They Want You to Forget What a Film Looks Like

Re:They Want You to Forget What a Film Looks Like by ekianjo on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:13AM (#38743344)

Lol I love people who take outliers to make a point. Look at the median length instead if you want something meaningful.

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Re:They Want You to Forget What a Film Looks Like by hedora on Saturday December 23, 2023 @11:14AM (#38745283)

I just tried to watch Rich and Strange. The first 39 minutes are mostly vacation footage.

I usually like anything Hitchcock worked on. Maybe I should have given it another 30 minutes.

Anyway, it doesn’t give me the impression that they were worried about burning film stock, even though the movie is only 1:39.

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Re:They Want You to Forget What a Film Looks Like by __s on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:48PM (#38749078)

I was hoping someone would call me out on that

I track all the films I watch in a spreadsheet, half of them are in 1990-2010, which the last link shows films were becoming shorter for awhile

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Re:They Want You to Forget What a Film Looks Like by wkjagt on Saturday December 23, 2023 @08:23PM (#38750142)

We watched Jingle All The Way yesterday, and even the kids noticed it was shorter than most of today’s films. It’s not even 90 minutes.

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