i'd personally like moves to last even longer.
theory: dumbification media(instagram/tiktok) probably affected your attention span.
How come every movie is so goddamn long nowadays? Every time I'm interested in a new movie the runtime is well over two hours. Sometimes three. Why? I have no interest in sitting that long in a cinema and usually it gets boring as hell after 100 minutes or so.
90 minutes is the ideal length for a movie.
Lörs?
Not really. Many classic movies were around the 90 minute mark. And I think that is for a good reason.
Psycho, 109 minutes
Dr Strangelove, 93 minutes
Aguirre, 94 minutes
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 83 minutes
Reservoir Dogs, 99 minutes
Of course there are longer movies that are very good, too. But if you go well beyond the 2 hour mark, near 3 hours, there really needs to be good pacing and content worthwhile watching. Sadly, in my personal experience going to cinema in the last few years, that is often not the case. And it's different in cinema compared to watching at home, too. Because you're already there, standing in line, waiting, then watching ads and stuff for about half an hour to an hour and then you can't take a break to go to the toilet or something.
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The average length of the Top 25 is 118,9 minutes.
Although it has to be said that there are some real outliers on that list. The 1980 West German movie Berlin Alexanderplatz is 894 minutes long and some very short ones are on there, too. For example 1902 French Classic La Voyage dans la Lune with just 14 minutes.
So I decided to take out the 10 shortest and 10 longest ones from the list and then see the average of the rest. It's 114,7 minutes.
Have you seen the original Lynch Dune? The newest one is better cut than his, but lacks the intricate plot details we saw included to build the universe and explain the politics too complex for the fruit fly attention span zoomers and millennials.
Even the fan edit of Lynch's Dune is 2h25 minutes and worth a watch.
