Movies are too fucking long these days imho

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