How long do you like films to be?

oli356 said:
As the title says, how long do you like films to be?

I guess the average is about 90-120 minutes.
Like I was watching Zulu a few days ago, its 2 hours 15minutes, so much of that time is just waiting for something to happen. I also felt the same way with The Hurt locker which is 2 hours 10.

Though A knights tale is 2 hours 10 but I don't mind watching all of that at all. I guess it's because there's always something happening.
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Zulu and The Hurt Locker are too long, but you loved A Knight's Tale.

I'm out.
 
vonhelmet said:
Zulu and The Hurt Locker are too long, but you loved A Knight's Tale.

I'm out.
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I'm not a huge fan of Zulu, I like it, probably just seen it too much, The Hurt Locker was just trying to seem deep, when it was a guy going in to defuse bombs, badly, and was rather crap with almost nothing too it. Knights tale is rather rubbish, silly fun, not terrible, no where near great.

But then he said ALL the Die Hard films were great, first two were fantastic action films, superb, the third, passable but passing into silly territory, oh, its WAY over the silly line but just watchable.

The fourth film, is excruciatingly bad, its pathetic, start to finish, theres nothing redeeming about it, awful story, awful acting, fat guy director who can't act getting in on the act, ridiculous action, just horrible.


Personally I tend to feel too many good films could have been great if they spent more time establishing characters, and reasons behind actions being taken. There are far more films that are too short to tell their story properly, than films that are too long and wasteful. I prefer longer films with better deeper more complex stories, you rarely have one without the other.
 
It really all depends on the movie, surely (and I am not calling you Shirley!)
If it's a great movie then I like it to last a while, such as The Godfather, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now and other epics.
Horror movies I like to stick around the 90 min mark as they tend to get boring if they run on for more than 2 hours (with a couple of exceptions)

I also see some TV shows as extra long movies and can sit and watch episode after episode, especially the likes of Band of Brothers and more recently The Walking Dead which makes them like 10+ hour 'movies'.

So it really does depend on the movie and how much time you've got to watch it in. If I'm putting a movie on at 7pm and plan to be out of the house by 9 pm then I'm not going to put a 3 hour movie on.
 
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