This can vary from mildly annoying to acting as a strong sedative.
This movie would be less time-consuming and more compelling if it simply had fewer characters.
Unfortunately, the second half of the movie veers the film way off course.
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Or maybe his character should have found someone new.
That said,Duneis so slow that it renders its material much less interesting than it ought to be.
In light of them, perhaps the studios figured they would listen to the director this time.
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The set design, the special effects, the performances, its directioneven the story’s premise.
The editing is what tests our patience.
There is certainly a place for slow cinema, as masterpieces likeJeanne Dielmanand2001: A Space Odysseyhave demonstrated.
Eight years after the Joker’s reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Denis Villeneuve’sBlade Runner 2049has no such control, stretching every scene to parodic lengths.
After a while, it feels like watching paint dry.
Though visually incredible, the film’s themes and mood would still have succeeded had the scenes been tighter.
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After all, very few of them consist of heart-pumping action sequences.
This box office disappointment could have been close to an hour shorter.
The passion for music is there, and the epic runtime makes for a very ambitious biographical film.
Having said all that,Birdis way too long and loses much of its emotional power because of that.
The non-linear storytelling has this narrative jumping all over the place.
It starts off with almost 10 minutes of backstory that doesn’t even concern Bilbo yet.
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Tolkien adaptations that it’s easy to forget that he made aKing Kongmovie, too.
Unfortunately, this would foreshadow the overlong and patience-testingHobbitfilms to come.
Too much of this feels like padding.
A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy’s most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.
Overall, there are too many character arcs to balance.
This is not to say thatThe Irishmanhas no brilliant moments.
Unfortunately, the power of moments like that is not sustained throughout this three-and-a-half-hour slog.
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It’s basically the screenplay and editing’s fault.
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Young Blade Runner K’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for thirty years.
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Bird (1988) chronicles the life of jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, exploring his musical genius and personal struggles. As the film delves into his relationships and the challenges he faced, it paints a poignant portrait of an artist whose innovations significantly impacted the world of jazz music.
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A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
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When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
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