Ridley Scott’s historical epic “Napoleon” clocks in at a whopping 158 minutes, but even at over two-and-a-half hours a lot of material was left on the cutting room floor. In the S…
Maybe they could split it up into even more watchable bits, call them "episodes”. It could be like a series. Not like a whole series, maybe some sort of miniature series.
For a theater, yes. But for home video, where people can and often do watch movies in chunks anyway, length doesn’t matter as much.
I’d love it if he just dropped it as two films, released a month apart. That would drive people to see the first part so that they can be caught up for part two.
Unfortunately that likely wouldn’t work great. The only people that would be interested in watching part 2 are the people that watched (and liked) part 1. And business is often a numbers game
That’s fair. But presumably the same number of people would watch part 1 as would watch the whole thing. And maybe even more, because of the lower time commitment.
4 and a half hours is too long
How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?
In one go?
Tbf you don’t need to watch a 4.5 hour movie in one go either. Many films used to incorporate intermissions for this very purpose.
Maybe they could split it up into even more watchable bits, call them "episodes”. It could be like a series. Not like a whole series, maybe some sort of miniature series.
It’s OK to make a TV show, Ridley.
The key words being used to. We need to bring it back, but I fear that’s unlikely
For a theater, yes. But for home video, where people can and often do watch movies in chunks anyway, length doesn’t matter as much.
I’d love it if he just dropped it as two films, released a month apart. That would drive people to see the first part so that they can be caught up for part two.
Unfortunately that likely wouldn’t work great. The only people that would be interested in watching part 2 are the people that watched (and liked) part 1. And business is often a numbers game
That’s fair. But presumably the same number of people would watch part 1 as would watch the whole thing. And maybe even more, because of the lower time commitment.