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Hard disagree about declarative "X is Y". It's a failure of weakening attention span. There are plenty of excellent long movies: - Once Upon a Time in America
by burnt-resistor 6mo ago
Hard disagree about declarative "X is Y". It's a failure of weakening attention span. There are plenty of excellent long movies:
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 3:49
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 3:47
- The Irishman (2019) 3:29
- Malcolm X (1992) 3:22
- The Godfather Part II (1974) 3:22
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 3:21
- Schindler's List (1992) 3:15
- Gandhi (1982) 3:11
- The Green Mile (1999) 3:09
- The Deer Hunter (1978) 3:03
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 2:59
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 2:58
- Casino (1995) 2:58
- Braveheart (1995) 2:58
- The Godfather (1972) 2:55
- Django Unchained (2012) 2:45
What I most object to is lazy storytelling for lazy, second-screen audiences lacking in style and subtlety having a robotic, spoon-fed, infantile, unnatural, expository narration quality in every character like it's a commercial for an antacid.
- card_zero 6mo agoI just don't like busy movies. I like long, contemplative panning shots around the scenery, when it isn't taking part in the plot and we're just having a look at it because there's no rush. I'd watch a compilation of those, with all the stories edited out. I like pauses, I hate constant gabble. There was a movie with no dialog at all that I enjoyed once, I can't remember anything about it, would watch again - it might have been a noir, actually, following one guy on the run as he skulks around cheap hotels and talks to nobody.