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I kinda wonder how long movies will continue make economic sense, at all. What we call movies are 1h30 or more of continuous contents, and in this day and age

I kinda wonder how long movies will continue make economic sense, at all. What we call movies are 1h30 or more of continuous contents, and in this day and age this becomes an increasingly long time to be stuck in one place doing one thing. If it’s a full hobby, like pottery or bordering why not, but for “casual” people I feel the proposition is less and less attractive.

ummonk 4y ago
This view seems to be contradicted by the extent to which people binge-watch shows, which involves way more than 90 minutes of continuous contents.
- makeitdouble 4y ago
  Binging happens on your terms, you can stop and resume on smaller units of time (e.g. 1h for western tv shows, 20 min for anime). Worse case if you’re disrupted is you’d restart the eps you were on at a later and you’d lose less than an hour of watch time. Current movies go up to 3h… I see as the same paradox as people watching Tiktok shorts for hours. Yes, in aggregate it could be more than several movies stuck together, but it’s order of magnitude less binding and requires less commitment.
  - asimilator 4y ago
    > you can stop and resume on smaller units of time You can pause a movie? I don’t always watch a movie in one go.
    - rubslopes 4y ago
      I've been starting and early stopping many 10-episodes series because of how much they drag (looking at you, Servant, and Disney series). Maybe I became more impatient lately, idk. My new hobby is watching movies as they were 4-episodes series. It's great, much more to the point.
    - makeitdouble 4y ago
      I sometimes do. But outside of the cultural hurdle, movies aren’t planned that way so depending on what service/app you watch you‘ll need to remember where you stopped. Rewinding until a point where you can get back the context can also be a PITA, and for many movies stopping somewhere in the middle lands you in the flat part which makes it extra dull to resume watching. All in all, I’ll often end up dropping a movie if it was 3h30 and there was 40min left to watch, it’s just not worth it in general.
  - freemint 4y ago
    What you skip the opening and ending when you binge?
oneoff786 4y ago
That’s a short ass movie
- JKCalhoun 4y ago
  I was curious, since I have been watching the "100 Films To See before You Die" and so many older films seem to clock in under 90 minutes (to be sure there are plenty of exceptions). Just a handful of films under 90 minutes: "Toy Story", "High Noon", "Rashomon", "This is Spinal Tap", "Frankenstein" (and "Bride of"), "Umberto D", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Run Lola Run", "Duel", "Rope"...

ummonk 4y ago

This view seems to be contradicted by the extent to which people binge-watch shows, which involves way more than 90 minutes of continuous contents.

makeitdouble 4y ago
Binging happens on your terms, you can stop and resume on smaller units of time (e.g. 1h for western tv shows, 20 min for anime). Worse case if you’re disrupted is you’d restart the eps you were on at a later and you’d lose less than an hour of watch time. Current movies go up to 3h… I see as the same paradox as people watching Tiktok shorts for hours. Yes, in aggregate it could be more than several movies stuck together, but it’s order of magnitude less binding and requires less commitment.
- asimilator 4y ago
  > you can stop and resume on smaller units of time You can pause a movie? I don’t always watch a movie in one go.
  - rubslopes 4y ago
    I've been starting and early stopping many 10-episodes series because of how much they drag (looking at you, Servant, and Disney series). Maybe I became more impatient lately, idk. My new hobby is watching movies as they were 4-episodes series. It's great, much more to the point.
  - makeitdouble 4y ago
    I sometimes do. But outside of the cultural hurdle, movies aren’t planned that way so depending on what service/app you watch you‘ll need to remember where you stopped. Rewinding until a point where you can get back the context can also be a PITA, and for many movies stopping somewhere in the middle lands you in the flat part which makes it extra dull to resume watching. All in all, I’ll often end up dropping a movie if it was 3h30 and there was 40min left to watch, it’s just not worth it in general.
- freemint 4y ago
  What you skip the opening and ending when you binge?

oneoff786 4y ago

That’s a short ass movie

JKCalhoun 4y ago
I was curious, since I have been watching the "100 Films To See before You Die" and so many older films seem to clock in under 90 minutes (to be sure there are plenty of exceptions). Just a handful of films under 90 minutes: "Toy Story", "High Noon", "Rashomon", "This is Spinal Tap", "Frankenstein" (and "Bride of"), "Umberto D", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Run Lola Run", "Duel", "Rope"...