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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by hot_gril on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:39PM (#36853203)
New movies are just long. 1.5hr was typical before, now everything is 2h at least, often 3h+. Star Wars 5 was worth the 2h, and Lawrence of Arabia was worth 3.5h (plus it had an intermission), but no I'm not going to watch Marvel action heroes fighting without a plot for 3h.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by ghaff on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:59PM (#36854115)
>Also, somehow the art of making dialog audible was lost in the 2010s, to the point where everyone uses subtitles at home now.

Yeah, I don't have the world's greatest hearing but I basically always keep subtitles on. I forget was I was watching a few weeks back but I was basically continuous cranking the volume up so I had a chance of understanding the mumbled dialog and then down when some avalanche of sound threatened to destroy what was left of my hearing.

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