General Movie (Film for snobs) News Thread

[SuperBacon]

No comedy should be over 120 minutes. I notice "Trainwrecked", which premieres on Sky today, and stars John Cena, clocks in at two hours. Not on really.

Runs 2 hours, or is that the Sky slot?

 

Never mind looked online, 2 hours 9 minutes. Blimey

Edited May 20, 2016 by SuperBacon

[The Clint]

Cena also stars in Sisters with Amy Poehler . He's supposed to be a dealer at the party.

[bAzTNM#1]

Sky Go have it at 119 minutes.

[The Clint]

Take no notice of the run times on Sky Guide. Most are wrong. They even have the first Terminator movie listed as being made in 1985.

[Chest Rockwell]

Cena also stars in Sisters with Amy Poehler . He's supposed to be a dealer at the party.

"Unnamed drug dealer at party" - yep, definitely a starring role.

[The Clint]

I just meant he was in Sisters.  By the way he's not an unnamed dealer as his character was called Pazuzu.

Edited May 20, 2016 by The Clint

[WWFChilli]

Needless to say, Clint had the last laugh.

[Devon Malcolm]

I like Rudd, but he acts in some real dross. He makes a shit film watchable, but unfortunately that just means I end up watching some shit films.

 

He's definitely in the 'I Like Him/Her But They're Almost Never In Anything Good' category. See also - Anna Kendrick.

 

I watched Clueless the other day for the first time, that was the first film I'd seen him in that I liked.

[stumobir]

 

No comedy should be over 120 minutes. I notice "Trainwrecked", which premieres on Sky today, and stars John Cena, clocks in at two hours. Not on really.

Runs 2 hours, or is that the Sky slot?

 

Never mind looked online, 2 hours 9 minutes. Blimey

You could get away with only watching the first hour to be fair, you won't miss much after that. It peaks in the cinema with the Koko B. Ware reference.

[The Clint]

Needless to say, Clint had the last laugh.

 

There's nothing like stirring the shit. Huh Chilli?

[Chest Rockwell]

Clint, you are a real common denominator in a lot of shitty back and forth sniping, regardless of who you're doing it with. You need to chill on that.

 

Consider this an official warning.

[LaGoosh]

No comedy should ever be over 90 minutes really. If they can't tell the plot in 90 minutes in a comedy movie then there's too much plot and not enough jokes.

[Dead Mike]

Surely if the quality is there then the running time doesn't matter? The Big Lebowski is 2hrs & is fucking ace throughout.

[Devon Malcolm]

That's the exception rather than the rule though. There are certain genres where, generally, films are harmed by being too long and I think comedy and horror are the two most notable ones in that case.

 

The problem with Apatow's films is that they really don't need to be that long at all. There's so much unnecessary junk in Trainwreck that it could easily be eased down to at least an hour and 45 minutes and not suffer a jot. In fact, it would be a significantly better film.

 

But it's a general problem across cinema, I think. Films are so much longer these days. Look out how long these superhero films are these days. Wasn't the last Captain America one 2 hours and 20 minutes long? Watchmen was 3 hours long! Mainstream and Hollywood cinema has lost the art of telling a story in a compact running time.

 

There are exceptions, of course, but even the last Bond film clocked in about 2 and a quarter hours long and wasn't any the better for it. 

[Chest Rockwell]

I'm sure there's plenty of other examples. Off the bat, both Ferris Bueller's Day off and Trading Places are 2 hrs long.

 

I saw a good graph the other day about average film times through the years, and what struck me is that the low end of the average was not as low as I thought it would be during the 80s and 90s. That said, films are undoubtedly longer on average these days (and the graph showed that), and they are worse for it.

Edited May 20, 2016 by Chest Rockwell