
Justice League ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
Holy long movies, Batman!
The Snyder Cut was supposed to be presented as a mini-series, not as one incredibly, painfully 4+ hour movie, but apparently Snyder cares nothing for our bladders.
Snyder announced at DC FanDome in Aug. 2020 that HBO Max would split the release of his Justice League cut into four one-hour episodes; a single four-hour cut of the episodes would release later, exclusively on HBO Max. Now, it appears this is not the case.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League Is No Longer a 4-Part Release | CBR
Or maybe it’s because we can just hit pause at home vs. theaters, but the crazy thing is the article linked above indicates Snyder actually wanted a theatrical release for his Frankenstein cut. LOL, seriously! Four hours in the movie theater seeing the same movie? Better have two intermissions at that monstrous length.
Are you OK watching a single movie that’s 4+ hours long? I’m looking forward to seeing the Snyder Cut of Justice League, but the length, which will be an hour or so less than an entire 8-episode season of Cobra Kai, seems way too long for any movie.
Then again, if it’s awesome, I won’t care. Will you?
Yeah, I would’ve preferred to go down the episodic route. Maybe, 4 parts each an hour in length? Intermissions are a lost art, in my mind at least.
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I guess what worries me about 4-hour movies is that if they become the long movie length, then 2.5-3 hours will become “normal.” 90 minutes or less should be normal and 2+ hours should be considered long.
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I suppose so, yeah. I’m not sure that those kind of movies would hit it big enough; audiences aren’t going to see 3 hour movies regularly.
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There is this somewhat arrogant belief among seasoned directors like Martin Scorsese that bigger runt times mean better stories. I’d argue the opposite is often true.
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