The Longest Movie to Ever Keep Your Attention Throughout

[ASoron0424]

I was exposed to Paul Thomas Anderson a few weeks ago and watched Boogie Nights and Magnolia in quick succession, and having seen the 2 1/2 hour Sex and the City movie yesterday, I've come to the conclusion that it's an immense and incredibly rare talent for a filmmaker to be able to dance around the three-hour mark of a movie and keep the audience entertained the whole time. Boogie Nights and Magnolia are, I think, masterpieces of the nineties that were both able to do this. I'd say Gangs of New York and The Departed did the same, as well as The Green Mile.

So what are some long ass movies that you didn't feel a moment of boredom in? I was gonna post this in Horror Talk, but I realized most horror movies hardly break the two-hour mark...

[Bronner]

Grindhouse was what, 3 1/2 hours? I didn't even go to the bathroom that whole movie I was so into it. But I think the longest NON-horror movie to keep my attention without boredom would be Terry Gilliam's ultimate cut of "Brazil."

[woodenheart]

Braveheart

[Joker]

Return of the King,The Stand and Storm of the Century.

[LgOr]

saving private ryan
Heat

[dead breed]

Any LOTR movie.

[Dr. Awesome]

Lord of the Rings, Def. The Stand can watch that any day or the week, Schindler's List

[Nigbo]

the stand

[slimeisacharacter]

Braveheart, Aliens Directors Cut, and The Departed come to mind. If you want to touch on the "tv miniseries" type films... I'll toss in Rose Red and the recent Andromeda Strain remake as well.

[dead breed]

It's A Wonderful Life....my 2nd fav movie of all time.

[woodenheart]

It's A Wonderful Life....my 2nd fav movie of all time.

Wow for being a young guy you got awesome taste in older movies.

''Everytime a bell rings an angel gets it's wings"

[dead breed]

Wow for being a young guy you got awesome taste in older movies.

''Everytime a bell rings an angel gets it's wings"

Yeah Jimmy Stewart is my favorite actor :coolbeer:

[Metapher]

King stuff like The Shining, The Stand and Green Mile.

[choptop2]

Berlin Alexanderplatz... :D

[Bronner]

Another movie that kept my attention, but I was bored with throughout and only seemed long even though it was like, an hour and fifteen minutes was this weird student film called "Slacker."

[dead breed]

Berlin Alexanderplatz... :D

huh?

[xxsic4slipknotxx]

There's been quite a few: Braveheart, Inland Empire, the 3 Lord of the Rings films, The Departed, Grindhouse, Schindler's List

[dead breed]

Inland Empire, I was going to blind buy this last month. Thoughts on the movie?

[xxsic4slipknotxx]

Inland Empire, I was going to blind buy this last month. Thoughts on the movie?

Well if you know anything about David Lynch, you'd know that his films are some of the strangest. Of course, this film is not excluded from this. I'd say out of the ones I've seen from the guy, this is one of the most confusing I've seen and also the longest (clocking in at 3 hours). It took me a few watches to figure some of it out. My recommendation is to find a stream or at least rent this first before purchasing. If you can figure out the story and tolerate all the weird scenes, then you will enjoy it. Otherwise, it's gonna be a long 3 hours.

*EDIT*
The story reminded me of his previous film, Mulholland Dr.

[DarkHallway]

I prefer longer films.

[Cannibal]

I don't have a problem with movies keeping my attention. If I feel like I'm starting to drift away, I'll hit the pause button and walk away for a few minutes.

[K.I.N.G]

Definitely any LOTR movie, Musa: The Warrior was fricken awesome and most recently Noriko's Dinner Table, it was about 2 and a half hours long.

[deathslasher666]

Lord of the Ring Movies, but I think the longest movie I watched that kept my attention all the way through was Eureka.

[Wax Zombie]

Lord of the rings
King Kong
Star Wars
GrindHouse

[K.I.N.G]

Lord of the Ring Movies, but I think the longest movie I watched that kept my attention all the way through was Eureka.

Oh shit, forgot about Eureka. Awesome film.

[//Neon_Maniac//]

Zodiac

[choptop2]

It's a 15 1/2 hour film, dead breed.



I haven't actually watched it. :(

[ASoron0424]

Zodiac

Ditto, but I was getting pretty antsy towards the end, there were like four or five scenes in the last half hour where I was convinced it was about to end. And then the actual ending was, IMO, pretty terrible.

[smokey]

The lord of the rings kept my attention throughout. As did The Stand and The Green Mile.

[dead breed]

It's a 15 1/2 hour film, dead breed.



I haven't actually watched it. :(

wtf? 15 hours?

[Get Some]

braveheart dances with wolves glory saving private ryan

[koolmike]

The Longest Day
The Deer Hunter
Peyton Place
The Sound of Music
The Godfather 2

[dead breed]

ahhh The Deer Hunter I forgot about that, one of my favs. Shawshank is another sick movie.

[JerkyPuck]

I know it's gay but, Titanic. I thought it was a great film all the way through.

[RIP]

Shoah (9 1/2 hours)

Saw this one theatrically years ago. If memory serves, there were 3 intermissions.

Interesting film about the holocaust. Taxing as fuck though.

[Jungle_Julia]

Def. the godfather 2

[ZION]

The Longest Day
The Deer Hunter
Peyton Place
The Sound of Music
The Godfather 2

Damn you mike...

The Godfather II
Deer Hunter
Blood in Blood Out
Boogie Nights
Once Upon a Time in America
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Scarface

That's all I can think about right now.

[koolmike]

Damn you mike...

Once Upon a Time in America




:coolbeer:

[Joker]

Yeah,how could I forget The Godfather 2.

[Snuggle]

The Godfather films.
Goodfellas
Casino
King Kong
Pulp Fiction
Actually any movie that Quentin Tarantino has directed.
Braveheart
Scarface

I'm going to catch a lot of shit for this but I can't stand any of the Lord of the Rings movies. :ahheh:

[Driden]

longest ever - Jesus Of Nazareth - runtime 6 hrs +

[woodenheart]

Any Given Sunday

Dennis Quaid...awesome
James Woods....excellant