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Many old films are really long Gone With the Wind is 4 hours long
by __s 3y ago
Many old films are really long
Gone With the Wind is 4 hours long
- dehrmann 3y agoAnd the 10 Commandments was 3 hours, 40 minutes.
- eesmith 3y agoAnd Titanic (1997) was 3 hours, 15 minutes, and Che (2008 film) had some road show screenings at 4 hours, 27 minutes. But Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) was only 80 minutes. Road show movies, with an intermission between the two acts of the film, don't have good economics. Lord of the Rings as three movies sells more ticket than one long one, and you can offer both evening and late shows.
- BizarreByte 3y agoWell if we’re having a contest for posting long movies, Siberiade is an excellent film that will take 4h35m of your time.
- ekianjo 3y agoLol I love people who take outliers to make a point. Look at the median length instead if you want something meaningful.
- hedora 3y agoI just tried to watch Rich and Strange. The first 39 minutes are mostly vacation footage. I usually like anything Hitchcock worked on. Maybe I should have given it another 30 minutes. Anyway, it doesn’t give me the impression that they were worried about burning film stock, even though the movie is only 1:39.
- __s 3y agoI was hoping someone would call me out on that https://stephenfollows.com/are-hollywood-movies-getting-longer https://stephenfollows.com/are-hollywood-movies-getting-long... https://filmandmovielists.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/are-movies-getting-longer-a-history-of-the-length-of-a-cinema-experience https://filmandmovielists.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/are-movie... I track all the films I watch in a spreadsheet, half of them are in 1990-2010, which the last link shows films were becoming shorter for awhile
- wkjagt 3y agoWe watched Jingle All The Way yesterday, and even the kids noticed it was shorter than most of today’s films. It’s not even 90 minutes.
- yardie 3y agoAnd they were exceptionally rare. But here are 2 films from different eras with somewhat similar themes: 1985: The Breakfast Club, 1h37m 2023: The Holdovers, 2h13m