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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > General Movie Questions (and hopefully answers)
 
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MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

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Lot 49 posted:

Are movies generally getting longer?

When I was growing up in the late 80s/early 90s I thought a film was typically 90 minutes long but nowadays it seems like most of the films I see are 2 hours plus and a rising number go into a third hour. I'm thinking that it could be when I was a kid I watched movies aimed at a younger audience and they were probably deliberately shorter than adult features or maybe I just happened to see a lot of long films recently but anyway, am I alone in thinking this?

Comedy films and childrens films tend to be shorter than "adult" films, and it's much more likely that, when you're younger, you'll see more of the former than the latter.

And, whilst it's not exactly stunning evidence, a quick trip through my film collection had the shortest, modern, non-comedy at 99 minutes, and if you're talking 80's/90's then we've got big films pushing two hours, two and a half hours or more. The Alien films, the Terminator films, the Batman films, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, all kinds of things off the top of my head.

MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Jun 23, 2008

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