Are movies getting shorter or is it me? (films, theater, Hollywood)
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It seems that is used to be that a "short" movie would be 90 minutes. Now those 90-minute flicks are down in the low 80's. Action/drama used to be two hours or more and now they seem to top out at 1:50. Anyone else notice this?
lol I noticed the same thing. When I was younger (early 90's) movies were 2 hrs like you said but I guess now when the films are edited they take out more unnecessary parts? idk
I love that thread title. Shoulda been written by someone like Billy Barty.
Run times go in cycles. Max profits happen when movies are short and fit a two hour turnaround at a theatre. Kids movies are almost always shorter than adult movies. With the lengthy trailer reel and pre-show ads, shortening the movie makes the bean counters happy.
What usually happens is that the films get short, and then a hot shot director will release an epic that outgrosses five short films, and we go back to having long films again.
I noticed that too. I was watching Men in Black 2 afew years ago and after 90 minutes, the movie was concluding and I was like What? That's the end already?
When you get to be my age, you will discover that entire decades are getting shorter, now down to about a year or two. I was in High School, longer than the time that elapsed since 9/11. Or so it seemed.
Yeah, well, ya know: HollyWood is forever striving to give the audience what it wants, and thus, in these modern times of ultra-short attention spans do to all our hi-tech toys (cell phones, video games, microwaves, TV soundbites, etc.) they figure that anything over around 90 minutes long is getting dangerously close to asking too much from us, and maybe overloading our brains.
I mean, c'mon, alot of teens habe relationships that don't even last two hours, and you're gonna expect them to actually sit-down and pay attention to a movie more thought-provoking than Transformers IV? Surely you jest!
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