Comment on Ridley Scott Has a ‘Fantastic’ Cut of ‘Napoleon’ That Runs Four-and-a-Half Hours and Features Way More Joséphine

ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Zibobwa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?

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  • regular_human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In one go?

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    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tbf you don’t need to watch a 4 hour movie in one go either. Many movies used to build in intermissions for this very purpose.

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      • Shalakushka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The key words being used to. We need to bring it back, but I fear that’s unlikely

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• CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately that likely wouldn’t work great. The only people that would be interested in watching part 2 are the people that only watched part 1. And business is often a numbers game

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    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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