| I enjoyed the movie but I don't really agree with the core idea of the movie. That movies should be 1hr 30mins long. I think the idea of a time limit is wrong. Anything more that 3hr 30min is way too long to sit through but you shouldn't just limit it to a short length either. Just give the story as much time it needs without going too far. What do the rest of you think? Edit: i wanna add that the idea that more people want to watch shorter movies might be subjectively right but objectively it's quite wrong. Most of the commercially successful movies these days are pretty long. Even most of the highly acclaimed movies of all time has a length around 120-150 minutes. And this movie being slept upon doesn't really help either. |
mshfqtnyMay 3, 1:24 AM
Reply to Eleben
I agree that there are some movies that need time and a few of my favourite ones are more than 2 hours long. Generally speaking though, I agree with the idea presented in the movie. It’s frowned upon on in the movie scene to say you don’t enjoy long movies just because they are long, yet I can’t help but agree. 1 hour and 30 minutes is long enough to tell a great tale and if I see a movie is only 90 minutes or less I’m more keen to watch it.
| @Eleben i understand the reasoning to not like super long movies. But my problem is this movie kind of forces the idea. Like it has to be 1hr 30 mins long. I want to say that if you can unleash the best potential of the anime in a short time then alright but if not, there's no reason to make to movie short. |
Reply to onespankman
I think you’re taking that a bit too literally. The author is expressing a preference, I don’t think they’re literally saying all movies longer than 90 minutes should be shorter. That’s definitely not the film’s “core idea”.
I prefer films that are shorter than 100 minutes, but obviously some films demand a longer runtime. It’s pretty rare that a film should be longer than three hours, but there are examples of it working. If you don’t like the idea of a time limit, why are you setting one at 210 minutes?
I prefer films that are shorter than 100 minutes, but obviously some films demand a longer runtime. It’s pretty rare that a film should be longer than three hours, but there are examples of it working. If you don’t like the idea of a time limit, why are you setting one at 210 minutes?
| @onespankman first of all, that WAS the core idea. The climax and the biggest part of the movie was about cutting scenes. Even the movie's last line refers to that. And about the 210 minutes thing, i didn't want to mean it as a limit. I just wanted to say that that is the most people might want to sit through. I know the '90 minutes' thing isn't important. The author's message was that good films should be short and it should only include most necessary parts which i disagree. That is my preference. |
| Disagree also. The author of the movie apparently has personal bias against long movies lol (or like Pompo was forced to watch them as a kid and has a PTSD lol). Even if we take anime for example, there are tons of adaptations that are too short and cut lots of important stuff for the sake of shorter screen-time. More often than not IMO it ruins the experience, but I've seen how anime-onlies (or people unfamiliar with the source) seem to enjoy those movies anyways. That's why I understand the author's POV too, though I'd disagree since exceptions exist and it would have been better if the movie didn't focus that hard on MAKE IT SHORT. One such example (maybe unfair example) would be LOTR. The first time I saw it, I saw theatrical version which is already almost 3 hrs long lol, while extended version is almost 4hrs. Extended version only enhances the already magical experience and time flies so fast you don't even notice it! That's how good it is. My point is, if a movie is THAT GOOD, you can have 3-4hr long version of it and people will like it. I had pleasure of introducing LOTR to few people and we watched it (extended v) together without pauses and in the end there was always the same "It's over???" reaction, and I mean in a good way, not exhausted "it's finally over" reaction. No one I know who saw -LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring- said 'Nah, I'm good bruh, can't do more of this". When shit's good, you want more. Same with the movie in this anime, I bet the "extended version" of it would've been LEAGUES better. Same case with "Kingdom of heaven". God, you can say the extended version is a completely different and undoubtedly a much better movie (freaking +45minutes of extra content! Entire characters were removed). If someone were to argue about "shorter is ALWAYS better", then they should watch and compare both versions of this movie. Maybe then they'll change their mind :D. |
Sigmar-UnberogenJun 29, 9:16 AM
| As much as my favorite movie is 2 hours long, and some cinematic masterpieces like Heat or The Godfather for example are 3 hours long, holy fuck a 90 min movie is so much better to watch in general if you just want to watch something fun (like this movie for example). Some movies NEED that long runtime, but specially nowdays in movies made for streaming services that are most of them 2 hours to 2:30 hours it feels like they are artifically long, either cus they have to make the person paying for the service justify their payment or because they are incompetent people who don't know how to trim their 5/10 movie to a 90 min mark. This is a personal bias that i have for holywood blockbusters in current day, movies like The Grey Man, Agent Fortune, Project Adam (this one is passable), Red Notice, and some othe more from Netflix that i forgot the name of have shown to not only feel like a waste of time for the terrible movies they are for basically just being holywood checklists offering nothing, if they where 90 mins they would be more enjoyable xd. In the era we live in, i think if you want to tell a long story instead of making a 3 hour long movie you can just make a mini series instead, the long runtime is something that only works for amazing works like the ones mentioned on the post above. I'm not great with words, also i have a personal vendetta against current day holywood movies xd |
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