I knew someone would say this
Very long movies
- Thread starter Simon Hampel
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I have seen 10.
Too young, don't watch these long movies.
Too young?! When I was your age I had to walk seven miles through the snow with shoeboxes on my feet just to get to the cinema and because the movie tickets cost a nickel you had to make sure you got your money's worth (at that time a nickel could buy a small family car), so you chose the longest movie they had which was invariably seven hours long (and, obviously, silent) and afterwards had to run home so there was still time to clean the chimney stack in case I got a beating with a leather crop.
When I was young, the local cinema in our small town would play two movies each evening. You buy a ticket and then watched both movies - with a break in between as intermission.
The whole concept of buying food and eating it (making noise!) while you watched the movie was abhorrent to us - you watched the first movie in silence, then when it finished you went and bought your food, ate it during the break (went to the toilet!) and then sat down to watch the second movie.
We certainly got our money's worth!
I can't recall when they stopped doing the double movies.
The whole concept of buying food and eating it (making noise!) while you watched the movie was abhorrent to us - you watched the first movie in silence, then when it finished you went and bought your food, ate it during the break (went to the toilet!) and then sat down to watch the second movie.
We certainly got our money's worth!
I can't recall when they stopped doing the double movies.
Well they weren't my own shoeboxes. They were shared amongst the village.
Sounds like something out of that one Monty Python sketch.
Sorry.
Avatar (James Cameron) felt like it went on forever, still can't believe it was only 2h 42m. Alternatively all three of the hobbit films didn't seem long enoug despite having running times of 2h 49m, 2h 41m and 2h 24m. Although the extended edition takes the total runtime up to 8h 52m.
Pootle
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Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!
What flavour is it?
Pootle
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It's not any bloody flavour, what you think they make a strawberry albatross? It's an albatross. It's a sea bird. It's not any bloody flavour.
Do you get wafers with it?
Pootle
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I can't possibly repeat the next line as it would result in a post deleted and me getting banned probably! 
It was worth a try..!
The concise version of 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' is about 210 minutes long and is one of the most boring films I've ever seen. There is a 270 minute version. I doubt if that's better