RMeingast Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Article in "Daily Beast" wondering "Why Are 2012's Holiday Movies So Damn Long?": http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/17/why-are-2012-s-holiday-movies-so-damn-long.html Authour of article compares current movies with some historical running times, and also reasons why films were shorter in length in past, etc... Personally, I don't see what the problem is? How is it a bad thing that films are longer in length?? But I'm sure there are good reasons why Hollywood studios are allowing it? Maybe they want to charge more for DVDs and Blu-rays because movie is longer?? Maybe helps with Oscar hype ("Rolling Stone" film critic thinks that is big reason?)?? Maybe allows charging more for TV commercials when film eventually makes it to TV (except for TCM)?? Who knows?? Question: If you fall asleep during a film because it's too long, do you get a refund? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 It's bad if you're sitting there bored during the slow parts. I say bring back intermissions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I believe the reason for the greater length is directors' ego. "His comic book sequel is two and a half hours long, so mine has to be that long, too." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMeingast Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 > {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}It's bad if you're sitting there bored during the slow parts. I say bring back intermissions! I haven't been to a film in a theatre for so long I forgot all about intermissions... But I remember them... U still go to theatres to see films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Yep. And I dont like the trend. I used to see a movie a week. Now it's more like 35 or so. (I dont like going out in winter weather anymore....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 There was a similar article in one of the New York City papers last week. It use to that theater owners would raise hell over a long film because they couldn't show it as many times a day, but that's changed a lot since the advent of multi-screen theaters and a film can be run on several screens. It's even easier now that everything is going digital since there's no need for a seperate 35mm print for each one anymore. Here in this area the largest multiplex is 17 screens (soon to be 19) and when a big summer blockbuster opens it's not uncommon to see it running on five or six screens with shows starting every half-hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Nah, there is planty of time to watch "2012" before Friday. Is it me or does this calendar has it's own silly emoticon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 >Personally, I don't see what the problem is? How is it a bad thing that films are longer in length?? B-cause, if they are very long, now days they run the first half hour or more before we find out what the film is about. Also, if they are no good, we are stuck in a theater for 2 1/2 to 3 hours, after paying a $15 ticket, and we've got to sit through a turkey, many turkeys, to feel that we got our money's worth. Movies are supposed to be fun, not an ordeal. In the old days, we had 3 1/2 hour movie programs. A double feature (two short films), a cartoon (very funny ones), a newsreel or a short, and coming attractions trailers. The same length of a movie evening, for 65 cents, and if one of the double feature is a turkey, we only had to sit through an hour or so of it. The features were usually very different, for the whole family, and there was almost never two bad ones, and in fact, there was usually two good ones. But, hey, other things have changed too. In the old days, if a criminal gang developed, the FBI came in with tommy guns to put it out of business. No dope in schools, no meth freaks, only one or two serial killers a year (now we have about 2 dozen active all the time). No mass murders. Guns held only 6 bullets, there were no 50-shot magazines on assault rifles for crazy people to shoot up schools with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 http://collider.com/les-miserables-runtime/206265/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 What the author of that piece forgets is the stage musical is also very long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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