I just finished watching a movie I started in 1981. 😆

[Missourian]

In 1981 my parents took my brother and I to the drive-in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.

It was a double feature. The second movie was Outland with Sean Connery. About 15 minutes in is a nude scene...and that was the end of that.

Forty-four years later I have officially finished the movie... and it was pretty good.

This ever happened to you?

What's the longest stretch you've got between starting and finishing a movie?

 

[egp320i]

In 1981 my parents took my brother and I to the drive-in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.

It was a double feature. The second movie was Outland with Sean Connery. About 15 minutes in is a nude scene...and that was the end of that.

Forty-four years later I have officially finished the movie... and it was pretty good.

This ever happened to you?

What's the longest stretch you've got between starting and finishing a movie?

can't say ever, I watch a movie I budget my time so I don't get tired, maybe a few rare times I got 1/2 way through and the movie just sucked
raiders was an awesome movie, been decades since I watched it and could again

I did see temple of doom in a theater, that was a great movie too, some spooky moments if you are a kid

when they sat down and they brought out all this food like a python they cut up, chilled monkey brains was pretty gross, course that not real but as a kid you can't be sure, different cultures have a unique take on foods

 

[RhodyPatriot]

With today's technology, this (admittedly cool) dynamic you're describing is pretty much DOA.

 

[gtopa1]

Not a movie but a book; The Godfather. My mother went through and "abridged" it with black ink and tape; covered all the naughty bits. I still haven't seen the movie. (BTW: the book was read by maybe thirty people including her friends and their kids.) I still haven't read the "intact" book nor seen the movies.

Greg

 

[progressive hunter]

In 1981 my parents took my brother and I to the drive-in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.

It was a double feature. The second movie was Outland with Sean Connery. About 15 minutes in is a nude scene...and that was the end of that.

Forty-four years later I have officially finished the movie... and it was pretty good.

This ever happened to you?

What's the longest stretch you've got between starting and finishing a movie?

I cant say I have seen it all the way through,,

 

[Mack The Finger]

I just finished watching a movie I started in 1981​

I hate when that happens !

 

[BothWings]

In 1981 my parents took my brother and I to the drive-in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.

It was a double feature. The second movie was Outland with Sean Connery. About 15 minutes in is a nude scene...and that was the end of that.

Forty-four years later I have officially finished the movie... and it was pretty good.

This ever happened to you?

What's the longest stretch you've got between starting and finishing a movie?

Yep. Gump, sir. Forest Gump.

But it was more like 24 years.

I know that's happened to me before though, with other movies.

I just can't think of which ones.

I saw Outland. I thought that was a great freaking movie. It was a breath of fresh air seeing a science fiction movie that was actually believable, like eventually exactly something like that could happen. And there were no aliens or interdimensional forces or anything like that. Just humans in space confronting very real human problems.

 

[toobfreak]

In 1981 my parents took my brother and I to the drive-in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Forty-four years later I have officially finished the movie... and it was pretty good.

Raiders could vie for one of the biggest box office smashes in history. Maybe if you sat down and actually watched it once all the way through, you might enjoy it more.

What's the longest stretch you've got between starting and finishing a movie?

I have a few models I started painting and building in the 1970s that I put down, electrical system, fiber optic lighting, much of it custom work, but I just might pick it up to finish one of these days.

 

[Auld Phart]

thanks to streaming, I'm able to watch a large number of movies and tv show, I wasn't able to watch growing up.

 

[Missourian]

I cant say I have seen it all the way through,,

It was entertaining... but the 1980s shown though the the entirety.

 

[Missourian]

Raiders could vie for one of the biggest box office smashes in history. Maybe if you sat down and actually watched it once all the way through, you might enjoy it more.

I got to see Raiders ... it was the second feature Outland that was truncated with prejudice by my mom. I was like 13 and it was an R rated movie. That wasn't happening in 1981. Different times back then.

