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Warhol had several movies over 5 hours, among them Sleep and Empire , tho these might more reasonably be called "portraits that move" than "movies".

(Incidentally, Chelsea Girls is over 6 hours of footage, but since it is shown on two projectors simultaneously it takes only 3 1/2 hours to watch. And it's much more entertaining than Empire and Sleep.)

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz was originally shown in the US as a 16-hour feature (screened in 2 eight-hour sessions), and received critical acclaim in that form. However, it has generally been shown in installments since then. It was originally a 14 (?) episode TV mini-series in Germany.

I've not seen The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World , but it seems no different than running your screensaver all weekend.

I remember sitting thru Chantel Ackerman's films je, tu, il, elle (having not gotten much sleep the night before) and Jeanne Dielman , and both seemed to last all day. Turns out they run 90 and 200 minutes, respectively. That said, if you want to see what it's like to spend an entire day with a movie character, these are like that.

Warhol had several movies over 5 hours, among them Sleep and Empire , tho these might more reasonably be called "portraits that move" than "movies".

(Incidentally, Chelsea Girls is over 6 hours of footage, but since it is shown on two projectors simultaneously it takes only 3 1/2 hours to watch. And it's much more entertaining than Empire and Sleep.)

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz was originally shown in the US as a 16-hour feature (screened in 2 eight-hour sessions), and received critical acclaim in that form. However, it has generally been shown in installments since then. It was originally a 14 (?) episode TV mini-series in Germany.

I've not seen The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World , but it seems no different than running your screensaver all weekend.

I remember sitting thru Chantel Ackerman's films je, tu, il, elle (having not gotten much sleep the night before) and Jeanne Dielman , and both seemed to last all day. Turns out they run 90 and 200 minutes, respectively. That said, if you want to see what it's like to spend an entire day with a movie character, these are like that.

If you must answer that, just watch "Village of the Damned"!

You have to with the all-time classic...


Oh, sorry, I thought you said "spaced".

Never mind...

Didn't get that movie off the shelves.

Probably because The Basketball Diaries has a scene that's much closer to the reality (including the trenchcoat and heavy boots), and came out in 1995.

Sounds like you need to watch 24 Hour Party People.

Don't forget the blood...

Not to take away from the guys accomplishments but will a time come when we all but do away with the need to press the flesh?

No. And that's mostly because it proves he's a real person. How would one tell a very skilled player from a corporate-sponsored bot? Think along the lines of the movie S1m0ne.
I suppose that'll be the next big thing... don't beat Deep Blue at chess, frag it at Quake4! ;)

Not this one?

This is the same thing as suing Coors or Budwiser for DUI deaths, or liver disease... addiction comes in all sorts of forms. You can't sue the maker of a legitimate product just because the person using said product has an addictive personality.

Actually... I seem to recall that there was one person who successfully sued some mfg. of spirits when her child was born with birth defects. Since then I there is a nice spiffy little warning label. And alcohol is not exactly the catagory of "legitimate" product... not like Methamphetamines which were onces prescribed like candy.

http://print.injury.findlaw.com/accutane/articles/ 2023.html

Not that I disagree with you. There is that film "Mazes and Monsters" staring a young Tom Hanks that revolves around a character who's so obsessed with a D&D style game after the death of his sibling IIRC he honestly believes that jumping off a skyscraper will result in some form of magical intervention that would reunite him with lost family. But as with this case of fiction it's generally accepted that anyone who can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy is well nuts... including the parents who showed this to their kids trying to get them to stop playing D&D.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084314/

But the occasional remake is so much superior that people forget it is a remake. Did you know that the Humphrey Bogart version of the "Maltese Falcon" was a remake? There were earlier 1931 and 1936 versions.

Did you know that the wonderful "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", with Michael Caine and Steve Martin, was a remake of "Bedtime Story", with David Niven and Marlon Brando? Michael Caine's performance is at least an order of magnitude superior to Niven's original performance. The remake was both funnier and deeper.

Have you ever seen the 1973 Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers? Subsequent remakes suck in comparison. But the 1973 version is also a remake.

But the occasional remake is so much superior that people forget it is a remake. Did you know that the Humphrey Bogart version of the "Maltese Falcon" was a remake? There were earlier 1931 and 1936 versions.

Did you know that the wonderful "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", with Michael Caine and Steve Martin, was a remake of "Bedtime Story", with David Niven and Marlon Brando? Michael Caine's performance is at least an order of magnitude superior to Niven's original performance. The remake was both funnier and deeper.

Have you ever seen the 1973 Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers? Subsequent remakes suck in comparison. But the 1973 version is also a remake.

