Sub-Zero

What movies do you really enjoy but don't really watch often simply because of the long running time?

-The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
-The Dark Knight Trilogy

Troy Stiffler

Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in America

OldBoy

America for me too. I have seen The Deer Hunter an inordinate amount of times given its nearly 3 hour runtime...

inri222

Laurence of Arabia
1900
The Leopard
Seven Samurai
Andrei Rublev
Inland Empire
Short Cuts
The Human Condition
JFK
Das Boot
Satantango
Spartacus
Nymph()maniac
Barry Lyndon
Fanny & Alexander
Scenes from a Marriage

printerati

Das Boot, and I even prefer the longer director's cut.

Trevor

All of them

rocket1312

I was going to say the same thing.

majorjoe23

I really want to watch Boyhood, but the long running time is keeping me from starting it. I've got kids now, I don't have time for 3 hour movies.

astrochimp

Same for me and maybe Apocalypse Now.

Michael Corvin

Lord of the Rings is a given.

My favorite movie, though, is Braveheart. I used to watch it all the time on VHS (man that was a while ago). I just can't pop it in and settle in for 3 hours anymore.

Count Dooku

You shall not pass the two-hour mark.

Count Dooku

... The Green Mile

Hazel Motes

jjcool

das Boot
Apocalypse Now
Gettysburg
Extended cuts of the LotR films.
Sitting down for any of these is a commitment. Doesn't mean I won't watch them. Heck, I did the LotR marathon of the extended editions at AMC when the first Hobbit movie came out.

Shannon Nutt

JFK
Dances with Wolves
GoodFellas

Ash Ketchum

Pretty much any Bollywood movie. The first one I ever saw, MOHABBATEIN (2000), is a masterpiece, yet it's 216 min. long! DEVDAS (2002), which I tried to show to people once to give them a hint of Bollywood, is short at 185 min.! Still, they only made it through an hour.

In contrast, I've seen my favorite kung fu films far more often because they're usually only 90 min.



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JimRochester

I love the war film genre but they all seem to be 2 1/2 hours or more. Two hours to 2 1/4 are the short ones. Armageddon is a guilty pleasure but is about 9 hours long.

onebyone

I love Titanic & Gone With the Wind, but there's not enough hours in the day to revisit them too often.

JimRochester

Titanic

Opening scene, jump to nude scene, jump to ship sinking. A perfect hour.

Ash Ketchum

If only I could have watched it that way in the theater.

milo bloom

I've been wanting to do the Watchmen Ultimate cut again, but that's a heck of a chunk of time to find to watch an R rated movie.

Geddlo

One I haven't seen mentioned yet, Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut)

JimRochester

Movies over two hours are tough. By the time we both sit down she doesn't like to stay up real late on weekends so two is about it. Once we've already watched one or two things off the DVR and a 2 hour movie, I really can't put anything too terribly long in either.

davidh777

Lawrence of Arabia and Seven Samurai

A few years ago, I would fairly regularly watch FOTR in about 45 minutes by skipping to my favorite scenes: Opening, council, Moria, ending battle.

Alan Smithee

Bambi Meets Godzilla.