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Originally Posted by cgpublic
Here's a post for the ages. The movie is three and a half hours long, and the person directing it, Scorsese, has something to do with it, but not as you have inferred, but the exact opposite.
That it is an R-rated film intended for an adult audience that will be released to streaming within weeks of its theatrical premiere is the issue. If it was any director except Scorsese, or two or three others, they would be fired for refusing to cut the film under three hours if those putting up the money, i.e., Apple, were counting on theatrical box office, which they're not.
Why? Where can adults, you know, the ones with jobs, kids and commitments, find not only the time for the movie, but the time to travel to a theater, plus have something to eat, or at the very least a drink and a small bite, before or after?
When we screened The Irishman (209 minutes) at The Belasco in NYC, when you add the time getting settled in your seat plus the time which was added beyond the announced time for stragglers, you are clocking close to four hours.
Attendees, an older crowd for sure, were groaning when they left their seats.
Their expressions, especially given the subject matter and the film ending, was grim.
Now, switch the film content from getting the gangster gang back together to an even sadder history lesson illustrating how awful the Osage were treated, well, I guess we're going to find out.
Three and a half-hours worth, and ticking.
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And meanwhile, you're over there in the "Oppenheimer" thread gushing how that film must be experienced in a theater as intended and find the time and so on. All the hours of it. And you're on about the importance of film culture and it being passed on to younger people and so on and so forth. I'd agree with all of that. (Don't think I'm some 'kid'; I'm your contemporary, if not older than you).
But this film is the exception, apparently.
And Apple's never said that this would be on Apple in just a few weeks. People are but assuming that. If it did well theatrically, the window would likely be much longer, that's what they're waiting to decide on. However, if everyone just says, "I'm not going, because it'll be right on Apple.", then it flops, then that may indeed become a self-fulfilling prophecy, to which I'd say, "Thanks a lot, guys."