Friday, June 14, 2013

Man Of Steel: An Observation

Duck Soup—running time: 1 hour 8 minutes

Casablanca—running time: 1 hour 42 minutes

Citizen Kane—running time: 1 hour 59 minutes

North by Northwest—running time: 2 hours 16 minutes

Man of Steel—running time: 2 hours 23 minutes.

I will grant you that Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia and Schindler's List are long movies, but they fully justify their running time. Otherwise, if you make a movie longer than Casablanca or Citizen Kane, you better have something to say. Anyway, that's my opinion.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen to that!

Anonymous said...

Amen to that!

Anonymous said...

(I felt so strongly about it, I said it twice – O, Technology)

Mythical Monkey said...

I felt so strongly about it, I said it twice

That's okay -- I've thought it more than once.

Tom said...

Excellent point.

Who Am Us Anyway? said...

But ... but ... I WANT it to be good! Because, born in 1955! Does it really suck that bad?