Metacritic & RT
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worth noting that if you filter rt to top critics only, the rt % is 74 with an avg 6.9 rating.
still solid numbers, but also not a massive home run.
i'm refusing to go see it because i'm so tired of every bloody movie being so endlessly long.
why is it so long?
my theory is some useless gov't bureaucracy imposed a silly regulation requiring all theatrical releases to be 140+ minutes.
do people actually want to watch movies for this long?
there's nothing i enjoy so much that i want to spend 3 hours doing it.
Those same top critics probably gave glowing reviews for Marvel movies. Because you know, if you're a Marvel fan, you can't be a DC fan according to people.
sharespider-man far from home top critics:
90% rt, with an average rating of 7.4.
maybe disney does bribe them!
(i loved far from home, though, & can't imagine sitting through a 3 hr dour batman movie, and i never got a cheque from them).
Yeah, I usually include top critics, but I forgot this time.
As for runtime, it doesn't bother me unless it actually drags. And as others sometimes point out, a sub-120min can seem much longer, while a 3hr movie moves along just fine.
i'm just against long movies in general.
it seems like every bloody movie i've seen in the theatres in the past 8 months has been 120+ minutes.
i'm craving a simple 90 minute uncomplicated thriller or drama. please. somebody give me a trip to the theatre that won't leave me feeling like the director is making the grand unifying statement of our time.
i crave simplicity.
i've had enough epic, grandiose films to last the rest of my life.
I have no idea if the average length has gone up, but I think you find your zone more often in indie films. My hit rate is so low that I'll take a good movie at any length. But I like what you're talking about, something terse that's about one thing -- like Pig or Saint Maud.
shareyou're definitely speaking my language with st maud & pig. pig in particular was one of my favourite films of last year, & one that i'm really looking forward to rewatching.
shareI agree, Pig was fantastic and is also one of my favourite films of 2021.
But then I also really liked Drive My Car and that was 3 hours long.
I’m guessing The Batman is so long because it’s going to give a lot of screen time to Catwoman as well.
But I do get what you mean about running time, my favourite Batman film is Mask of the Phantasm and it’s only 78 minutes long so this had better pack in a lot of awesomeness into these 3 hours.
Have you seen Nobody yet? That was a good one.
shareGreat film, I’d definitely watch a sequel.
sharei have, and i liked it. maybe it was a bit oversold to me, in that i'd heard so many great things about it, went in with really elevated expectations, and after it was over i found myself thinking it was a very well done, solidly better than average fun action movie. so i was in the position of both liking it and being maybe just a bit underwhelmed, i guess.
odenkirk is always gold, though.
I somewhat feel where you're coming from. Undoubtedly the average run time of movies has gone up. Certainly some of the movies that have been very long didn't have stories that justified that run time.
That said, I can't say that I've "had enough epic, grandiose films to last the rest of my life." If anything, I feel like we're starved for new films that are in the vein of classics like Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, The Ten Commandments, or even something more modern like Gladiator. It feels like we just don't get films like that anymore.
We get long movies, sure. But are we really getting epic ones?
very fair point.
those hollywood epics aren't my taste - i'll take pacey 80m noir over spartacus or lawrence every time - but that's a proper distinction, definitely.
It seems the "Geek" websites, are saying it's a masterpiece, groundbreaking etc like they usually do for these movies. Doing this basically;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsag-nG9lUE
Whereas the more mainstream\traditional critics are largely saying it's solid entertainment but no more. A 7/10 kind of movie.
I'm glad it's not getting a somewhat moderate response actually, films like this getting OTT praise turns me against them a little bit. Not sure if I'll see this in the theatre (it's not especially convenient for me at the moment), but I'll certainly see it some day.
Yeah, but mainstream/traditional critics will also tell you that Belfast and Licorice Pizza are masterpieces so I wouldn't trust them either.
shareBatman Begins has a 68% with a 6.9/10 average rating with Top Critics
shareMetacritic: 73 after 49 reviews
RT: 87% with 7.9 average (6.9 for top critics) after 182 reviews
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