The great canadian literary critic Northorp Fry does say repetition is the mode of comedy becuase laughter is a reflex and all reflexes are conditiond to act a certian way to similar repeating stimuli. I think you may have been saying this ironically.
Sarcastically maybe… but I don’t see anything ironic about it.
well i tend to blur both those terms together even though they are diffrent
fyi i only got half a page done
Length can be intimidating, yes but only if the film begins to become benign. If for two and a half hours I am occupied it shouldn’t matter. However when a film begins to repeat to itself and nothing goes on, it can become very tiresome. Take for instance and action film that lasts two and a half hours. After two hours even explosions get tiresome and people begin to shift in their seats. On the flip side, let’s look at a film like Solaris. The length and pace can be intimidating, but it uses it’s time well and doesn’t repeat itself. In this instance I am more likely to stick around to the end because I care more about the story because it hasn’t begun to bore me with repetition.
It’s not the length of films I have a problem with, it’s the width.
Seriously, if it’s a good film, the longer the better. Unfortunately it’s a lot harder these days to see Fanny And Alexander all the way through, but there’s nothing more enjoyable when I can. On the other hand, nothing is more frustrating than watching a really long, bad film. Even if a film is bad, I still feel the need to sit it through in the hopes there might be some payoff in the end. If there isn’t then I get really pissed off.
I always feel like 2 1/2 hr films feel longer than 3 hr ones do
Only if I dont have the time to watch it. I’m really against viewing a part of a movie, then coming back to it.
So if it’s 1150pm, and I’m browsing Netflix, something like 8 1/2 or the Ruling Class is out of the question.
But I have nothing against long movies, in fact, I kind of prefer them. One of my favorite genre of movies before I started viewing movies as art was the epic, and while some of the long movies I watch today lack the grandeur and scale of those epics, it usually makes up for it in attention to detail, character development, and arguably, engrossment in the world created by the director.
Loved Apocalypse Now Redux, Fanny and Alexander, La Dolce Vita…
Col. Dax
It’s odd that this thread is revived right now. This winter my ultimate goal would be to watch Wang Bing’s Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Lav Diaz’s Hermias, Death in the Land of Encantos, Melancholia, and re-watch Kobayashi’s The Human Condition Trilogy. 5 films almost 45 hours of material. We’ll see if I’m too intimidated to get through it all.
I would also like to thank Crobley93 for telling a joke that was told on the first page about 8 months ago, because everyone knows if you keep telling the same joke over and over, no mater how childish the joke is, the funnier it gets. Thank you sir.