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Oppenheimer (2023)
Great movie, just too long
Being a topic I was interested in and know something about, with a great cast, director and all those awards, I was very excited about this movie. Then I saw the run time. 3 hours. Most movies do not need a 3 hour run time. Gone are the days of editors making a nice tight movie, cutting out anything that isnt needed to propel the movie forward.
Back in the day, the studios would chop up movies mercilessly. Then directors got a bit more power to keep what they wanted, but they still edited to a tight movie. Now that is gone and every director thinks he has 3 hours worth of a movie to make. Most dont.
This is a great 2 1/2 hr movie. The first hour could have been heavily edited to get things moving. The last hour was great.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
Can we get an editor for this movie?
Are there any directors left that have watched a Spielberg movie so they can see how to pace an action adventure movie? Very few movies are actually so well written, acted and directed as to warrant a 2:30+ hr run time. This was not one of them. But with some proper editing, you could make a tight 2:10 movie that keeps things moving along.
The story wasnt bad. The characters werent bad. The acting was good enough. They just took a very long time to get to anything. Then the action picks up for a bit, things get good, it gets exciting and you get another long dull 15-20 min segment. A good editor would bring those segments down to 5-10 min and keep the movie rolling along.
Greenland (2020)
Low on sfx, high on cheesy drama
We expect cheesy drama in our disaster movies, the family torn apart, couples that lost the magic, estranged parents or children. All to be magically brough together by the disaster!
But we need lotsa disaster and sfx to suffer through the cheese. This did not deliver.
I only gave it 3 stars cuz Morena is so damned cute.