Why are all summer blockbusters over two hours now

Odradek

?

Imipolex G

another reason not to watch them imo

Yarrun XIX

Attempting to force a short-form medium to do the legwork of a long-form medium

Klinotaxis

the motion-visual structure of a commercial movie form parapsychological sigils that, when viewed by a large number of unwitting ESPers, can induce large scale changes to the psychic framework of the earth. previous efforts in this direction have largely drained the shallow ley-lines of energy, so filmmakers have to embed ever more complex sigils in ever more complex films to get anything accomplished.

Yarrun XIX

We're getting real unknown armies in here

Viani

THe longer the movie, the more sponsored content you can fit in.

Beats by Bruce

FORD is FRIEND, DODGE is ENEMY

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(also I guess because the 120 min mark extended towards 180)

Anonus

Because longer runtimes mean fewer showtimes, and that gives the studios more opportunities to bitch about how the grosses aren't high enough for them

Anonus

I'm BSing but still

Sredni Vashtar

Degenerate self-indulgence.

I mean, people whine about artsy films being too long, but when you barely have anything substantial to do or say with that time I think it's way fairer to call bullshit than on, I dunno, the long shots in Solaris.