Oppenheimer: Should Movies Be 3 Hours?

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Cinema is an art form that invites discussion and benefits from it. But in the world of the internet these discussions are louder and exposes us to a carousel of discourse. And there are a few select subjects that get rotated in and out, depending on what project is the hot topic of discussion. And there’s very few topics I find more annoying, than the runtime discourse. People wining and complaining about movie runtimes and asking “what happened to the 90 minute movie” while they binge a season of television that takes over 10 hours to finish. And since the release of Oppenheimer, I haven’t seen too much discourse around it’s runtime, but also I’ve chosen not to expose myself to discourse as much anymore, so I have no clue, nor do I care. But I have noticed the uptick of 3 hour movies during the 2020s, especially in 2022. But 3 hour movies have always been a thing in the same way that 90 minute movies have always been a thing.
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00:00 Intro
01:26 Oppenheimer
02:36 The Crème de La Crème
07:39 The 2020s
14:25 Conclusion/Outro
#Oppenheimer #3Hours

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@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

I've rarely had more frustration exporting a video, dark images will be the death of me.

@firstlast9846 11 ай бұрын

*It’s crazy to me that some filmmakers* have to fight for even a 2 hour movie.. then you get directors who can’t tell a good story in 2 hours 30 mins

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

It be like that sometimes but if the film isn’t good the runtime probably has the least to do with it

@1Satyam1 11 ай бұрын

Man, I thought you were a new and growing channel with this good a production quality and would go viral anytime soon. But just looked up and seems like you have almost 200 videos on the channel. Keep persisting bro, you've got it!

@NTNTNTNTNTNTNTNTNT 11 ай бұрын

having recently seen the director's cut version of Amadeus, i can confirm the movie is better with the additional 30 minute bulk. the movie manages to focus on such a seemingly miniscule part of salieri's life and yet provide so many introspective points throughout, douse the movie in (even more with the director's cut) dense and rich characters and veers the movie's focus into those rather than strictly developing the plot as may be typical of a 3 hour movie, and instead delivers its climax through emotional catharsis of salieri's. one of the most brilliant ways of sucking the audience in i've ever seen was the scene in which we meet mozart. a stellar subversion of expectation serving as comic relief but at the same time a first look into salieri's spiraling obsession. combined with the unique point of view and some of the best acting seen on the biggest screen, in my opinion, Amadeus is deserving of the title of a masterpiece

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’ve seen the director’s cut but I’ll definitely check it out!

@coleman_trebor0 11 ай бұрын

Just imagine how good the director’s cut is, considering how amazing the original is as is

@michaelmcfadden9805 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic video, I hope more people see this! I really enjoyed your discussion of what made certain movies work and what didn't. Keep up the good work!

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! we’ll try

@FirstClassJunk 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting video man, I love Magnolia, and I never feel the runtime when I watch The Hateful Eight. I was very surprised to see how low your subscriber count is, because this was very professional.

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! uhh yeah the algorithm has been simultaneously kind and unkind to us

@Fruqtsallad 11 ай бұрын

100% agree with everything said. Great video!

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@sssydneyfree 11 ай бұрын

Loved this format king. You have so many poignant things to say and i love to hear it

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you more is coming soon

@nathanboatright236 11 ай бұрын

I think the best 3 hour movies are historical epics. Films like Oppenheimer, wolf of wall Street, JFK, the godfather and more are films that grab your attention and for the most part keeps it for the following 3 hours.

@kazvanrooij 11 ай бұрын

I think the reason youre thinking that is probably because storys that are based on history have a real world passing of time element to them. Condencing real world events that spanned years into a couple hours and painting a fair picture is a lot harder compared to when the story is fiction. When is fiction you can choose to write plotlines that when added up arent 3 hours. The level of detail doesn't dimisnish the level of accurency in the storytelling.

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

Idk if that’s true but there’s certainly a shit ton of them

@kazvanrooij 11 ай бұрын

@@FilmTheRightThing Is that a reply to Nathan or me?

@BigZ-19 11 ай бұрын

You just name the most boring movies beside wolf of wall street

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

nathan @@kazvanrooij

@blakesby 11 ай бұрын

'Should movies be 3hrs?' [laughs in Laurence of Arabia]

@blakesby 11 ай бұрын

Commented before watching the video, commented again to say great video essay! That's a subscribe from me. 👌🏻

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate it!

@FilmTheRightThing 11 ай бұрын

We might do a classics video centered around 3 hour films because that’s a goldmine

@blakesby 11 ай бұрын

@@FilmTheRightThing good thinking! My only suggestion would be if you could annotate the clips you use throughout, at least when you're showing clip compilations from films you're not actively talking about. I recognised most, but there's definitely some where I wasn't sure. There were a few moments in this which definitely made me excited about film, by the way, that bittersweet feeling of "there's just so much I haven't seen yet, so many good films still to watch!"

@masoomahmed9560 11 ай бұрын

Gone with the wind 😂