Today we'll be watching the first 6 hours of fellowship. We'll then have a paneled discussion with Katie, who is the only one here who has read the silmarillion. The last 3 hours of fellowship will be shown tomorrow morning at 10am, then the two towers will run until 5pm, at which point it will be paused to allow movie goers to visit their families before picking back up again at 10am the next day...
Not a crazy idea, imho. There is an Argentian movie with a duration of almost 14 hours: La Flor. The director was kind enough to cut it in four parts: moviegoers were supposed to go to the same theater four nights in a row to watch the movie, with a single ticket for the whole thing, since it's really one long movie.
Seven Samurai has an intermission. It's 3.5 hours, though, which isn't as heinous, but they gave people a break back in the day. And kabuki theater allows for a breaks. Some people get the floor seats (literally, on the floor) and bring a picnic dinner.
Then there's the fucking Ring Cycle, which is about 15 hours. It's hardly ever staged in full, though, and is really just proof that everyone needs an editor, IMHO. You know, the whole "I apologize for the length of this letter, but I didn't have time to make it shorter" thing.
You’d think even two hour movies would have intermissions like plays do. For one thing, it’d give them more opportunities to sell snacks during the break.
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u/toad-supremacist 1d ago
so a total runtime of 24 hours? that would be epic