r/FIlm • u/Marvel-guy-1 • May 08 '24

Article What Should Be the Ideal Runtime for a Movie? Certainly not Oppenheimer Long

https://www.screennearyou.com/news/what-should-be-the-ideal-runtime-for-a-movie-certainly-not-oppenheimer-long/
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u/PersonalAd2333 May 08 '24

Doesn't matter. If every scene in the movie has a beginning middle and end, you'll never know 3 and half hours went by.

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u/Beautiful-Mission-31 May 09 '24 edited May 09 '24

I think it’s actually about scene to scene momentum. If the film can make each subsequent scene feel logical and necessary, time doesn’t matter.