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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by gamblor956 on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:34AM (#19302004)
Other than the critics, I don't know anyone who was actually able to force themselves to finish watching that slow, pretentious film. Like most of the films on the ballot this year it did not deserve to be nominated.
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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by baldfat on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:29AM (#19302446)
Old Man Here.

Nor would they be able to sit through 2001 A Space Odyssey. The quality of the movie hasn't changed but the audience has.

I love betting people they can't sit through one of the best movies ever. I have yet to see some under 40 make it through.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by Freak_NL on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:43AM (#19302576)
38 here. I love that film, and many others with similar pacing.

I don't think it's age. There are plenty of older folk who used to be able to appreciate slower works — be it film, music, literature, or art — but no longer have quite the attention span for it. We appear to have managed to lower the attention span of society as a whole in the past few decades.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by wink on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:37AM (#19309638)
Not sure that has anything to do with slowness or appreciation. It has to do if you enjoy the material and then if it's worth your time.

I kinda liked Apocalypse Now. I am not rewatching Redux, it's just too long. I have no problem rewatching the 3 extended editions of the Lord of the Ring, even one after the other.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by extra88 on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:45AM (#19302594)
You don’t know me but I not only found Roma to be wonderful, I traveled to another city just to see a 70mm projection.
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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by redwood on Saturday March 09, 2019 @09:26PM (#19349809)
I loved it. But I was lucky enough to see it on a big screen
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