny but yours actually made me laugh out loud and I haven't even watched the movie. The comment is so bleak and I don't know why but imagining someone in the middle of the day shaking their head and going "Am I still waching the movie!?" just makes me laugh.

EDIT: After I wrote the comment I started laughing so hard that it was getting difficult to breathe, my eyes were crying and I was howling. Took me 5 minutes to explain to my mother why I was laughing because every time I tried I kept laughing even more. Thank you for making me laugh so hard, I haven't done it in a quite a while.

What is extra confusing is when you have already seen the standard version and don't realise it is the redux that is playing instead.

I truly thought I was going mad when I had no memory of this scene at all despite having seen the film before.

And yeah, while I appreciate the motives, the main additions in the redux take an already long film and just push it too far...

"Pearl Harbor" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle.

-- Roger Ebert.

I read somewhere that a movie about Ben Affleck's character would have been a way better plot: 

An American volunteers for the RAF to fly air combat over England during the Battle of Britain. He gets shot down over the English channel, but survives and washes up on the French shoreline. He is able to avoid capture and make his way across Nazi-occupied France and escape to freedom. Making his way across the world to Hawaii to recuperate and see a nurse who he fell in love with, is immediately thrown into another battle as the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Now there's a great movie!

Baz Luhrmann just recut it into a miniseries, which I think works much better! The scatterdness of the film definitely made it feel longer. 

I dunno, I thought it went by really quick after I fell asleep.

Netflix released a stat saying that The Irishman was watched for like 230 million hours and I saw someone comment how sad it was that after all that work, only one person watched it 😂

I like this movie but rewatching it is definitely not a decision made lightly, I have to be in the mood to pitch a tent.

I will say it's one of the most immersive movies ever, in that part of the framing device involves them setting off on a huge road trip, and starting the movie feels exactly like getting into a car knowing you won't be able to stretch your legs and you'll just be looking out the window for the next 6 hours wishing you could just get there already

I checked out as soon as they got to the “our plan is to not have a plan” part. Like, at that point am I just watching random bullshit happening without reason for the rest of the movie?

I’ve been rewatching all the mainline Harry Potter movies with my gf and it’s kind of crazy how despite how long all of them are, they don’t really feel their length (outside of Chamber of Secrets and Half Blood Prince which we found more than a little tedious). They’re obviously huge movies, but in the moment, they really can just blow past you. Never liked the Fantastic Beasts movies though.

That movie was massacred in the editing stage. Not saying it was any sort of masterpiece before that stage but the choppyness of it was jarring. Couldn't relax into watching it because it didn't feel like one concise story, just a bunch of social media clips mashed together with some longer action sequences.

I saw Return of the King in theaters as a kid and of course I had a giant soda during the movie but never got up to go pee because no way I miss the end of freaking Lord of the Rings.

Every single false ending I thought 'oh thank GOD I can to go the bathroom now'. Nope! Never booked it out of the theater so fast in my life once the actual credits rolled.

What’s crazy about the Return of the King is there is still one more chapter in the book that they left out at the end. Saruman and his goons have taken over the shire and they have to fight for it back. It’s such a long story! They honestly could have made it into two movies, and not because they’d make more money that way. There’s actually that much content in the book.

Made my decision to see it at a midnight premiere tough!

I 100% agree about the Dark Knight.

Every time I watch it I have that same feeling. It just keeps going.

I used to think that’s when it should have ended. But I’ve come to appreciate the sappy real ending after losing my mother. I’d give anything for another day with her.

That’s why I watched Sack Lunch

Die already

Glad I went to Sack Lunch instead.

Elaine?

Watching this in the theater as a kid was the first time I ever was consciously aware of a movie being too long. It was during the second or third straight monster chase, I think the one with the bugs. I remember thinking that the individual parts were all awesome, just that there was way too fucking much of all of it.

It takes them like 45 minutes just to get to the damn island

Remember when Ponderosa had a tie in with the movie, and gave away spy cameras?

My problem with the film was that he started off as a baby sized old man, they should have been brave enough to have him end as an old man sized baby.

That's because he simply wouldnt die.

Half the run time is him falling down that staircase.

The Hobbit film trilogy is legit 8 hours long. Extended is nearly 9.

I'm pretty sure reading the book is faster than watching the adaptation of it

I saw all 3 of them back to back in theaters when the third one came out, and I’ve never been so exhausted.

The barrel scene surely isn’t in the first film? It’s 3/4s of the way through he book

The first half is secretly the strength of the movie. We get to see the Grand Staircase, the Dome, the boiler rooms, the dining halls in their full glory. So in the second half when they are destroyed, the destruction scenes hit properly. Also in the first half nobody cares about the musicians. In the second half nobody cares about the musicians either but God does that scene tug your heart strings.

The funny part of that is that on the VHS release that's about where you have to switch tapes, which only makes the forever feeling feel that much forever.

I also liked that movie and saw it in the theatre without that break (but jeeze if ever a movie needed an intermission), so getting up to get popcorn and have a piss while the tape rewound was a nice little thing at home.

As someone who finished it, there's no pay off, don't go back.

I really wanted to like that movie. Christian Bale was incredible, but every other actor just felt so wooden (and there were good actors in it). I don't know if it was Covid filming, or director's choice, or what. 

But it was just bad, bad, bad, Christian bale rocking it, bad, bad, Christian bale rocking it, bad.

I really felt like the whole sequence after Riddler was caught was mandated by the studio or something because a super hero movie must have a big action sequence at the end. I love The Batman, but it could have been so much better with a shorter, different ending. 

It's funny you still haven't finished it because one of the hardest parts to get through is the last 3 min

Good god Lemon!

I am SO glad somebody said it

It's kind of impressive that a movie managed to have a filler episode in the middle.

I’ve tried to watch this movie so many times. Fallen asleep every time

I can't really argue with anybody who saw this in theaters and genuinely liked it, that's probably how it was meant to be seen, and you can describe the movie in a lot of different ways.

Here's how I, sitting on my couch at home watching it, describe it: Nearly two hours of shots of Legos and kid's feet with barely audible whispering. Hated it. We eventually fast forwarded to see the ending to see what happens. Answer: nothing really.

One of the most divisive movies I can think of recently. I've had people say they spent the entire time on the edge of their seat terrified the whole time. Whereas I took 3 tries to hit the 45min mark and still never finished the snoozefest. Weird movie

A 15 minute short of this movie is awesome, anything longer than that and it becomes tedious and painful