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Long films are fine, but for a movie theater I've found that two hours is my limit. If they brought back intermissions for films (which they should!) I wouldn't mind doing a long one though.
Do long films have intermissions anymore? They used to have intermissions where you could go get food, bathroom, talk to people and stuff and make a night of it when you're watching a 3+ hour movie which makes way more sense.
The theaters will sometimes ask for movies that are like 3 hours long, but the studios giving them the films will not work with them anymore if they do because it messes with their vision or whatever.
I prefer long films in the cinema to home. In my house I’ll distracted after a while, at the theatre I can really get focussed and immersed.
That's fair. I find my favourite length is around 2-3 hours but I do usually pause and do some tidying or something to get the blood flowing again.
Modern audiences would probably spit the dummy if an intermission broke up the flow these days though. I love how tight modern storytelling is sometimes, other times I feel like it limits you to certain kinda of stories since there's not really good spots to take breaks and you run out of adrenaline after like 30 minutes of action haha.