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I've almost finished watching Scarface now....
It was on a few weeks ago. I watched the first hour, or so, before setting the video recorder, and going to bed.
Last night I watched another hour, and still it seems nowhere near the end!
Maybe I'll get to finishing watching it tonight.
The thing is, I want to finish watching it, as I'm enjoying it, so it doesn't seem to be unnecessarily long, but I've sat through some films that have seemed to last forever!
Titanic, for instance was a long film, and not one I enjoyed, so I remember it as being even longer!
Mind you, it's probably worse when you're enjoying a film, and it just ends, leaving lots of loose ends.
Then again, Carrie was a really short film, but when it ended I thought I'd seen enough anyway. Not because I didn't enjoy it, it's just that dragging it out would have been pointless.
It's one of those important things that can screw up a movie, either dragging it out, or cutting it short.
I guess also it depends on the genre. I doubt I could sit through a 3 and a half hour teen horror slasher movie!
It was on a few weeks ago. I watched the first hour, or so, before setting the video recorder, and going to bed.
Last night I watched another hour, and still it seems nowhere near the end!
Maybe I'll get to finishing watching it tonight.
The thing is, I want to finish watching it, as I'm enjoying it, so it doesn't seem to be unnecessarily long, but I've sat through some films that have seemed to last forever!
Titanic, for instance was a long film, and not one I enjoyed, so I remember it as being even longer!
Mind you, it's probably worse when you're enjoying a film, and it just ends, leaving lots of loose ends.
Then again, Carrie was a really short film, but when it ended I thought I'd seen enough anyway. Not because I didn't enjoy it, it's just that dragging it out would have been pointless.
It's one of those important things that can screw up a movie, either dragging it out, or cutting it short.
I guess also it depends on the genre. I doubt I could sit through a 3 and a half hour teen horror slasher movie!
Shawshank redemption ended far too early" :)
The film (as with the Green Mile) has been critisised for directly presenting the book... however when I see a film of a book this is excatly what I'm after...
(Theres actualy a lot more going on in the film than the book)
The film (as with the Green Mile) has been critisised for directly presenting the book... however when I see a film of a book this is excatly what I'm after...
(Theres actualy a lot more going on in the film than the book)
oh and De Niro and Pesci are amazing, but only with Scorsese because he needs to show them in his way, there reallty is a significant difference when Scorsese is not there,
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scarface is a class (in a northen accent) but you gotta watch it through in one jam swoop, its amazing,
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Depends on which teen horror slasher movie it is, I could probably have stuck another hour or so of Nightmare on Elm Street when it first came out, or another hour of the original Scream.
Sometimes if it's really good, 3 hours just seems to fly by. Dances With Wolves I quite enjoyed and that didn't seem like 3 hours, but I think it was that long.
Scorcese likes to make long movies, but then every scene in, for example, Casino is worth watching again and again just for the acting, but then De Niro I could watch all day. I think both guys are overflowing with talent, and when Scorcese directs De Niro, well, I'm glued for the duration, I don't care that the bath is overflowing and the phone is ringing, the movie takes priority.
Titanic I thought kind of interesting. It would have had a better plot without the love story in it, and that would have cut about an hour off it and made it a lot better for being a lot shorter, but then 50% of it's audience wouldn't have been too enthralled about it and the other 50% would have said "I've seen this before, isn't this Speed 2?"
So I think the length of the movie is only important from the point of view of the viewer. If a movie seems long, it's either because you are not the intended audience, or else the director did a bad job of explaining the story concisely. (Or else the Editor was on a Work Experience scheme or something.)
Sometimes if it's really good, 3 hours just seems to fly by. Dances With Wolves I quite enjoyed and that didn't seem like 3 hours, but I think it was that long.
Scorcese likes to make long movies, but then every scene in, for example, Casino is worth watching again and again just for the acting, but then De Niro I could watch all day. I think both guys are overflowing with talent, and when Scorcese directs De Niro, well, I'm glued for the duration, I don't care that the bath is overflowing and the phone is ringing, the movie takes priority.
Titanic I thought kind of interesting. It would have had a better plot without the love story in it, and that would have cut about an hour off it and made it a lot better for being a lot shorter, but then 50% of it's audience wouldn't have been too enthralled about it and the other 50% would have said "I've seen this before, isn't this Speed 2?"
So I think the length of the movie is only important from the point of view of the viewer. If a movie seems long, it's either because you are not the intended audience, or else the director did a bad job of explaining the story concisely. (Or else the Editor was on a Work Experience scheme or something.)
I've almost finished watching Scarface now....
It was on a few weeks ago. I watched the first hour, or so, before setting the video recorder, and going to bed.
Last night I watched another hour, and still it seems nowhere near the end!
Maybe I'll get to finishing watching it tonight.
The thing is, I want to finish watching it, as I'm enjoying it, so it doesn't seem to be unnecessarily long, but I've sat through some films that have seemed to last forever!
Titanic, for instance was a long film, and not one I enjoyed, so I remember it as being even longer!
Mind you, it's probably worse when you're enjoying a film, and it just ends, leaving lots of loose ends.
Then again, Carrie was a really short film, but when it ended I thought I'd seen enough anyway. Not because I didn't enjoy it, it's just that dragging it out would have been pointless.
It's one of those important things that can screw up a movie, either dragging it out, or cutting it short.
I guess also it depends on the genre. I doubt I could sit through a 3 and a half hour teen horror slasher movie!
It was on a few weeks ago. I watched the first hour, or so, before setting the video recorder, and going to bed.
Last night I watched another hour, and still it seems nowhere near the end!
Maybe I'll get to finishing watching it tonight.
The thing is, I want to finish watching it, as I'm enjoying it, so it doesn't seem to be unnecessarily long, but I've sat through some films that have seemed to last forever!
Titanic, for instance was a long film, and not one I enjoyed, so I remember it as being even longer!
Mind you, it's probably worse when you're enjoying a film, and it just ends, leaving lots of loose ends.
Then again, Carrie was a really short film, but when it ended I thought I'd seen enough anyway. Not because I didn't enjoy it, it's just that dragging it out would have been pointless.
It's one of those important things that can screw up a movie, either dragging it out, or cutting it short.
I guess also it depends on the genre. I doubt I could sit through a 3 and a half hour teen horror slasher movie!