10 Painfully Long Movie Marathons You Have To Do At Least Once

8. The Twilight Saga - 609 Minutes

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The Films: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn Part 1, Breaking Dawn Part 2

Just How Long? 10.2 Hours

Why You Have To Try It: Everyone vehemently despises The Twilight Saga, despite many having not watched it all the way through.

Spoiler: the first one isn't that bad. The rest are.There'€™s actually some logic in doing what on the face of it would be a painful ten hours. If you'€™re going to watch the whole €˜saga€™ through, you might as well save yourself long bouts of depression by getting it over and done with.

As well as being a love story that according to the internet pretty much everything is better than, Twilight tells the age old battle between vampires and werewolves, something that we'€™ve all mulled about at some time or another. OK, so it€™'s not greatly realised - the action fluctuates from poorly animated to being an extravagant dream - but there is some value to the series.

By the final parts, Twilight is self aware enough to know it€™'s silly. One scene in Breaking Dawn Part 2 has Jacob strip down to show off his wolf powers, which had cynics in the audience laughing, not realising that was exactly what the film wanted.

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