Forked Thread: Length of movies

[drothgery]

I think it is more likely Americans can only stand 90 minutes of average or bad movies. It's not like a lot of people were leaving Batman or Lord of the Rings movies early. Give us a good long movie and people will watch it. The problem is we get too many bad long movies so people start to think long movies are just bad in general.

I don't have a problem with long movies (if the length is needed to tell a good story; frex, Return of the King could have cut 10 minutes from the end easily, and A New Hope -- which isn't an overly long movie -- could have lost ten minutes on Tatooine harmlessly), but I think anything much more than 2 hours ought to have an intermission, and that regardless of length, the actual movie should start within five minutes of the advertised start time.

 

[Whitemouse]

I could easily spend a day as a couch potato; and sometimes I do. These are my 'TV Days'. I can spend four hours at a time in one sitting before absolutely having to stretch or use the restroom.

Thing is I don't like to veg in front of the tv. Hell, I don't even have cable or satellite. Those days that are my TV Days are interspersed with half an hour to hour long long computer breaks.

When it comes to the theater, I can stand to watch a long movie. I think five hours is my record for one sitting. My only problem is with the chairs. I'm not a heavy set person, in actuality I'm pretty lithe, but they are quite constraining. If the chairs were just a little bit wider and had a built in popcorn holder, I'dbe set.

 

[love.christine]

I could easily spend a day as a couch potato; and sometimes I do. These are my 'TV Days'. I can spend four hours at a time in one sitting before absolutely having to stretch or use the restroom.

Wow. You're definitely better than me. I get fidgety in half that amount of time

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I don't have a problem with long movies (if the length is needed to tell a good story; frex, Return of the King could have cut 10 minutes from the end easily, and A New Hope -- which isn't an overly long movie -- could have lost ten minutes on Tatooine harmlessly), but I think anything much more than 2 hours ought to have an intermission, and that regardless of length, the actual movie should start within five minutes of the advertised start time.

At least with LotR, you did have the intermissions, which occur whenever two or more elves talk to each other.

Granted, the intermission in RotK is really freaking early unless you arbitrarily define Aragorn as an elf for when Elrond comes and gives him his sword, but hey.

Brad