But the occasional remake is so much superior that people forget it is a remake. Did you know that the Humphrey Bogart version of the "Maltese Falcon" was a remake? There were earlier 1931 and 1936 versions.

Did you know that the wonderful "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", with Michael Caine and Steve Martin, was a remake of "Bedtime Story", with David Niven and Marlon Brando? Michael Caine's performance is at least an order of magnitude superior to Niven's original performance. The remake was both funnier and deeper.

Have you ever seen the 1973 Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers? Subsequent remakes suck in comparison. But the 1973 version is also a remake.

But the occasional remake is so much superior that people forget it is a remake. Did you know that the Humphrey Bogart version of the "Maltese Falcon" was a remake? There were earlier 1931 and 1936 versions.

Did you know that the wonderful "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", with Michael Caine and Steve Martin, was a remake of "Bedtime Story", with David Niven and Marlon Brando? Michael Caine's performance is at least an order of magnitude superior to Niven's original performance. The remake was both funnier and deeper.

Have you ever seen the 1973 Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers? Subsequent remakes suck in comparison. But the 1973 version is also a remake.

But the occasional remake is so much superior that people forget it is a remake. Did you know that the Humphrey Bogart version of the "Maltese Falcon" was a remake? There were earlier 1931 and 1936 versions.

Did you know that the wonderful "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", with Michael Caine and Steve Martin, was a remake of "Bedtime Story", with David Niven and Marlon Brando? Michael Caine's performance is at least an order of magnitude superior to Niven's original performance. The remake was both funnier and deeper.

Have you ever seen the 1973 Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers? Subsequent remakes suck in comparison. But the 1973 version is also a remake.

But the occasional remake is so much superior that people forget it is a remake. Did you know that the Humphrey Bogart version of the "Maltese Falcon" was a remake? There were earlier 1931 and 1936 versions.

Did you know that the wonderful "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", with Michael Caine and Steve Martin, was a remake of "Bedtime Story", with David Niven and Marlon Brando? Michael Caine's performance is at least an order of magnitude superior to Niven's original performance. The remake was both funnier and deeper.

Have you ever seen the 1973 Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers? Subsequent remakes suck in comparison. But the 1973 version is also a remake.

Jaws invented the summer blockbuster. Star Wars was the first movie to successfully repeat the formula.

Are you talking about the glorious russian version or the http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/">american/cra p one?

Silent Running...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

A 1972 movie that really post a good story about an psycho pro-environmentalist drifting in space who actually used a nuclear device to destroy the last batch of ecosystem in our solar system.

(I'm just a sucker for Oxymoronic type of space movie like Space Odessey 2001, anyone else?)

Silent Running should make it to that list. Sadly forgotten film where SFX meets environmentalist concerns.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

Here are the top movies on imdb, filtered to Sci Fi and filtered by "Space Theme" (by me)

spot (imdb spot) [imdb rating] title
1(1)[8.7] Star Wars (1977)
2(2)[8.7] Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3(8)[8.3] Alien (1979)
4(10)[8.2] Aliens (1986)
5(11)[8.2] 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
6(15)[8.1] Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
7(16)[8.1] Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
8(19)[8.0] The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
9(23)[8.0] Serenity (2005)
10(33)[7.9] Planet of the Apes (1968)

Original sci-fi imdb list here

How about Armageddon?? Although it is one of those blockbuster mainstream marketing machine movies, I think it's probably the most realistic in terms of today's technology. Additionally, I think that the asteroid collision scenerio will eventually happen, and may be plausible that we will attempt to nuke it out of the sky.

Back then it was just called Star Wars . And any version where Han doesn't shoot first---any version where Greedo gets a shot off at all---automatically gets moved down the list.

And the first real summer blockbuster was Jaws , although Star Wars certainly raised the bar.

Back then it was just called Star Wars . And any version where Han doesn't shoot first---any version where Greedo gets a shot off at all---automatically gets moved down the list.

And the first real summer blockbuster was Jaws , although Star Wars certainly raised the bar.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/

;)

Also, Oldboy deserves a place on that list.

It seems nobody mentioned it.
I fondly remember the special effects - the aliens were done with amazing effects even for that time.

2001: A Space Odyssey

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/

Why? For the great visuals, lack of Hollywood cliches, relatively no-name actors and the ambiguous conclusion.

Oh yeah, and the fact that "fail-safe" computers fuck the good guys in the end. It's just like real life!

Sure you don't mean this one?

Next list: Top Ten Octopus Videos

1. James Bond in Octopussy
2. Documentary: Octopus Mating Habbits
3. Japanese take-out restaurant commercial

You forgot "20000 leages under the sea" you incensitive clod!

