OT: TV and Movies

Post #1661 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sun May 21, 2023 3:53 pm

buckboy wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:Killers of the Flower Moon debuted at Cannes. Clocks in at 3:40. Decent but mixed reviews so far.

3:40?

Good God. Pass.

Hopefully they pare it down for US release.

Post #1662 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sun May 21, 2023 7:21 pm

Finished season 2 of Perry Mason. Good stuff. Better than season 1 (which I also liked) imo. Haven't seen it officially renewed for season 3 but hopefully it is.

Matches Malone · Post #1663 » by **Matches Malone** » Sun May 21, 2023 9:09 pm

Nice!

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drew881 · Post #1664 » by **drew881** » Sun May 21, 2023 9:35 pm

Matches Malone wrote:Nice!

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Had some crap Time Warner exec speak at my graduation who made some lame comment about college students downloading music illegally. This was back in 2004. Shows how shortsighted they were.

StickeeFingaz · Post #1665 » by **StickeeFingaz** » Sun May 21, 2023 11:29 pm

I've only watched the first two episodes of Silo but I'm enjoying it so far.

Post #1666 » by **MickeyDavis** » Mon May 22, 2023 12:55 am

StickeeFingaz wrote:I've only watched the first two episodes of Silo but I'm enjoying it so far.

Haven't watched it yet but since Graham Yost created it I'll definitely give it a shot.

buckboy · Post #1667 » by **buckboy** » Mon May 22, 2023 3:59 am

Enjoyed Barry tonight.

One more hour and Succession is over, thank Christ.

machu46 · Post #1668 » by **machu46** » Mon May 22, 2023 12:19 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:Killers of the Flower Moon debuted at Cannes. Clocks in at 3:40. Decent but mixed reviews so far.

Pretty much an automatic no for me just based on the run time.

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HaroldinGMinor · Post #1669 » by **HaroldinGMinor** » Mon May 22, 2023 1:02 pm

you guys know you can hit pause and resume the movie on another day right?

machu46 · Post #1670 » by **machu46** » Mon May 22, 2023 1:07 pm

HaroldinGMinor wrote:you guys know you can hit pause and resume the movie the next day right?

Yeah…that’s just not how I want to consume movies.

Also obviously is not an option if you go to the movie theater.

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Ron Swanson · Post #1671 » by **Ron Swanson** » Mon May 22, 2023 1:24 pm

Yeah, I'm not sitting in a movie theater for close to 4 **** hours. Obviously have loved most of Scorsese's work over the years, but he's definitely fallen victim to this insane auteur filmmaker cliche of milking every second of screentime out of the source material and it's exhausting. Raging Bull and Taxi Driver were nice, clean 2-hour movies. Spend some more time in the editing room Marty...

Post #1672 » by **MickeyDavis** » Mon May 22, 2023 2:16 pm

machu46 wrote:
HaroldinGMinor wrote:you guys know you can hit pause and resume the movie the next day right?

Yeah…that’s just not how I want to consume movies.

Also obviously is not an option if you go to the movie theater.

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Agreed. Watching a movie in chunks is not for me.

HaroldinGMinor · Post #1673 » by **HaroldinGMinor** » Mon May 22, 2023 2:39 pm

We watch episodic TV in chunks. There are spots in movies that lend themselves naturally to the same kind of pause (end of acts, mid point, etc.). But I agree I wouldn't want to watch a 3:40 movie in the theater. Maybe there's an intermission

(wish I could find a clip of the intermission from Strange Brew)

emunney · Post #1674 » by **emunney** » Mon May 22, 2023 3:28 pm

buckboy wrote:Enjoyed Barry tonight.

One more hour and Succession is over, thank Christ.

*hour and a half

WeekapaugGroove · Post #1675 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Mon May 22, 2023 3:31 pm

It should be mandatory that any movie over 2.5 hrs has an intermission. I probably still would watch it at home but it's just ridiculous to make people sit that long without a break to piss and stretch your legs.

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buckboy · Post #1676 » by **buckboy** » Mon May 22, 2023 3:31 pm

emunney wrote:
buckboy wrote:Enjoyed Barry tonight.

One more hour and Succession is over, thank Christ.

*hour and a half

DAMMIT

I know it's a me problem, but I'm just not a fan. Need it to end. Can't stop now.

emunney · Post #1677 » by **emunney** » Mon May 22, 2023 3:38 pm

Ron Swanson wrote:Yeah, I'm not sitting in a movie theater for close to 4 **** hours. Obviously have loved most of Scorsese's work over the years, but he's definitely fallen victim to this insane auteur filmmaker cliche of milking every second of screentime out of the source material and it's exhausting. Raging Bull and Taxi Driver were nice, clean 2-hour movies. Spend some more time in the editing room Marty...

He's had some long BANGERS though. Last Temptation of Christ, Departed, Goodfellas all in the 2.5 hour range.

My personal feeling is that no movie should ever, ever be longer than 3 hours, and only that long in really rare and extreme cases. Reconsider your story at that point.

Post #1678 » by **ReasonablySober** » Mon May 22, 2023 3:39 pm

I'm hoping that the AppleTV+ release date is only a couple weeks after its theatrical run. If that's the case I can wait it out and see it over the course of six nights as I fall asleep.

machu46 · Post #1679 » by **machu46** » Mon May 22, 2023 3:43 pm

HaroldinGMinor wrote:We watch episodic TV in chunks. There are spots in movies that lend themselves naturally to the same kind of pause (end of acts, mid point, etc.). But I agree I wouldn't want to watch a 3:40 movie in the theater. Maybe there's an intermission (wish I could find a clip of the intermission from Strange Brew)

I’ve thought about it several times in the past and think I could potentially get behind movies having a designated intermission point like we see with most broadway shows/plays.

I think approaching 4 hours is still something I’d struggle with though; it’s simply a lot of time to set aside for an afternoon/night and I don’t really want to come back the next day to finish a movie if I can help it.

It definitely feels like that’s where blockbusters are heading though so maybe I’ll have no choice but to accept it someday. Pretty much any time I watch a movie nowadays that’s a crisp 1.5-2 hours, I feel so happy at the end that it was edited down that way.

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KidA24 · Post #1680 » by **KidA24** » Mon May 22, 2023 4:45 pm

emunney wrote:
Ron Swanson wrote:Yeah, I'm not sitting in a movie theater for close to 4 **** hours. Obviously have loved most of Scorsese's work over the years, but he's definitely fallen victim to this insane auteur filmmaker cliche of milking every second of screentime out of the source material and it's exhausting. Raging Bull and Taxi Driver were nice, clean 2-hour movies. Spend some more time in the editing room Marty...

He's had some long BANGERS though. Last Temptation of Christ, Departed, Goodfellas all in the 2.5 hour range.

My personal feeling is that no movie should ever, ever be longer than 3 hours, and only that long in really rare and extreme cases. Reconsider your story at that point.