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Don't you miss 90 minute movies?
These days, every A-list director seems to think that every line is pure gold, and just cannot be left out of the film. You look at the running time..and yes...200 minutes, no matter what the story.
And why?
A simple comparison: I watched Reservoir Dogs and Hateful Eight. This is not about whether you like QT or not, but about what is done in those minutes.
Dogs is a 95 min movie. Hateful like 200?
Both movies take their time, lots of dialogue, and basically feature one room, a bunch of nasty guys, lots of talk, and a shootout at the end.
I like both movies, but Dogs moves like a train, even with all the dialogue, never slows down, never loses focus.
Hateful is good, but gets bogged down, and I ended up watching it in two parts. That is lethal for a movie. It's just too much. It's a writer-director in need of a strict editor who forces some hard choices.
Same thing happens to Peter Jackson, Scorcese, the list is endless. Great directors, but no self-control. Wolf of Wall Street? An hour too long!
I miss that speed, that drive. These guys should go back to school, watch some of the classics, and then take a red pencil, removing at least a third of their next masterpiece.
These days, every A-list director seems to think that every line is pure gold, and just cannot be left out of the film. You look at the running time..and yes...200 minutes, no matter what the story.
And why?
A simple comparison: I watched Reservoir Dogs and Hateful Eight. This is not about whether you like QT or not, but about what is done in those minutes.
Dogs is a 95 min movie. Hateful like 200?
Both movies take their time, lots of dialogue, and basically feature one room, a bunch of nasty guys, lots of talk, and a shootout at the end.
I like both movies, but Dogs moves like a train, even with all the dialogue, never slows down, never loses focus.
Hateful is good, but gets bogged down, and I ended up watching it in two parts. That is lethal for a movie. It's just too much. It's a writer-director in need of a strict editor who forces some hard choices.
Same thing happens to Peter Jackson, Scorcese, the list is endless. Great directors, but no self-control. Wolf of Wall Street? An hour too long!
I miss that speed, that drive. These guys should go back to school, watch some of the classics, and then take a red pencil, removing at least a third of their next masterpiece.
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