Actually, (from MindlessCrap.com, verified by IMDB) "The longest movie ever screened was a 1970 British film that lasted 48 hours, 0 minutes. Believe it or not, its name is The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World."

I find South Park quite watchable, although (or because) it's often a thinly disguised swipe at liberals.

What a weird thing to say. I find that South Park is often a thinly veiled swipe at conservatives. I think this is why they still enjoy such a large audience. Matt and Trey are equal opportunity 'haters'. I guess the genius is that we all see it through our own colored glasses.

E.g., when a stupid liberal watches this all they see is a hilarious parody of ham-fisted American colonialism; but when a stupid conservative watches it all they see is hilarious caricatures of elitest left-wing Hollywood.

I find both sides hilarious, which is probably why I hate politics so much.

What (to me) still sets 2001: A Space Odyssey apart from all other/later films with an "outer space" theme is that feeling of complete loneliness and despair when Frank Poole drifts away from the spaceship...

Sure, it would have been equally deadly only 10 miles from earth's orbit (or half a mile at sea), but watching that film I understood for the first time how vast, lonely and unforgiving that "outer" space really is.

I watched the film with my dad when I was about 12 (far too early IMO - I had nightmares about the end for weeks, but my dad (bless his simple soul) thought I shoud see "the original" first befor we would go see "StarWars"). I recently saw 2001 again (now at age 30something) --- and yet I still find the aforementioned scene the most disturbing of the whole film.

Excellent start. Others I'd put in the running for top ten space movie:
Wings of Honnemeaise
Alien
Dune
The Last Starfighter
Black Hole
Silent Running
Fantastic Planet. Don't think many people know of it, but it's definately up there.

There's a lot of others that come close, but I wouldn't really call "space movies:" Gattaca, ET, War of the Worlds, Planet of the Apes, Cocoon, Dark City, Starman, Man who fell to Earth, and I might as well throw in 5th Element. Muppets from Space anyone?

Check it out! It's a spaghetti musical western set in space! what more could you want?

Darkstar surely deserves a place in a top 10. Apollo 13 first? this is nonsense. First Contact above Khan? come on!!!

"Dark Star", baby!

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/

Made in 1950 but still really watchable, complete with Woody Woodpecker cartoon explaining to the disbelieving backers how rockets work.

Robert A. Heinleins Destination Moon.

Scenery by Chesley Bonestell, famous for his space art.

I find it hard to believe that Space.Com, of all people, left out the first movie really worthy of the term "Space Movie"! Sure, it's old and dated, but Destination Moon was the first movie to even TRY to take the idea of space travel seriously. It stands with Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still as the only even half-way decent science fiction movies of its day, but those other two really aren't space movies. They may have space ships, but they're not about space travel, per se.

Best example of this in SF/fantasy is Buffy in "Innocence"...

It does take some discipline to watch

Well, that's Tarkovsky for you. He's IMO the greatest filmmaker yet; he somehow managed to slip 4 or 5 absolute masterpieces past the Soviet censors... how he did that is beyond me. As good as Solaris is, his best is far and away Andrey Rublyov : dark, brooding, painful to watch, and absolutely stunning.

1. Star Wars 4
2. Star wars 5
3. Alien
4. Aliens (the sequel to Aliens)
5. 2001: A Space Oddysey
6. Blade Runner (well if Contact is on the list, why not this?)
7. Star Wars 6
8. Star Wars 3
9. Planet of the Apes (1968 version)

1. Star Wars 4
2. Star wars 5
3. Alien
4. Aliens (the sequel to Aliens)
5. 2001: A Space Oddysey
6. Blade Runner (well if Contact is on the list, why not this?)
7. Star Wars 6
8. Star Wars 3
9. Planet of the Apes (1968 version)

The ONE time those GNAA asshole could post this link and be on-topic, they are conspicuously absent from the discussion.

I don't quite know what to say.

LK

Dunno... Solaris was good, really good, but Tarkovsky's Stalker was better, IMHo, and the Strugatsky's book Roadside Picnic is better than Lem's book too...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. I swear if you tell someone who hasn't see it the plot they think you're making it up!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/

Actually, the list compilers are Muppets. That's why Jedi made the list, but not Ice Pirates. I mean, fer chrissakes. I'd rather have a space herpe than an ewok any day.

Geez, this is the movie that first showed us Robby the Robot!

Oh come on, this is slashdot, so has to be the best space movie of all time.

Aw, I loved that mediocre childhood favorite!

This list is complete BS. It is obvious that this movie should be on the list, and maybe even first.