TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Yeah - and Aretha Franklin too who (five years after the initial comment) faxed a correction about something Dionne Warwick had said about her

[Josquius]

Was on iPlayer and they have lots of the Bank Holiday epics already up.

It slightly blew my mind that those 50s epics that I remember watching on TV and a lot of them are basically the length of a Marvel film

I suppose kids these days just have a better attention span than I did.

I wonder if part of it is that editing might be cheaper now and once the 'film is in the can' the costs of manipulating it and producing final cuts could well a lot less expensive than processing and assembling generations of film stock?  So perhaps that helps to make films longer/more tedious?

I think this is a big part of it. And the lack of technical restrictions on length and better technical ability to edit has led to people losing the ability to actually edit from an artistic standpoint.

[mongers]

'Rebel Ridge' and entertaining action-thriller, newish on Netflix.