If you have a movie that was cut down to 80 minutes or shorter, it's sometimes because they just didn't have anything worth while to put in the final print. May

If you have a movie that was cut down to 80 minutes or shorter, it's sometimes because they just didn't have anything worth while to put in the final print. Maybe it's because everyone working on the film just wanted it to be over as quickly as possible, so they filmed less, kept less for the final, they were phoning it in to satisfy the contract. If a long movie is a real stinker, not just like a five or six, but a 2/10... it's costing tons of money. Someone's going to know and walk off the project or the producers are going to pull in emergency editors... you're not going to distribute a three hour film reel of pure trash.