The angriest filmmaking fights that I’ve witnessed over the years have not been about cost or cast; they were about length.
The movies were too long but so were the fights. I re-lived some of them this week when I saw Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
It’s is a big success with audiences at 3 hours and 26 minutes. That’s about an hour longer than Napoleon, Ridley Scott’s epic that opens next month, and half an hour longer than Oppenheimer.
My confession: I start getting twitchy when movies lunge pass the two-hour mark — an attention deficit problem that supposedly affects Gen Z more than geriatrics.
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