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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 720834" data-attributes="member: 515">The release of the new movie "Gods and Generals" makes me think once again about the length of movies, and what is deemed to be "commerical viable.""Gods and Generals" is 3 hrs. 36 minutes long. And when all the footage they shot is added back in for the DVD version, it will reach 6 hours.Theaters can only show this movie 2 or 3 times a day. It's predecessor, "Gettysburg," was 4 hrs. 21 minutes but was originally made to be shown on TV, and was only released in theaters later.There were lots of complaints about the length of "LOTR" when it came out. New Line Cinema even forces Peter Jackson to deliver final cuts shorter than 3 hrs. (but not by much). And still it and "Two Towers" have done very well at theaters.So has "LOTR" shown theater owners and studios that long movies, if done well, can still be commerically viable? Or is "Gods and Generals" an abberation because Ted Turner paid for it and didn't care too much how long it was, cause he knows most of the money will be made from showing it on his cable stations and from DVD sales?</blockquote>