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@lain lord of the rings

@sun at least that was a huge epic and not some random scifi movie

@lain *clears throat*

"I don't want anybody whining about length when they sit and binge-watch [television] for eight hours. I can almost write this part of the review. ‘The agonizingly long three-hour movie…’ It’s like, give me a fucking break. I’ve watched my kids sit and do five one-hour episodes in a row. Here’s the big social paradigm shift that has to happen: it’s okay to get up and go pee.”

@lain isn't that super strange in an age of (purportedly) sinking attention spans?

@kaia yeah, i don't really know what's going on.

@kaia @lain I don't think attention spans are sinking but they are getting more selective.

It's interesting because video games went the open world route too, opened us up to larger worlds in play in... and they can charge more for the privilege.

Any movie that runs 2+ hours need an intermission for each 1hr

@lain @kaia
This seems to indicate that streaming has given directors some excuse to push for longer movies, but it does seem like both audiences and executives are tired of it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/why-are-movies-sooooo-long-an-investigation

@Paradox @kaia I was used to link movies both from old Hollywood and Bollywood, but those always have an intermission.