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THE GODFATHER is a great length. I could take more of THE GODFATHER. But GODFATHER 2 is too long and DEER HUNTER is too long by almost an hour.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is great but it didn't fly by for me. The long walking (or riding) through the desert sequences in the first half feel interminable in the Tarkovskian sense, as I suspect was intended.

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Quote from: M.10rda on August 31, 2026, 08:42:50 AMIf I love something, I don't want it to end - so I tend to prefer longer Great films than short ones. That said, my favorite film of all time is only 93 (dense) minutes.

here's an interesting thing... it wasn't until DVDs arrived that I randomly found out the running time of one of my favourite movies ever, DAZED AND CONFUSED. I had seen that movie countless times by that stage (on a taped off blank VHS). I was stunned to see its running time is 1hr 42mins... I would've put money on it being at least 2 hours, and if someone had told me 2½ hrs then I'd have believed them!

DAZED AND CONFUSED is another excellent shorter film like my #1, RUSHMORE. Both seem to cover so much action in such a compressed structure that they feel epic. That's a great trick if one can pull it off. Anderson's THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME was also pretty short iirc yet they're flying all over the globe for months or years.

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Ew. If you're going to steal beer, steal a good one.

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54.) John Wick

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53. ALFIE (1966)

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Quote from: Rev. Powell on Today at 08:01:01 AMIt was never a big deal. So many big names opted out. It's a tradition that won't really be missed.

Especially in more recent years after the game was moved to the week before the Super Bowl and players opted out because they were worried about injuries.

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The prequel trilogy is bonkers. PHANTOM MENACE is rife w/ broad and offensive African-American, Japanese, and Jewish minstrelsy. ATTACK OF THE CLONES (which is the least watchable of the three) at least I guess has the sober idea that technology created to serve civilization will eventually destroy it. By the third chapter the U.S. had invaded a foreign country to seize its resources and started attacking the civil liberties of its own citizens, so George Lucas clearly felt smart about having the Senate cede all its power to Emperor Palpatine. But who needs sociopolitical commentary from George Lucas?!

Of course the rise of Palpatine sequence now seems timely and cogent again.

The fact that it's JJ Binks who persuades the Senate to crown Palpatine is pretty funny somehow (unintentionally). There are a lot of white Binkses in politics right now.

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