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« on: July 24, 2022, 11:31:37 AM »
How Long Should a Movie Be?
Let’s paraphrase Hitchcock,
How long before you need to pee?
That’s how long a movie should be!
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2022, 11:42:48 AM »
About an hour and a half.
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« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2022, 11:43:17 AM »
The longest movie I've ever seen was Lawrence of Arabia.
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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2022, 11:48:16 AM »
Quote from: Trevor on July 24, 2022, 11:43:17 AM
The longest movie I've ever seen was Lawrence of Arabia.

At least it had an intermission!
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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2022, 11:55:07 AM »
When movie theaters are finally extinct, the length of a movie won't matter, only the quality of the story.
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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2022, 12:14:09 PM »
From the start to end. Or as long as it takes to tell the story in the most entertaining way possible.
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2022, 01:11:28 PM »
"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short."--Roger Ebert.

But, about 1.5 - 2 hours. If it gets to 3 hours, think about splitting it into 2 movies; if it gets to 4 hours, definitely split into 2 movies.
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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2022, 01:57:05 PM »
Length doesn't matter as long as the movie is entertaining.

That said, according to my blu-ray collection statistics the average runtime time is 102 minutes.
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« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2022, 03:09:34 PM »
It's a case by case thing. 

With that said, I think the AVERAGE movie needs to be about an hour and half, but there's so many exceptions to that that there's no sense making it any kind of rule.
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« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2022, 07:20:39 AM »
Why is this topic in 'poems'?
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« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2022, 07:48:11 AM »
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2022, 07:20:39 AM
Why is this topic in 'poems'?

Please read the first post.
I didn't notice.
I would say at most
Till you have to p**s.
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« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2022, 07:59:13 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2023, 06:08:41 PM »
Length doesn't matter. It's how it uses what it has.
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« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2023, 06:09:53 PM »
Quote from: ER on January 02, 2023, 06:08:41 PM
Length doesn't matter. It's how it uses what it has.

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« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2023, 07:20:51 PM »
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