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Director Alexander Payne has criticized the increasing length of movies, saying that films are too long these days. Payne believes that movies should be as short as possible, even if they have a runtime of three and a half hours. He cites movies like 'The Godfather Part II' and 'Seven Samurai' as examples of long movies that are still engaging.
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Like ‘The Godfather Part II’ [and] ‘Seven Samurai’ are super tight three and a half hour movies and they go by like that. So there’s no ipso facto judgment about length.” Alexander Payne on movie lengths: https://t.co/KcGlF3Jups
Alexander Payne says “there are too many damn long movies these days.” But “if your movie is three-and-a-half hours, at least let it be the shortest possible version of a three-and-a-half-hour movie. Like The Godfather Part II [and] Seven Samurai are super tight,… https://t.co/xnzqSFgM3N https://t.co/qyffFCd5zw
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