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Movies have been getting longer for a few years or so but they are especially long this year. Look at the biggest films this year and see how they are about 20-30min longer than they would be in the past.

  • The Flash - 2h 24m
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - 2h 34m
  • Oppenheimer - 3h
  • Barbie - 1h 54m
  • John Wick: Chapter 4 - 2h 49m
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - 2h 29m

And even crazier are the 2 parter movies.

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - 2h 16m
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One - 2h 43m
  • Dune 2 - reported way over 2h

A few years ago this was different.

  • Action films like Indiana Jones, Marvel movies, John Wick and Mission Impossible used to be about 2h - 2h 15m.
  • Movies closest to Barbie like Clueless and Legally Blonde were about 1h 30m.
  • Biopics like Oppenheimer were longer but not 3h. Lincoln was 2h 30m.
  • Animated films would be 1h 45m max.
  • Lynch's original Dune was almost 3h cut by the studio to 2h 15m.

I remember when Harry Potter Deathly Hallows got criticism for being a 2 parter. The Dark Knight Rises got push back from theaters saying it was too long and made it difficult to have a lot of showtimes. Now it feels like these long showtimes and 2 parters are the rule rather than the exception.

Do you prefer movies longer or do you think they are getting too bloated and need to be cut down?

Also what is causing this trend of long films? I think it's streaming and binging making people more comfortable watching TV for a long time. But I see people say that attention spans are getting shorter thanks to the internet so I don't really know.

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[-] BestBunsInTown_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

To be fair on the two part movies, Dune was designed to be two parts (and it kinda fits the story). Across the spider-verse is more of a empire strikes back type of situation of setting everything up for the next film.

[-] Prouvaire@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Across the Spider-Verse Part 1 is one of the year's best movies, but I think it could have benefited by cutting about 15 minutes. The pacing felt very deliberate. Scenes took their time to play out, which taken individually were all fine and justifiable, but cumulatively took their toll. In particular I felt that most of the action set pieces could have been trimmed a little here, a little there. That way, that huge action sequence towards the end, where Miles Morales goes up against the combined forces of spider-men, spider-women and other spider-beings (and which I do NOT think should be cut), would have had more of an impact.

Dune, I'm really pleased to hear, is now a three-part movie, with Part 3 adapting Dune Messiah.

[-] BestBunsInTown_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I didn’t know they were doing a part 3 with messiah, that’s awesome! I’m excited to hear

[-] Prouvaire@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Hmm... I may have jumped the gun a little. Villeneuve has said he wants to make a third movie based on Messiah, but WB hasn't officially confirmed it yet. (I thought I'd seen something issued by the studio which referred to Part 2 as the middle installment of a trilogy but I may have been mistaken.) They're probably waiting for the box office results before formally greenlighting Part 3, just as they waited to confirm Part 2 even though Villeneuve put "Part 1" in the title of the movie. :-D

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