Why do all movies have to be 2+ hours these days?
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.
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 believe size=quality.
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.
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.
I’ll bear that in mind if I do decide to sit down and watch it. I was going to do it with my daughter, but she has ADHD and both can’t handle a film that long and also has an annoying habit of saying she wants to watch the rest later and never agrees to watch it when I suggest it later multiple times. I may have to watch it secretly without her.
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
“history class”, the director was called out for historical inaccuracies and his reaction was “lol, I don’t give a fuck”
Even wrost! A boring bad history class
Not giving a fuck would be a valid attitude if the inaccuracies made a better movie. Judging by the reviews, it didn’t.
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.
I mean, Napoleon was a bit of a removed, it’s a fact.
Also had a thing for milfs.
Also had a thing for milfs.
Joséphine was 6 years older than Napoleon. Yet Ridley Scott managed to cast an actress 14 years younger than Joaquin Phoenix to play her role.
Sounds like my kind of guy.
So an accurate biopic on the life of Big Liz then?
I absolutely listened to that song on the way home after.
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 begin to cheer as they think its Grouchy who has returned to reinforce the main force.
But you know better.
One of your lieutenants puts down his viewing scope and 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 faint smile breaks across your face.
Not even a version of Waterloo by that one Hungarian lady choir?
