It seems to me that two hours is long enough for most movies. One hundred twenty minutes should be all the time that most filmmakers need to tell their story and bring us to a conclusion.
Peter Jackson is one of those people who can't accomplish that feat. The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was looooong, and not just because it takes five minutes to say the names of the characters and the places they come from. Okay, Frodo is only two syllables but that's the exception.
More than two hours seems to me a lot of time to invest in watching a film. I have to want to really hear and see what you have to say to last longer than that.
Maybe I have an attention deficit disorder, but more than likely I suspect filmmakers' egos cannot be fenced in to the two hour time frame.
1 comment:
thankfully the real real long movies are mostly gone with the wind
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