A film so good you have to pay twice?

What are the odds? Pretty slim in my opinion and anyone who's endured Jackie Brown will know why.

Odd that Harvey fought tooth and nail with Scorcese to keep the running time of Gangs of New York down (and what a mish mash that movie turned out to be) whilst he's willing to indulge Tarantino's mammoth running time by pulling this stunt.

A good three hour movie may be fine for audiences but they're bad for the industry because they limit the number of screenings a day which limits your potential first week gross and the amount of popcorn that cinemas can sell.

I'd have thought long and hard about whether I was willing to pay to see another self indulgent Tarantino movie before this, but now I intend to avoid like the proverbial plague.

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by Incandenza
A good three hour movie may be fine for audiences but they're bad for the industry because they limit the number of screenings a day which limits your potential first week gross and the amount of popcorn that cinemas can sell.

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Regarding the selling of popcorn, I've often wondered why cinemas don't have a 10-minute interval for movies which are 3 hours or over. It wouldn't lose them much more time, and I'm sure people would buy more snacks & drinks that way (not least because some people are unwilling to buy drinks to take into, say, the Lord of the Rings films because they don't want to have to go to the toilet half-way through ). Plus, more time for advertising.

Also, I thought Gangs of New York rocked, and Jackie Brown was overlong but still pretty good.

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by In a State of Dan
(quotes) I've often wondered why cinemas don't have a 10-minute interval for movies which are 3 hours or over.

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There are a couple of cinemas around here that do have intervals for long films, but they are the independantly owned cinemas, not multiplexes.

Intervals are good for selling snacks (and if you need to pee), but as a viewer i hate them. Just stopping the film in the middle interrupts the flow and throws you out of the viewing experience. You can regain it, but ultimately i find it very annoying.

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by In a State of Dan
(quotes)
Regarding the selling of popcorn, I've often wondered why cinemas don't have a 10-minute interval for movies which
are 3 hours or over.

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Last time I remember this happening at a screening I went to was Born on the Fourth of July many many moons ago. I tend to agree with Maff that they tend to disrupt the experience for the audience, although with some recent movies (The Two Towers, Matrix Reloaded) I'd really have welcomed a break.

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Also, I thought Gangs of New York rocked, and Jackie Brown was overlong but still pretty good.

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Seems me and thee are destined to disagree on everything at the moment.

I thought GoNY could have been good, indeed I wanted it to be good but something just wasn't right...

Di Caprio with a beard? Maybe. Some poor postproduction? Perhaps.

Ultimately, I didn't think it had much story for it's three hour running time and the characters (DDL aside) weren't particularly interesting plus what is becoming an unfortunate Scorcese trademark, the explanatory voiceover, annoys me most of the time.

As for Jackie Brown, it's not that it was a bad film, just that it was a very average one that from what I can remember could have been delivered by any hack director. That said, it's still worth watching for a magical performance from Robert Forster and a cracking soundtrack ("Across 110th Street", "Didn't I blow your mind this time" and Mr Cash standing out).