Record For Continuous Movie Watching Broken

Suresh Joachim and Claudia Wavra say they have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square. A Guinness World Records spokesman says it appears the two have broken the movie-watching record but says it will take two weeks to officially verify. For the life of me I can't figure out why it would take two weeks to verify inactivity, but I'm sure the good people at Guinness have their reasons. Eight challengers started on Oct. 2 with "Iron Man," and 72 hours later, only Suresh and Claudia remained.

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Did they get to pick the movies?

[damn_registrars]

I could see it being a rather difficult contest under the terms "cannot divert your eyes" if you have no say in the movies. Thelma and Louise are cinematic masterworks when compared to some others that simply shouldn't even be considered fit for human consumption. Those even make notoriously bad science fiction movies from the days before the day look great. If any of those beforementioned instruments of torture came up in the rotation I would do anything humanly possible to escape the contest.