To quote my thicc Movie Mindset king Roger Ebert- "A good movie is never too long, and a bad movie can never be too short"
Hate watching something? Leave the theatre, turn the tv off
I don't mind a two hour film, but for the love of god put an intermission in the theater screenings
oh yeah! Over 2.5 hours? Gimme that toilet break
You'd think theatres would dig it since people would restock on $15 popcorn? Wonder why not
I think you can look up info online on when the best time to take a bathroom break during a movie is.
Tbf if my job was to write asinine thinkpieces about capeshit, i'd want movies to be shorter too.
Movies, and all narrative art, should be as short as possible while still conveying the necessary points of the story, so as to remain compelling. This literally hundreds of years old adage has nothing to do with people wanting to consume more.
I don't know, some books I get what they're saying in a single paragraph- I still wanna read more
Sometimes you want to luxuriate in the vibe. If you don't wanna spend time with it, then it's bad
If you can get what a book is saying in a single paragraph it is not a very good book, no? If it's good there is some unique purpose to every bit beyond that paragraph. If there are large sections that are completely valueless, presumably the editor would edit them
also the idea compacting necessary points of the story to its more concise form is what makes art valuable... i don't vibe with that
But you agree editing is an important part of lit, no? It isn't that it's all that adds value (lets say entertainment value) but it is a part of it, you don't want faff. Ofc a long movie or book can be perfect also
If there are large sections that are completely valueless, presumably the editor would edit them
"I wish that were so." - Obi-Wan Kenobi
Really hate "haha my guilty pleasure! It's so bad but I love it!"
Yeah? You hate something but enjoy watching it? I think you like it but are ashamed to admit it.
if your movie is more than 150 minutes, you have fucked up. you made a mini series. don't pretend its a movie. there are rules to media forms that seek to capture our undivided attention. film school art house clowns transgressed this back in like the 1970s and made "movies" about themselves sleeping for 9 hours. riveting stuff, let me tell you. very provocative.
keeping a story tight in the telling and presentation takes serious creativity and skills. in my work i do public presentations and the insider joke among colleagues is if someone says they need me to do a "15 minute talk", it'll take me an hour or so to prepare. but if they need me to do a full hour on a topic? hell, i'm ready to go right now.
because rambling around with all the time in the world is easy. maybe if i was one of those treatboys in a floating chair suckling on sugar paste in Wall-E, i wouldn't care about a 4 hour Snyder Cut couch coma. but if a normal human needs to stretch their legs during your story, cut it down or cut it a part.
“A good movie is never too long, and a bad movie can never be too short”
the point is that the entertainment industry has been putting out so much garbage that it feels like if this is the level of shit we're gonna have to deal with in order to get our film slop, then at least have the mercy to make shit shorter
Man I ain't got time to sit for 3 hours watching some dumb movie. As william shakespeare once said "brevity is the soul of wit" LEARN IT
