I bought The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalyse Now and Lawrence of Arabia on Blu Ray

Adamantium

Not a jot will be done this Xmas.

Watched Lawrence for the first time, and can't believe that's it's all REAL
(in camera), almost overwhelming, haven't been awed by a film such since I was a kid, I swear!

Too much cinematic masterpiece over indulgence?

What brilliantly overly long epics (if any) planning on watching today or for the rest of the season?

DoctorEdgeWild

Carry On films. Loads of them. All of them. Any of them.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i watched mystery science theater the movie (this island earth) earlier and i'm hoping I'll be allowed throw on manos:hands of fate later in the day

mike65

When will Film4 go HD for us Freesat misers?

Dirty Dingus McGee

Adamantium wrote: »

Not a jot will be done this Xmas.

Watched Lawrence for the first time, and can't believe that's it's all REAL
(in camera), almost overwhelming, haven't been awed by a film such since I was a kid, I swear!

Too much cinematic masterpiece over indulgence?

What brilliantly overly long epics (if any) planning on watching today or for the rest of the season?

I've wanted to rewatch the godfather and Lawrence of Arabia for while now, I might watch one of them before I go back to work.

You probably should pace yourself and watch a coupe of mediocre ones in between so you can fully appreciate how great those films are.I remember a phase when I was getting big into films and was catching up on all the classics I hadn't seen and for a period every week I watched a couple of truly great films.It meant that after this spell it took huge adjustment to more normal films and I ended up not enjoying perfectly good films just because they weren't at 5 star film level.

RobbingBandit

Oddly enough I bought the Godfather Trilogy myself on dvd going to watch 1 and 2 wont bother with 3 though, it's a mess.

3rdDegree

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Oddly enough I bought the Godfather Trilogy myself on dvd going to watch 1 and 2 wont bother with 3 though, it's a mess.

Am I the only person who likes 3? Sure, it's not as good as the others, but it's still very enjoyable.

Adamantium

I clearly have a thing for tortured epic productions that come right in the end.

Tropic Thunder bizarrely feels like Xmas movie to me (for reason I do not know) too, even though it has nary a thing to with it.

RobbingBandit

The Simpsons summed it up in one great quote by Fat Tony voiced by Joe Mantegna, one of the villans in The Godfather 3. "I ain't cried like this since I paid to see The Godfather 3."

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i watched mystery science theater the movie (this island earth) earlier and i'm hoping I'll be allowed throw on manos:hands of fate later in the day

Look into Rifftrax. They're done by the same crowd, but with more modern movies. They're pretty much audiotracks that you have to play at the same time as the movie.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

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Look into Rifftrax. They're done by the same crowd, but with more modern movies. They're pretty much audiotracks that you have to play at the same time as the movie.

i've seen a few of them, although not recently. rifftrax is the only way I was able to sit through more than 20 minutes of the twilight movies, they were actually pretty great.

I see now they've done starship troopers recently... xmas present to myself perhaps.

and on the same topic.. cinematic titanic is another crowd. it's joel from the first couple of seasons of mst3k and is staffed i think entirely by old mst3k writers and whoever else except for mike and the two robots. they mainly focus on b-movies like mst3k would have although i havent seen many to know how good they are, I was always a mike fanboy instead of joel

rednik

Bar Godfather 3 none of these movies are overly long and all are quite fantastic with great transfers.

Patty O Furniture

DoctorEdgeWild wrote: »

Carry On films. Loads of them. All of them. Any of them.

Oh i say! they're on all day until midnig11.50pm on ITV3 :P

titan18

Not overly long but get the Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy. Watched the first one today, will watch the others tomorrow.

First_October

I saw Papillon the other night after listening to my father go on about how good it was for years. Was absolutely blown away by it; very long but not overly long! Definitely McQueen's best performance in a movie.

Quite simply, they do not make films like it anymore. Large segments of the movie contained almost no dialogue, instead letting the actors' actions and the score tell the story. Good old-fashioned storytelling!

hidinginthebush

I watched Spartacus recently, to be honest I was underwhelmed by it, its enjoyable but not the epic I was expecting. I definitely plan to watch Lawrence in the coming week, maybe 2001 if I get the chance.

They really don't make them like they used to. That said, I watched inglorious basterds recently, the first scene in that film is magnificent.

bnt

3rdDegree wrote: »

Am I the only person who likes 3? Sure, it's not as good as the others, but it's still very enjoyable.

No, you're not. It helps to remember that it was supposed to be a coda, The Death of Michael Corleone, and not Part III of a trilogy. I even find myself coming to Sofia Coppola's defence, since she stepped in to an awkward role at very short notice after Winona Ryder pulled out. I thought the final act (at the opera) was very effective, the juxtaposition of the stylised violence on stage with ... well, that would be a spolier.

RobbingBandit

I am sure the Godfather 3 debate has been done to death on here before, my one main issue with it besides the stupid plot was the casting of Andy Garcia as the Bastardo Nephew rather than Anthony son of Michael. Andy Garcia is like a clone of Al Pacino, it made no sense what so ever to cast him as Sonnys son.

johnny_ultimate

I pretty much never get a chance to watch a film on Christmas Day, let alone an epic one. This year was no exception. But have two epics to get through over the next week or so, both from the same year coincidentally. First is Greed (Eric von Stroheim), which is happily the last film on my 'watch these twenty difficult / important films this year' list I set 12 months ago. As much of a cinematic catastrophe that the full 8 hour version is seemingly lost forever, I will say it's more likely I'll be able to get through the 4 hour one that currently survives

Also got Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen on BluRay, which weighs in just shy of five hours. But as far as I can gather, that's in two separate parts to make it much more manageable.

It's going to be predominantly silent seasonal viewing

hidinginthebush

Das Boot is nice and long OP! Blows any other submarine movie out of the water (:pac:), absolutely captivating, tense and really draws you in. Highly recommended

kumate_champ07

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Balaclava1991

Where Eagles Dare.

Best WW2 movie EVER!

Balaclava1991

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I am sure the Godfather 3 debate has been done to death on here before, my one main issue with it besides the stupid plot was the casting of Andy Garcia as the Bastardo Nephew rather than Anthony son of Michael. Andy Garcia is like a clone of Al Pacino, it made no sense what so ever to cast him as Sonnys son.

The idea was that Michael's son Anthony looked a bit like James Caan.
Vincent was the product of a fling that Sonny had with Lucy Mancini which explains his dark Sicilian looks.
Mary Corleone was supposed to be played by Winona Ryder who with her dark hair and eyes would have been a great fit as Pacino's daughter.
Many people panned Sophia Coppola's performance but she looks like a Renaissance princess and it fits the Borgia style story line.
Al Pacino's spiky hair and his loud performance in the third installment clash with the quiet thoughtful character with the swept back hair in the first two movies.