"I Thought It Would Never End": 23 People Who Lost A Year Of Their Lives After Watching A Very, Very, Very Long Movie Where The Director Forgot How To Edit
Sometimes, a long, well-edited movie can really comfort the soul. On the other hand, a horrible long movie can literally feel like it sucked your soul right out of you. So when Reddit user Plus-Statistician80 asked: "What movie made you say, 'Holy shit, there is still an hour left?'" over 10,000 people shared their opinions, and boy, they did not hold back. Here's what they said below:
1."I remember having the DVD copy of Pearl Harbor that came in two discs, and when the first disc ended, I thought, 'That's a strange way to end a movie,' and then I got the 'insert disc two' message, and I was like 'What the fuck?'"
2."Emilia Pérez. It's very long and kept going."
3."Gangs of New York on cable TV, so with the commercial breaks, it was five goddamn hours long."
4."A friend came to the theatre for the first The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He knew nothing about it and was just coming because everyone was going, and it was hyped up. The movie finished with Frodo and Sam looking at Mt. Doom, and he said, 'That's how it ends?! That's stupid.' We informed him that it's a trilogy. And he said, 'I have to watch two more of these fucking things now?!'"
5."Sorry, Nolan, I like your stuff... but Oppenheimer... I don't really dislike the movie, but damn, it was drawn out too long."
6."Meg 2: The Trench. I was sure I was at the end of the third act, but somehow, there was another movie left."
7."Australia (2008). They spend two hours riding horses across the outback, then they get to town, and it turns into an hour-long combat movie. Don't watch it."
8."The Irishman."
9."Avatar: The Way of Water was kinda like that, even though I knew it was long."
10."The remake of King Kong. I swear, they spent an hour just talking on that damn boat."
11."Not exactly an hour, but seeing Wicked Part 1 and having to pee really badly during the "Defying Gravity" escape sequence was the longest goddamn 45 minutes of my life."
12."All of the Hobbit movies."
13."Killers of the Flower Moon. I'm sorry!"
14."My boys wanted to go see Dune: Part Two with me, and my daughter, who was considerably younger, wanted to go as well. About halfway through the flick, she had been in a quasi-fetal position in her chair for most of the movie. She looked up at me and said, 'It feels like we've been here for a DAY already.'"
15."The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King has like seven final scenes."
16."The Wolf of Wall Street. Hit a point where I was sure it was wrapping up, glanced at my phone, and went, 'You've got to be kidding me.' Still loved every minute though, even if my drink was empty and my legs were cramping."
17."Wonder Woman 1984."
18."Gone With the Wind. My college girlfriend made me watch it with her. I had no idea that you had to wait flipping hours for the famous 'Frankly, Scarlet' line."
19."I fell asleep twice trying to watch Zack Snyder's Justice League at about the two-hour mark, where Wonder Woman meets Cyborg in the street. The movie hasn't really even begun at this point, and there are two more hours to go."
20."Les Misérables. I saw the movie in theaters with my friend, who absolutely loves the play. I thought the movie was coming to an end and thought, 'Oh, thank God.' My friend sighed emotionally and said, 'Ah, the intermission!' I nearly cried."
21."The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Man, that last half felt almost like a different movie."
22."A.I. Artificial Intelligence had at least four places where I was like, 'OK, it's going to end here,' and it just kept going. I remember really having to use the bathroom in the theater but having no idea how much time was left."
23."Tenet. I couldn't understand anything anyone was saying, and the plot itself was too convoluted. There were some good parts, but it should have been way shorter."
Are there any movies you watched that made you think, "There's still an hour left???" Tell us what movies and why in the comments below.
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