http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/dec/12/is-the-hobbit-too-long
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
it's amazing how they made the bold creative decision to make it into three movies. really makes me excited for the results.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
169 minutes! holy Christ.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
All too many other potentially great movies, from Titanic to Out of Africa
stopped reading here
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
This IS 40; 133 minutes for a comedy.
― piscesx, Saturday, 16 February 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
A 1:45 cut of Civil War would be better.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
minute 45, right?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
bingo
― a poptimist consumed with celebrity culture and vacuous pop music (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 05:53 (eight years ago) link
Too many unneccesary trilogies.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 06:25 (eight years ago) link
So the new Avengers will be 3+ hours...
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
yeah
https://media.giphy.com/media/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW/giphy.gif
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
sex and the city 2 - 154 minutestransformers 2 - ~150 minuteskarate kid - 139 minutesfunny people - ~150 minutes
why would you see any of these movies
the new Avengers will be 3+ hours...
― shoulda zagged (esby), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― with Chew Guard™ technology (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
tbf war and peace is too long.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
or at least not so great.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
I am surprised the Patton Oswalt bit about filmmaking didn't appear here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjlKcjVxTc
― Yerac, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
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
― Yerac, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
I started watching Roma last November, still haven't finished it
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
Maybe we can make it a group project and everyone takes 15 minutes of it.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
Marriage Story is a pretty complex narrative, didn't seem overlong.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
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
― insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
The Batman is going to be 2hrs 47min or some shit.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 January 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
Isn’t it much longer than that?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
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.
― 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
Hearing that John Wick 4 will weigh in at just under 3 hours.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
Relevant: Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
movies I've seen 3+ hours or more in the last few years:
The BatmanAvatar 2Avengers: 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
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