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  • Gorn Captain
    Invincible Ironing Man
    • Feb 28, 2008
    • 10549

    90 minute movies

    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.
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  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47258

    #2
    90 minutes is about the length of my attention span.

    It's why I love the NBC Mystery Movies so much.

    Even if i'm enjoying a movie over 90 minutes I start getting restless and hope it ends soon.

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    • Confessional
      Maker & Whatnot
      • Aug 8, 2012
      • 3435

      #3
      No. I want more movies way over 90 minutes such as Ran, Kagemusha, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Saving Private Ryan, Blade Runner, Le Femme Nikita, Leon, Alien/Aliens, The Matrix, Heat, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django Unchained, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, and on and on.

      I'd rather contend the problem lies in much of the contemporary Hollywood product lacking the art of film [sic], but I get you might be watching too many bloated bad movies. Proceed with caution!

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      • LonnieFisher
        Eloquent Member
        • Jan 19, 2008
        • 11023

        #4
        If it's a good movie, the longer the better. If it's a bad movie, fifteen minutes is too long!

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        • mikeMc6
          Persistent Member
          • Mar 24, 2012
          • 1399

          #5
          I agree with Gorn....show don't tell is a mantra of good movie making...these directors can convey so much in characterization with one well placed shot or spark of dialogue...
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          • Hedji
            Citizen of Gotham
            • Nov 17, 2012
            • 7246

            #6
            It's really the perfect running time for most movies, yes. Especially horror or comedy.

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            • Starroid Raiders Dagon
              Persistent Member
              • Apr 28, 2013
              • 2165

              #7
              Originally posted by LonnieFisher
              If it's a good movie, the longer the better. If it's a bad movie, fifteen minutes is too long!
              Agreed, and sometimes that might be down to the mood I'm in. I watched Hateful Eight in one sitting and I really enjoyed it. Same with the Wolf of Wall Street.

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              • Brazoo
                Permanent Member
                • Feb 14, 2009
                • 4767

                #8
                YES - though I really enjoyed Hateful 8, I agree in general. In particular I would love to see more tight 90 min. action movies. Why every action movie seems to be drawn out to 2+ hours is beyond me. I think John Wick was about 100 minutes and it ruled. Of course some 2+ hour movies are great, but sometimes it's just fun to see a tight, explosive 90 min. All the superhero movies I can think of are at least 20 too long for me.

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                • MIB41
                  Eloquent Member
                  • Sep 25, 2005
                  • 15633

                  #9
                  Go see 'The Shallows'. That comes in a few minutes under 90. I think the wrap up suffered a bit for that, but at the end of the day, you're there for thrills and it delivers in spades.

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                  • Gorn Captain
                    Invincible Ironing Man
                    • Feb 28, 2008
                    • 10549

                    #10
                    Don't get me wrong, some longer movies are great, I think The Right Stuff was my first three hour movie (fantastic film, never boring even though it's not an action movie), same thing for the LOTR movies, but sometimes, often in the middle, a long movie runs out of steam.
                    I'm a Tarantino fan and I liked all his movies, but from Inglorious on, the cut is too long. Sometimes you need to put the pedal to the metal. A tighter edit would have moved these films from "good" to "great".
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