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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-11 (Monday)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:46:34 -0500
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On 11/13/2024 2:01 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:22:38 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 12, 2024 at 7:19:52 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:12:56 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
>>> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   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!!!
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Oh I would never try that. I know some theaters did that showing all
> three movies back to back for those willing to try to watch the entire
> thing. I was just talking about watching even one of the extended
> versions can be hard to find the time.

Not to mention which (and no snarky controversy intended) there's some 
argument that they're in order of decreasing quality.