I still haven't seen past the first 10 minutes of Best Defense with Eddie Murphy and Dudley Moore.

Or Stardust Memories with Woody Allen... but that was for a whole different reason.

 

[Missourian]

I have a few models I started painting and building in the 1970s that I put down, electrical system, fiber optic lighting, much of it custom work, but I just might pick it up to finish one of these days

Sounds like a plan.

 

[Missourian]

Yep. Gump, sir. Forest Gump.

But it was more like 24 years.

I know that's happened to me before though, with other movies.

I just can't think of which ones.

I saw Outland. I thought that was a great freaking movie. It was a breath of fresh air seeing a science fiction movie that was actually believable, like eventually exactly something like that could happen. And there were no aliens or interdimensional forces or anything like that. Just humans in space confronting very real human problems.

It was good. Great cast. The Big Bad needed some character development. For the time, the special effects were brilliant.

It was a classic Space Western.

The problem I had was one the is no fault of the movie... it's the fault of the intervening 44 years.

Every time an old CRT monitor with green scrolling text came up on the screen, it broke the suspension of disbelief for me. And there is a lot of it. Like rewatching X-files and Mulder pulls out his flip phone.

 

[Woodznutz]

In 1981 my parents took my brother and I to the drive-in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.

It was a double feature. The second movie was Outland with Sean Connery. About 15 minutes in is a nude scene...and that was the end of that.

Forty-four years later I have officially finished the movie... and it was pretty good.

This ever happened to you?

What's the longest stretch you've got between starting and finishing a movie?

I don't know how long but I have tuned into several good movies (shown on tv) well into the story and didn't see the beginning until months or even years later when I had the chance to watch them from the beginning. This happened again recently.

 

[toobfreak]

I got to see Raiders ... it was the second feature Outland that was truncated with prejudice by my mom. I was like 13 and it was an R rated movie. That wasn't happening in 1981. Different times back then.

Outland is a pretty OK movie.

 

[toobfreak]

Sounds like a plan.

I've replaced those with an even bigger model now, about three feet long, even more daunting and complex. I have about $600 tied up in it so far. It has been sitting on my desk for several years, partly held together with tape so I can get a feel for it being assembled.

I may even paint and build it someday.

 

[22lcidw]

It was good. Great cast. The Big Bad needed some character development. For the time, the special effects were brilliant.

It was a classic Space Western.

The problem I had was one the is no fault of the movie... it's the fault of the intervening 44 years.

Every time an old CRT monitor with green scrolling text came up on the screen, it broke the suspension of disbelief for me. And there is a lot of it. Like rewatching X-files and Mulder pulls out his flip phone.

I think it was cheaper on the budget for that. Futuristic screens with the then CGI abilities or other ways may have added a prohibitive cost. And you are right.

 

[HikerGuy83]

In 1981 my parents took my brother and I to the drive-in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.

It was a double feature. The second movie was Outland with Sean Connery. About 15 minutes in is a nude scene...and that was the end of that.

Forty-four years later I have officially finished the movie... and it was pretty good.

This ever happened to you?

What's the longest stretch you've got between starting and finishing a movie?

Wow.....longest movie ever.

I can't do anything over two hours.

 

[bluzman61]

I've never gone THAT long a time between starting and finishing a movie. I loved Raiders, would watch it again if I could get it on YouTube. (We don't own a television.) I enjoyed Outland, I liked Sean Connery and Peter Boyle in their roles. There were some critics that described it as "High Noon in Space". That's a pretty apt description.

 

[gtopa1]

I just recalled. As a kid we watched part of the Wizard of Oz but weren't allowed to watch the "scary" bits after the Lion joined the crew. We were only young. I didn't watch it again until "grandma" put it in every time the Grandkids were visiting. Even then it took until my own Grand-daughters and Grandsons arrived on the scene. I've now seen it IN FULL. Probably nearly sixty years later.

Greg