Movies are too fucking long these days imho

IIRC that gimmick was used with Psycho only, because it was advertised as a Janet Leigh movie, and Hitchcock was afraid that people turning in late might miss her part of the movie.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/dec/12/is-the-hobbit-too-long

it's amazing how they made the bold creative decision to make it into three movies. really makes me excited for the results.

169 minutes! holy Christ.

All too many other potentially great movies, from Titanic to Out of Africa

stopped reading here

haha

This IS 40; 133 minutes for a comedy.

John Cleese going with the 'people rocked up in the middle of the film then left where they came in' line, which some ilx folk are/were skeptical about

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ch4L2nrWMAE3FJ8.jpg

What's he on about - his "parents' generation"? We used to do this all the time when I was a kid. This is how I watched The Meaning of Life and Life of Brian.

A 1:45 cut of Civil War would be better.

minute 45, right?

bingo

Too many unneccesary trilogies.

So the new Avengers will be 3+ hours...

yeah

https://media.giphy.com/media/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW/giphy.gif

sex and the city 2 - 154 minutes
transformers 2 - ~150 minutes
karate kid - 139 minutes
funny people - ~150 minutes

why would you see any of these movies

the new Avengers will be 3+ hours...

why would you see any of these movies

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Still no date on the Arbelos 4K restoration of Satantango. Criterion's 2K restoration of War and Peace drops June 25. Mysteries of Lisbon awaits on the stack, but I've discovered an affinity for horror in my greying years, that's been pushing the artsier stuff aside.

tbf war and peace is too long.

or at least not so great.

feel like theres a decent thread in here about overly long movies that were good but contained a long and ultimately unnecessary sideplot that could've been excised completely

Interstellar & the Matt Damon thing is a pretty good example

I bet that 90% of the films that check in at 150 minutes+ aspire to one or more of those things; how many actually achieve it, obviously many fewer.

― clemenza, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:18 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's just an application of Sturgeon's Law (85-90% of everything is crap). Presumably 100% of the filmmakers who attempt to make epic films are attempting to do so well, but maybe only 10% of the resulting films are good enough to be worth their running time.

I expect to see the forthcoming Avengers movie, but I wish filmmakers besides Tarantino would bring back intermissions. You'd think theater operators would welcome the second chance to sell overpriced concessions to moviegoers.

I am surprised the Patton Oswalt bit about filmmaking didn't appear here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjlKcjVxTc

I just had to look up how long Roma is because I just feel it's way too long despite not having seen it yet. 135 minutes

I started watching Roma last November, still haven't finished it

Maybe we can make it a group project and everyone takes 15 minutes of it.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/12/movies-should-be-97-minutes-long.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=tw

Do you know how long Noah Baumbach’s torturous divorce drama Marriage Story is? Two hours and 17 minutes. It could have easily lost half an hour. Do you know how long the wacky whodunnit Knives Out is? Two hours and ten minutes. I really liked it, mostly, but it could be 20 minutes shorter, and it would be better for it. I liked It okay, but It Chapter Two is two hours and 50 minutes long. That is outrageous. I could watch four episodes of the Real Housewives in that time.

Marriage Story is a pretty complex narrative, didn't seem overlong.

I went to bed with half an hour left to go, figure I'll put it on and let them finish the complex narrative of shouting at each other while I'm cooking sometime

The Batman is going to be 2hrs 47min or some shit.

Looking on Netflix for a movie to watch (we don't tend to do this) we settled on "The Irishman" the Scorcese movie.

Man! I mean, a great movie, but three and a half hours!

Justified, but.

Isn’t it much longer than that?

Or did it just feel like it

Well, I looked it up, and I think officially it's a minute shorter, and the longest movie released to cinemas for thirty years or some such.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is apparently free on Kanopy now, but I have to set some time aside as it's 3hr 14 min

Everybody thinks the Andrei Tarkovsky remaking Ben Hur

Their

Hearing that John Wick 4 will weigh in at just under 3 hours.

Relevant: Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid

movies I've seen 3+ hours or more in the last few years:

The Batman
Avatar 2
Avengers: Endgame

none of these are fuckin Cleopatra, I want a refund.

The Menu in part succeeds because it's succinct, it's less than two hours long.

don't wanna get dragged into that people-showing-up-at-random-during-the-middle-of-films-at-the-cinema-in-the-olden-days argument again but check this out

My mother insists that her mother brought her into a show of Witness for the Prosecution about thirty minutes from the end, and then they did exactly as Cleese describes. As soon as my grandmother had everything pieced together, she decreed that they had seen the film now and could leave.

Relevant: Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid

did you hate Tár

bad movies are too fucking long ihibidtae

Solution: take out all icky sex scenes

#onethread