Long movies are clearly here to stay, with many 2022 releases hovering at - or even exceeding - the three-hour mark, and now one of 2023's biggest releases, Oppenheimer, also has a three-hour runtime. 3-hour movies might not be for everyone, and certain 3-hour films are definitely better-paced than others, but you have to admire a long film that also manages to be compelling for a long time, which the movies below manage to do.
Christopher Nolan's no stranger to long, dense movies, but Oppenheimer proves to be one of his most dense, and also his longest. Memorably released the same day as the much brighter Barbie, Oppenheimer is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, particularly regarding his development of the first atomic bomb.
Paul Thomas Anderson is a filmmaker who's no stranger to making movies that easily exceed two hours, but even by his standards, Magnolia is long. Easily among the best 3-hour-long movies, it also needs to be, given it follows a large group of characters whose lives sometimes intersect in unexpected ways throughout the film, culminating with an unusual climax that (sort of) brings them all together.
It was a time of big productions and even bigger after-parties, which means that Babylon's a film that uses a huge runtime to depict and reflect such excesses. It moves fast and balances numerous tones and characters, keeping things interesting. And though it's exhausting to watch, that feels like an intended emotional reaction, rather than an unfortunate result of subpar filmmaking.
The wait was worth it, because while Avatar: The Way of Water may have taken 13 years to finally come out, the results were truly astounding and huge. It's a bigger movie than the first Avatar, running about half an hour longer and exploring more of Pandora than ever before.
One of the greatest Swedish movies of all time and one of the underrated long films of the '70s, The Emigrants is part 1 of an epic story about a Swedish family immigrating to America. They do this in the mid-19th century, which means the film ultimately captures the horrors and struggles of traveling between continents at a time well before technology made international travel relatively safe and straightforward.
It's a film that tackles this story in a way that's anything but dry or boring. It moves well for a movie that exceeds three hours, and has plenty of thrills, humor, and memorable characters to keep viewers engaged. It was, unfortunately, a box office bomb at the time of release, but was critically acclaimed, and is well-deserving of the praise it's garnered in the years since 1983.
It feels distinct from the first part while also seamlessly continuing the story, which makes the whole saga a remarkable and devastating 6.5-hour-long epic. Such a film may well be daunting for many people to try and watch, but those who give their time and energy to The Emigrants and then The New Land will be rewarded with a pair of great films.
Still, given the three films were released separately while telling one story, it's not fair to lump them all together for the purposes of assessing the longest movies of all time. That being said, even just one third of the trilogy ends up being a huge and appropriately exhausting movie to watch, with this first installment being almost 3.5 hours long.
In 2017, a theatrical version of Justice League was released, and it clocked in at only two hours long. It felt messy and poorly paced, due to the scope of the story and number of characters, with a whole heap of stuff not being given enough room to breathe. It carried Zack Snyder's name, as he was credited with directing it, but it didn't truly feel like his movie.
Several years later, something resembling Snyder's vision was released, title Zack Snyder's Justice League. It's certainly the superior version of the film, though it takes about twice as long to watch. Mostly, it earns that runtime, besides a few scenes after the climax that feel like odd, somewhat awkward set-ups for future movies that will probably never happen.
As such, this film version of the Prince of Denmark's quest for revenge is a long but impressive Shakespeare adaptation. Those who aren't fond of Shakespeare might want to seek out a shorter version that cuts out certain subplots and characters, but for those who want to see all of Hamlet on-screen, this 1996 movie is where it's at.
It's probably only going to appeal to hardened documentary fans, and even then, the six-hour runtime and subject matter could still deter some of them. However, those brave enough to face Near Death may find themselves coming out the other side of this staggeringly long documentary about death with a new outlook on life.
Some might classify The Best of Youth as a miniseries rather than a film, given it was conceived as a miniseries, but was released theatrically in certain markets, and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. As such, it rides the line between miniseries and movie, but however you classify it and watch it, one thing's for certain: it's very long.
The Best of Youth uses its six-hour runtime to cover the lives of a family over many years, starting in 1966 and ending in 2003. It's an emotional and very well-made drama about love and life, and is surprisingly easy to get immersed in. It feels long, but not in a bad or boring way, and is up there with the best 3+ hour movies of the 21st century so far.
Satantango has a reputation for being one of the longest (and most difficult) films of all time. It's a grueling watch by design, having a very slow-paced story centering on a small, rundown village in Hungary, with its population facing great hardships after the fall of Communism.
Not only is Shoah one of the greatest documentaries of all time, but it's also up there as one of the longest. It goes for 9.5 hours and is comprised almost exclusively of interviews with various people whose lives were altered by the Holocaust during World War II, including concentration camp victims, soldiers, and townspeople who lived near the horrific death camps.
It's a movie that needs to be long, as the approach best captures the gargantuan nature of the terrible historical event the documentary covers. Shoah is an incredibly hard film to sit through, but it's a powerful experience and stands as perhaps the definitive film about the Holocaust.
What's up with the combo thread? Do they need someone to do that, because I for one would be glad to do somthing like that. Character specifics and everything! If it's shooting for complete might as well lol. Just as long as it's not just a list of BnB's.
I don't know if you can take too long to make a move; sometimes the position just demands attention. You can also focus on the possible and expected replies of your opponent while he is considering his options.
The answer is no length of time is ever too long. If you get ancy in a 30 min time control, then play shorter time controls. Your opponent is abliged to take as much time as they want, it's their time to use as they see fit. If you aren't willing to go the full 60 minutes, then play a shorter time control. The only exception really is if the game is lost and the opponent just lets their time run to zero instead of resigning. That's annoying and rude.
Obviously burning lots of time on the first few moves is intentional stalling and an exception that I didn't feel needed mentioning. The way I read your question is you were talking about slow play or long thinks throughout the course of the game. The if you use half your time in the 1st 10 moves rule is probably just the way chess.com has to operate as its online and people are flaky. But in a serious rated tourney game I don't think that's a problem. I've even seen GMs at times spend a ton of time on a move before within the 1st 10 moves in live games. Generally though you're right, players shouldn't be spending tons of time in the opening phase. So if your question is referring to just the opening phase then yes I agree with you generally. Though sometimes a long think in the first 10 moves could be legit if opponent faces a move from their opponent that they aren't familiar with.
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The object moves only once, even though the key is continuously pressed for a long time. In other words, the object changes its position only once when the keyboard button is pressed. I want it to move continuously while I hold the key.
I have word-wrap enabled and tend to have quite long lines.But moving around inside a line that's actually 4 lines high with "w" is cumbersome. I keep using / to jump to the word I'm looking for, but that seems overdoing it a bit.
My preferred strategy while jumping around long lines is to use f F and t T to zero in on the character. What makes this family of motions supercharged is that you can utilize the ; and , motions, so you don't have to count the position of character relative to cursor, but just step through them (extremely useful with ' " . etc)
Please notice that using "g" followed by Up or Down arrows indeed works fine, but if you have long lines and move quickly you may enter "gg" by mistake and end-up at the top of the text...! (Undo will not bring you back, and AFAIK there is not one-key-pressed way to go back to where you were.)
I recently wanted to develop a Brick Braker game in App inventor. But I keep coming across the same problem again and again. I'm trying to get the sprite to move as long as the button is pressed, so the longer the button is pressed the further the sprite moves, in ten steps. How do I do that? So far i only managed to get the sprite to move 10 pixels with every single click, but it would be stupid if you have to spamm the button all the time. Haven't found the solution on google
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