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elio-monroe · 1 year ago

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argh there was a tumblr post about how tv shows are being cut short and i agreed a lot with it. but their long movie take was so abysmal i couldn't get myself to reblog it. id add in the notes how i feel differently but id rather not be subjected yet again to someone thinking their opinion is so extremely righteous they need to mock me in front of their followers for absolutely no fucking reason.

but anyways, there have been long ass movies since people started making movies. this idea of the 3 hour movie (which is not at all what i would even classify as a long movie) is not new! its not invented by capitalism. just because you personally cannot sit through it does not mean its not good. also don't equate film to prose? films are not "short stories" thats a prose term and you are making absolutely no sense when you say that. same with the idea that television shows are suppose to be novels? i just... what exactly do people think novels are, like what does that word actually means?

its just weird to put your own personal preference for movie length in a post about how capitalism is ruining television and film. thats a pretty piss poor way to analyze art or even talk about the effects of capitalism. especially considering that the majority of studios used to want very short run times, and still heavily prefer them to this day. avengers end game was "long" because producers wanted a novelty. the irishman is "long" because scorsese normally makes long movies as thats the pace he feels is necessary to tell the story he wants to tell.

#this is coming from a film major and writing minor #i just need people to put down their personal preferences when talking about late stage capitalism and its effect on film as a whole #like please just go look up what is playing in theaters right now and see how many 3 hour movies are actually playing #and then look at the run times for other films released this year and tell me how many “long” movies have had critical success #and i know genre theory is tired and no real filmmaker cares #i do want to point out that overall tho the genre and what people expect out of the movie greatly effects its run time #horror and comedy films tend to be shorter because their formula requires a quicker pace #while historical dramas tend to be longer because they rely on the audience ruminating on how a historical event will play out #this isn't the case for every movie that would fit into a “genre” but nontheless its what audience expect and sometime look for #sorry to be an annoying film bro on main

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