Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 504

At working right now making everyone listen to Steely Dan everyday

 

These are some unpopular entertainment opinions

 

Steely Dan has several of the best guitar solos ever put to record

 

If you don't enjoy cranking Babylon Sisters to the max and vibing out, I don't know what to tell you.

 

the Dan have about 27 perfect songs by my count

 

can you make it on Apple Music, thanks!




just kidding I have both

 

sinner

 

A’ja is a perfect record

 

A new dog should not cost thousands of dollars.

 

Get a used one a save big.

 

My mom spent way too much money on her Maine Coon cats haha. I just adopted an adult cat from the local vet.

 

I am allergic so I need a small hypoallergenic dog, which you don't really find in animal shelters.

 

The usage of need is making me picture a world where you're buying tiny dogs on the black market.

"Look, I need a dog, man, no questions asked."
"I know a guy."

 

More movies need to be 90 minutes long. Not everything needs to be 2 hours. Hate that I can't even throw on a movie in the evening without it feeling like a whole commitment. Obviously some are that length or longer and great but I feel like a good deal of the time, the movies def feel their length

 

I get this for certain kinds of movies, but I feel like action films and the like deserve to have a longer runtime.

I dunno, maybe this ties in with my whole "I don't ever have to take a bathroom break" thing, but it's probably more than lately Marvel films have been decreasing in length and I feel like that's affecting the pacing the films and causing things to be cut out that should have been left in.

But then again maybe that's the fault of the people making the film for not using their time wisely.

I dunno, I'm kind of rambling at this point.

 

I am currently watching absolute classic Red Eye and it's a cool 85 minutes long. We have cillian Murphy, Rachel mccadams, Wes Craven, a convo about a sea breeze vs a bay breeze cocktail which always reminds me I don't know the difference without googling it, and a good stab to the throat. All we need for a great time.

 

Yeah, a thriller I can see the argument being made that it's better to have it tight and focused and not meander. Leave the long runtimes for spectacle-filled blockbusters.

 

We do not need to leave long run times to action movies lol the first hour of Final Reckoning was painful

 

That doesn't really have anything to do with the runtime though, does it?

 

I just have a hard time sitting and paying attention and focusing for two or more hours. So of course I will watch a longer movie and enjoy it but I definitely need to psych myself up going into it. Horror is my main genre and I feel like 90 minutes is a decent run time most of the time. I I really enjoyed 28 years later and final destination bloodlines, which I believe were closer to the 2-hour Mark, but I definitely had to psych myself up to see them in the theater because the idea of sitting there for 2 hours just feels daunting to me.

Then again, I'm also the same person who was pumped to see all of the Lord of the rings extended director's cut in theaters lmao So it's not a hard and fast rule

I haven't really watched a lot of the marvel movies, but I did watch the Deadpool and wolverine movie and that movie felt long AF

 

I think it's more I hate the idea that a longer movie necessarily makes it better or more important, like Ebert said no good movie is too long and no bad movie ends soon enough

 

Exactly. As somebody who is not concise whatsoever and could use a bit of brevity, I think people just need to learn when to edit things down. And I feel like I frequently wish things were edited down more than I wish things were given more time to breathe and be a little longer. That is definitely more of a rare criticism from me

 

I’ve never seen anyone argue that longer movies are more important tbh

 

There is definitely that gap in terms of genre. Historically your 90 minute films were the comedies and horror and action films and the 2 or more hours were mostly dramas.

Could The Brutalist have been shorter? I suppose. You could probably cut out the entire first act with his cousin and his wife to just him starting to work for the boss. The Godfather II probably doesn't need the flashbacks. Avatar II didn't need to stop in the middle of the movie and become a whale documentary. However, we are thinking about these things like they are products that need to be efficient, and art doesn't need to be. The plots of those movies would mostly be the same, but the context and the added character development and the cultural commentary all become drastically reduced.

I understand the underlying premise. We are all very busy with work and school and family and friends and taking care of our homes and health so you don't want to feel like your time is "wasted". Finding two hours to sit uninterrupted can be hard so when you start seeing 3 hours and more it can feel daunting. At the same time, I think about The Irishman and the way Scorsese follows the car that takes DeNiro from the plane to meet Hoffa and then back to the plane when it is done. We are just watching a car drive, but it is giving us a chance to process what we know is about to happen and then to process what we just saw happen. It adds such a gravity to what could have been just a simple violent act.

This is why I think it is perfectly fine to watch a film over multiple sittings. Why not? We have been splitting up novels forever. If people can remember plotlines week-to-week in a TV show and even year-to-year over multiple seasons, you can finish it tomorrow.