Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-11 (Monday)

On 11/12/2024 9:44 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 11/12/2024 7:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Nov 12, 2024 at 7:19:52 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:12:56 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
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On 11/12/2024 2:09 PM, shawn wrote:

  On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:57:15 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
  wrote:
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  It's also probably as long as some of the "extended cuts" of some of
  "The Lord of the Rings" flicks are (though I haven't gotten to these
  yet...).

  Yeah, those are still on my list.

Watch them!!!

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I plan on it. It's just hard to both find the time to watch them and
be in the right mood for them. A couple of hours for a typical movie
isn't that much of a requirement but a four hour section of time is
much harder. On a number of movies I'm okay with taking a break to go
eat or do some house work, but on a movie like the LOTR I would like
to watch it at one sitting.

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It's quite a feat to watch LOTR in one sitting. Each one is 3+ hours long. To
do the whole thing in one sitting would take a 10-hour marathon.
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 I saw a LOTR movie marathon in the theater, but I *think* it was the theatrical cuts.  Extended would have been too much in one sitting and even the theatrical cuts was seriously pushing it. That being said, I went to the theater for a marathon of the two Star Wars trilogies and the premier of The Force Awakens.  Now that was a hard core marathon. The theater was *packed* for of hard core Star Wars fans.  I think it started around 4 or 5am and went all day and all night.  But it was worth it.

I remember going to a 24 hour movie marathon sponsored by a local PBS station some decades ago.
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