The Guide #203: Has Hollywood rediscover ed the joy of the 90- minute movie ? (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

...The Marvels, to make that film under two hours. ...it’s the shortest Marvel movie of all, at 1hr 45m. (Though given The Marvels is regarded as one of the weakest Marvel movies, such brevity doesn’t always equal quality.)

Superman director James Gunn had to deny rumours Warner Bros had ordered him to make the film shorter

...watching The Fantastic Four that it strives to stay under the two-hour mark. In doing so it perhaps over-corrects a little: a blossoming romance between Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s The Thing and Natasha Lyonne’s schoolteacher suddenly vanishes midway through the movie – or more likely was sent to the cutting room floor by clockwatchers. Still, that did probably contribute to a film that, while not without flaws, felt appealingly brisk.

Maybe I'm alone but my chief complaint of all three of these films were how quick they were and how they didn't give certain characters or stories the room to breathe, or in some cases room to be told.

Two hours is the minimum I expect, and an extra half hour is appreciated. Obviously I don't want to slog through a film, but if you're going to tell a rich epic story, it probably takes time, and I want to see it.

Now if I'm going to see a wacky comedy like The Naked Gun, that's fine if it's 90 minutes. A "kids" movie like Pixar, 90 minutes is fine.

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