Why do all movies have to be 2+ hours these days?
Also, it's over 2 1/2 hours long.
Submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 11 months ago
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
More ad breaks for eventual streaming service distribution. Two hours? Only 4-5 ad breaks. An additional 20 minutes? Boom, let’s sell more prescription drugs, or candy, or whatever.
jaidyn999@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Its because of the way they are funded.
Films are funded through venture capital, and investors are looking for the biggest profit. So modest films struggle to get funding, because investors belive size=quality.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right? And it’s worse than that. I was going to finally sit down and watch the Across the Spider-Verse movie now that it’s on Netflix because it’s almost 2 hours and 20 minutes long and if I couldn’t take sitting there, I could at least take a break. But then someone who saw it told me it isn’t even the whole story and you have to wait for a sequel coming out who knows when which will also probably be that long. I can’t take it. At least give movies an intermission like they used to.
austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Without any spoilers, I felt that the spider-verse movie was enjoyable on it’s own. Where the plot ended was, at least to me, in a good enough spot where I was both extremely satisfied with the movie I just watched and excited for the next film.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I know the academy like dramas but I would rather watch a satirical biopic, “weird al” style, that a 3 hour long boring history class
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
“history class”, the director was called out for historical inaccuracies and his reaction was “lol, I don’t give a fuck”
MissJinx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even wrost! A boring bad history class
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Not giving a fuck would be a valid attitude if the inaccuracies made a better movie. Judging by the reviews, it didn’t.
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imagine if a French director made a movie about Queen Elizabeth II but made a her a slutty party girl who fucked Prime Ministers on the side. Anglos are masters of slander.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I absolutely listened to that song on the way home after.
gmtom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Youre the Duke of Wellington
You’ve been fighting Nepoleon for hours since the morning.
Your mish mash of coalition forces have been doing surprisingly well, but Nepolean has finally committed his veteran troops to push your center. You’re holding well but it’s only a matter of time before it collapses.
Then thousands of troops begin to appear in the distance
The frech troops begin to cheer as they think Grouchy has returned to reinforce the main force.
But you know better.
One of your lieutenants puts down his viewing g scope as says to you “Sir, it seems our friends have arrived. Shall I make preparations?”
You nod.
The lieutenant calmly walks over to the hi-fi system, inserts a cassette and hits play. Suddenly Swedish synth-pop starts blasting from your speakers and floods the battlefield 🎵 MY MY 🎵
a very fain smile breaks across your face.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not even version of Waterloo by that one Hungarian lady choir?
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That the movie fails the Bechdel test is bad enough, but that it completely misses the mark on the Ulvæus test as well is utterly unforgivable.
Aremel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like your funny words, magic man. Can you explain them?
misophist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Bechdel test is a famous test of film to measure whether a movie represents women as more than just accessories for the male cast. Specifically, the test is passed if a film features two women who have a conversation about something other than a man. Surprisingly, a lot of films fail this test.
The Ulvaeus test is a fictional test in the same vein named after Bjorn Ulvaeus, a prominent member of the band ABBA. Presumably, thus test might be passed if a film contains a musical segment featuring the works of the band ABBA. This would be a clever pairing for this film, as ABBA has a song called Waterloo and the Napoleonic Wars ended with the Battle of Waterloo.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The others have explained it better than I ever could, but I’d like to add that I haven’t even checked whether Napoleon fails the Bechdel test. I’m reasonably certain that the Ulvæus test is bullshit, because I just made it up.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Bechdel test is if a movie is able to have two female characters having a conversation with one another about any topic other than a man. A surprising amount of media fails this test.
Björn Ulvaeus is a member of Swedish supergroup ABBA and one of the composers of the ABBA song Waterloo, which is about the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo.
dephyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
youtu.be/3Dc_cnj1PEc?si=MBjn-ymyYEs2CDB6