Movies are too fucking long these days imho

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Or did it just feel like it

Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link

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.

Mark G, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link

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

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 21 January 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link

Everybody thinks the Andrei Tarkovsky remaking Ben Hur

Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 21 January 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link

Their

Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 21 January 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

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

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.

waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 04:50 (one year ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 04:57 (one year ago) link

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.

trishyb, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link

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

did you hate Tár

more crankable (sic), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link

bad movies are too fucking long ihibidtae

satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link

Solution: take out all icky sex scenes

#onethread

waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link


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