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― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, can we start some kind of facebook viral campaign that gets a hit on the NYT arts blog and prompts a quote from someone at a studio who says "hmm maybe we'll think about delivering more focused product"
or something?
cos otherwise it seems like the institutional forces are moving towards bloat. i hadn't even thought of the "competing with a ballgame" angle
― goole, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
let's all vow to walk out of movies at the 90 minute mark
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
we can do a hashtag too
the only thing hollywood understands is money, so let's...raise a bunch of money and pay them to make shorter movies.
― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll set up a paypal
#peacingat90
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
mail white powder to everyone in the editor's guild
xp lol
― goole, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
If people were really clamoring for shorter movies, they would have made fan edits with brevity as a primary goal, and more people would watch those than the original.I'll admit the five minute "fan" edit of Fast & Furious sounds worth paying for.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/11890554
― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
funny people is one thing but what really blows my mind is that someone thought a movie with a jonah hill anal rape gag in it needed to be 110 minutes
― A B C, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
how long was Furry Vengeance?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Movies take forever to get started these days.
feeling this. hate how really slow music-driven opening credits sequences and long misleading or ambiguous first scenes have become the standard for like every genre practically.
― Mr. Srehtims (some dude), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
ya... the iron man 2 "welding & newspaper clips montage" bothered me in partics
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
92 minutes, according to wiki. About right for what looks like a steaming pile of shit. Then again, I just now see that Ken Jeong, Rob Riggle and Wallace Shawn were in it!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't seen Sex and the City 2, but can't it be worse than Woody's September or Shadows and Fog?
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
lololol at the 2 minutes 2fast2furious. I was checking my watch at the 1:30 mark, thinking "jeez hasn't it already been 2 min"?
― an indie-rock microgenre (dyao), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:51 (Yesterday)
this would only be noticed if you paid 90/(total running time) of the ticket price though.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
s1ocki, you complained about Un Prophet being too long iirc but that movie wasn't actually too long imo, it moved really fast and was well made. the film was okay, not great, and certainly not the masterpiece it was hailed as (or anywhere close to it) but it justified its length.
― jed_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno i felt it could have lost 20-30 mins no problem
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
he problem is more to do with regular films pushing past 120 minutes
Ordinary fuckin' "regular" films -- I hate em. Stop going.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
looking up run times of movies I like, noticed that Wonder Boys clocks in at 1:47 (which is sort of surprising for '00s adult comedy/drama) - maybe it's not a great movie, but it does a lot with a sub-2 hour run time.
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
And the novel on which it's based is much too long.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't remember much being cut out from the novel.
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Lots of bits of business didn't make it.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
One movie that rally sticks out for me for its economy is The Squid and the Whale.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
*really
― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:23 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
you don't like movies that aren't epics or sagas?
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
finally found a "short" action movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5KeUMxyAwM
― Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:23 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
But you like "Only the Lonely?"
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Repo Man was pretty economical in length, i'm pretty sure.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
"Black Book" was hella long but zipped by
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
then again it covered WWII up to the establishment of Israel, so...
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― jed_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinki dunno i felt it could have lost 20-30 mins no problem
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
But that's quite a long way from SATC2 where it seems really to be inflated by perhaps an hour to give extra 'value', as oposed to The Prophet, where slight misjudgements might have been made in plotting.
Caught a screening of Seven Samourai last night. Perfect three hour film, but the NFT had a 5-10 intermission (a screen with a japanese character (which I suppose might have meant 'intermission') and music). The guy who introduced said it wasn't really a break as such.
People talking afterward was all a mix of 'this was great' but also 'three hours'!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Had a similar experience at the NFT not too long ago with Once Upon a Time in America. Now there's a long-arse film (orginal director's cut TEN HOURS apparently). I enjoyed it, but the break was extremely welcome.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
10 hour OUATIA would be a weekend must-watch for me
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
ppl use the phrase "director's cut" any old way huh
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
more like director's uncut
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
this new prolixity is definitely a thing but i dunno if it's so bad in itself
if a shit film is too long then the duration isn't rly the problem, unless yr a critic and are obliged to sit through the whole film in which case it will seem all the more hateful
but for solid above-avg hwood pics (which i probably don't watch enough of), 2+ hr runtimes are usually acceptable in creating a more thorough immersion in w/e fictional world is expensively created
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
it grinds my gears because 1) with a long movie, factor in trailers and frankly, the likelihood is i will need a piss, 2) (related, kinda) films that start mid-evening and end after last orders is some bullshit
― ultra nate dogg (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
tristan tzara's syphilitic genitourinary problems and acute diuresis were actually the source of the surrealists' film-watching habits
print the legend tho
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think Seven Samurai justifies its 3,5 hour length... Though apparently there are also 3 hour and 2,5 hour shorter cuts of it in existence, but I've only seen the original cut, so I have no idea how well the other versions work. And the intermission (along with the japanese text and intermission music) was part of the original version of the movie, or at least that's how it was introduced when I saw it at a local film archive. I love Seven Samurai, but I still think it was nice to take a break in the middle of such a lengthy film, I'm not sure why movies these days don't have intermissions any more. IMO every movie that lasts more than 3 hours should have one.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
2001 had an intermission in its initial run and a re-release I saw in '74, and it's only 135 minutes (tho Kubrick trimmed it after the opening).
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Am guessing that the dvd is the same but blu-ray of 2001 has the "Intermission" card half way through. I stick the kettle on when it appears.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw it last year and im sure we had an intermish
― ultra nate dogg (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The new/old intermission: waiting one week for the next episode.
― rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
intermissions are too fucking long these days imo
― jed_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
words are too fucking long these days imo, intermish is the approp spellng from now on
― world cop (dyao), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Why not intrmisn?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ending words in 'ish' is the new 90 min rom com for the twit crowd, pass it on
― world cop (dyao), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link