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Originally Posted by spanky87
I know people take pride in being able to sit through a 4-hour movie, but there’s really no reason why this shouldn’t have a 10-minute intermission for general audiences. In the age of assigned seating it can easily be done. All the theatres need to do is post a sign on the auditorium door indicating that there’ll be one and how long it will be.
I bet there’s going to be a lot of people going to see this who are unaware of the runtime and will become restless/anxious because they weren’t anticipating it.
There’s movies like Avengers and Avatar that are 3-hour plus without intermissions. But those are basically theme park films and don’t demand as much attention as this.
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Three hours is three hours. Scorsese doesn't have some stranglehold over the space-time continuum. No good movie is ever long enough and no bad movie is ever short enough, as Ebert said. A truly good film can be as much of an out of body experience as a filmgoing experience. I'm happy Scorsese isn't placating plebs and instead asking you to put the TikTok away and be a f**king adult and pay attention for a few hours. It's good for you.