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Re:Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy by coldtea on Sunday December 20, 2020 @02:45PM (#25488965)
>Are they? I can't make it through a whole movie anymore, while I used to hit theaters at least once a week.

It's not theaters, between Netflix and piracy, there are tons of more movies consumed. And whole TV-series, binge watched series by series, each of which amounts to 5+ movies running time...

Re:Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy by ghaff on Sunday December 20, 2020 @04:42PM (#25489805)
I guess he's referring to the length of a single episode but, in a world of streaming, that seems a little arbitrary. At home, nothing keeping you from pausing a film halfway and picking up the next day just like a TV series. Obviously telling a single story in 90-180 minutes is a different form from telling a storing over multiple seasons of 30-90 minute episodes in different from a miniseries or single-season series. But they're all just artistic (and financial) choices.

While there's arguably been an overall shift to shorter content, I don't really see a marked falloff in movies being produced.